@dafyre said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@black3dynamite said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@dafyre Installing sshfs and winfsp via choco is older than the ones from GitHub.

If you installed them via choco do this to mount at the host root directory or other directories.
https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/issues/102

Host root directory
\\sshfs\remoteuser@host\..\..

Specific directory like /var/www
\\sshfs\remoteuser@host\..\..\var\www

Thanks for the pointer. I did install using choco. I'm able to make it work now.

Edit: Just to see if I can, I may go back and do straight installs.

As I said above with the latest version I mount the root directory with \\sshfs.r\user@host

However, if you want to mount another directory like /var/www you have to do:
\\sshfs.r\user@host\var\www\
The trailing \ is very important!
It just doesn't work without it if your path is more than one directory deep. You also need to use backslash and not the forward slash.

@Pete-S said in Apache installation - file owner & permissions?:

I was wondering what permission and owner should files like html, php etc have?

Normally you just do...

chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html

@scottalanmiller said in Why http images on mangolassi?:

@JaredBusch said in Why http images on mangolassi?:

@Pete-S said in Why http images on mangolassi?:

There are relatively few images on ML. The images that @StuartJordan showed are the ones that are http. They are profile images hosted on rackcdn.

Profile or topic icons? The topic icons @scottalanmiller has been told to fix before.

Those I thought that I did.

Just trying to clarify with whoever posted.

@scottalanmiller said in How to handle inbox with multiple users in Zoho or O365?:

@Dashrender said in How to handle inbox with multiple users in Zoho or O365?:

@scottalanmiller said in How to handle inbox with multiple users in Zoho or O365?:

@Dashrender said in How to handle inbox with multiple users in Zoho or O365?:

What I don't know is, can more than one person share an alias address in Zoho?

No, you'd need a distribution list for that. An alias can only point to one thing.

Well the distro list would get you incoming, but not outgoing ability on that address.

https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/how-do-i-send-an-email-from-the-group-email-address-i-e-from-sales-mycompany-com

Zoho Groups allow it.

So does Office 365/Exchange. I now have about 10 domains where we have users with their own respective groups for domains that they need to send out from. The main issue with this is dealing with mobile devices; there isn't a way that I know if to send from a group.

@scottalanmiller said in Need suggestion for local Windows backup:

But the "older" Windows 7 Backup that takes an image works quite well, too. Depends on your goals really.

Yeah, it tends to work so well that over the long run, you're screwed unless you do some custom upkeep.

I haven't seen any difference between the Prodesk and Elitedesk from a workability POV. But the Elitedesk do come with US support and generally don't have to dick around much with L1 support when calling in. I also think they come with a 3 yr warranty by default... when you add that to the Prodesk, they costs come close to the same, so if you're considering 3 year warranty - I'd go Elitedesk.

@Pete-S within the same model, you can simply backup/restore. but not across models.

@JaredBusch said in Live boot:

No he wasn't. he was helping someone else.

Your response is both confirmation and denial to my question.

I get that it's a definition about what live booting is. I was asking why was he posting it. You stated "No he wasn't" (wasn't what, helping someone?) and then said he was helping someone.

@Dashrender said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@scottalanmiller said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

@Obsolesce said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

I don't use the desktop for shortcuts even on Windows. I don't see why it's needed. It's just a clutter space, it's so much easier to have the shortcuts on the task bar, or start menu... Windows Key + Search works great on Windows and Linux GUI

I honestly like using it as a scratch space for temp files. That said... ChromeOS doesn't have temp files in that way, so even my purpose for it goes away.

yeah, that's true. Since editing a doc is in a webspace - you don't have the choice to really save the file/data to the desktop as a scratch pad... so you just have to save it into the cloud - it forces better behavior.

Right, exactly.

@JaredBusch said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:

You do not even take a picture, just put it in the camera sights.

yeah - that is pretty cool...

Yeah I'd probably just do loopback

@Pete-S said in Windows Server licensing for HA?:

If you have two servers and run HA, does that mean that you have to license Windows Server standard for the maximum number of VMs running when you have a failure?

So for example,
Server A: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally
Server B: 16 cores, runs 6 VMs normally

So each server has to be licensed for all 12 VMs running on 16 cores - so 6 x Windows Server Standard licenses for each server, total of 12 licenses?

