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View ArticleIssues with a FOG server and PXE boot.
My installation was based on the guide I found on the Spiceworks community board here. So I setup an Ubuntu box running 10.04LTS. I then installed FOG 0.32 I am not using FOG for DHCP and have checked...
View ArticleWindows 7 Auto-Logout for Lab Setting
Hi /r/sysadmin! I'm calling upon you for help again. We're running a lab at our office and we're trying to figure out how to automatically log users off after an hour or so. I've seen setups where...
View ArticleWorst timing ever...
I was playing around, testing to see if the connectors (twinax, I believe?) for the NetApp shelf interconnections would work on the new ciscos we purchased. It does, and I even had some fun since I had...
View ArticleI have three Powerdsine 8006 and wonder if they are worth anything?
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Sony_PowerDsine_8006_Rack-Mountable_Power_Injector/PD8006_AC/p/1501441 I do believe they haven't been used and are just out of the box(2 of them are still wrapped). I...
View ArticleWhat's the quickest way to delete an enormous directory full of files? (200k)
Our mailserver has a "catchall" directory that is...too large. Around 280k messages (there's a directive in postfix's main.cf called "always_bcc" which copies everything to this directory). Right now,...
View ArticleTo my fellow helpdesk operators: What trouble ticketing system(s) do you use?
We are currently using a piece of software (plixer/webnm WebTTS) that is past its end-of-life (no more support/updates). To put it plainly, I hate it and want to migrate to something better....
View ArticleHow to disable the automatic switching of domains when logging in as...
So the title might be confusing. It's confusing because I don't know the keywords to use, thus can't find the answer with Google. This is a Windows 7 only problem. I am talking about when the local...
View ArticleESXi - Using an Adaptec SCSI card with a MSA20 DAS
We recently bought a 29320 LPE in order to connect an HP MSA20 DAS to our ESXi 4.1u2 host. I am working on getting these installed. I was able to install it in our DL360 G5 and it recognizes in the...
View ArticleIt's the little things that make life sweet
I have been getting an alert about a link down between two servers for about two weeks. The problem happens at random (seemingly), is quite literally only a blip, and causes no actual service outage....
View ArticleHelp with proftpd needed
Windows sysadmin here at a new job that has a linux box for web/ftp. Everything is fine, however I need to add a new user to be able to ftp in. How do I add the user and set permissions for a specific...
View ArticleNeed help: can you suggest where can I buy used working hardware for...
search on /r/sysadmin didn't return anything. want to setup a home lab with servers, switches and routers. If you guys can give some ideas and/or vendors you have used with good experience, that would...
View ArticleMobile Device Management servers
I just finished putting together a Lion Server 10.7.2 with Profile Manager as a Mobile Device Management server to manage iPads remotely. It was very clunky getting Lion Server to play with Active...
View ArticleWDS/WSIM Unattend.XML Questions
Doing a deployment of about 50 Win 7 machines in the next few weeks. I stumbled along with various guides and got a fully unattended installation working, but I had a couple questions before I commit....
View ArticleTip: Don't forget about IPv6 (also, pay attention.)
So I performed some server maintenance this evening at the office (with a private class C--relevant) on an Exchange server (2008 R2 running Exchange 2010) and I verified that Outlook on my Windows 7...
View ArticleLookin' for some help with Icinga
So I posted a while back about what free monitoring software to go with an many of you pointed me towards Icinga/Nagios. I went with Icinga because it accepts all of Nagios' plugins and I like it's...
View ArticleManaging Windows file permissions
Question what is the best way to Manage file permission in a mid size company? submitted by anthrox [link] [1 comment]
View ArticleQuestion about Rootkits and Virtual Machines
So I consider myself fairly experienced in fighting spyware/malware/rootkits,.. and the vast majority of infections I run into these days are fairly complex/deeply infected. Rootkits hiding in the hard...
View ArticleTelephony questions
I do contract work for a smallish business. They are in the middle of turning one of their conference rooms into two offices. They need 2 phones hooked up. I said at the beginning I didn't really do...
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