Fun with Firewalls Firewalls are not fun. I've got to open with that statement as I've been doing a lot of work with firewalls in the past couple of weeks. It's not been the most enjoyable of experiences, but I can see why it is needed. I&
Home Media Server - Part 3 - Samba Configuration As part of the file server set up, I've created a Samba share in order to facilitate easily adding files to it form other devices around the house. It's not been plain sailing, and I'm still not convinced my setup is right, but here&
Home file server - part 2 After posting my intention of building a home file server [https://www.garybell.co.uk/home-file-server-the-hardware] for storing my movies, pictures, music and probably other files, I had to order some new hard drives to give me the space I think I will need. They have now arrived so I
Installing non-free network drivers on Debian As you might have seen, I've been building [https://garybell.co.uk/blog/home-file-server-the-hardware], and setting up [https://garybell.co.uk/blog/home-file-server-debian-jessie-installation] my home server, and during that time, I had a lot of issues getting things working. Some were from my own stupidity (like installing the
Setting up your web server I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow [http://stackoverflow.com/], both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues. One question I see quite a lot is around security permissions for creating files on the server. Usually these