@bsouder said:

Pluralsight:
($50 monthly subscription - can turn off at any time - unlimited training for that month.)
http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=Linux

Linux Foundation:
(Online Classrooms)
http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses

Learnable:
Not sure how good this one is. I was going to check out some of their topics.
https://learnable.com/courses/a-beginner-s-guide-to-production-linux-49#overview

bsouder thank you for providing links on the educational part. I really need all I can get. I really do appreciate that!

@scottalanmiller said:

Some great project ideas on Linux include:

• Jump Server
• Web Server (WordPress or otherwise)
• Storage Server (NFS for UNIX machines, SMB via Samba for Windows)
• Media Server (share out those home movies and music)
• PBX (like FreePBX or Elastix) to use as your home phone system
• Logging Server (ELK or similar, a bit more advanced)
• Stand alone database server (used by other projects, most likely)
• Wiki for home documentation (likely sharing the web server box)
• Directory server (instead of AD to manage your desktops

Thank you so much Scott for all of those suggestions. I will put forth an effort to do them all. Talking about stepping outside of your comfort zone. lol!

@scottalanmiller said:

CentOS has the VMware tools built in in version 7.

With that being said, should I try to delete the files that I extracted from the vmware disc that I mounted? Will it cause any problems having extra vmware folder in /tmp.

Thank for that feed back.

@Reid-Cooper said:

If you do not want your VMware host to reach the Internet or any other subnet, you could also not give it a default gateway thus blocking it from communicating over any router automatically.

It's the computer I didn't want to reach the internet. However, I wanted the VMware to be alble to. I've, since then, achieved that mission.

@nadnerB said:

I'm not very experienced with Linux, but couldn't you try something like:
sudo apt-get xxxxxx
 
Does this help?: http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/installing-vmware-tools-on-centos-6-via-yum/

nadner I'll give you the feed back tomorrow. I'm so beat right now. Nevertheless, thank you for trying to come to my rescue. Talk to you on the Mangolassi's Birthday.

G'night!

When I go to install vmware tools with this command:
./vmware-install.pl

I get this error:
open-vm-tools

error: Failed dependencies:
libhgfs.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) open-vm-tools-desktop-9.4.0-3.el7.x86_64
libvmtools.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed) open-vm-tools-desktop-9.4.0-3.el7.x86_64
open-vm-tools(x86-64) = 9.4.0-3.el7 is needed by (installed) open-vm-tools-desktop-9.4.0-3.el7.x86_64
Failed to remove the following packages:

open-vm-tools

Please manually remove them before installing VMware Tools.
I don't know where to look for this.

I've tried the following cmds:
locate
whereis

I can't seem to find the problem.

In advance, thank you for your time,
Wrightit.

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller How do you handle the inevitable user in dept. A needs access to B's stuff?

How about making a folder that only dept. A & B shares and leave it up to them to be discreet about what is shared?

@MattSpeller said:

@MrWright4hire To visualize this a bit, imagine my current setup as a see-saw. Security is on the left, a 1000lb gorilla. Ease of use / users weigh in around 100lb on the right. I'm trying to find a bit more balance!

LMBO!!! The only thing I see balancing out the 1000lb gorilla...lol...is a weapon of a high caliber choice. Let's say....like a 50cal.

Well said @scottalanmiller.

@MattSpeller said:

How do you structure access to data on your server(s)?

We have a bizarre and arcane setup with NTFS permissions that run really really deep. It's well documented but actually using the thing is just an exercise in frustration. We have very little data that is sensitive (athlete performance / health info) and it's reasonably well segregated from the rest.

How do you do yours? Is there a guide for this to make it suck less? Best practices?

I'm tempted to suggest flattening all the permissions, grant R/W to all and secure only the sensitive bits.

Unfortunately @MattSpeller Security=sucks for convenience. If you want it to suckless you're gong to have to compromise security. If everyone is already restricted from going into other folders help me understand what's the problem. GPO should be able to help you detail how you want the permissions set up. Put quotas on certain folders. Forcing people to either delete what's not necessary or save on an external.

