Archive for 'Networking'

Schedule Tasks with Command Prompt

There’re so many available ways to create schedule tasks in Windows XP. From command line until GUI tools, you can choose one from them. And then I curious to try the command line schedule tasks tools which have bundled by Windows XP. The tools are at command and schtasks command.
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Block a Website Address using HOSTS file

Actually, HOSTS file is using by Windows to mapping host name to an IP address. Windows has been giving us a sample. The sample is localhost name, by default that host name is mapping to IP address: 127.0.0.1. So, if you enter localhost at your browser address bar, Windows will map localhost to 127.0.0.1 address. And you can add your own host name to your chosen IP address.
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Hide Your Shared Folder

If we share our folder to other clients or friends in local network, it can to make a fun work. Because you can share your files or folders to your office partner so you don’t necessary to copy it via flask disk. But some times, you want to hide your shared folder from your all of your friends such as a data folder. You want to access your shared folder from other computer but it’s not exposed to public users.
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Looking Our Network Configurations

Computer networking is an important facility in every computer today. Without it, you can’t to connect internet or to other computers. So, you need to know your network configurations that installed on your computer. What is the LAN Card, Wi-Fi card or the other network device that installed? To determine it, you can look it through Control Panel – Network Connections. But you can look it by shorter way.
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How To Access Windows Sharing Folder From Mac OS X

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If you’re a new Mac OS X user, maybe you confused when you’ll connect to your office network that using Windows Sharing system and want to open the shared folder. It’s maybe a small problem but for the new user maybe it’s their (including me) headache source :) OK, I’ll share how to access Windows sharing folder from your Mac OS X system….
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Shut Down Many Computers From A Computer

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If you are a network administrator at your office/company, you may ever be have an experience (or your daily job :D ) to shut down many computers that connected into your local area network. If you have to shut down it one by one computer, sure that job that annoy and tire. I have a trick to make your life as a network administrator be easier, I will share it for you….
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Repair Your Friend’s Computer Remotely

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This morning, my friend asked me to repair her computer but the problem is her computer at different floor with my office but still in the same local area network. So, I have tried to using Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop has included with Windows XP installation so you don’t need buy anything again. And I propose to share my experience using Remote Desktop here.

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Send message with NET SEND

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If you want send a message to other user in the same local network but you don’t have a 3rd party software to making LAN chat happened. Don’t worry, Windows has a emergency tool for you…

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Switch Simple to Advanced Mode Files Sharing

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By default, Windows XP is setting file sharing to simple mode, but for the advanced user, this mode make s them not satisfy because they can’t setting the permission user setting and others advance setting. But you can switch that easily from simple mode
Sharing mode
to advanced mode.

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Cek a Network Address or URL

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Sometimes, if you want to check how long your data take time to a Network address from your computer, you can use small application that run on DOS Console.

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