So I have a QNAP NAS that's sharing a couple of folders via SMB. In Windows, if I go to \\<ip address> in explorer, open the shared folder and pull a 7 GB file to my local drive, I get about 50 MB/s ...

A hostname is a label assigned to a device (a host) on a network. It distinguishes one device from another on a specific network or over the internet. The hostname for a computer on a home network may ...

Many companies and organizations host an FTP site, a mail server, and a Web server on the same machine. In such cases, the hostnames ftp.ripoff.org, mail.ripoff.org, and www.ripoff.org are usually ...

I have a CentOS VM running in VMWare player. The host is Windows Server 2008 R2. The hostname is rianjswiki. The FQDN is rianjswiki.<company>.net. The wiki is accessible via browser both via the short ...

How to find a hostname via public IP address? In order to find the hostname of a computer with a public IP address, you have to pass the address to the Domain Name System (DNS) server. Here are the ...

In this step-by-step guide from Jack Wallen, learn how to access and modify the Linux hosts file to control the mapping of hostnames to IP addresses. At some point in your career as a developer, ...

We list the best IP address tools, to make it simple and easy to better manage networks. If you manage a large network of computers and other devices, you probably have many IP addresses to keep track ...

NetBIOS alone should not give you many headaches. Unfortunately, when NetBIOS problems occur they can be difficult to detect. Understanding how NetBIOS works is the key. One of the important steps in ...