@JaredBusch said:

I think you need to rephrase.

If the computer is offline, then by definition, there is no internet access.
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Also, are you talking about the Host or the VM Guest.

J I figured it out. I do apologize for not being a tad bit more specific. Nevertheless, I allowed my router to discriminate one computer with an IP filter. However, within VMware, I bridged my virtual adaptor with the actually adaptor of the host and now I'm able to keep the physical computer offline while still able to surf the net virtually. It's a win win world. It feels good to prove that your a lil smart about something. lol!
Thank you all the same Jared for reaching out!

Hello Mangolassi family. I'm trying to figure out how I can allow VMware to connect to the internet while existing on an offline computer. Is it a matter of just manipulating the ports on a router, making firewall adjustments or both? Have any of you IT gurus did anything like this before?

In advance, thank you for your time,
Wright IT!

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

@scottalanmiller said:

Basically... I don't feel that she should be punished, nor should she be rewarded. She should be held accountable like everyone else. She should not get special dispensation for being a "dumb teen". None of her peers will get that. Everyone is accountable for their mistakes. If we give one person a free pass, then we discriminate. If we give no one one, everyone is treated equally.

There are plenty of people who won't bad mouth the pizza shop who probably want to work there. Why should someone who hates it there get the job when a good employee is losing an opportunity to shine if that girl get hired? If you don't hold her accountable, then you punish someone more deserving instead, that's far worse.

Scott I think in some awkward aspect, we are saying the same thing in a different way. lol! I agree with you that she do not need to be giving any special treatment. I take that back. She should get special treatment and discrimination should take place. If given the chance, she should have to work extra hard to show that she really wants to work. Note, there is a difference between offering a "free pass" as oppose to offering another, yet hard to earned, opportunity.
Without opportunities, no one would be good enough to show that they have grown. Point and example...you. You learn from your mistake and you're a better man, in my opinion as well as a great mentor. Without opportunities, you could be a lot more behind then you say you are. Maybe still at ground zero in Detroit.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MrWright4hire said:

If anyone who has hiring abilities discriminate her due to this silly misfortune, they aren't worth working for.

There is no misfortune here. She didn't want the job and he relived her of the obligation that she despised. I certainly would never hire someone so rude, tactless, clueless and ungrateful. I guess I'm not worth working for. She demonstrated, far beyond any resume or interview could ever show, that she is unlikely to be a good employee. Honestly, anyone who hired her is pretty foolish. Based on what would you ever employ someone who had done this? What interview or resume feature would be so good that you would think "oh, she is a better candidate that all of the others that we have?"

Unless she is the very last option and there is no one else to hire, I don't see any logical reason why even the most desperate would hire her. Companies don't want to hire the bottom of the barrel. The definitely don't want to hire the publicly known bottom of the barrel. Everyone hires someone bad on accident and has to deal with the high cost that that entails. But doing it when it was obvious and everyone else knew how foolish it was makes your company look ridiculous on top of it.

Honestly, her boss was trapped here. He looked like a fool if he didn't cut her immediately. She backed him into a corner. She attacked his business publicly. Would you honestly hire people to represent you personally who said things like this about you?

This is how I would have handled it. I would have embarrassed her professionally, tell her her options, extend her probation period to 6mos and teach her.
All I'm saying Scott is what if that was your kid. You would be mad at your child at the same time you would hope that someone would give them a chance. To have an unforgiving attitude is disrespectful to life it self. It's always those who don't f'give are the first one to ask for f'giveness when they do something wrong. Due to the fact that we're not perfect, anyone can bank on messing up a some point in there life. I just think that if an employer take the chance with her, he/she needs to take the time to explain that they are willing to give her a chance, but she going to have to work hard to keep her spot.
That's just me.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MrWright4hire said:

This foolish act would have been a perfect opportunity for the new employer, who stooped to her level by trying to embarrass her, to mentor her.

