@IRJ said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

@gjacobse said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

@Pete-S said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

Maybe I'm alone but on the top of my list:

Only use Microsoft as a last resort when all other options have been explored. If you get paid by the hour disregard #1.

Option 1. - What do you say / do when the Owner specifically states, Windows Only environment. NIX and Apply need not apply -

Look for another job

Lol 🙂

@notverypunny said in Disabling Spectre Mitigations in 2020:

My understanding was that they were essentially a shared code-base so I'm at a loss as to why such a performance difference.

Same basic code base, but with different settings, limits, and features.

@scottalanmiller said in Internet connection sharing:

@fuznutz04 said in Internet connection sharing:

@scottalanmiller said in Internet connection sharing:

I think that the key thing here might be in interpretation of the language.

"We have another business in the building" could mean that they own two companies and those two "companies" are sharing a connection. We might use that terminology for two divisions that do different things but legally can share a connection no problem.

Or it might be some random business that just happens to be in the same building that is trying to not pay for their own Internet, in which case this is a big problem.

Everyone is assuming the second, but I had read it assuming it was the first. But both are just assumptions, to know what the best options are and what is an option really requires understanding that.

Wow, I am terrible at following up with posts in a timely manner....

Yes, it is the first. So you assumed correctly. So I think we are all set with just breaking out the connection via a switch after the modem.

Thanks!

If it was me and it was two companies that I controlled, I'd use an EdgeRouter Lite, it has one WAN in and two LAN out. That way I'd have central control. Make that control owned by the "parent" organization. Then have each place have their own switches after that point. But only one router.

This is also how I would do it. There would only be one company in control of the one router.

@JaredBusch said in Tablet to send customers?:

Buy a laptop with cellular built in.

It gives you

full control via WTFever control app you want. Which lets you even start the meeting for them. the ability to locally record if needed. the ability to use any calling app you want. the ability to have them simply tilt the screen down so that the documents are in view.

Thanks Jared, excellent points, I'll urge them to go this route.

@krzykat Xpenology is a great tool to learn Synology with, or to play but I would never use it in a "production" environment (yep even home). Get a real Synology with support or as others have said a server with RAID, linux dist of choice, and Samba. Myself, Im taking one of the 'servers" someone left in my junk pile and loading Proxmox and from there setting up a shared server of some sort.

Yeah that shouldn't happen. First thing to check on that would be to ensure there were no saved credentials in Windows Credential Manager that may be trying to conflict. Otherwise, that sounds like a fluke issue and not something normal.

@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@scottalanmiller said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@Dashrender said in what is automation? How does it work?:

There are multiple ways to get automation. Simplest might be to write a script that copies files and execute that script using Task Scheduler (a windows service that allows you to execute tasks based upon a specific schedule).

Thanks - Got more information now:
I need to be able to automatically send a folder to compressed zip.
Then automate the import and publish.

The more information I get the more confused I become about all of this.

The first step to automating a task is defining how you would do it manually. Start there. That doesn't mean the automation will just copy that, but it helps to understand what you are doing today, before you figure out how to do it automatically tomorrow.

Do it here?
I mean, That's fine with me.

I would make a new thread about that specific task, and you could toss a link in here to that.

@moyarich said in How to sync files between a windows and a linux machine?:

@notverypunny I am hoping that I can use "cobian backup" to send files to the linux machine as well, but there isn't much information on the internet about how to do it. For some directories it will be realtime,for others it will be scheduled.

I am also looking for a free/open source application

If cobian can do a 1 way push from your central windows machine to a SMB or other standard network share you should be able to convince it to work against a share on Linux as much as against a share on windows.

I'll agree with the others that SyncThing looks like a great option, just didn't fit my use case since it wouldn't keep file ownership settings.

@scottalanmiller said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@dbeato said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@notverypunny said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@dbeato said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@notverypunny said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

OpenManage Enterprise

That's why we put it on a VM.

Yep, it's a vm.... but the VM and the iDRAC were set to share the same NIC on the host (whoever did the initial hardware setup didn't want to / couldn't use the iDRAC's dedicated NIC)

Weird, We use dedicated iDRAC all the time.

I think "didn't want to" is the key language there 😉

Yeah... dealing with things that someone else setup is always interesting to say the least

You install something from Veeam on the host with the tape drive plugged in called "Veeam Remote Tape Access Service" and this allows Veeam on the VM to access the tape drive remotely. We have this running using the same setup you describe. Works fine and Veeam can see the tape drive from within the VM. No SAS pass-through.Capture1.PNG

@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:

@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:

OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.

But it is an LED.

Sure, but those are anything but common yet.

@Dashrender said in SIP wireless phone's on FreePBX system ...:

Looks like the W80DM/W80B are only different by a mode setting.
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Thanks, I hadn't seen that.

I can see the use for this in a multi user system where you have virtualization admin. They would not need sudo access to do things.

For most though, just using sudo will suffice.

When I worked in Connecticut, employees at GE headquarters had their cell phones all hijacked by another company sharing their building and all of their texts (ALL of them) were captured and stored by another company (with conflicts of interest as well.) Any text sent to someone there was guaranteed to be not just intercepted, but stored. And they had no way to know because of the complete lack of security in texting.

nmap is so much lighter and faster than other tools, too.

@syko24 said in Anyone use Radmin VPN?:

believe it is Windows only

It is.

@Obsolesce said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.

Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.

Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.

Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint.

They are pretty much all integrated once installed. Many DEs have a software manager / software center gui now that is shortcutted.

Yeah, pretty much all DE have that now.

@DustinB3403 its been 2 years. now im using w10 . and no issue