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Tiago Stoco

Tiago Stoco

I.T and technology enthusiast with a creative mind working in a data centre and dedicating his free time to fun tech-related personal projects and family.

pfSense - Dynamic DNS with Cloudflare DNS

If you own your domain and has its DNS hosted with cloudflare it is possible to create a dynamic DNS entry for your pfSense and give goodbye to services like no-ip [https://www.noip.com/]. 1) Cloudflare Setup Log in to your cloudflare account and select one of your domains.

Switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 How to Create a Trunk Port

Switch - Dell Powerconnect 5524 How to Create a Trunk Port

The deployment of the my new pfSense + switch started and the first step is to stablish a trunk port between our firewall and the switch. Let's start creating a trunk port in our firewall. 1) pfSense Trunk Port Navigate to Interfaces > VLANs and click in add. Interfaces

Switch - Dell PowerConnect 5524 Initial Setup

Switch - Dell PowerConnect 5524 Initial Setup

This article will guide us on how to quickly setup a Dell switch powerconnect 5524. 0) Factory Reset First thing, we will erase all configurations from the device. console# delete startup-config console# reload 1) Enable Password First, let's enable password authentication for elevated privileges console access. console>

Ubuntu - How to Mount a Samba Share

1) Install the CIFS Utils package sudo apt install cifs-utils 2) Create a Mount Point sudo mkdir games sudo chown tiago:tiago games/ Changing the permissions of the folder to a local user.3) Mounting the Volume sudo mount -t cifs -o username=tiago //192.168.25.10/games games/

Linux - Arch How to Set up SUDO

Arch Linux is known to not be the most user friendly distro because it does not come with most of the packages other distros installs and configures by default. sudo is well known tool that allows a system administrator to delegate authority to other users. 1) Installing Sudo Let'

Linux - How to Create a New Samba User and Share

I have recently connected my network to a friend's network in order for us to share services between our infrastructures. However, when you have only you using the services within your network, security sometimes is a bit lax ( although not recommended ). The presence of someone else lurking in

Arch Linux - Docker Node - Deploying GitLab Container - ( Part IV )

Arch Linux - Docker Node - Deploying GitLab Container - ( Part IV )

I have decided to deploy an internal git to version control my scripts and server configuration. We will deploy the GitLab Enterprise edition. GitLab recommends installing the Entreprise Edition instead of the Community version to allow easy migration if we decide to pay for the Enterprise Version. The official docker