But if you didn't run HA, you would only license each server for 6 VMs, with 3 x Windows Server Standard, a total of 6 licenses?

Is this correct?

Yup.

If you're running a HA setup of Server Standard, all physical servers must be licensed for all Windows Server VMs that can run on them. This means each physical server in your HA cluster must be licensed for 12 Windows Server VMs.

So yes, you are correct in that to license 12 Windows Server VMs on both of your physical servers, you'll need 6x Windows Server Standard licenses for each server, 12 "licenses" total as you said.

Normally, I start with 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM for GUI-enabled Windows guests and 2 vCPUs with 2 GB RAM if they're GUI-less. Lots of trivial AD workloads like DC, DHCP, DNS, NPS etc. run fine with 1 vCPU but I found assigning one extra virtual CPU does make updates running somewhat faster. In most cases in my experience where VM CPU usage jumped above 75%, the spinning rust was the culprit, especially if a SAN was in use, it had nothing to do with the actual host's CPU power.

@Pete-S said in Does VMware have developer/trial licensing?:

I was wondering if VMware has some kind of developer licensing for ESXi, vSAN and vCenter or if they can be installed on some kind of time limited trial license for testing?

Thanks!

You can download almost anything for a free trial and get a time limited key. For a lab/testing enviroment VMUG advantage is cheap as chips. If you just want to kick the tires on something Hands on Labs are not terrible.

@syko24 said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:

@Pete-S said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:

Thanks guys. I tried accessing remote registry, remote powershell and ssh but without success. I have to find out how they do their remote administration and get them to enable rdp for me. It was worth a shot though.

Try MMC and see if you can add Services for their computer. If you can add that successfully then you can enable Remote Registry and then from there enable rdp. Make sure you restart the rdp service after making the registry change.

Another method would be if you have PDQ deploy installed on another system at the location, you can try to push a ScreenConnect or similar install to the system.

There are steps one needs to take to ensure remoteability in any kind of way you are hoping for. Either through specific group policies, in the base image, during deployment, via device management software, etc. It's something they would know they did. Any MMC snap in such as remote registry will have required specific steps be taken first to ensure access that way.

The best thing to do is ask, because it takes 2 minutes to write the question, then do other things while you wait for the answer, rather than wasting time and money throwing darts in the dark.

A proper DMZ is still a valid concept, but was never that big of a deal. There are almost no resources that make sense to put there. If you have those resources, then sure. But who does? The advent of cloud computing, cheaper colocation, better IT knowledge, etc. has led most shops to not try to make "internal/external" shared resources where one side is public and the other uses LAN security; and what little of that remains in need is generally addressed with VLANs in a slightly different way.

@Pete-S said in Raspberry Pi 4 as thin/fat client:

@Emad-R said in Raspberry Pi 4 as thin/fat client:

@Pete-S

Hey if your bussiness can use LibreOffice, you dont need MS Windows. Or google Docs, basically if you can do your job via terminal and web browser you have alot of options and freedom

Thanks Emad but I'm not the one looking for VDI solutions. I just wanted to share my test with the raspberry pi 4 is it might be interesting to use as a thin client.

Something extra nice about an RP4 as a thin client is that it has the power to run things locally too. I know lots of people who use them as a fat clients. Being that cheap and dual purpose is great.

@Obsolesce said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:

@DustinB3403 said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:

@scottalanmiller said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:

@DustinB3403 said in VM replication vs vSAN on two hosts?:

Replication may occur as often as every minute, but you could still lose files or changes within that time span that were never copied to the target.

I think Veeam limits to every 15 minutes?

I don't know as we don't use Veeam replication. I know other solutions can go as often as every minute. But that is outside of this scope.

Some every 30 seconds.

DRBD does it in milliseconds, as fast as the platform can do it.

@Pete-S said in How do I install gparted on RHEL 7.7 with GUI?:

@JaredBusch said in How do I install gparted on RHEL 7.7 with GUI?:

@Pete-S yum install epel-release absolutely should work.

If I understand correctly yum install epel-release only works on CentOS, not real RHEL.

It was a fresh install too from rhel-server-7.7-x86_64-dvd.iso

Ah, you are correct. I skimmed the RHEL bit. Totally my bad.