Intended Audience This post may be of interest if you’re interested in accessing SMB shares hosted on different servers on your network through a single namespace. Assumptions The guide is suitable for a small business or home network that doesn’t use a domain controller for authenticated access. Windows PCs are predominantly in use on the …
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Resilio Sync Setup for Windows 7+ Clients (revised)
You will need to setup the sync server first. The instruction here is for setting up sync client software on Android devices to backup important data from them on to the server. The app screens that follow are from the following version of the sync client: Step 1: Install and start the sync client. When starting […]
Robust Home Security using a CADVR-1004WD-M DVR
intended Audience This post may be of interest to you if you have a CADVR-1004WD-M (or CADVR-1008WD-M) DVR at the heart of your home or small business security system. I’ve documented my experience largely to help me remember how I went about assembling the security system, which in many areas isn’t immediately obvious. The notes may provide …
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VirtualBox and Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Intended Audience This post will be of interest if you are considering revisiting MS-DOS 6.22, the last standalone version of Microsoft DOS, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (WfW), the first commercial version of Windows to gain any real traction. For this post, I’m working with VirtualBox 5.2.12 under Windows 10 Home (build 1803). A working …
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Windows Browser Compatibility Matrix
Intended Audience This post will be relevant to you if you’re looking for a browser for a legacy Windows operating system (OS). While there are many browsers, only the popular browsers, arguably the juggernauts in their time, are covered in this post. Background On reflection, after having built a whole bunch of legacy Windows systems in VMs, …
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DHCP/DNS Server on FreeNAS
Intended Audience This post will be of interest to you if you require more comprehensive and flexible DHCP and local DNS services than might be available through your DSL router, and you have a FreeNAS server on your network. On the network I am working with, there is a Fritz!Box providing a basic DHCP/DNS service to …
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DHCP/DNS Server using DD-WRT
Intended Audience In the post DHCP/DNS Server on FreeNAS, I replaced the basic DHCP/DNS service available through my DSL router with a more advanced DHCP/DNS service using DNSMasq on FreeNAS. In this post, I repeat the exercise, but use DNSMasq on DD-WRT instead to achieve the same objective. For this post, I’ll be working with Fritz!OS …
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Neighbourhood Computer Browsing with Windows 10 and FreeNAS
Intended Audience This guide will be useful to you if you’re working in a predominantly Windows 10 workgroup with some legacy Windows and third-party devices employing SMB1. You have at least one FreeNAS server in the workgroup. Authentication is achieved without the use of a domain controller. In the network I’m referring to in this …
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Virtual PC and Windows 95
Having successfully virtualised Windows 95 using VMware Workstation Player (refer here) and Oracle VirtualBox (and here), my attention then turned to Virtual PC. The latest version of Virtual PC (VPC) runs on Windows 7. Hyper-V replaces it in Windows 10. VPC 2007 and VPC 2004 are previous versions of VPC. Referring to the Table of …
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VMware and Windows 95
This is the second in a multipart series on virtualisation software. In an earlier post, I used VirtualBox to create a Windows 95 virtual machine. In this post, I’ll do the same thing, but use VMware instead of VirtualBox. The first challenge for me was to figure out exactly what constituted VMware virtualisation software. I had …
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