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OpenVPN: Create a peer to peer Network between two Clients

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for creating a simple peer to peer network between two clients you do not have to setup a complete X.509 certificate based infrastructure. You can use a static key created by OpenVPN for such purposes.

In a Point-To-Point environment one Computer acts as server (vpnmachine1: 192.168.200.1) the other as client (vpnmachine2: 192.168.200.2).
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Systemd: Automount nfs export

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systemd can mount cifs filesystems at boot or on demand like autofs.

First cifs mount at boot time. Determine the share and the mount point.
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Windows: Enable generation of 8.3 Names

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in newer Versios of Windows the generation of the DOS Style 8.3 names is only enabled for Drive C: for all other volumes it is disabled by default.
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Hyper-V: Convert a VMware Virtual Machine files to Hyper-V

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this post describes how to convert VMware vmdk files to Hyper-V’s vhdx format.

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Linux: btrfs command line examples

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my collection of btrfs command line snippets.

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