@dashrender said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

@coliver said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

@coliver said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

I've found OpenSSH on Windows to be missing some features that Linux has. It may be a Windows vs Linux thing but home directories and jails seem to be both missing. There were some others in the past but don't remember what they were offhand.

Those are not features of SSH. SSH doesn't have them on either platform.

That's fine... but that's one of the reasons we needed to look at a different SFTP server that allowed us to designate home directories and jails for users.

Seems like an odd functionality to want in your SSH server. Why do you want that on Windows?

If you're treating it like FTP, why wouldn't you want those things?

But FTP doesn't have those things, either. In both cases FTP and SFTP are just the protocols, but we are talking about OS functions. Why does SFTP need to be treated so differently from FTP is really the base question.

@dashrender said in IT Environment update questions:

@scottalanmiller said in IT Environment update questions:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in IT Environment update questions:

@dashrender said in Greenfield (OK not really) setup questions:

Additional options: use something like Salt to create network mappings for the computers.

I am interested to hear about:

"Salt to create network mappings for the computers."

Since salt works only when minions connected, and for reason my NAS and windows clients loses the connections every 2-3 days and requires the user to re-input username/password (maybe related to Windows limtiation)

how will you effectively use salt for that purpose ? just put script to run at user login ? any other neat ways to do this ?

Salt is meant to run continuously. For example, mine run every 10 minutes or so to verify the environment. So if a mapped drive failed, it would be fixed again in a few minutes.

The same goes for GPO. It refreshes every 15 min I think by default.

Every 90 minutes with a 30 minute flux. So every 60-120 minutes for GPO.

@ktsaou said in netdata 1.5 released - big update!:

netdata and prometheus are quite different. They can actually cooperate: netdata exposes all its metrics in a prometheus compatible format, so that prometheus can use netdata as a data collector.

In general, prometheus is a time-series database with an embedded scraper. For sources it cannot scrape itself it uses other data collectors (including netdata).

netdata is a real-time performance monitoring. The detail and amount of information netdata provides is probably too much for prometheus. Also netdata is distributed (you install it everywhere), while prometheus is centralized.

There is no good and bad in these things. Different things for different needs.

So, use the solution that suits you best...

Right. I didn't mean they were the same under the hood. I mean they are both "exposed" in the same way.

@tim_g said in Windows restore from system image (Windows 7 Professional):

@wrx7m said in Windows restore from system image (Windows 7 Professional):

For user profile migrations, I generally use Transwiz. It will package the user's profile (domain or local) on the old system and when you run it on the new one, it creates the registry entries and copies all the content to the users folder. I have been using it for years and rarely have any weird issues.

https://www.forensit.com/move-computer.html

Does it copy the users' cert store?

Good question. I do not know.

Wow, major changes since I last tested it!

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases

@emad-r said in Google photos, password protecting:

@dashrender

Not sure if this would help, I know you said he wants the ease of use thing, but my solution would be storing those photos in new folder, and creating in that folder the file called .nomedia, and that will skip it from being indexed in the gallery.

So next time if he wants to go to the surgery photos, he will have to use the File Manager and not the gallery.

How do you get the camera to save to the folder? and how easy is it to switch the camera from one folder to another?

@net-runner Nice setup
@scottalanmiller - Do you have enough VM's? 😉

@gjacobse said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@wrcombs said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@scottalanmiller not a matter of wanting windows, but trying to figure out why it wouldnt let it connect..

@scottalanmiller said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@wrcombs said in Windows XP secuirty problem:

@scottalanmiller not a matter of wanting windows, but trying to figure out why it wouldnt let it connect..

Meh, put Linux on and get that to connect.

Nothing wrong with trying to figure things out - because with IT you never know what you will run into. -

Investing in technical knowledge that is well past its prime doesn't make a lot of sense though. Literally the answer to running into XP in the wild is update it to Windows 10 or a Linux distribution if that is viable.

@dashrender said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@jaredbusch said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@tim_g

@tim_g said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in How Many Windows Server VMs Can You Run on Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

Oh and they provide the hyper v integration as cab file (guest agent):
windows6.x-hypervintegrationservices-x64.cab
I cant belive I complained when VIRT IO Tools was repackaged some time ago and they changed some folders in there ISO image, while MS gives you a .cab file and not even an executable.

What do you mean? What VM are you trying to install? You shouldn't need any integration tools at all for any modern operating system on a VM. They come built in and are updated via Windows Update (if running Windows OS)

If you install RHEL or CentOS, you can download a Linux Integration Services .ISO if you need to. You simply run the ./install.sh file. All other modern Linux OSs already have the Hyper-V Integration built in to the kernel.

This is what i am talking about:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/help/3063109/hyper-v-integration-components-update-for-windows-virtual-machines

Method 2: Microsoft Download Center

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Operating system Update
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Go to the download, and it is all .cab files.

WTF are you talking about. This is not DVD media. You are doing it wrong from the beginning.

Ofcourse I know this is not DVD media, those are the Hyper-V agents that MS wants you to install on your guest machine, MS calls them Hyper-V integration components.

ESXi and KVM Virt IO all provides much better ways to get this installed on your guest machines, and dont provide you a dumb .cab file.

Just because you are not capable of providing a share to get access the files from within the VM does not mean the process is stupid.

Who wants to mount ISO files from the hypervisor all the time just to update software in a guest VM? That is the stupid thing.

Okay, granted what are the commands to create share in Windows hyper-V standalone? I tried and failed, or the only way to do so is to have share outside hyper-V like NAS ? if so both KVM and ESXi can be easier in sending files directly to the host.

I dont want to go to fight about who is the best Virtualization platform cause that is pointless, but my trial wit Hyper-V is everything required 2 extra steps to get it configured. While the competition it can be done with one step.

