There are thousands of words, phrases and terms used in the networking world. Since most of us are not future Cisco employees we decided to list some of the more common terminology… Read More
Have you ever wanted to know what computer belongs to what IP address? This information can come in very handy when trying to troubleshoot network issues or see if there are devices… Read More
Mapped drives are used with networked servers and computers allowing you quick access to a network share on another computer without having to browse to that share each time you want to… Read More
If you do IT (Information Technology) for a living you most likely know about IP addresses and know how they are configured in your environment. If you have hundreds or thousands of… Read More
When you allow users on your network to see files on hard drives of other computers in the network you normall setup what are called shares. Shares can be thought of as… Read More
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a TCP/IP protocol used to transfer files between computers over a network or over the Internet. You can do this via command line, FTP software or… Read More
PathPing is a network diagnostic utility that comes with Windows which combines the ping and tracert command into one tool. PathPing will show you details of the path between two hosts like… Read More
With NTFS permissions, you can assign special permissions to users or groups. Special permissions provide more of a customized unique level of permissions for your files and folders. Here are the NTFS… Read More
Ethernet is a standard of network communication using twisted pair cable although coaxial cable was used in older versions of Ethernet. Ethernet was developed in 1973 by Bob Metcalfe at Xerox. It… Read More
There are many command line networking tools that you can use to do various things from checking the connectivity of hosts on a network to finding out IP information about your computer.… Read More