I have a server about to go in to production, but the NIC keeps failing after 12-24 hours. I thought it might be the physical network switch, so I changed out the switch and it's still just the NIC on the server going down. (all the other client network connections stay up) The server has two NICs so I figured I would just use the other physical NIC and see if it stays up.

The server is running Hyper-V core 2016. When the NIC goes down I lose access to the host as well.

Given that, would it make the most sense to create a new vSwitch with the second NIC and add that to the VM and see if it stays up like that, or would NIC teaming be a better way to go?

I wish there was just a little more competition in this area...

@dashrender said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

This is a start
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeSwitch/Mac-Filtering-on-EdgeSwitch24/td-p/1375891

Thanks. I saw that and then saw posts like this one that are more recent and seem to conflict:
https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Mac-address-filtering-2017/td-p/1838775

So then I then I went to the website and downloaded the datasheet and couldn't find the feature listed:
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFi_Switch_US-24_US-48_DS.pdf

I should have checked out the EdgeSwitch....

@jaredbusch said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

Not sure what HPE is doing with it all now.

This topic should fork, but I just configured my first Aruba branded HP Procurve today. I needed something with MAC filtering and as much as I looked, I couldn't find a Ubiquiti switch that did that. (I'm posting this in hopes someone can point out that they now have it.)

At any rate, the switch shipped with an HP firmware and Aruba painted on the outside. I poked around the web interface long enough to find the firmware update and then updated the firmware. The Aruba interface was way better visually. I don't know if any functionality was added, but there were a few things missing from the GUI. For example, you could set MAC address filtering on a port, but you couldn't view the MAC table in the GUI.

@eddiejennings Congrats!

Before you can get in to what OS to run the clients on, do you have to ask what apps the business needs to run? If they need some kind of CAD package and it's only offered on Windows, the linux client goes out the window. (pun intended)

@360col said in Port - What server OS to use:

@mike-davis said in Port - What server OS to use:

I'm not sure how effective Screen Connect would be. With my install commands that don't run within a few seconds time out. So I can't launch a .msi install unless it finishes in 2 seconds.

It is possible to run command that take a long time to finish. See example below. The first 2nd & 3rd line line is what you need. firs line is to say its powershell.

--------- paste below into ScreenConnect cmd windows ---
#!ps
#maxlength=50000
#timeout=300000
ping 127.0.0.1
etc

You can use this to launch batch files from network share etc.

BTW my first post ever on here

Welcome to Mango! Thank you so much for the tip. I tried that and it worked.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

So, in theory, with ScreenConnect and its remote command execution options, it looks like a printer add command could be issued there to each of a series of clients and add printers without even needing to log into each one. Still not ideal, but not too bad.

I think the value of Screen connect would be to save you walking around the office as you connected to each machine and did it manually.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

So, in theory, with ScreenConnect and its remote command execution options, it looks like a printer add command could be issued there to each of a series of clients and add printers without even needing to log into each one. Still not ideal, but not too bad.

I'm not sure how effective Screen Connect would be. With my install commands that don't run within a few seconds time out. So I can't launch a .msi install unless it finishes in 2 seconds. I can use it to map drives for users because it runs as the system account, not as the user account that's logged in.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

What drives are being mapped? Each mapping drives from the others?

They had an accounting app (Sage, only slightly better than QuickBooks) that needed a drive mapped on the client machines from the computer that hosted the database.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

I just did an environment without AD and there was no "computername" needed for any tasks that we did. I don't think that that would come up for adding printers, but I'd need to double check.

I only have one client without a server. For their 3 system network, I have to feed the computer name with the username for the drive mappings.

I added the single printer as a local printer to the 3 machines since a central queue wasn't desirable in their case.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

@mike-davis said in Port - What server OS to use:

I'm also having a hard time figuring out how powershell would work when you would have to feed each computer different credentials.

Why different credentials? I mean you sure could have different ones and that might make sense, but you can use a common account, too. Remember that with AD we are okay with shared creds, so we probably are here, too.

Isn't the username without AD computername\username ? So you would have to change the computername for each one even if you set the password the same.

@scottalanmiller said in Port - What server OS to use:

That's pretty trivial and less work than adding each to the domain, anyway.

It sounds like you've done this before. How does something like deploying a printer work without group policy or permissions? (permissions to the printer or permissions to install the driver that the server supplies)

I'm also having a hard time figuring out how powershell would work when you would have to feed each computer different credentials. Do you just add a username password field to the list of computers and then rip through with the for each loop as normal?

It looks like Ubiquiti writes it as 3des instead of triple-DES. That's why my searches weren't turning anything up. Now trying to figure out how to make sure it's using 3des instead of des.

I'm working on a project that requires FIPS 140-2 security. I'm trying to figure out if a IPsec tunnel is compliant. I'm using an Edge Router X. From what I can find, it looks like triple-DES is compliant, but DES is not compliant. Is there any option for a compliant VPN tunnel with a Ubiquiti ER X or other Ubiquiti router?

@scottalanmiller said in Business thinking - PC replacements:

I did this for a shop last week. Everything done in one day, the whole thing. Even replaced the firewall, apps, basically everything. If you have a company that has weekends off, you can do this in a weekend.

How many users and how many apps? Did you migrate user profiles? Was it part of the job to make sure the My Little Pony screen saver was migrated?

Before taxes.... I think voice services typically have about 33% tax on them.

Seems like drives and RAID controller are missing.

At first glance I think you would be better suited with a i7 desktop for photoshop and a separate server.

Start with something like the HP Z840 workstation. If you can't afford it rethink what you're doing. You have a lot of questions that need to be answered. It's like you're looking for a server and a workstation in one.

For example, why do you think you need to consider single vs dual power supply instead of single power supply and a UPS?