In the vast realm of networked computers, each device needs a unique identifier—a name that allows it to be distinguishable from the crowd. This unique identifier is known as the "hostname." Whether ...

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Managing authentication and authorization in a large-scale network is a challenge: the passwords need to be set and rotated every now and then, access to certain configuration settings needs to be ...

Find out how to authenticate your Linux servers and desktops against an MS NTLM proxy server. If you happen to work in a corporation that uses a Microsoft NTLM Proxy Server, and you also want to use ...

You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...