Why are you trying to put these files on the hypervisor? They have no need to be on the hypervisor. You cannot download them there anyway why are you trying to put them there? The guest VM does not care where they are shared from. Just put them someplace accessible. or even download them directly in the guest VM.

I am not arguing best hypervisor platform. I am simply stating you are doing things wrong and causing your own problems.

I'm guessing that he might be saying that he has no NAS, and doesn't want to create a share from his desktop machine to make those ISOs available to the hypervisor.

ESXi allows you to have a folder on the DataStore that you can then reference. I did this for my ESXi server. Same goes for my XS, I had a local piece of storage on the hypervisor for ISOs.

I don't see an actual issue with this. The biggest one I seem is that you might be using more expensive disk to store ISOs instead of storing them on a NAS.

And Hyper-V lets you access share a folder too. It is all windows, so the admin share is there and active.

\\hypervservername\c$\somefolder

@dustinb3403 I did what you said to do, then i realized i missed a step, cause i couldn't find the file he told me to, cause it wasn't exactly the same as he put into the post.
then i installed, and ran that command, just booted my VM.

Listened to this on Friday. Thank you for reinforcing what I have been saying for about a year now around my company.

People in production brings in equipment that requires network connection and ports open to a cloud server, but does not inform us of these needs until after the equipment has been installed and wonders why its not working.

"Well no wonder why it is not working. We have to run a network connection into a production environment, give your equipment (that I just met, potential security issue) an IP address, and open ports to a cloud system that I have no idea about and no control over. All because you did not value IT enough to include us in the decision making processes to figure out if it would be compatible with our environment."

@dashrender said in A SAMIT Idea...:

@scottalanmiller said in A SAMIT Idea...:

@wirestyle22 said in A SAMIT Idea...:

@scottalanmiller said in A SAMIT Idea...:

@wirestyle22 said in A SAMIT Idea...:

@dustinb3403 said in A SAMIT Idea...:

This is what MangoCon is for, you should all attend.

9 days until the big event!

I haven't been told no, but we are short staffed and I seriously doubt I'm going to be able to go. I am going to be there for the stream though.

The shorter the staffing, the more that they need to keep you happy. Remember, desperate bosses are pliable bosses.

Well I am taking off after 12 today and off tomorrow to be there for Laura in her time of grieving. I technically only have 1 more day off for the year 😕

Technically you have all that you want, he can't afford to get rid of you. And you don't want to stay, so you have ALL of the leverage. Literally, all of it. He has everything to lose and you've got nothing on the line. You hold all of the cards. And it is not days off, he can still email you and ask you things, you are doing company training that helps him, etc.

Except that I'm sure he doesn't want to be without a paycheck while looking for his replacement job.

But chances are, he "doesn't want that" less than his boss wants to "lose his company because he can't fulfill his contractual obligations."

Thanks @JaredBusch this will be a huge help! I'll give this a try later this evening when I'm back.

That worked great. Thanks Scott! Updating my documentation now

@dustinb3403 said in Microsoft Isn't Crazy:

@jaredbusch said in Microsoft Isn't Crazy:

Video content, did not watch.

Guy didn't know how to set the timezone on a Windows system, and jumped the conclusion that Microsoft just royally screwed up / couldn't figure out time zones, and gave up.

We had a client's onsite IT guy put in a ticket that the exchange server was 2 hours off! Nope, what recently changed?
You rebuilt your laptop and just changed the time and not the default pacific timezone.
Point us, -100 for you being the IT guy.

@john-nicholson said in Open Source Hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in Open Source Hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

my take on this:

ESXi free is limited, 8 vcpu per VM and that limit can be easily reached limit.

It's easily reached if you starve a VM of IOPS or RAM and it's spinning cycles waiting on IO. In reality VERY few things need 8 vCPU. I've seen The ONLY exchange server for 5000 users not need that many resources.

Given modern Skylake hardware, and 4Ghz Intel Xeon Cores's if your hitting the 8vCPU limit I'm REALLY curious why your not willing to spend the one time ~$200 per host that is the Essentials bundle to get some more features is a rounding error in your budget (it's like less than a $1 a day per host).

Keep in mind it is not per hosts, but ~$600 per three hosts, so for much of the SMB that's either $300 or $600 per host and makes things like future upgrades potentially a problem. And $600 per host is enormous for the SMB market. Absolutely staggering. Given that 90% of the market can't even cost justify a server, let alone a server with that much additional licensing.

On a single host, how much value is that $600 getting an SMB versus getting free, unlimited use virtualization with $600 of faster hardware? When we are talking a $3,000 server, an extra $600 is anything but trivial.

The "only $200 per host" is really "holy crap, $200 per host with a minimum of three!!" That's not at all a small number, not in the SMB market. And especially not in an SMB market outside of the US.

@nerdydad said in Satellite internet:

Yeah, latency was utterly terrible. In-laws said they could watch Netflix on it but that would take most of their data allotted.

Yeah, once something actually got started, the speed was good. It's just getting anything started was really slow. It really didn't help that they had a data allotment of 2 GB and 8 people actually using it.

@fuznutz04 I agree, low orbit satellites have been an obvious target for any company with the means to get started with it for a number of years now. Can't happen fast enough!

@roopankumar I am ready to pay but the budget should match too for the device

@scottalanmiller said in Facebook Algorithm for Recovering Password:

@lakshmana said in Facebook Algorithm for Recovering Password:

@scottalanmiller said in Facebook Algorithm for Recovering Password:

I'm not sure that I've ever tried this. I think that they have a 2FA thing.

2FA means?

Two Factor Authentication

But my account automatically logged in without resetting the fb password page too.How is it possible?