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3 Tips for the mRemoteNG Remote Connections Manager
Have you ever found yourself manually opening WinSCP to the same server you've just SSHed into with mRemoteNG? Or wishing you were able to extract the password from the mRemoteNG connection? HTG will guide you on how to unlock mRemote’s true power.
How to Use mRemoteNG to Manage All Your Remote Connections
Have you ever had a need to connect to multiple machines of multiple types (RDP,SSH,VNC & more) simultaneously? Have you found that retyping the credentials is a pain? Take the HTG tour of mRemoteNG.
How To Use Your Android Device As a Road Recorder With Tasker Automation
Have you ever wanted to get more out of your Android convergence device? How about using it as a hassle free video recorder for your car trips? HTG explains how you can accomplish this with just "off the shelf" components.
Experience The Future of Computers Today: Turn Your Galaxy S4 Into A PC With a Smart Dock
Have you ever thought that Smartphones these days are so advanced they could actually replace the PC in your everyday computing life? Today, we here at HTG will review using the Galaxy S4 with the "Smart Dock Multimedia Hub" as a PC replacement.
IT Geek: Monitor Network Devices with SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
Have you ever needed to know what a remote device thinks the value of a metric is? HTG explains what the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is and how can you use it to monitor network devices.
How To Restore Citrix-Xen VMs for Free with Xen-Phoenix (Bash)
Have you ever had the need to bulk restore your Citrix-Xen VMs for a disaster recovery (DR) solution, or just to test that your backups are working? HTG explains how to use Xen-Phoenix, a free bash script, for VM restoring.
How to Network Boot (PXE) an Automated Installation of Citrix Xen
Have you ever wished your Hypervisor could be installed at the push of a button, without the tedious searching for the install CD and answering the same boring installation questions? HTG explains how to PXE an automated installation of Citrix-Xen.
IT Geek: How to Network Boot (PXE) the WinPE Recovery Disk with PXElinux v5 & Wimboot
Have you ever wished you could get the "Windows Recovery Console" running for that one maintenance procedure or program you want to use, without having to remember where you've forgotten the CD? HTG explains how to boot WinPE from PXE.
IT Geek: How To Use a DHCP relay (JUNOS)
Have you ever faced the problem where you only want to have one DHCP server on the network for central management of your scopes, but you have multiple Vlans? HTG explains how to use a DHCP relay agent.
How To Backup Citrix Xen VMs for Free with Xen-pocalypse (Bash)
Have you ever needed to backup your Citrix Xen Virtual Machines (VMs) but didn't want to break the bank doing it? HTG has just the bash script for you with Xen-pocalypse.
Linux Sysadmin: How To Manage LVMs With a GUI
We've talked about how to use LVM before, but what if you wanted to accomplish the same tasks only with a comfortable graphical interface? HowTo Geek dives into how to manage LVM drives with a GUI.
How To SSH Hop With Key Forwarding from Windows
Do you have the need to work with SSH keys from Windows and you find that this becomes a hassle very quickly?HTG goes into how to make the process as transparent as possible, using The PuTTY package suite.
How To Bind Global HotKeys to a WINE Program under Linux
Have you ever installed a Windows program in Linux under WINE, only to discover that it doesn't bind system wide hot-keys anymore? HTG has the work around you've been looking for.
How to Knock into Your Network, Part 2: Protect Your VPN (DD-WRT)
We've shown you how to trigger WOL remotely by "Port Knocking" on your router.
How To Knock Into Your Network (DD-WRT)
Have you ever wanted to have that special "dorm knock" with your router, as to have it only "open the door" when the secret knock has been recognized? How-To Geek explains how to install the Knock daemon on DD-WRT.
How to Remotely Collect Server Events Using Syslog
Have you ever wished that instead of having to manually login to a server in order to see the system log, the events would simply come to you? How-To Geek goes into how to setup a syslog collector.
Version Tracking With Subversion (SVN) For Beginners
Have you ever wanted to work on a project with the ability to track your changes as well as revert them? How-To Geek explains How-To use the popular version tracking system, Subversion (a.
How to Install the Transmission BiTorrent Client on Your Router (DD-WRT)
We've already put your DD-WRT router in first gear with the power of the Opkg package manager.
How To Install Additional Software On Your Home Router (DD-WRT)
Have you ever wanted to have additional functionality like Email, Bit-torrent or even MySQL directly on your router? Well maybe now you can.
How to Make Your Android Phone Tell You Where You Lost It
You might not have lost your Android phone or had it stolen, but if you want to prepare for that possibility, here's how to setup your phone to respond and contact you with its location.