Networking

List of Installed Software and its role. PiVPN (https://pivpn.io) - Setup script and easy management for OpenVPN to allow remote access to my home network, along with secure VPN when using untrusted WiFi networks. Samba - Creates a share for my Windows machines to backup to a 3TB Seagate USB drive. fr24feed/dump1090 - Uses a DVB-T TV Stick and an antenna to collect ADS-B Broadcast ser2net - Serial Port to Network Forwarding, allows me to configure my burglar alarm over the LAN without needing the £190 adapter OpenSSH - Tunnelling, Management and Maintenance access. neofetch - To provide the flash Message of the Day screen output and the Pi Logo on login. inadyn - To update my Dynamic DNS hosts to allow access from outside using a specified hostname. Pi-Hole - Ad Blocking DNS server for my network. Installing PiVPN PiVPN’s installer is very simply, simply SSH into the Pi and run the following: curl -L https://install.pivpn.io | bash ...

I’ve recently set up a small Windows Server 2008 R2 domain for a non-profit. I made some notes as there’s nothing really basic on the internet that skips the 90% of information you don’t need, and concentrates on the 10% you do need. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone trying to do something similar. It will start out pretty basic, but I will flesh it out with plenty of details when I have a few minutes. ...