Posts made by travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:

Poor man's VPN is ZeroTier where there is literally nothing to pay for or run. Just choose it and voila.

This.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Except our subscription is valid and active.

Really wish we could drop this steaming pile of garbage...

I HATE calling into these guys. its always an Hour wait.

Don't forget the bait'n'switch scheme that is the entirety of their tier-1 support.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hopefully today will go by quickly so I can go home and sleep

I see your Friday evening is just as exciting as my own.

@JaredBusch That's nuts!

@JaredBusch said in Installing MS SQL Server Express on CentOS:

And screw you Microsoft...

I had to manually type yes twice during a yum update -y

They've screwed up the update process on Fedora? Guess I probably shouldn't be surprised.

CISA news this morning:

Cisco Releases Security Advisories for Multiple Products
03/20/2019 04:50 PM EDT

Original release date: March 20, 2019
Cisco has released several security advisories to address vulnerabilities in multiple Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates.
• Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series Path Traversal Vulnerability cisco-sa-20190320-ipptv https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190320-ipptv
• Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series File Upload Denial of Service Vulnerability cisco-sa-20190320-ipfudos https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190320-ipfudos
• Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series Authorization Bypass Vulnerability cisco-sa-20190320-ipab https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190320-ipab
• Cisco IP Phone 7800 Series and 8800 Series Remote Code Execution Vulnerability cisco-sa-20190320-ip-phone-rce https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190320-ip-phone-rce
• Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability cisco-sa-20190320-ip-phone-csrf https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190320-ip-phone-csrf

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@Mike-Davis said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@Mike-Davis said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

Are there any other MSPs in here?

Tons. Probably close to half of the community.

wow. That really surprises me. I've been on here since the beginning and I never got that sense.

A lot of people are one man shops, some are part time shops. It's all over the place. But loads of MSPs of different sorts.

Some of us have hopped around a lot as well. I was the guy for a small business for a long time, now I work at an MSP.

@dave_c said in Proper AD PDC Time confirguration in Hyper-V?:

@travisdh1
Thank you. I did that initially and it doesn't work.
I am trying to update the GPO for the PDC emulator

Ah, that one I don't know. Good luck, and let us know if you figure it out!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You are all giving me more reasons to just stay in Texas.

Don't come to Ohio either, we have more serial killers than any other state.

The question we all want answered is "do you produce them, or do you simply collect them."

I don't know, my wife was the expert on the subject.

Microsoft have made this a real pita for an AD server. They want you to use a GPS device as a time source. Ptah, get'erdone.

net stop w32time
w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:"0.us.pool.ntp.org,1.us.pool.ntp.org,2.us.pool.ntp.org,3.us.pool.ntp.org"
w32tm /config /reliable:yes
net start w32time

I'm fond of Fedora, yes.

Just don't use Ubuntu, unless you're a masochist.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You are all giving me more reasons to just stay in Texas.

Don't come to Ohio either, we have more serial killers than any other state.

Ayyyy, what part of Ohio? My betrothed is from Ohio.

It's mostly NE Ohio... guess where I live.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You are all giving me more reasons to just stay in Texas.

Don't come to Ohio either, we have more serial killers than any other state.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)

Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.

Florida man gets second victory at the Supreme Court. Not nearly as fun until you read more. The city took his house boat for "unpaid fees" and destroyed it. They destroyed the guys house!

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

“Severe” ransomware attack cripples big aluminum producer

Infection that started in the US shuts down network worldwide; company scrambles to recover.

Norsk Hydro of Norway said the malware first hit computers in the United States on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, the infection had spread to other parts of the company, which operates in 40 countries. Company officials responded by isolating plants to prevent further spreading. Some plants were temporarily stopped, while others, which had to be kept running continuously, were switched to manual mode when possible. The company’s 35,000 employees were instructed to keep computers turned off but were allowed to use phones and tablets to check email.

Thank you VPN connections for making it all one big network.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

BBC News - Woman in China nearly dies after injecting herself with fruit juice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47623816

Where's the "That's now how this works" meme when needed?

cottinpickinshnergelfruter, that's 75% of our supported laptops.

@jackadision said in Need Solution to Repair Corrupt Excel Workbook?:

But nothing works; I don’t have a backup the data stored in very important. Pls help me ASAP..!!!

That's a very incongruous statement. If it's very important, then it is backed up. Not backed up = not important.

However, that's beside the point for you now. Let's play the lots of silly questions game here.

1. Have you tried opening the file with LibreOffice and OnlyOffice?
2. How long has the file existed?
3. How large is the dataset contained within the file?
4. As @iroal mentioned, can you open the file with 7zip and read the information within the .xlsx container?

Excel files just break after a certain length of time or working with to much data. Yes, really, they just break. I've seen it happen to often.

I'm just guessing that pressing d does not work?

32bit Windows 10 upgrade from 7. Porting a number from AT&T to Verizon. Catching up here. I think that's it, slow for an afternoon around here.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NashBrydges said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Behind the Curve a fascinating study of reality-challenged beliefs

The documentary tracks how people form and maintain bizarre beliefs.

There's a scene somewhere in the middle of a new flat Earth documentary that acts as a metaphor for so much that surrounds it. Two of the central figures of Behind the Curve are visiting a spaceflight museum that pays tribute to NASA, an organization that they believe is foisting a tremendous lie on an indoctrinated and incurious public. One of them, Mark Sargent, sits in a re-entry simulator that suggests he should press "Start" to begin. He dutifully bangs away at the highlighted word "Start" on screen, but nothing happens.

