Install Web Server in Nokia e71 ?!!

Can you believe this? Now you can install web server in your Nokia e71, and it is accessible from Public Network!! Sounds interesting and crazy huh?

This application called Mobile Web Server by My Mobile Sites. It is still the beta versions.

Take a look for the site page that I had installed and browse thru the Internet :

It is accessible using your data connection i.e. GPRS, EDGE, 3G etc. so make you are signing up the correct package before you tried out this application.

The web server will be stopped after you exit from the software.

How to perform DNS query from your command prompt

If you are familiar with Linux network administrative, you will find that it will be more troublesome when you switched over to Windows based administration...I believe some of you who have the same experience will agree with me. :P

Now we can also perform DNS query ( e.g. dig, whois etc. ) from Windows command prompt, instead of browse to online webpage or SSH into the Linux server.

How to install the DNS query tool

• Download the package from here or here and unzip it to C:\dig.
• Edit the resolv.conf and replace the nameserver to your DNS server.
• Save and copy the resolv.conf to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
• Go back to C:\dig, right click the doshere.inf and select Install.
• Edit the Environment Variables ( can be found under [Control Panel]-->[System]-->[Advanced] )
• Edit the "Path" and append "C:\dig" at the end of the line.
• Now, you should be able to use the DNS query from command prompt!

Example on DNS query :

• Show the name servers that controlling .my domains
  • dig my. NS
• Show the name servers that controlling justk2.com
  • dig justk2.com NS
• Show the Mail Exchange for justk2.com
  • dig justk2.com MX
• Show the IP address for the web, 10network.justk2.com
  • dig 10network.justk2.com
• Show the hostname of the IP address
  • dig -x 203.158.28.18
• Show whois is owning the justk2.com domain
  • whois justk2.com

More informations at : Dig Manual Page

Use your Windows as Router

Do not have money to buy router? or your router is spoilt and cannot work properly??!! Now, you can use your Windows as a router easily.

Enable the IP Forwarding in Windows XP

• Go to registry editor. Click on "Start"  --> "Run..", type "regedit" and press ENTER.
• Then go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE]->[SYSTEM]->[CurrentControlSet]->[Services]->[Tcpip]->[Parameters]
• Modify the [IPEnableRouter] value from "0" to "1".
• Then, reboot your Windows.

Download the 3rd Party Software : NAT32

This is one of easier software to use and configure as NAT server. Download from NAT32 Windows Software Router.

Before you install the Setup.exe, you may need to install the Protocol at your network adaptor.

• Go to your network adaptor properties page.
• Then click "Install" and select "Protocol" then "Add"
• 
• Click the "Have Disk" and specify the directory into which you unzipped  NAT32.
• Select the required .inf file ( use NDIS3P2K.inf for XP )
• Click OK.
• Reboot your Windows to start the driver.

Network Attached Storage

Network Attached Storage, also known as NAS, is a file-level computer data storage that connected to a network and providing data access to data clients.

The NAS is solely a computer that connected to a network with own installed stripped down and minimal operating system. The unit is oftenly not and unable to carry out other functionalities as other computer may have. NAS unit normally do not have keyboard+mouse and display, it is controlled and managed over network by using web-based browsing.

NAS uses file-based protocol i.e. NFS ( Sun Network File System ) on linux system or SMB ( Server Message Block ) on windows-based system. NAS units rarely limit clients to a single protocol.

More info on NAS : http://compnetworking.about.com/od/itinformationtechnology/l/aa070101a.htm

The benefit of using NAS

Availability of data might potentially be increased with NAS if it provides built-in RAID and clustering.

Performance can be increased by NAS because the file serving is done by the NAS and not done by a server responsible for also doing other processing. The performance of NAS devices, though, depends heavily on the speed of and traffic on the network and on the amount of cache memory (RAM) on the NAS computers or devices.

Buffalo

The Buffalo network-attached storage series are network-attached storage devices sold around the world, for example by US, European and Japanese computer retailers, and have been reviewed by the computer press. They can be modified into miniature general purpose Linux-based computers. The LinkStation and TeraStation are intended for the general public, while the Kuro Box is intended for expert hackers as a cheap platform for Linux development.

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One of it famous product is Buffalo TeraStation.

List of NAS manufacturers

My experience on Buffalo....

"I used this product once for my office, the system was CRASHED and the RAID system was failed. Suppose by using RAID5, it should be able to recover the lost data from the redundant hard disk but the worst thing was the data inside was TOTALLY LOST and the support told me, it is unable to recover....damm!"

Ever since that, I have lost my confidence on this product and the support as well.

Just found out an open source NAS system...think gonna get a computer and try it on. Be back on the configuration steps and the experience once I had tried it....

[Update: 21st July] Click here, to find out more on how to build your own Network Attached Storage