@MattSpeller

Disco ball, strobe light & laser beams. Got it.

@linuxspark said in PC Matic Thoughts?:

I give them my recommendation. They pay for the work which keeps my job.

You might want to talk with them about who is running IT. If they are, ask them what they want to do. If you, do what is right for them.

@Dashrender said in Windows DNS best practice:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows DNS best practice:

@Mike-Davis He is actually asking this in regards to my network. We have one root domain with two subdomains, all on their own subnets. How mine differs from the OP is both the primary and secondary DNS are in the main building attached to the root domain. We only use static IP's. There is no DHCP here. We don not even use wireless, although that will change in the near future.

What Wire didn't mention is that all servers and all clients in the entire organization use those two DNS servers at headquarters. That seems very odd to me.

FYI - Wire just came on with that client, so he didn't set this up.

This is correct

Pretty sure that Ubuntu is fully firewalled out of the box. Don't know anything that isn't these days (except for the famous 1511 issue.)

8 years old - yeah, Personally I fully expect failures at any time, just expect them, but am not unhappy when they don't happen either.

I put in 40 new VOIP phones 10 years ago, starting around 7 years, when we lost power long enough to take the switches down, we started having phone failures - they wouldn't power back on.

I actually was talking to @scottalanmiller about a related thing - stickion - when you turn off a computer with drives in it that when the drives stop spinning, they don't work anymore because the heads stick to the platters.

I'm not sure how often this really happens anymore, but it is a real thing. Scott said that the recommendation is to not allow drives to spin down in these situation when possible.

These 8 year running devices are just the same as my phones and those HDDs.

@dafyre said in KVM Guests Backup - CentOS7:

@aaronstuder said in KVM Guests Backup - CentOS7:

@dafyre I need to learn a config management package.... suggestions?

I'll have to defer to others for that one, lol.

Salt and Ansible seem to be the most interesting. We are getting into Salt, here. Chef is decent.

@JaredBusch said in WAN Link - Fiber to Copper Changing to Fiber Only:

@wrx7m said in WAN Link - Fiber to Copper Changing to Fiber Only:

Do you know if you can disable config access on certain interfaces/ports on the erx?

You can restrict by firewall rules to IP.

You can leave eth2 off of switch0 and give eth2 a different IP block or restrict the IP block to something. But why? This is not a normal thing done with switches. They have config also. You still have to log in.

I was trying to figure out how to say this - JB's exactly right.

In fact you have options if you want to enable yourself to manage this remotely, not that you should probably ever need to. Set eth2 to an IP on your network, then plug that into your network, this assume you have a second cable from your switch to that room.

But really that's probably not necessary.

actually - I just found this page, so I think I'll sit here a spell and do some reading.

https://help.screenconnect.com/Category:Extensions

It's part of the Screen Connect system itself

@Mike-Davis said in FreePBX and SonicWall intermittent inbound calls:

@FiyaFly Well, it inconsistent is how it was behaving. 🙂

Fair point. Fair point indeed. lol. I will admit, I have a rule of thumb with inconsistent problems. If it's on a computer, first assumption is hardware.
For something like this, first assumption is Firewall, and more specifically NAT.

Now I didn't need to use a separate ISP for the Guest network, I could have setup VLAN trunking on the corporate firewall connection, and then setup rules inside the corporate firewall to split the traffic as desired.

@coliver said in Nextcloud Running on Raspian:

@gjacobse said in Nextcloud Running on Raspian:

@coliver said in Nextcloud Running on Raspian:

Make sure you run mysql_sercure_installation after installing MariaDB.

pi@nextCloud:~ $ mysql -v -bash: mysql: command not found pi@nextCloud:~ $ mysql -bash: mysql: command not found

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

I actually just did that with mysql-server....

@hobbit666 said in P2V Windows 2008 R2:

I'm sure I've used something like Acronis Backup and Restore in the past for trouble machines, when restore they have a "dissimilar hardware" option.

Right - I was using the tools I had available at the time. XenConvert hasn't been officially supported since VS 6.2 or earlier.

I did solve the problem though - one that seemed pretty common - though as @hobbit666 mentioned - third party utilities apparently do often help resolve these problems sometimes.

That assumes you can.

@IRJ said in Are CMS Detectors Legal?:

@stacksofplates said in Are CMS Detectors Legal?:

@IRJ said in Are CMS Detectors Legal?:

OpenVas is a great tool, but the GUI is one of the worst I have seen.

Ya. What's with the lady in the scan area? The reports are also not great.

Yeah she really annoys me. She has to be the most annoying thing about the GUI. The reports have good information but the format isn't great. They aren't well organized and they don't have pretty images.

Haha yes! I never looked into it but they look like LaTeX documents, so I can understand why they did it that way.

yeah, MS killed everything but IE 11 last year. Though I guess they must still be supporting IE 9 for Vista for another 4 months.

Vista EOL April 2017.

Boy I remember when I came to the understanding that MS really wanted you to build completely separate GPs for users vs devices...

@stus would you be able to comment on the apparent spamming that people are receiving?

@RojoLoco said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@stess said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@RojoLoco said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@stess said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@RojoLoco said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@stess said in Need advise on bluetooth receiver for aux speaker. Quality over $$:

@RojoLoco

I tested with internet radio and it plays for hours without interruption, but with itunes library it struggle to keep up.

What a POS (the macbook/itunes part)! My music library will play uninterrupted across the whole house from a big, slow SATA drive.

Did you use NAS option?

On the speaker? I don't think mine has that option, might be a gen 1 model. On mine, you just point it to a network share.

On Bose's app. There are 2 primary options. 1st is internet radio. 2nd is add a server. In Add a service there are options to add Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, etc... and connect to NAS and Using iTunes Library.

Yeah, I guess that's the option I used. I didn't remember it being called "NAS" though, but my memory sucks sometimes. I think my brain translates that to "network folder".

I'll look into that option.
Thanks for the tips

I've been looking at this too as part of a overall project.