@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

In the early days of Teamviewer, it seemed like it was really 'reliable' for setting to start up after reboot and being able to reconnect. Any time I try to set this now results in failure after failure and code regeneration password - What's the use if restart after reboot if the code changes? I mean - how does that help me when I'm five hundred miles away from the computer?

While I have moved to using NoMachine internally - there isn't any reason it can't be configured to do the same function am I correct? You will still need 'client / server' computers and the proper port forwarding in your router.

I ask to assist a club member who is about to spend two months in Florida, for something easy enough for him to work with.

(Off to research)

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Sounds like you're wanting a persistent remote connection to the target machine. MeshCentral gets the job done for me.

Forgot how long it takes Vultr to take a snapshot

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

When I left public school teaching (Georgia), I didn't receive any payment for 500+ sick leave hours

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Offer received and without hesitation accepted. In doing so I go from a contractor to full bore employee again. In addition to a spread of benefits I also will receive an increase in pay- and first salary job in a number of years.

Congrats!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to hire a new guy today, too.

And I signed an offer for new gig today.

@gjacobse said in Weekend Plans:

@EddieJennings said in Weekend Plans:

All-hands-on-deck maintenance from Saturday night to early Sunday morning :(. At least it helps pass the time as I await interview results on Monday :).

Interview Results?

Yes. Commute is unsustainable. Thus, I’ve been on the hunt for a similar gig that’s remote.

All-hands-on-deck maintenance from Saturday night to early Sunday morning :(. At least it helps pass the time as I await interview results on Monday :).

There are many things you can do, but we'd need more detail about what data is to be backed up. Also, we'd want to know where these remote servers are compared to this to-be backup server.

Conceptually one of the easiest things you can do is have this server pull backups from your various Linux servers using something like rsync or just ssh / scp.

@gjacobse Try removing the space between , and pc2.

@Pete-S said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

@EddieJennings said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?

dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.

dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M

But the Win10 ISO file isn't bootable. It isn't a hybrid image like many linux distros have. So it won't work.

I see. Truth be told, I replied without actually testing :(. I should know better than to assume what works for my various Linux ISOs would work for windows :).

@scottalanmiller said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

@Mario-Jakovina said in How to make bootable Win10 USB from Ubuntu:

What is the normal way to make bootable USB from Win10 image on Ubuntu?

dd, I think. I've done this but it has been a while. I thought that the Disk Writer normally worked.

dd is what I use most often. Use fdisk to delete the partitions on your USB. Then you'd have something like dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/usb/dev bs=4M

I'm about 6 months in, and am starting the process of looking. I underestimated how rough the commute for the 3 on-prem / 2 remote schedule would be.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Same vendor just exposed the city of Vidalia, LA for doing the same thing... making it public that their police, fire and other services specifically are exposed and vulnerable to hacking. This vendor's feed is like a public "who is easy to hack by script kiddies" bulletin board.

There is only one Vidalia. That's Vidalia, GA

Patching for the small number of Windows servers I have to touch.

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@EddieJennings said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs At least 3-4 years.

thanks for the info !

You're welcome. I had forgotten about it until you posted the links.

@WrCombs At least 3-4 years.

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/outlook-365-categories-missing/f6a128bb-33af-40e8-8b08-b38fab57603c

They use IMAP ; categories aren't supported via this link from microsoft

Still? I remember that being a thing years ago when I moved users off of POP to IMAP. It seemed like the world ended when categories stopped working

Comp day failure I had forgotten I signed up for a VMWare training on a day I chose as a comp day.

Reading about Ansible collections

@Pete-S said in Pure KVM server "hardening"?:

I'm thinking about running pure KVM on debian for virtualization hosts. Not Proxmox. There will be no GUI on the servers, no web interface, only ssh for management.

Do I need to do anything special to lock down the security?

I've never used KVM in production, only on my desktop and then I've had virt-manager as well as tools like virtsh. So I don't really know what is required for a pure KVM server to be as "secure" as proxmox, xcp-ng or whatever.

I'd consider this normal rather than special, but force only key-based authentication for SSH.