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Posts tagged internet
How do you recover your Joomla admin password?
0For Joomla 1.5
How do you recover your admin password?
Windows 7 “Unidentified Network” / No Internet Access
1Ran into a really weird today. On my Windows 7 desktop, I was able to browse network just fine and even access internet while nobody in the LAN was able to access anything on my desktop. When I went to the “Network and Sharing Center”, I saw that it is showing “Unidentified Network” for my network. I tried disabling and enabling the network adapter but to no avail.
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Checking your SMTP server using Telnet
0If you are having problems sending mails from your SMTP server, you can test the sending server using telnet. Same steps work for Linux and Windows but in windows, telnet does not accept backspace so if you enter something wrong, do not try to edit it, just press enter and re-enter the command and also you need to have telnet client installed on your computer. If on windows you get “‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” then first you should install telnet using “Add Remove features or Turn windows features on/off” whatever is appropriate for your version of windows. If you are on Linux just Google for how to add telnet for your Linux flavor.
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Check Internet Connectivity
0How to check is your PC/ Server is connected to the internet…. there are more than one ways to do that – using wininet.dll, calling for DNS resolution, pinging a internet server, calling a web page and checking for response status and as I wanted to be sure that client is able to reach my server so put them all together.
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