Here is how I satisfied my need to have a LAN messaging program, not really to chat with other users on the same LAN, which I could do, but to copy and paste links or texts between a rdp client and a rdp server when copy and paste from/to clipboard does not work in rdp sessions, for instance with some Android rdp clients.

These are the programs I used:

• Openfire 3.9.3 on the "server" (which can be a simple Windows pc): a realtime collaboration server using XMPP/Jabber
• Miranda IM 0.10.23.0: a multi-protocol instant messaging client
• Xabber 0.9.30b: an Android Jabber client

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Posted by: Z24 | Wed, Aug 27 2014 | Category: /software | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: android, chat, client-server, configuration, howto, jabber, messaging, network, phone, rdp, software, xmpp

Create a VPN to connect from an Android client to a home Windows XP server

If you want to connect to your home computer using rdp when you are not home and are connected to the internet, you have to open a port on your firewall; changing the standard rdp port on both your server and your firewall increases your security (or decreases your unsecurity); configuring a Virtual Private Network (VPN) increases your security even more, and you can close the rdp port on your firewall: in fact, when you connect your remote client to your vpn, your remote client comes inside your LAN so that you can remote access your server from inside the LAN.

• Configure server to create a VPN
• Configure router firewall for VPN passthrough
• Configure VPN on Windows clients
• Configure VPN on Android devices

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Posted by: Z24 | Sun, Sep 22 2013 | Category: /windows | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: android, client-server, configuration, rdp, router, software, vpn, windows, xp

How to rename multiple files from bash

Rename all *html files to *test:

for x in `ls *html`; do mv $x `echo $x | sed -e "s/html/test/"`; done

for var in some-list ; do command ; done

Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell

Execute a command at shutdown

To dismount TrueCrypt volumes at shutdown and reboot time, I created a script, put it in/etc/init.d/ and symlinked it into the needed /etc/rc?.d/ directories using update-rc.d.
Here is the detail:

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Posted by: Z24 | Wed, May 04 2011 | Category: /linux | Permanent link | home
Tagged as: command-line, linux, programming, script, shell