The default behavior of mapping a network drive does exactly what it sounds like it does: it maps a network share to a local drive. Sometimes, you may want to map a network share to a folder, or subfolder, on your local system. This can be done pretty easily. Open up a command prompt, as… Continue reading Windows: Map network drive to a folder

By default, Windows will only allow you to mount one share per destination computer at a time. For example, if you’re working on a Windows computer, and have a file server running samba with multiple users, you may run in to this issue. One way around this limitation is to create additional DNS entries (either… Continue reading Windows: Mount multiple samba shares from the same host, using different credentials per share

WordPress includes support for permalinks on nginx since version 3.7. However, the drawback is that WordPress is not aware of the location of your nginx config file. So you must edit that, and reload the nginx config, in order for permalinks to work on a new wordpress site. This discussion on WordPress.org’s support site contains… Continue reading Enabling WordPress permalinks on nginx