@JaredBusch said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

OK this post has turned into rambling... I wonder how well a SAMBA domain hosted on say Vultr, with ZT used to connect all clients with the domain, then local NAS/server for fast local storage of large files?

Exactly the same as a Windows DC hosted there.

That's not saying much - because I've never done that and have no idea how good or not it would work.

It will work just fine. but it will never be a fast solution for large CAD or Video files.

I wasn't mentioning it for the CAD/large files portion - only for the user/PC management portion... I still fully expect them to have some type of on prem storage solution for large files.

@scottalanmiller said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@JaredBusch said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

OK this post has turned into rambling... I wonder how well a SAMBA domain hosted on say Vultr, with ZT used to connect all clients with the domain, then local NAS/server for fast local storage of large files?

Exactly the same as a Windows DC hosted there.

That's not saying much - because I've never done that and have no idea how good or not it would work.

It will work just fine. but it will never be a fast solution for large CAD or Video files.

It's be just fine. The domain services over VPN will be milliseconds of delay once in a while, with the NAS still local, all of the CAD performance will be just as fast. There's extremely tiny amounts of authentication traffic for large file transfers like that.

It's the whole ZT/DNS issues that I would mainly be concerned about. I know DC authentication over VPN works very well, I'm doing it now, have been for nearly 20 years.
But I don't have multi-homed servers, and when I tested ZT in the past, machines having two IPs (LAN and ZT) it caused issues.

@hobbit666 said in Firewall for small Windows network:

@scottalanmiller said in Firewall for small Windows network:

We do too, but for customers who want US to do that for them, we charge. But of course, they are free to do it themselves as well.

It's just that we host the controller for free.

But just above you stated that your customers get Unifi for free?

We do not charge for the use of the Unifi platform since it is a pre-existing cost that is already covered and their portion of it would be less than the cost of the overhead to charge them.

Right, he said they don't charge just to have the equipment in their Unifi Controller. After that the customer has to decide between 3 options, manage themselves, enable auto updates or pay NTG to do updates after testing new firmware.

@Carnival-Boy said in Defining the Hobby Business vs a True Business:

My uncle ran a successful hardware distribution business employing dozens of people for over 30 years. His motivation was to generate work, security, and happiness, for owner and employees. He could have been more profitable, but chose not to.

I'll have to tell him he spent his life devoted to a hobby

But then he was a socialist. Maybe we just think about business differently in Europe? Scott likes to label things, but I'm not sure it makes any difference.

It does, to the point Scott as trying to make, though the posts were long so perhaps you missed it. IT is a Business Tool, as such when in a "business" as Scott would call it - it's pretty easy to know what to do - IT does what it takes to make the business the money money. When you're running a "something else business" (really hate the hobby term, it's pretty demeaning), IT doesn't actually have a cut a dry clear goal... now it has to fall to the whim of those in charge.

@scottalanmiller said in PRI over IP:

@JasGot said in PRI over IP:

Don't know how easily the old PBX can injest SIP. Current pbx support is very pricey.

PBX support is pretty cheap. Not free, it's not a nothing expense. But phones are not a high ticket item unless customers just want them to be. Old PBXs, and old pre-Internet phone thinking is very, very costly.

This is the hardest thing for people to get over. They just expect phone systems to be SUPER expensive. They also expect HUGE up front fees to install a new system - because they know about any modern solutions.
Though modern solutions have new problems they have to consider just as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@JaredBusch said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

Or you know, just install google chrome with yum install google-chrome lol. . .

yeah, no.

Chredge is way better than Chrome any day of the week.

In what way?

Hopefully all the chromium stuff, and none of the google tracking crap! but likely MS tracking crap instead.

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@travisdh1 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@coliver said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@coliver said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

I'm with Wire - it's definitely not a clean... I just installed a new power plug myself behind my TV... though not an outside wall, not that that should be that big of a deal...

Yeah, unless these walls are filled to the edge with spray foam, feeding a few power cables down isn't going to be an issue. With fiberglass you'd just push through the insulation in those specific paths and it still wouldn't be that big of a loss.

Yeah, It's a new building so I hope there is spray foam. But even then it might not be that difficult. Might just need a wire probe.

No one around here does spray foam by default.

It should be. But yeah I don't think it's the default where @wirestyle22 is either.

I wonder what the price difference is? I'm guessing it used to be huge, but perhaps today, not so much??

Now if you were renovating and doing this yourself you can pick up spray foam kits that cost ~$770 which while still pricey, would save money compared to fiberglass.

That's it? We need to replace the insulation in our attic. Might have to do it ourselves if the DIY spray foam is that cheap now.

Yeah, that's per kit, each kit covers ~200 sqf at 1". It wouldn't be unexpected to need 2 or 3 kits to cover a single crawlspace attic.

1" - HAHA, so it's $770 for 57 square feet in reality.

