SMB/CIFS Download Manager
With this article we’re going back to the origins of the “Perimeterless Network“. If you (like us) are living the idea of the “Perimeterless Network” you sure can access your SMB / CIFS shares from anywhere in the world. Fo security reasons connections are protected with IPSec, right?
Now, for testing purposes I had to download a large DVD image from a remote file server and since I am accessing the Internet by WLAN and IPSec slows down the connection, too, I thought of using a download manager. The best choice would be a handy command line tool like wget. I did remember a tool called smbget I had used before which actually is part of the Samba Suite. But the only Windows binary I could find was at http://paully.com/smbget/ and on that page it says:
“For me it was very useful to transfer big files with size about 1 gigabyte over the our intranet through Samba from Germany to Belarus and from Belarus to Germany. If remote file is not available the application will try to download it until the job is done ”
OK, Belarus is not really what I’d call a democratic country so I was a little anxious about downloading a pre-compiled binary from such a source. Furthermore, I don’t know if Windows binaries are always larger than BeOS, BSD, and Linux ones but in this case the difference was huge. Anyway, if the source is not available anymore I am hosting the Windows Zip here.
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RC1 Inline Search
Some might remember my post quite some time ago about what is still missing in Internet Explorer. Major criticism was the antiquated search box. What can I say, finally someone chastened the IE developpers and they integrated an inline search that will fit most needs. Good job!
It took me a while to remember this new feature since I still had the IE Inline Search plug-in activated. But once I deactivated it I got enlightened.
So, who still needs Firefox and for what reason? Only speaking for Windows systems, of course. And leave me alone with Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera.
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Originally this site was intended as a project site. The goal was to define standards for the perimeterless network using
open-source software. To be honest I simply do not have the time for such a thing. So what is left is a blog with sporadic
posts that are either helpful for myself or I think are helpful for others, too since I had a hard time finding information
on the Internet. Think of it as a knowledge base.
Ehm yes, somtimes I write down my two cents on any topic that may go through my mind at that point in time ;-)