The FTP protocol

The file transfer protocol in short known as FTP has been around since the early days of the Internet. And several decades hence, even today ftp is a common way of downloading files from the Internet.

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How to Setting Up a Server

This article teaches you, the reader, how to configure a GNU/Linux based server with three of the most important services that must be provided in a company, at home, a lab or anywhere else, both for clients and internal usage: web, database, mail. So it will be assumed that the idea is to host websites that use certain technologies such as a scripting language and a database (for dynamic sites), and also to act as a mailing tool, for sending and receiving email.

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HOWTO: Fileserver with Samba and Printserver with CUPS

Considering the substantial increase in linux desktops, it seems likely that more and more of these users will need to integrate into Windows based networks. I have provided a breif howto on Printer and File Sharing with Samba.

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HOWTO: Recover root password

A common problem faced by new users ( and sometimes even experienced users ) is not knowing what to do when they lose their password. Even worse, when they lose the password for 'root'. Luckily, there are several solutions to help you recover access to your system.

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Client/Server Communication in MySql : Packet Format

In this chapter we will discuss the details of the client/server communication in MySQL. The goal is to give you the ability to look at a binary dump of the client/server communication and be able to understand what happened. This chapter can also be helpful if you are trying to write a MySQL proxy server, a security application to audit MySQL traffic on your network, or some other program that for some reason needs to understand the low-level details of the MySQL client/server protocol.

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