@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Server - Free?:

@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

I have always loved macs...well since they switched to Intel processors... but could not stand OS X Server. Nothing ever worked right for me with OSX Server and then the documentation on it was horrendous.

I tried using it for a client one time. It didn't work, at all. We escalated the issue to Apple support all the way to engineering. Engineering was super helpful and responsive but their final answer was "the product just doesn't work and Apple is not going to fix or address it, broken is simply the state of the product and will remain so." And that was that. It's simply a non-viable, unsupported product. I would never touch it again.

The two servers I put in, OpenDirectory (or whatever apple calls it) corrupted on both of them... big pain to rebuild.

Yup, Apple just isn't a business focused company. Sure their desktops are better than their server, but the overall issues are really that Apple just doesn't take business needs seriously and still sees their products as an entertainment platform, not a business one.

I'm afraid that I have no useful feedback. I've never had great luck with McAfee. It's better than some, but not good enough that I would use it. Easier and cheaper than fixing it would be moving to something better like Webroot, IMHO.

I think this thread must have picked up a few buzzwords along the way. Buzz word. Buzzword. Buzzy fuzzy word...

It seems to me like the new iproute2 tools are more powerful, at least according to some articles I've seen... and they have been around since 1999 according to Wikipedia, lol.

@mlnews said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@scottalanmiller said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@dafyre said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@brianlittlejohn said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

One thing that may help out ML is that there is no rating system based on number of posts/etc. so you don't have people trying to "move up to the next level" so to speak by posting garbage.

Speak for yourself - I'm trying for first place in the number of posts on ML category. 😛 Though considering Scott has more than 3 times as many posts as me.. probably won't happen in my lifetime.

And for those that don't know... I'm totally joking!

I tihnk @scottalanmiller has more than the rest of us in the top 10 combined, lol.

Nope, the next 8 combines 😛

The gap from 2nd to 3rd is nearly 2 to 1.

Did you include the fact that I'm in first and eleventh places?

no, that would go to the next nine then maybe - I was treating MLNews as it's own thing.

Good, because I'm my own person with my own personality.

@mlnews is a bot... or maybe @scottalanmiller is the bot... but then he posts pictures every now and again... but so does @mlnews.... Maybe one of them is related to Siri, and the other is related to Cortana?

@aaronstuder said in Encrypted flash drives:

Remember that a VeraCrypt Volume is just a file. It can have no extension or it can have a fake one. I normally fill the flash drive with a bunch of unimportant unencrypted documents, as well some VeraCrypt Volume's named TPS_Report.xls, pics.zip, etc. Any normally person finding the USB drive, just assumes that those files at corrupted, and deletes then or better yet just wipes the drive and reuses it.

Same think I do in my PenDrive using Veracrypt.

Veracrypt is great and Free!!!

My stock answer is.... business people have no business talking about under the hood technical details. Any business person or manager that you are talking to about this has decided, for better or for worse, to take on an IT role (even if a cursory one). This is a technical concept and has no business explanation. Keep it technical.

@scottalanmiller said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Dashrender said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Jason said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@alex.olynyk said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

Trying to promote Server 2008 when the domain and forest functional level is at Windows Server 2012R2.

Okay, this one should be obivious the functional level is at 2012R2.. therefore nothing older than 2012R2 can be a DC.

Make a new server 2012r2 VM as a DC. Do not try to lower functional level, this a bad idea.

I agree - don't try to lower the Functional Level. If you don't have the funds to buy a 2012 R2 server to run as a DC, check into running Linux as a DC in a Windows forest. It will be free.

I don't believe that Samba4 can support anything later than 2008R2 functional level, though. If it does, it's very new.

Oh - that sucks! I wonder what the hold up is? That's a whole 2 versions behind, and almost a third.

Well I figured it out in case anyone cares. The /etc/grub.conf wasn't being copied to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Not really sure why, but we have a password on grub so that might possibly be it. I didn't create this kickstart, so I'm not sure what post install junk is happening that might limit this also.

@Dashrender said in MDT 2012 - PowerShell error:

Does the path include access to PowerShell?

How would one verify?

Not sure on that one - it's after my time.

@dafyre said in Timeframe for ZeroTier on iOS:

It was in the big write up with all the price changes... http://mangolassi.it/topic/8928/zerotier-gui-updates-new-features-and-new-pricing-structure

It was just a quiet mention... Not even a bold or italics line. lol.

LOL - it was in the part that MLNews actually posted itself.

@mlnews

Along with our web UI and our subscription service, we have quite a bit more in the pipeline. Our iOS version is now in beta. If you want to try it out via TestFlight drop us an e-mail and we'll send you an invite. Major announcements on the Network Containers and Enterprise fronts are coming soon as well.

@Dashrender There is some licensing requirement but I don't remember if it is the Microsoft CAL or if a separate license is required by Polycom for the phone itself. If I get a chance today I'll look it up.

I'm very much a Linux noob, so I don't know what command to use. But I'd just use a regular expression alone or perhaps in combination with some other command to get the desired text here. In Powershell I would use the -match operator and/or the Select-String cmdlet.

Yeah, it's a terrible idea.
Fortunately, you can turn it off.

I think there was a thread about it a month or two ago.

@Sparkum said

Not gonna lie...understood like 3% of what you just wrote.

But hey, I guess thats kinda why I'm doing this stuff in the first place.

Welcome to my club!

@scottalanmiller said in Lazy question for normal task performed by lazy tech 😄 asseting assets:

If you use the right kinds of barcodes, an iPhone can see them natively. So can Android, of course.

Not nearly as accurate or as fast as a Bluetooth barcode scanner is.

Default install is using 32MB of RAM...

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@Lakshmana said in VMWare Connection Issue in Ubuntu 16.04???:

Whether NAP in Windows 10 blocks internet to the ubuntu 16.04

No, that is not a reasonable concern. It would block LAN access, too.

@scottalanmiller said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@travisdh1 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@DustinB3403 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@JaredBusch said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@DustinB3403 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

Linux can the follow up to this is how can I schedule WinSCP to sync the remote directory.

Why don't you just reverse that and push the changes out from the linux box to your windows 7 box?

How would I do that? (I haven't considered it, nor done this before)

Well, normally I'd assume the simple tools being used work, but PuTTY doesn't want to generate or properly do key based ssh authorization for some reason. Gotta be a simple setting some where we were both missing.

I'd call PuTTY the complex tool here. Takes a lot more work to manage than just using SMB.

I don't normally us it, but have it available. Hasn't played nice while trying to work with key-based auth, so it probably won't get installed anymore.