Questions tagged [local]
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How does Router know where to forward packet
If several computers with local addresses (192.168.0.#) are connected to a router and each computer opens a web browser and requests a page over HTTP, when these TCP:80 packets are sent out, the ...
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Is it possible to SCP from a remote to local whilst logged into the remote and without knowing the local's IP address?
I regularly find myself wanting to copy a file from remote terminal session to my local machine. Usually I log out of the remote session and call an scp transfer from local to copy the file from ...
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How to choose a sensible local domain name for a home network?
Is there any convention on possible naming for local domain names (like .local), apart from not using any possible or existing top-level domain?
Wikipedia says that
.local conflicts with zeroconf
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Howto disable SSH local port forwarding?
I have a server running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH daemon. Let's call it S1.
I use this server from client machines (let's call one of them C1) to do an SSH reverse tunnel by using remote port ...
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What is the difference between a link local address and an IP address in the private address space?
I read that a link local address is used when no other method for acquiring one is found. But the address space for them doesn't seem to be reserved under private address space, what is the ...
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how to install tmux locally without root access?
I wanted to install tmux in a redhat 6 machine using yum, however this fails as I don't have root access. Any idea on how to install tmux locally without root access?
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Dropbox alternative with local sync support? [closed]
I am currently using Dropbox. Just decided to sync my huge (about 5 GB) iTunes Library (music collection) in Dropbox. For that I must subscribe to their paid account. But before I do so, I'd like ...
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How do I install userscript from the local machine with GreaseMonkey 1.12 (2013 autumn)?
I use Greasemonkey 1.12 with Firefox 24.
I have an userscript file on my computer.
I cannot find the way to install my already written userscript from my local machine - how it is done?
There used ...
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"bind" DNS server and considering "/etc/hosts"
in my LAN I use a small machine as server/gateway (with Ubuntu 10.04).
On this server runs bind9 DNS server and all LAN clients are using it as unique DNS.
Everything works ok, except that I'd like to ...
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Complete backup of online email account w/ easy future offline access?
I have an old school email account that is expiring in a couple of months, which supports IMAP and POP3. I would like to make a complete offline backup of all my email in that account, ideally with ...
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Windows 10 file sharing on local wifi is horribly slow
When sharing a file/folder in Windows 10, the connection is horribly slow.
What I am trying to do is to share a folder on one computer, and access that folder and the files within from another ...
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sync Nevernote (Evernote clone) notes to my own server
Supposedly, it used to be possible to sync Evernote notes to your own server. I would like to use the open source clone NeverNote, to sychronize to my own server. Is there a way of doing this?
Here ...
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Domain user not having admin rights on local machine
I'm using Windows 2003 server as active directory and Windows 7 as a station. I need to have a regular domain user have admin rights on local machine. I added domain user to local admin group but they ...
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.local domains stop working in Windows 10 2-5 minutes after reboot
There are some existing questions related to this issue, however none of them are quite the same, nor do any of them provide a resolution. Here's the question which most closely fits my issue (but not ...
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Trying to use BIND on macos lion to set up .local TLD and am hopelessly lost
I am trying to achieve what has basically been asked in this question:
https://superuser.com/questions/403662/bind-dns-settings-on-mac-os-x-lion-errors-in-zone-file
e.g. I need to set up a TLD of ....
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How to get access to user\APPDATA\LOCAL folder in Windows 7
We are building an application for Windows 7 that creates some data files that the user will occasionally want to review and a log file that we might need for support. Our first version is writing ...
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Why join a domain (from a user's point of view) if a user can map drives and add network printers without joining? [closed]
I know policies can be imposed from a network administrators point of view to make things easier to manage and control, but what does a user lose out on by not joining a domain?
For example, let's ...
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Force local packet pass trough the router (or disable loopback) - windows 8
i would like to avoid that packets sent from my machine to the same machine (via the IP assigned by the external router eg. 192.168.1.20) are routed with loopback and so never reach the external ...
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OS X : Use the same local ip Ethernet + Wifi
I currently have a Macbook connected to a Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter and as a backup it connects to the same network via wifi. I' using last years airport extreme as a router.
I tend to do a lot of ...
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Move to Local Trash when deleting IMAP messages in Thunderbird
I have tried to find a solution for this for a while now without luck. Wanted to check if there already is an add-on or easy hack before I attempt to write my own.
In my opinion this must be quite a ...
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Why local addresses usually start with 192.168? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168?
Why local network addresses usually are like 192.168.xxx.xxx? Is there any reason they start with 192.168 or is it just a ...
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Create a separate second wifi network with wireless access to the first one's internet connection
I needed a local wireless network to connect a set of notebooks for local multiplayer gaming with separate notebooks/PCs. In order to keep latecy low, I wanted to connect the notebooks to my old wifi ...
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Using wget to get files from local to server to remote server
We have a local server where we carry out much of our web development and then we push this to a live environment so that clients can access.
We often end up with huge tarballs (this one in ...
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A computer on my network is hitting my machine
I'm trying to discover the nature of this, since it appears to be a relatively new phenomena and I don't know what it could mean (probably nothing good). The sign that I got of it was a long list of ...
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Having multiple web services run at home on the same ports (80 and 443)
Is there a possibility to run several webserver-applications from my home network? So with the same IP forward port 80 and 443 to different devices, depending on the domain name. Right now I use ...
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WAMP: Missing http://localhost/ in urls , wrong wamp projects links
I have a problem with Wamp which never happened to me before, cannot find what's wrong. I have a few projects located in my www folder ( running windows 7 ).
My hostfile has the line 127.0.0.1 ...
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Get another local users home directory
I am trying to automate the copying of profile data from one user account to another. This other user account is being created in a PowerShell script from an Administrator account. I am copying over ...
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How can I remove data from local SVN repository?
I accidentally committed a whole bunch of binary files using TortoiseSVN's "Add folder" option when I should have used simply "Create folder". I do not want these binary files in SVN because they hog ...
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What ist happening when I use “localhost:123456” as an adress in my browser?
Certain applications can be opened in a web browser by simply typing in localhost followed by a string of numbers eg localhost:123456
What am I really doing when I do this?
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Local Mandatory Profile doesn't work after joining a domain
In our training environment we want to run several laptops with temporary profiles. This means that all changes should be deleted after the shutdown. Therefore we use a Mandatory Profile.
The ...
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