If you are looking for an easy to install, configure, and use systems monitor, look no further. The Munin is a network/systems monitor that presents all its data is easy to read graphs. Munin is setup as a server/client (or node) which makes this system very flexible. Munin also offers an extensive plugins library that [...]

Tags: Network Monitoring, system monitoring, ubuntu, web monitoring
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

I have written a few articles on Samba here on Ghacks. And most people know how to connect to Samba shares via Windows. Generally speaking (when all is set up correctly) it’s just a matter of opening up Explorer and entering \\ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\SHARENAME to get to your Samba shares. But what about in Linux? How do [...]

Tags: GNOME, samba, samba shares, smb.conf, smbclient
Categories: Advice, Linux, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Windows, software

Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]

Tags: DAAP, itunes, mp3 server, multimedia server, music server, songbird
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

Tags: anti virus, Postfix, virus definitions
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software

With your Ubuntu LAMP Server up and running (see my previous article “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04” and “How to: install a LAMP server“) and you are ready to set it up as a mail server. For the longest time Sendmail was the de facto standard Linux mail server. But over time serious security issues drove [...]

Tags: Email, mail server, Postfix, ubuntu mail server
Categories: Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

If you are in a small business or a larger enterprise you know you need to keep track of all those machines. Sure you could easily tag and record them as they go from the box to the desk, but that doesn’t always happen. And the larger the company the more likely something is able [...]

Tags: asset management, ndiff, network scans, nmap, port scanning
Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Basic