I was able to get to the menu to reset my printer, but when I get on to the screen to select a language I get no response from the printer. Any help is appreciated. My printer is an Officejet 6500a.

In advance, thank you,
Mr. Wright.

P.S. I still love my big brotha in you Scott! lol! No Homo!

@Pete-S said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

He or his guests doesn't need to type in anything.
Most phones for example support qr codes for ssid & pwd.

There are many sites that can generate the right qr code for him to print out.

For example https://wifiqrcode.com

Hey Pete. I wish I knew you well enough to put you on my Christmas list. That idea was the BOMB! My bad for those who are not hip to that term. It was a great idea.

I also talked him into getting a Unifi Dream Router (UDR). With the UDR you don't need to buy extra gear. It's a 4 in one. It's a router, switch, AP and controller. There's another one called Unifi Dream Machine (UDM). It's a 3 in 1. It's a switch, AP and Controller. Both can create a captive portal / splash screen.

Here's a side by side comparison:

If anyone else has any cool ideas like Pete, please share. I'm open to learning and sharing information.

If anyone is interested, below are setup video of both products.

Unifi:
UDR - Router
UDM - Machine

In the mean time, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

A company bought out another company and I was asked to assist in doing a Network Crossover that involves:
testing networks, server AD Migration...etc!
What do you think is reasonable to assist. I don't want to come off asking for too much, but at the same time I don't want to cut myself either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance, |
Chris.

Can anyone help me with the title please. I f'got. Thank you in advance.

@MattSpeller

Matt why are you too crazy!! lol!!

I really do love all you guys! When you guys spoke about the compatibility mode I checked it and it was stuck on Vista. So I changed it to 7 and Whalaa! Thank you all for being on my team. I hope I'm smart enough in something to help you guys figure something out. Thank you so much.

I just want to come by and show my respects to a IT community that is not only top of the line intelligent, but a community that do not look down on others due to lack of knowledge, go out their way to help you, so down to earth, very passionate about what they know and are willing to encourage you as well as help you to become a better IT professional. I'm sure I speak for Mangolassi when I say:
What ever you learn on Mangolassi or in life...with kindness pass the knowledge on and make the world a better technical place.
Let's give three cheers for Mangolassi! May you last longer than Microsoft and Apple!
HIP HIP HURRAY!
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@scottalanmiller said:

@MrWright4hire said:

@scottalanmiller said:

It also requires defining how the term "cloud" is meant to be used in this case. What is the overall goal?

That's a great question. A question I will present once I go in for the interview. Any other questions on this matter should I ask to avoid the rolling eye scenario? lol! I would like to be armed and ready to ask the appropriate questions to be able to lock down the direct steps needed to get the job done on time, with in budget and with less down time.

Well given that you will be interviewing in this case, I'll propose some ideas based on some assumptions that could be way off base.

They probably want to go to a completely "hosted" model. The most common approach here, still today, is colocation and VPN. NTG does this. We colocate enterprise servers (one of our datacenters is in Mississauga near you) that we then run VMware vSphere on and virtualize all of our servers. We then add an enterprise VPN (we used to use IPSec, then OpenVPN and finally settled on Pertino) that connects every user into the "hosted network."

With this model, we use traditional computing like Active Directory, SMB drive shares, RDP and any other LAN protocol and it all works right over the Pertino VPN network. We are able to manage our network like a traditional LAN while not being in a single office and having no on premises servers.

Are you saying that NTG provides or use this service? If it provide this IT service, why would I suggest yall? That's taking food off my table. lol! However, it it uses this service then your scenario would be a great foundation to learn from. I have to see how many employees there are. To gage how big their system may be. It's my understanding that they even have a sister company in Toronto. It's an Wine company. Holidays should be nice around there...cheers! lol!

I'm trying to update my flashplayer in Centos, but having some problems. Nevertheless, I stumbled upon this note. How many of you knew this:
NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

If you don't know now you know (censored)!

@Pete-S said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

He or his guests doesn't need to type in anything.
Most phones for example support qr codes for ssid & pwd.

There are many sites that can generate the right qr code for him to print out.

For example https://wifiqrcode.com

Hey Pete. I wish I knew you well enough to put you on my Christmas list. That idea was the BOMB! My bad for those who are not hip to that term. It was a great idea.

I also talked him into getting a Unifi Dream Router (UDR). With the UDR you don't need to buy extra gear. It's a 4 in one. It's a router, switch, AP and controller. There's another one called Unifi Dream Machine (UDM). It's a 3 in 1. It's a switch, AP and Controller. Both can create a captive portal / splash screen.

Here's a side by side comparison:

If anyone else has any cool ideas like Pete, please share. I'm open to learning and sharing information.

If anyone is interested, below are setup video of both products.

Unifi:
UDR - Router
UDM - Machine

In the mean time, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

@gjacobse said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

Unifi has a captive portal in the controller,..

Oh,.. can’t be troubled to type a SSID, then dealing with a controller or really ANY captive portal option will likely be more than he wants to deal with..

Thanks for the suggestion gjacobse. I thought of Unifi as well, but once again, it's extra gear. This task is annoying.

I have a client that is requesting a captive portal for his home. He's not interested in buying extra gear or software subscription. I looked into DD-WRT, but they have 3rd parties that charge for services.

My client has a Asus RT-AX1800S router. I spoke to Asus and they no longer support captive portals on their routers anymore. He wants simplicity, keep his family network separate and wants to avoid having guess come to him for pwds.

As an alternative, I mentioned how he can hide the family SSID while exposing the guest SSID for them to connect to. His response, what if a family member gets a new device. I informed him at bare minimum he would have to only input the network information in once. Once to him is even an headache.

Any ideas anyone?

In advanced, thank you for your time and efforts.

I was Curious if anyone actually heard about COLLISION and planning on going. There's one popping off in 2023 as well. It's suppose to be very big.

If so, let me know. Maybe we could link up to say hello.

@obsolesce said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.

What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?

Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright.

Are you asking us how to do your new job?

Negative @Obsolesce. I'm asking exactly what I'm asking. I'm curious about new tools and if there are any new best Practice.

Besides, even if I or anyone was asking that, it is my understanding that this site is about building, encouraging and empowering one another in the field of IT.

Trying to make one look bad or expose someone's weaknesses as oppose to just either contributing to the question or not saying anything at all is NOT Best Practice for positive communication.

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

A couple of years ago I came across these guys in Europe who had advertised on Kickstart. They created this device that acts as a Fluke network device, but you use you mobile phone. It's called "Pockethernet".

It's amazing!

@marcinozga said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire are you asking about software tools or actual tools, like cable tester?

I'm open to all of the above. I know technology changes like the weather, therefore I'm interested in knowing what's new out there.

Once again, stepping into the role of Network Admin. I'm curious to know what are the new ideas / tools of today or is the daily tasks still the same. Any resources are welcome. Whenever I do a job, I'm passionate about it and would like to show my best.

What are some great free tools out there? What are some bare necessity tools you think an Admin for today's network world should have in their bag of network weapons?

Thank you for your time, input and tips,
Mr. Wright.

@Dashrender said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

Are you setting different admin passwords on each laptop you setup? Assuming so, why aren't you recording that somewhere?

I have different groups of laptops that are going to different dept. to Execs. Someone mixed two of the stacks together and I couldn't recall all the pwd for them.

That's when I decided to just use a Admin Key to bypass the login and reset the pwd accordingly.

However, I was met with a challenge to enter the bios to boot from the USB.

It's all good now. Once again, thank you to all!