I've also watched it being done (online) - it's an art, like spray painting cars... it takes a good amount of practice to not over spray the amount needed and end up with a ton of waste... in the attic, if it overflows, not that big of deal, but in walls, you don't want to waste a bunch that you're cutting off and discarding.

Along the lines of Travis' question - why are you bothering to print through Windows? Why not direct to the printer?

Additionally - the LDP printer doesn't require authentication? or the LDP protocol supports it, and you're still storing a Windows Username/Password on R Pi anyway...

@pmoncho said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@Dashrender said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

Well sure - but how often are you sharing a USB printer (he asks then looks around his office at the 10 USB Dymo labelers he has around the office that are shared using Dymo's USB to network print server). LOL

When you say network print server, do you mean a windows server sharing the printer? Are many of those Dymo's on local user machines?

no, I mean a box the size of a R Pie that has a USB port for the Dymo itself, and a ethernet jack for the network.

From there I do create Windows print queues and publish the devices via GPO, etc...

@scottalanmiller said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@travisdh1 said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@scottalanmiller How many printers do you have still being used that do not have built in networking?

Tons, mostly Dymos which don't offer networking. But loads and loads of people randomly putting them on Windows even when they are networked. You'd not believe how often we are told that Windows sharing is a requirement.

Uh - hate that - personally, I'd move those devices onto a RPie and then map all the devices to it... oh yeah.. that's exactly what I am doing. It does help that I don't have a stationary computer to attach the Dymo to... laptops move in and out of the area, which meant either plugging/unplugging the label printer all the time - or doing what I did - find a way to get it on the LAN, and everyone just network prints to it.

@scottalanmiller said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@Dashrender said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@scottalanmiller said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

@Dashrender said in Printing from a Raspberry Pi to a Printer Shared from Windows:

FYI - Dymo now has (for a year or so) a WiFi enabled Dymo labeler - no need to do anything crazy with USB to Network boxes.

You sure? I've not seen any networked Dymo yet.

I installed one six months ago, so yes, I'm sure.

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Does it work like a print server? Or is it a part of an application. They show the smart phone needing special software (again) and not using it as a printer.

Yes, works like a print server - my installation of them was perhaps, been 6 months of Covid don't recall exact details, used a cellphone to do the original configuration (or just to make it easier), but assuming you can find it's IP from the DHCP server, you just http to the IP and configure it. then map it as an IP printer in windows, and bob's your uncle..

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@DustinB3403 said in What makes a system HCI?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What makes a system HCI?:

HyperConvered Infrastructure

It does,

But again Hyperconverged != HCI (as in the car is Hyperconverged but is not HCI).

Bah! I don't get it. Sorry guys, not trying to be dumb. I just cant get over the logic.

If HCI == HyperConverged Infrastructure, then how can a Hyperconverged car != HCI. When we already said HCI = HyperConverged Infrastructure.

Cheers for trying guys, I just don't think I am getting it.

Car = 1
Car = Hyperconverged
Therefore, Hyperconverged = 1
HCI = HyperConverged Infrastructure....
Car, Hyperconverged, HCI = all 1... they are all the same...
So, why is car not HCI!

I think its best if I go focus on something else for a bit and rethink tomorrow.
Cheers for the help guys. I am sure ill get it eventually.

Hyperconverged just means putting as many things into a single box/stack as possible, Hyperconverged Infrastructure - I guess means all that other shit people have been talking about in this thread.

the word Infrastructure is CRITICAL in this case...

@WrCombs said in Automation thought:

@WrCombs said in Automation thought:

@Dashrender said in Automation thought:

@WrCombs said in Automation thought:

@Dashrender said in Automation thought:

@WrCombs said in Automation thought:

@Dashrender said in Automation thought:

@WrCombs said in Automation thought:

@Dashrender said in Automation thought:

I'm confused how the data gets onto the server in the first place? Didn't you start thing thing by saying there's a cloud component.

Is the cloud component just a web front end that actually talks to the server and update the server with the things changed on that web front end?

Is there a client server setup for the manager's PC? i.e. software that runs on the Windows 10 PC that connects to Aloha on the server, and then they can run reports from that? More or less like they did when using the Aloha software directly on the "server"?

Let me try explaining how this works without sounding like a complete idiot:
The way the "Cloud" works for this software is : all of the Database files (i.e Items, Employees, Menus, Submenus etc) are saved a remote server, and sent down to the server every x amount of time ( I dont know the exact amount. but it is multiple times a day - basically every time you save a change.) that's it. The reports run off of a Transaction log that is held at the Server onsite, and Some of the Data Base files (i.e adjust Time, edit shifts etc) are all held on site as well.
The only way to view reports, is having the Transaction log, and Data base files that hold reporting information on them. It's not Ideal, but it does make it easier for some customers to make changes, and send them to the stores.

