SudoSeth

My fileserver has an SSH server, so I’ve always been able to remotely connect to it via WinSCP. Recently this has gotten a bit tedious because I would have to wait for a file to finish downloading on my client before I could use it. Recently I finally went through the trouble of figuring out a better way. Since I’ve been using Virtualbox with an Ubuntu virtual machine I figured that I could mount my remote directory via SSHFS in the virtual machine and then share it out via a samba server to my “host” machine running windows. This would allow me to securely (and relatively easily) get native(ish) mounting in windows. I’m going to assume that you’ve worked with some of that stuff before, so I’ll skip the step-by-step.

Here’s the answer to the tricky part:

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Computers, How To, Technical Notes

I travel to frequently and as such need to be able to keep an eye on my servers. I use SSH extensively for this purpose. I’ve been looking for some tools to keep track of bandwidth usage using the command line for a while and recently found some that do exactly what I want.

I found a list that introduced me to a bunch of different tools. Two of my favorites are bmon and bwm-ng. Both of these command line tools can be installed in Ubuntu by using apt-get. technical

Technical Notes terminal, Tools, ubuntu