Hello. Many routers have an integrated “print server,” that is, the ability to connect a printer via USB and share it on the network. In case your router doesn’t have this capability, we could always use our Raspberry as a print server with Cups apt-get install cups we enable administration from the web interface cupsctl –share-printers –remote-admin –remote-printers and add our user to the “lpadmin” group usermod -a -G lpadmin our_user ...
Hello. Let’s share a folder on Raspbian with a Samba server. Let’s install sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin and let’s configure it by changing the parameters in its configuration file sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf Uncomment workgroup = WORKGROUP wins support = yes where “WORKGROUP” should be replaced with your network’s workgroup and “wins support” is for Windows systems support (if you’re not interested, you can leave it unchanged), ...
Hello. To install No-IP, download the package from the official website, extract the content, compile, and install it sudo make sudo make install During the installation, you will be asked which network card to use (in case of a Wi-Fi card as well), to enter the email address and password of your account, and for which host you want to update the IP address. To start it sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 ...
Hello. If you’re looking for a guide on Hamachi, you already know what it is. Before installing it, update the system sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade install “ lsb-core”: sudo apt-get install lsb-core In the meantime, download the client from the official website, ARM HF version naturally .deb. Once all this is done, from the terminal go to the folder where you downloaded the package and install it: ...
Hello. It was a project I had in mind for several years, but every time I started it, it never ended up the way I wanted: a home VPN through the services offered by Windows. The main problem was neither configuring a dynamic DNS (I had that for ages) nor the configuration of the VPN itself, but being able to reach it from outside (it works perfectly within the same network): in the countless guides I read about it, no one specified that the router must support VPN passthrough. ...
Need to navigate a remote folder via shell? Well, as you’ve noticed, it’s not possible to do this without mounting the folder somewhere. To do this, you need smbfs (which, from what I’ve found online, is a file system or, better, a “mountable” SMB). To install it, open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install smbfs After that, you’ll need to create a folder where you’ll mount the remote folder; this can be in any location you prefer (I put it on the “Desktop”) and you can create it however you want (via GUI or with a simple “mkdir”). ...
Network Manager is an excellent wireless/wired/VPN/Dial-up network manager, but it doesn’t always work well. A worthy replacement is Wicd. To install it, you can follow the instructions on the Ubuntu Wiki, but on Lucid Lynx, when it tries to uninstall the Network Manager packages (“network-manager” and “network-manager-gnome”), it fails. You might say “Who cares? I’ll leave them there and start Wicd!”. Why? In my case, they conflicted with each other and Wicd couldn’t connect. ...