Need a jump start on Unix networking? Whether you're working on your home network or setting up systems at work, here are some basic Unix networking commands and insights that might prove helpful.

Providing only the basic commands that jailed users need is not quite enough, however. While it might not be obvious, most basic Unix commands are incomplete in themselves.

Shell basics The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell).

For all UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD—which is what FreeNAS uses), permissions work in generally the same way. Each file and folder has an owner and a group assigned to it, which ...