The vendor hasn't came up with a way to store everything including reporting on the Cloud Server yet...

they haven't? that seems crazy! That shouldn't be that hard to do if they really wanted.

Though I can see keeping it all local because if the internet goes down, the terminals continue to work.

So my question is - is there software that can go onto the manager's PC that will directly access the server (and it's data) where they can run their reports from?

Also, what are these files you're copying? are they CSVs - i..e something that can be opened by Excel and reports run? or some db type that has to be loaded into something to function?

The way it's looking like it's going to go is every Site is going to have a manager PC that will have the access to that Configuration Center, we would just need to pull the files - File types are .dbf files, which can be opened and ran in Excel, but it's messy.
and .log files, which need to loaded into something to read them..

yeah that's ugly...

Aloha doesn't have software that can run on the manager PC to access the files more "normally"?

I assume today, most customers use the aloha software on the "server" to run their reports.... I'm proposing the same, only having a client software on the manager PC that the user uses instead of directly on the "server' itself.

LOL tell me about it..

they do have a "hosted solution" where they will pull the reports for you and keep them on a cloud but its some ridiculous price per month for them to do that... I wish there was an easier way

Definitely not what I'm talking about.

Are you really telling me - aloha only ever expects someone to do report directly on the "server"? and other than this stupid online thing for billion dollars, they don't have a manager's PC option....

Why am I not surprised.. they are the quickbooks of restaurant systems..

It's not really Billions of Dollars.

But, yeah, that's what I'm telling you- Aloha does expect you to get on the server to run reports - Hence Why I needed a way to automate File Transfers so people can run reports from the Manager PC.. I dont make the rules for the system I just have to work around them ..
My production Speciality Brink is 100% remote, so I dont have this problem - i have several others, but not this one.

I just realized I said "remote" instead of Cloud Based ... :man_facepalming:

You don't know it's really cloud - it could simply be remote.

@Pete-S said in Ticket versus Projects:

@gjacobse You made some great points.

If we take a practical example like adding a printer.

If it's just a question of adding a printer (to a windows client) then it's a ticket.

But what if it means adding a new printer in the physical world? Is this still a ticket?

You have to be on-site to do that. Perhaps the customer already have bought the printer but it might involve some switch configuration. Is it still just a ticket?

It might even involve someone running cat 6 cabling and installing a new outlet somewhere. Is it still just a ticket?

This is border line - especially when you start talking about cabling and switch config.. but barely.

Generally, I'd say printer = ticket, not project.

But then the question becomes - how do you need to track it? Does anyone care about all the bits to your printer install versus, say, a new phone system (now that's a project).

@AdamF said in Calendar sharing - Office365 - External users:

@scottalanmiller said in Calendar sharing - Office365 - External users:

@AdamF said in Calendar sharing - Office365 - External users:

These external accounts should be able to see and add to the calendar.

how do you authenticate something "external" to O365? External is a reference to something not authenticated, in this context.

In this case, it is just a shared calendar for a conference room. (who booked the conference room) So even if I had a public link, which requires no authentication, that would be fine. I'd just give the URL to the 2 people who need it and be done with it. The catch is, the link has to allow editing.

You can't edit without authentication. No system that I know of allows that, you'd likely end up with all kinds of craziness.

@Fredtx said in Help Understanding LAN test Speed Results:

What should a good lan speed test look like from a client to server?

This isn't an easy question to answer.

for a test that's 100% RAM, it should max out the connection, so Gbit should be 950 or could be more, but once you start throwing disks into the mix, you can drop significantly...

@Pete-S said in Switch to fiber or stay with coax?:

@Dragon3303 said in Switch to fiber or stay with coax?:

but I wanted to see if others were trading speed for reliability and if it was worth it for them.

I wouldn't want to pay anything for enterprise SLA but I'd pay for fiber. But I think 100/100 is the sweet spot and 30/30 is too low.

Problem with fiber is when they dig into it. Then enterprise SLA wont help a bit. Otherwise it's simple and reliable.

The problem with any connection is having it severed.
Fiber or coax or phonelines.

@Pete-S said in Experience with HPs small laptops/chromebooks?:

Probook x360 11 G5

I love HP laptops, and Probooks are what I generally buy for my staff - but a celeron - man, I'd almost rather gut myself than use that, at least in the past - they were so bad = slow!

But at least it's not an A series AMD, that = kill me instead of being forced to use the device.

This script has all that is needed to modify to add your own icons to the start menu, as well as the start bar.

I run this script in audit mode, then run a sysprep - this then sets my settings for all users of the system.

I honestly can't recall if this keeps the crap at bay when I upgrade to the next version or not?

I agree with Scott and JB, Perhaps a twitter post might be your best bet to actually get something.

Since those businesses postings aren't earning them any money (i.e. you don't pay them to be there) they don't care about you or your listing.