Dropbox seems logical. Simple, not expensive, and doesn't require the customer to run an entire server just for this one little thing that probably doesn't happen that often.

that's pretty fishy. What is responding on that port, then?

@coliver I know, I wasn't even included in the conversation at the time when we migrated to O365, and I wasn't included in the conversation when they setup Hyper-V.

Nor was I included when they built this VM, or the other reporting VM on Hyper-V to which 16GB of memory and 2 cores assigned to it...

#SweepItLikeAJanitor

Honestly we gave up with SfB it was too laggy and crashed often it also didn't transition between desktops and cell phones well (didn't get all messages at the same time across both). So we jumped ship and went back to regular skype which is far better for screen sharing, presenting etc. (not that it is the greatest either).

@Mike-Davis have you noticed any new features have appears that should not be there in the E1 version?

@IRJ said in Building a First Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2 Core:

@thwr said in Building a First Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2 Core:

@coliver said in Building a First Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2 Core:

@thwr said in Building a First Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2 Core:

@IRJ said in Building a First Active Directory Domain Controller on Windows 2012 R2 Core:

Good article. There is ZERO reason to have a GUI on a Domain Controller. Everything can be done through Server Manager on Windows 10/8

You mean RSAT 😉

Both? You can do a lot of directory management through Server Manager as well.

Ok, agree. Just don't like the Server Manager this much, ugly interface. I want to be sure WHICH drive on WHICH host I'm going to format for example. But that is just my personal opinion and I'm more or less a console fetishist 😉

But when it comes to ADSIedit or AD sites, you really want to have RSAT.

huh?

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Those options are generally only there is RSAT is installed.

Well I've eliminated 7 servers, down to 2 servers in a HA pool...

And in the process of doing that I've consolidated all of the network shares dispersed across those 7 servers into a single VM.

Making backup via Shadow Protect and XO far more straight forward..

@scottalanmiller said in URL unknown Ports Command ?:

@travisdh1 said in URL unknown Ports Command ?:

@scottalanmiller said in URL unknown Ports Command ?:

There is no simple way to know this. If he sets up a machine that will listen on every port, he could then test with a port scanner from internal.

Good way to get written up if they don't have permission as well.

I think "getting around the rules" is already assumed at this point.

Wouldn't mind to do any port scanning. A good admin will see this, and there is probably a reason your friends net is locked down. Scanning the network can get his butt faster on the street than he can write pcap.

Anyway, just for educational purposes: Use SSH port forwarding, maybe to a host at your friends home.

This will route every traffic to the desired target through an encrypted tunnel. You may bypass most firewalls by using common ports this way. A bit hard to explain, but there are plenty of tutorials available.

But you mentioned tcp/8080. That port is often used as a HTTP proxy, so your friend probably does not have a direct (routed) connection to the internet at all.

DDoS depends on public addresses acting as a clients pounding your DNS server with thousands of recursive queries at once. If your DNS server isn't public, then it isn't a open resolver, and a client on the internet can't query it directly.

In our case, we have a local DNS server, available to the internet, as a backup to our ISP-hosted DNS. This server is typically vulnerable. But it's set with a higher cost so it won't be used unless ISP goes down.

@halizard Awesome, I'll have to give it a whirl.

@scottalanmiller said in Cloning XenServer on USB or SD:

I assume that there is only one partition. You can check yours but there should not be multiple partitions.

This is how XS7 sets it up, at least...

sdb 8:16 0 74.5G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 18G 0 part / ├─sdb2 8:18 0 18G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 512M 0 part ├─sdb5 8:21 0 4G 0 part /var/log └─sdb6 8:22 0 1G 0 part [SWAP]

@scottalanmiller said

Yes, it should boot up just fine.

Why do I get the feeling no one has ever tested this, haha.

@scottalanmiller said in Updating Windows from the Command Line:

Keeping a system up to date is very important and doing so from the command line can be one of the easiest ways to do this on Windows.

Updating a Windows system, server or desktop, can be as simple as running this command as an administrator:

wuauclt.exe /detectnow /updatenow

If you only want to look for the latest updates without applying them, you can just run:

wuauclt.exe /detectnow

Also:
wuauclt.exe /a /detectnow

(/ResetAuthorization)

http://ss64.com/nt/wuauclt.html

@scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier RPM Installer Script Failing:

@wirestyle22 said in ZeroTier RPM Installer Script Failing:

@scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier RPM Installer Script Failing:

At least one person around here is running their own controller.

The way I interact with everyone may change in the near future (like I'll actually help people for once). This server is going to allow me to learn rapidly.

Any reason that you are looking to build your own? The hosted version gives you 100 free nodes. That's a lot.

Experience only. I have their hosted solution for the things I actually need to work 😄

xByte would be a great option, I bet that they would have a solution for you with this.

What I think of every time I hear the phrase "kernel panic":

Youtube Video

@thwr said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

@travisdh1 said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

@thwr said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

@travisdh1 said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

@thwr said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

said in Raspbian and Gluster, annoyance.:

So, apparently the version of raspbian that DIY temp sensor is on, the version of gluster in the repository is 3.2.7. Which just happens to be the last version before they broke backwards compatibility, so the client on the pi can't connect to the gluster servers running 3.7.9. I'm building from source currently, and if it works, I'll post the condensed version of how I got it working.

I have a cross compiler VM somewhere, but I won't have a chance to look before the next weekend.

I think the problem is that the Pi2 is 32 bit, and the programming expects 64 bit now. So, in theory, a Pi3 would work.

Erm, can be yes. My CC build is also just 32bit, pretty sure. And the gluster stuff is 64bit arm?

The errors I was able to read during compile were complaining about variables defined as int64w, which wouldn't work so well on a 32 bit platform I don't think.

I can define a long int (64bit/8 bytes on most platforms) just fine on any 32bit CPU. You can even do that on a 8 or 16 bit uC. So probably the failure is somewhere else?

Possibly, let's see if I can find that compile-time error here.

@scottalanmiller said in Renaming a Windows Computer from the Command Line:

@IRJ said in Renaming a Windows Computer from the Command Line:

@scottalanmiller said in Renaming a Windows Computer from the Command Line:

@IRJ said in Renaming a Windows Computer from the Command Line:

I learned something new today. I have been using the shutdown command for years. I never realized you could rename a PC with it.

shutdown doesn't do the renaming, you just have to reboot after you rename.

I use "m" instead of c for computer name

/c is the comment for the logs to tell them that you just "Renamed Machine", it doesn't rename it, it literally puts "Renamed Machine" into the reboot logs.

Ok. Got ya.

Considering it bounced most request between 20 and 300 random locations in the world for the original address, I'd guess pretty well secured.

But you could just chase the hops back to it's source eventually, so they are adding encryption to it.

Which is pretty awesome.