Servers - The Engineer's Workshop

Securing Your Network: Configuring ACLs on an HP 1910 Managed Switch "The Easy Way"

Secure your network by learning how to set up access control lists (ACLs) on the HP 1910 (Comware) managed switch.

Expand Your Proxmox Storage: A Guide to Adding CIFS (SMB) Storage to Proxmox

Free up valuable local storage on your Proxmox server while simultaneously adding to your virtualization server's storage capacity. In this guide, we'll learn how to add CIFS storage (SMB/Samba shares) to Proxmox.

Programming

Connecting VS Code with a Remote Development Server

Previously, we discussed how to set up a remote development server that will allow you to work from wherever on whatever hardware (and OS) you choose. In today's guide, we will continue that work with how to set up remote SSH with Visual Studio Code.

Programming

Develop from Anywhere: How to Set Up a Remote Development Server

Work from anywhere and develop remotely on any desktop. A beginner's guide for how to set up a remote development server.

Servers

Remote Start for Servers: How To Set Up Wake-on-LAN (WOL)

Start your unattended server wherever you are in the world over the internet. A complete tutorial on wake-on-LAN (WOL) with a reverse SSH tunnel using nothing more than a Raspberry Pi.

Homelab

The Homelab Lifeline: The Easiest Guide to Creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel

The easiest, quick step-by-step guide for accessing your homelab network remotely via a reverse SSH tunnel on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian/Ubuntu device).

Servers

Connecting Your Raspberry Pi Web Server To The Internet: A Beginner's Guide to Port Forwarding and Dynamic DNS

A tutorial on connecting a Raspberry Pi/Ubuntu web server to the internet. Includes how to set up ddclient for dynamic DNS and how to configure port forwarding on a router/pfSense.

Virtualization

Configuring VLANs on Proxmox- An Introductory Guide

An introductory guide to VLAN configuration on a Proxmox virtualization server so that you can group related VMs onto their own subnet.

Virtualization

How to Add a Hard Disk to an ESXi Virtual Machine

How to add an additional hard disk to an ESXi virtual machine (VM) via the web client and command line (esxcli/vmkfstools) without vSphere.

Networking

How To Set Up VLANs On An L3 Managed Switch (HP 1910) With pfSense

Tutorial on creating VLANs from scratch and routing them on an L3 Switch with pfSense integration.

Servers

Preparing Your Server for Vacation - The Unattended Server Access Checklist

Preparing Your Server for Vacation – The Unattended Server Access Checklist. 1) Check VPN Connection: 2) Check Reverse SSH Tunnel Backup: 3) VNC Server Available on Backup Devices: 4) Test Automatic Server Shutdown When Running on UPS: 5) Test Server WOL from Backup Device

Docker

A Short Introduction to Troubleshooting Docker Networks

I recently just built an unRAID rig which has now been deployed to my DMZ. It’s great, but something I have been struggling with is that periodically my FileZilla

Linux

How to Share Part of Your Plex Libraries without Giving Users Complete Access to Your Full Library: Symbolic Links with Plex and Docker Containers

By now you've discovered some of the many shortcomings of Plex. One of which is that you can't share individual videos with your friends or family- you have to give them access to the entire library! It's even worse if you have kids and

Servers

Setup an NGINX Reverse Proxy on a Raspberry Pi (or any other Debian OS)

If you’re running a web server out of your homelab (and you should), you really should consider running your servers behind an NGINX reverse proxy. Honestly, this should be