@dave247 said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

@scottalanmiller said in Foreign B1 Visa employee scam?:

Yup. Its decently well known. Happens in the US too.

What's the scam called so I can learn more?

That I do not know. I'm sure someone has come up with a name, but it's a simple impersonation scheme. It's not so much a specific scam as just generally one person impersonating another.

A ghost ship is when a ship (at sea) has lost its crew but doesn't sink and keeps on drifting. Software shops will often make software and keep selling it for years or decades after the "crew" who made it have left the company and the company can no longer maintain or update it (which often remains can't fully support). This is why client server software often exists... it was actually made by someone in the 1990s who has left and the company keeps selling it, but they can't modernize it because they don't have the skills remaining in house to work on the software.

@brandon220 said in Choosing KVM over Hyper-V....:

I have not tried to run a Windows vm on KVM yet....

KVM is specifically good for that.

@dafyre said in SSH-Copy-ID Being prompted for password:

@DustinB3403 said in SSH-Copy-ID Being prompted for password:

@dafyre said in SSH-Copy-ID Being prompted for password:

What I've seen is that ssh-copy-id will request your password since the remote machine doesn' thave you ID. After entering your password, it transfers the id, and you should be good to go.

Which password, the password for the local server that I'm running the copy from, the user password for that server?

The user password for the remote server.

That makes literally no sense, as it asks for the remote computer credentials after the 3rd Password prompt. . .

Personally my thing when advising people on this is £££££ you need to decide on what your budget is before looking at parts.

Some of my friends say they want high end 4K gaming but only want to spend £400 😄

So start with the budget then work around that 🙂

@black3dynamite said in Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master:

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

Seems to be working. I think that it was the firewall needing the exception AND using the

--timeout 60

Thanks!

@scottalanmiller StarWind performance is really great! It's able to give 2 times better performance on read operations on HA device! Link to the Benchmark Best Practices document: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/best-practices/starwind-virtual-san-starwind-benchmarking-best-practices/

@Obsolesce ReFS is unstable, unfortunately. I saw the case when after power outage ReFS volume become RAW...

@manxam said in Phishing testing / awareness / training suggestions?:

MSPs can only purchase Platinum or Diamond I was told, and at a minimum of 101 seats @ MSRP -20%. So, a minimum spend of $2400 CDN for us and $3000 for the customer for their "recommended" tier (platinum).

Does the old adage apply here? "Gotta pay to play"...?

Well if you are approaching as an MSP, this is to be expected. You are assumed to be reselling the service. This is the only thing they allow to be resold.

You as the MSP buy 101 licenses and resell 10 each to a few clients at MSRP -5%.

If you get external DNS to go to the nginx proxy you could probably allow all traffic to the URL path that lets encrypt needs and then create a whitelist for everything else.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:

And really, all I'm looking for is a convenient way setup my user workstations, and update them without the Apple overhead, including with brew commands.

This is my ML How Tos are better 🙂

I looked but didn't find one that was current.

Yeah, not sure that there is one. On Fedora 28 it was broken. On Fedora 30 I think it is just "dnf install salt-master -y" and you are done. So nothing to write up.

I think we are running Salt on Ubuntu now because of the breakage issues on Fedora.

@Dashrender is correct, you need to use a real VLAN for this.

Because this:

but ICMP, DNS, and DHCP are never isolated between lan and SSID, so pinging is not a valid test.

Is not true on a VLAN.

@black3dynamite said in FreePBX Desktop Video Conferencing Options:

Have you already check with linphone if it does video conferencing?

In theory it does. Linphone desktop has been pretty flaky for us so were looking at alternatives.

@FATeknollogee said in Vultr backups:

This isn't exactly related to OP's post...
It would be nice if there was a "clean & easy" way to "migrate" your vm's from Vultr to say a co-lo.

If you use a DevOps system, then there always is. If you use normal backups like Veeam, it's easy, too. Same with any platform, platforms don't make lock in, that comes from how it is set up. It's as easy to go from Vultr to colo as from anything else to colo.

I have not heard of them which doesn't mean much 🙂

@FATeknollogee said in oVirt Host Choices for Production:

@EddieJennings I would start by using oVirt Node (it's based on CentOS), it's the simplest, least hassled way of setting up.

Yeah, they have their own Node deployer, I'd generally just use that.

Dragging and dropping todos between notebooks - I really like that

If you want to do web browser kiosk.
https://porteus-kiosk.org/

@Curtis said in Bria Mobile iOS and FreePBX:

I tried a few hours with Bira this morning...

Just a couple minutes ago I downloaded Acrobits Groundwire by Acrobits, and it instantly worked...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acrobits-groundwire/id378503081

That listing clearly states it uses push. So how does that work?