@gjacobse said in Linux Mint: Reset Windows Password:

WHile I asked, I also searched:

Reset Windows using Linux Mint

You can use Linux live CD and a program named chntpw will do the rest. You don’t have to install that OS to your hard drive. I am showing you how to do it using Linux Mint. Visit Linux Mint website and download ISO. Burn it to a disc and boot up your computer using that bootable disc. Go to Menu>Accessories>Terminal. Type sudo apt-get update. Press Enter. Type sudo apt-get install chntpw. Press Enter and keep that terminal open. From desktop go to Computer and then just open the drive where Windows is loaded. It will mount that drive. In the terminal type cat /proc/mounts. Hit Enter. It will give output like /dev/sda1 /media/CA123DD456EA6512. This long serial no will vary in your case. Change it accordingly in next command. Type cd /media/ CA123DD456EA6512. Hit Enter. Type cd Windows/System32/config/ and Press Enter. Type sudo chntpw SAM and Press Enter. You will get a menu with all users of the system. Default is Administrator. Type 1 and press Enter to clear user password. If you need to reset password for a specific user, type sudo chntpw -u username SAM and follow previous instructions. Close everything and reboot system.

I was going to suggest the chntpw. As far as I know that's compatible up to Windows 8.1... Never had to use it on Win10 yet.

@scottalanmiller said in Securing Linux File Servers:

@wirestyle22 said in Securing Linux File Servers:

@scottalanmiller Nothing stands out between them?

ioSafe uses Synology under the hood. So no. LOL

So it's like HP vs. Canon. Got it.

Duh here is a guide I actually wrote...

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7785/how-to-configure-gmail-smtp-on-xenserver-6-5-to-monitor-and-alert-about-your-mdadm-array

UPDATE:
This is just a copy and paste from my message to SAM btw

I got the firmware updated on all my devices and I got my network up. Not like I want though.

So I had it working with VLANS(as in DHCP, DNS, and routing were working), but then i had issues because my AP (10.0.10.2) couldnt connect to the desk(which is the wireless controller) which is 10.0.20.2

It had something to do with L3 integration on the AP, and I spent 9 hours on the support with Ubiquiti. They basically told me to wait for the next patch for the L3 support.

So i had to remove my vlans and just have a flat network. :((((

So with tagging vlans, i have a question:
the ports you tag on are the "trunks" in cisco terms?

On my switch, what i did is i tagged ports 1, and 8
1 is the AP, and then 8 is the switch->router port
I did this on both vlan 10 and vlan 20
this makes it so that if vlan 20 traffic goes to the wireless it will actually work correct?

I have a TPLink SG108PE.
It can do 802.1Q Vlanning. I have 8 ports and you can assign a PVID per port, and also assign which ports are tagged and untagged.

Port 1 goes to my AP, so it will be be a "trunk" in cisco terms.
Port 8 goes to the router, so it will be to be a "trunk"

Ports 3-7 will be vlan 20, and
port 2 will be 10

Wired is vlan 20
wireless is vlan 10

Am I correct in that ports 1 and 8 need to be tagged for both vlan 10 and 20, and that they are untagged for 2-7?

Am I correct in that ports 3-7 will have a PVID of 20, and port 2 will have a PVID of 10?

Am i correct in that ports 1 and 8 will have a PVID of 1 (the default)?

This is something I worked on for a while,.. I had a 1U server I could use, but it only had slots for 2 drives.... something I thought was 'risky'.

I looked at getting a heavier box something that could take up to 8 drives,.. but boiled things down to getting a ReadyNAS 314, 4 bay with 2TB drives.

IT's been running fine, have a few shares on it,.. permissions and attached a 1TB external USB drive as well (already had).

Small form factor and serious lack of ambient noise makes for the win...

ETA: I credit research and speaking with @scottalanmiller and ML for insight on it.

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help:

@coliver said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft SQL Express 2005 - Complete Database Backup - help:

And I have a feeling the software is crap... that or I'm just doing this wrong..

You might be doing it wrong. The basic/free version is very limited, from what we saw. What are you having issues with?

