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Port Forwarding Explained

what is port forwarding now maybe you've heard about it but you weren't exactly sure what it was or how it works so basically port forwarding allows computers over the Internet to connect to a specific computer or service within a private network it's basically making your computer accessible over the Internet even though you're behind a router so for example let's say a friend of yours at their home wants to remotely control your computer at your home using a service such as remote desktop connection now remote desktop connection is a service built into Microsoft Windows that enables you to connect to another computer running Microsoft Windows and then once you're connected to the remote computer you can use that computers programs and files just as if you were sitting in front of it so now your friend is ready to connect to your computer so we starts up the remote desktop connection and sends the request to your public IP address with a specific port number no...

How to Setup an FTP Server in Windows 7

to show you how to set up an FTP server in Windows 7 create a user account and access your FTP from inside of your network and outside of your network so let's begin click on start and then type run and click on the run program here type CMD and click OK it's going to open the command prompt here type IP config and press Enter and this here is your IP address keep it in mind or write it down now I'm going to close here and I'm going to create in my desktop a folder that my FTP users are going to be accessing via the FTP site I'm going to name this avoid errors and now we are ready to install a is so click on start then click on control panel then click on programs and features and click on turn Windows Features on or off and then look for Internet Information Services checkmark that and then expand expand FTP server and now put a check mark on FTP server FTP extensibility FTP service web management tools and world wide web services and then click OK most IISS instal...

NAS vs SAN - Network Attached Storage vs Storage Area Network

what is the difference between a Nass and a SAN so that is the topic of this video so we'll first talk about what a Nass is now Nass or na s stands for network attached storage if you wanted to store data in a centralized location where it can be accessed from all of your devices on your network you can do this by using a network attached storage device an ass is a storage device that is used for storing data and it doesn't do anything else besides storing data now typically an ass is a box that will have multiple hard drives in a raid configuration for redundancy and it'll also have a network interface card that will directly attach to a switch or router so that the data can be accessed over a network then once it's on the network it can be accessed from other devices such as desktops laptops and servers and it can be accessed as a shared drive now NASA's are typically used in homes and they are also used in small to medium-sized businesses but one of the main disa...

what is a DMZ

what is a DMZ DMZ stands for a demilitarized zone so that's what we're going to talk about in this video now a DMZ is used to improve the security of an organization's network by segregating devices such as computers and servers on the opposite sides of a firewall so it's sort of like creating two separate networks so the question is why would you want to do this and how does a dmz accomplish this so let's do an example here so here we have a network that belongs to a company and this company has computers and servers that are behind a firewall and in this company we have servers that need to be accessed by people from the internet so that the company can stay in business so for example these servers could be a web server and an email server now because these servers are behind the company's firewall they are inside the company's private network so that would mean that this company is letting in people from an untrusted Network such as the Internet be given ...