@Yonah-S As a developer I'm always a bit skeptical of no code and low code solutions. That's how MS Access was touted and what a disaster that was. It all sounds good, but normally it's "pay nothing up front" but then "pay forever because you are trapped."

redSling doesn't seem to show any pricing. That makes it really hard to know how much it will be potentially beneficial. It sounds nice, but do you have access to the resulting code? Can you run anywhere? Does it generate quality code? Is it secure? how will it be hosted? How do you make the kinds of decisions that make all the big difference when writing software if you can't write the software? This appears to take all of the important protections that both your IT team and your development team are tasked with doing and says "don't worry about all that important stuff, trust us to make all those decisions for you without any insight into your business or decision process and no alignment with your needs."

The idea of a code builder like this is great, in theory. But in reality, how do they pay for it without screwing the end users? Maybe they do a great job, but nothing on the site gives me confidence. And there's nothing on the site to build that confidence on... how do we find out the important bits? It looks like it is designed for people not smart enough to ask the basic questions from either a business OR a tech perspective. As a CEO, this looks downright scary and if my managers started using this, I'd have to question their sanity.

Pricing would help. But more importantly, lots of security and safety questions that they conveniently don't mention - which along speaks volumes.

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.

Double check that. Maybe you updated from something with X.org.

@favianmedina said in Dymo labelwriter 550 over IO gear print server instalation Windows 10:

@CCWTech Rith Now in total they have 2 Dymo labelwriter 550 (can't print) and 1 Dymo labewriter 450 (currently working)

If you don't answer what people ask, no one will help you.

@Pete-S said in I Cant Even...:

@scottalanmiller said in I Cant Even...:

I love dealing with someone who has a DEGREE in Cybersecurity, claims to be an experienced system administrator, yet doesn't even know what an SPF record is for email and leaves it blank - even after being taught how to do it. And then puts the wrong data in from the wrong vendor because they don't know how to follow directions or what it is for.

It's fun stuff for sure. We do a hard bounce on all incoming email with SPF failures. Wish Microsoft and Google would do that too, because it's a wake up call for people.

Problem is, customers and vendors use it to say we don't respond. they don't look at their hard bounces.

@PhlipElder said in Manage domains and DNS for customers?:

Breathing on a lawyer up here would require a $10K retainer. Most small businesses would just walk away after recovering their assets.

It often seems like the best answer is moving businesses out of Canada, lol. You know it is bad when the Americans are like "how is it that bad?"

Thanks, we are up and running again!

@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:

The sole purpose for looking at Slack for this customer is to send appointment reminder vis SMS using Skyetel's "Postcards for Slack" feature.

That feels like a super weird use case. Just use the API and send through something else.

@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:

@Pete-S said in Slack? What is it?:

If you want automatic calendar reminders to go out then it's not what you're looking for. Then you want something that can integrate with Skyetel's SMS API directly.

This doesn't exist and I am not building one.

Yes it does and you already work with the phone company that makes it, lol. The text messaging component of NTG's telephony platform does EXACTLY that.

@Pete-S said in Slack? What is it?:

Why does it have to be Skyetel? If it's just a reminder, like "don't forget your dentist appointment tomorrow" the number used doesn't matter.

We have this requirement too, hence why we built the matching solution. It's so that the main phone number can double as the texting number in most cases.

@JasGot said in Slack? What is it?:

@scottalanmiller said in Slack? What is it?:

So who needs Slack today?

They have NOTHING now. And since the SIP provider has an interface already built for it, why not use it?

Well, that feels like a gap. How do they have nothing as every business class messaging platform includes something? Do they not have business email?

You could also remote to the NAS via another machine on the network. We often do that. Depends on what the customer has. Or expose a web interface to a jump box.

It's an easy fix. Sometimes the directions for the upgrade don't account for the source location of the APT REPO for ProxMox. Check your /etc/apt files and see where your repo is configured. If you are going from Buster to Bullseye for example, make sure that you have this line somewhere and the error should go away...

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye pve-no-subscription

@Pete-S said in Proxmox hates security:

I'm not saying Proxmox is insecure, I'm just saying it wasn't designed with security as it's primary focus.
KVM by default for instance is managed by libvirt and by default doesn't open any tcp ports at all. That gives the administrator the option to decide what level of security versus convenience they want.

Ignoring "by default" in that, ProxMox can be the same. You can close everything up and only manage however you like. You don't have to use the web interface on it, it can be totally shut down. Obviously defeating lots of the purpose, but plausible.

I spend far more time on ProxMox via command line via MeshCentral than via the web interface and the web interface, while we don't lock it down from the LAN in most cases (we run a LOT of ProxMox these days) we primarily access it from the PM host itself from a jump box running on top of it for the cases when the web interface is needed. So while we don't go to the degree of locking it off from the LAN, we could and we wouldn't notice the difference most of the time.

That's not a default, so obviously totally different. But it's a really simple setting.

@NashBrydges said in Fedora 33 SSH Access Denied But Webmin Works Fine:

@NashBrydges Yep, changed it to yes and now I can access via SSH!!! Thank you for the help!

This is expected behaviour. The former IT just didn't change it. They might have installed WebMin because they didn't know how to do this. WebMin is a pretty weird thing for an IT shop that knows Linux to install. So my guess is that they were so lost that they attempted a workaround.

@annalynnetech said in Helpdesk - PC replacement routines:

However it is not unusual for our supporters spending at least an hour helping the users with configuring mail etc..

That's not uncommon. The helpdesk is generally a bit of a customer service function and helping users settle in takes time and is a big part of IT's value to an organization. Being efficient matters, of course, but if I was a CIO and you told me this number I wouldn't take it as a negative, necessarily. Seems totally reasonable.

@annalynnetech said in Helpdesk - PC replacement routines:

I am just wondering/hoping there were a better/faster way to get the users settled in. Note that this is not related to data but all the local UI and application settings, shortcuts etc.

Really depends on what they are doing. Would some automation tools or similar help with making what your team does happen faster or more reliably? You might be able to speed it up some. But hand holding end users is totally normal.

@PhlipElder said in WordPress Site Lost Its Mind - Ten Minutes of Maintenance Over and Over Again:

@scottalanmiller If the timing is regular then look for a chron job running at that time. Or, is it "cron"? Meh ... *NIX skillset is pretty green.

We found it. Basically what it was was....

A PHP cycle job for a plugin to auto-update. But the plugin had some problem and couldn't update and would fail. So it never stopped attempting to update and it went into this death spiral that every ~12 hours or so, it would do this thing, kill the site for 9 minutes, and give up and return to normal.

So cron-like job, but seems to have been PHP-Cron or similar.

Okay, discovered that the computer does not have an account on the domain controller, at all. Yet the computer thinks that it is a member of the domain. Pretty fishy.

@BraswellJay said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

question of whether a SAN is necessary.

LOL, necessary? The question should be "under what scenario would it be acceptable?"

There's not been a mainstream acceptable use of SAN in like 18 years. It has extreme niche edge cases, it's not that the tech isn't real. But there's no normal business case where it should even be proposed, let alone seriously considered or used.