Oh sorry I'm not trialing that backup software yet.

I'm using the built in tools from the application vendor to try and restore a .BAK into a clean installation.

Oh, I see.

@s.hackleman said

Yup, I have 65 devices exactly like this, sent out all over the country. I know exactly what you are going through. Your best bet is to just figure it out. You really need to be familiar with it before you send them to remote offices. You are going down the right road, just keep going. If you get stuck, or have any specific questions tag me or shoot me a message.

As far as what I am doing we developed an internal ad-hoc application for our users to preform tasks, and sign off. They then upload the results back to a database. We had to fight the political battle between people wanting to use the iPads for more than just our app, and locking them down enough that they would still work in a shared device environment. We have a Mac Pro that I setup the devices using Apple Configurator. That gets me wifi, and I add a policy that joins them to Profile Manager. Once there it is like Active Directory. I can assign users, groups, devices. I can lock security settings, add applications, control app updates, etc. Once they go out to the world, they communicate back to my server here. This computer also hosts a website that acts like a internal app store to host the installers for our in house apps. Nothing we work on is available in the Apple app store.

Do you ever have a need to lock parts of the screen down like you can do in Guided Access? Though I'm still not 100% sure I can't use Guided Access along WITH this scenario.

Also, can you change app setting over-the-air?

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Never reviewed or used it, for myself.. .. But, I do remember some posts/reviews about it on, a while back, Spiceworks ..

Tagging @IRJ @WrCombs @Romo

And patch management and software updates are taken care of for you.

@scottalanmiller yes definitely. scott. l'll work hard to get to Linux admin. l'll start reading your book and download centos. l make up my mind of Linux gradually process

I found the process I had used previously. Here it is here. Summarized below.

Make sure the VM in question is shutdown.
From the console xe vm-shutdown uuid=<UUID of Your VM> xe vbd-list vm-uuid=<UUID of Your VM> params=uuid,type xe vbd-destroy uuid=<UUID of Your CD/DVD> Of critical importance do not select Disk, ensure you select the UUID of the cd Repeat step 4 as many times as you have CD's that are unusable. Reboot the VM and add the device again.

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@scottalanmiller said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@NattNatt said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@scottalanmiller said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@NattNatt said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@scottalanmiller said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@NattNatt said in Phone management software/content filtering:

@scottalanmiller that only works when he's on the WiFi at home though 😉

It works anytime that you can control it. WHen you can't control it, you can't control it.

Nahh I know what you mean, and yeah for sure, but the internet is more when he's out and about on data, rather than at home, so on data he won't go through the home fw etc 🙂

That's like trying to control what billboards he will look at. Can't do it.

Fair enough, think I'll see what various carriers say/can do like Minion Queen suggested and take it from there! Cheers guys 🙂

That's about the only option because they are the only ones that can have a universal firewall/proxy for that situation.

There are plenty of paid MDM solutions out there that will handle this.
One that I have heard good about is https://kidslox.com/en

@tiagom thanks i will check it now

@StuartJordan said in Backup File Server to DAS:

Wow what a thread, took me a while to read through it 🙂

We don't fool around around here!

@scottalanmiller said in Add Active Directory User to Group using PowerShell:

When we work strictly from Windows Server Core installations we need to be able to do everything from the command line, even user management. Let's add a user that already exists into a group that already exists in Active Directory using only PowerShell.

To do this we have the handy Add-ADGroupMember PowerShell commandlet. This is very easy to use in its basic form, all we need is the name of the group and of the user that we want to add. In this case, I want to add user jane to the group "Domain Admins".

Add-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins" jane

That's it, jane is added automatically. This process, like most, is silent on success. To verify that all is as we want it to be, we can use the Get-ADGroupMember command to look up the members of a group.

Get-ADGroupMember "Domain Admins"

Can also do
Add-ADGroupMember -identity "Domain Admins" -members "jane" -WhatIf
to see if it gets added before actually running the command.

@scottalanmiller said

This was nowhere close. Mint couldn't even remotely try to boot. Ubuntu.... just worked. All it needed was...

nouveau.modeset=0

What do you think the holdup was?