Late last night, for a variety of frustrating reasons, I decided to do a complete rebuild of my local cloud server as a very basic media server using plain vanilla Debian 11 (Bullseye). (more…)
I have mentioned using the program PuTTY for SSH communication. But have never actually talked about how to use and configure the program. So that is the subject of this post. (more…)
In this post we will talk about moving files across the network using the Secure Copy (scp) protocol. The server we built in the last post already has this capability, and it is generally quicker than using a USB stick. (more…)
One of the first things I do after I have completed a base build for a server is make it headless. What this means is that I set up some form of remote login, then remove any keyboard, mouse, or monitor connected to the server. This allows the server to be put virtually anywhere. If you are anything like me your workspace is already cluttered enough with out having extra computers taking up valuable space. (more…)