It's a pizza shop. I doubt the owner is interested in mentoring someone who hates him and his pizza shop. This isn't someone who "made a mistake." This is a person who hated that they had to work. Mentoring doesn't change that. You mentor people who desire to excel, you don't mentor people who have no interest in the job.

Did he go a little far trying to embarrass her? Sure. But not as far as she did and the audience was only as wide as she made it be. Any embarrassment was created by her. The owner also did something brilliant, he avoided being saddled with a likely terrible employee that he can't trust and hates his business while simultaneously getting huge marketing out of it. He won on two counts. If anything, what he did was the best thing possible for her - he actually taught her a lesson. Had he not fired her, what lesson would she have learned? Nothing.

I totally agree with you about he taught her a lesson that is well needed. I don't think that he should have hired her after the fact. I just mentioned that it would have been very big of him to do so. However, I've been in situations that I did something dumb, but once given another chance I bust my tail to prove that f'giving me was the right idea.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MrWright4hire said:

Hold up Scott! She is an idot for posting bad remarks about a job online, but she may have accidently did something smart. I just read her tweets and she has people from around the world telling her she is known in their country. She can now bank on her popularity. Only if she knows how to work the system.

She's "popular" amongst the unemployed. She has fifteen minutes of fame for being an idiot and not being able to hold onto a minimum wage job for even one minute. That's not the kind of fame that gets you a job somewhere else nor is it Kim Kardashian fame. This is worthless fame. Getting a bunch of anonymous Tweets saying that people "know her" doesn't put food on the table.

The problem here is that she has nothing to offer another job but now has a public reputation not only for being idiotic and bashing her current job but making a big deal about it. So..... what idiot would hire her now? You'd be seriously foolish to hire her.

LMBO! I can tell you feel very passionate about the matter Scott. However, I disagree with you. You see she is a young teen and young teens do foolish things. This would be just something she can mark down as one of the crazy dumb things she did in life. This is a time to mentor her and help her grow from her mistakes. This foolish act would have been a perfect opportunity for the new employer, who stooped to her level by trying to embarrass her, to mentor her. Or be a lil professional about firing her. If anyone who has hiring abilities discriminate her due to this silly misfortune, they aren't worth working for. However, if this was a full grown career seasoned person, they should know better. We should never f'get where we come from. As the good book says, let those who hasn't sin cast the first stone. With that being said, who amongst us within this post hasn't done something they haven't regretted when they were a teen. You probably thank God that they didn't have FB, Twitter...etc back when you did all of your foolishness.
I guess it's only ok to be a foolish teen if you have rich parents. At least they could afford your mistake and probably sweep it under the rug.

There's my 5 cent on the matter.

@coliver said:

@StrongBad said:

What is your first CentOS project?

I was wondering the same thing. One of the best ways to learn CentOS (or any Linux distro) is to set yourself some goals to go about it. May I suggest setting up your own wordpress server. This gets some of the basics out of the way for things like editing config files and installing packages.

I may pick your brains on that coliver at some point. Thank you for the suggestion.

@JaredBusch said:

Glad you got this working, sorry i was not available to reply to your chat.

That's cool Jared. I just took what you posted earlier and Wax On and Wax Off. Whaala! I'm good now. lol!

@JaredBusch said:

Did you CRC/MD5 check the ISO? You have a bad ISO most likely.

Hey Jared! After reading your post about the check, I dug deeper into Centos site and came across a post that stated that it's better to pull from torrents as oppose from the site. With that said, I did. I noticed that it came with MD5 check. I give it a shot and here are the results:

Thank you so much for shining a lite on the matter from that perspective. I was up all night. Now I Officially feel better. Now it's time to learn. I have to make up for lost time. Thank you all for being there for me. It feels really good to have a great team of men and women like you all.
Well....until the next question.

Oh wait! I wanted to ask....jk! lol!

See Scott, that's how smooth you guys are. Great job!