I loved this one! Highly entertaining.

Reading the article it seems they also talked about the chemtrail conspiracy theory too.

Have someone in this forum that believes in that one.

Wait, someone else is even loonier than I am? This can not stand!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.

If they exist

The seminar, I think, seems to be trying to sell a non-open product on top of open source. From what I can tell, there is no open source in the "VDI solution" portion. If there is, they totally hide it. Go look at the web site, there is no way to get the source whatsoever and zero mention of a license.

Terminal services is different from VDI and you can do that today for free with open source. And you can do VDI with open source - just install any desktop VM on KVM or Xen and ta da... full stack open source VDI. That's literally all it takes.

Very well hidden, and basically no documentation.
https://github.com/dkmstr/openuds

Found some instructions on how to install Ansible AWX https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/centos-ansible-awx-installation/

Guess I know what I'm going to by checking out over the weekend.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware

19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.

On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.

I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?

@Dashrender said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@DustinB3403 said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@Dashrender said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@DustinB3403 said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@Dashrender said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@DustinB3403 said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@Dashrender said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

@DustinB3403 said in Dashrender why did you migrate to Hyper-V from XenServer:

Ah so you already had a Hyper-V box, and just migrated your VMs and then reloaded the existing XS box with Hyper-V.

Fair enough.

well no - I decomm'ed the old box running XenServer.

Oh, that's completely different. So you have a new box, and just wanted Hyper-V?

New to this purpose - yes... so I set it up with Hyper-V 2019 (yeah JB is spinning in his grave).

My old XenServer box needed to die - so I moved the VM to Hyper-V and killed it.

I didn't really care about XenServer/XCP-ng - so meh. I feel/felt I needed some hands on experience in Hyper-V, Plus I do have an AD environment, so I used Hyper-V. that's the long and the short. Ultimately I don't really give a shit which hypervisor I use. I might bail on it later.. I truly dislike the single pain of glass management of Hyper-V (at least without VMM - huge cost) - and fuck dealing mainly with CLI.

Thanks for explaining the reasoning!

Yeah so it sounds like you have some good reasons to use Hyper-V. But also some good reasons to not want to deal with it. I doubt that XCP-ng would be any easier or more difficult though.

Granted XO makes a lot of the operational things simple, but it's still important to know how the hypervisor works.

Oh - actually - I fully expect XCP-ng to be 100% easier. If it's not - I will never look at it beyond the first time. XenServer basically gave me exactly what I had in ESXi 5.5 - a locally installed app that allowed me to manage the hypervisor in a single pane of glass (was it called XenCenter?).

If XCP-ng doesn't do that - screw it.
I haven't dealt with KVM - but I feel the same about it.

Yes we need the CLI options for those managing 10's or more of these things, but I don't.

So while XCP-ng has a Single Pane of Glass management and backup system, it is not a part of the hypervisor. You can't go to http://hypervisor-ip:8080 and manage it.

You need to install a VM first (either the appliance demo - which can be done via the CLI of the hypervisor) or Ubuntu and then setup XO by hand. (of course I'd recommend using the install script).

So there is no XenCenter like app for XCP-ng? - suck

There is. It's basically a rebranded XenCenter. I forget what they called it, XCP something. (Not at home to look.)

@DustinB3403 said in Sound Eklin TruDR eSeries - Error Opening Receptor 106:

@scottalanmiller said in Sound Eklin TruDR eSeries - Error Opening Receptor 106:

@DustinB3403 We did

Gotta check every now and then.

Someone has to ask the stupid questions. It was me the other day.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

It looks like Windows 10 Home can now defer updates for 35 days

Change would give Home and Pro users the same deferral range

The next Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, looks like it's going to give Windows 10 Home users a little more flexibility about when they install updates. All versions of Windows 10 allow for updates to be deferred, waiting a number of days after each update is released before attempting to install it.

If updating Windows wasn't so intrusive and prone to failure I'm sure more people would update. This is just giving MS time to fix any bugs that are found post public release.

That's assuming they pay attention to people. That update bug that was deleting files was reported to them repeatedly for 3 months before they released the patch. They've really got to completely overhaul their patch processes.

@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just made some coffee

Did either of you get any sleep?

Only 2 things today. They must have had a slow week.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/03/13/Cisco-Releases-Security-Updates

According to CISA, one is yet another hardcoded credential, and one is a DDOS vulnerability.

@scottalanmiller said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@Dashrender said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@travisdh1 said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

@scottalanmiller said in AV - should companies keep buying it?:

And third party AV in the real world seems to cause more issues than it solves.

This is really what it boils down to. Adding 3rd party security software to a system has to open more holes in the underlying operating system, for itself at the bare minimum. Instead of providing additional security, they increase the attack surface. Just the opposite of what your trying to do.

That's not to say they are never worth while. A centralized dashboard to manage all the computers can be well worth the cost.

To what end though? If the centralized console tells you it stopped an infection - now what? do you actually review what the user was doing? I suppose if you want to read daily reports that the AV is updated - you could get that from WSUS for Windows machines, though BYOD makes that kinda hard - though not impossible.

That's my take on it, that's not information that I really want people sifting through under normal circumstances.

Yeah, and when you really need it, it's already failed.