We’ve been having lots of complaints about sketchy internet on the first floor. It’s always hard to quantify internet problems, is it bandwidth, poor wireless reception, bad AP/Wireless Card, someone complaining for fun, or an actual outage? In an effort to diagnose it myself with the least amount of work possible I stumbled upon this [...]
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Posted 23 July 2010
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We’re having a custom app developed for us that was having some speed problems after the server had been up for a while. I downloaded Sysinternals Process Explorer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx and started digging around for problems. (haven’t mastered performance monitor yet) Tip: if you hover over the sqlservr.exe in Process Explorer it will give you the [...]
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Posted 10 February 2010
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Had problems connecting OSX 10.4.11 to our new 2008 Small Business Server. Lots of stuff on Google but no one place seemed to have the silver bullet so I turned to old reliable, the [H]Forums. Turns out you need to adjust some settings on the domain controller having to do with encryption. Problem: Macs couldn’t [...]
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Posted 30 September 2009
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So by default if you’re running a single server Exchange solution such as SBS then your server is configured not to accept “anonymous” connections. In other words, devices that aren’t authenticated with the domain can’t send email (with the exception of other Exchange servers. This will stop *nix boxes or multifunction devices like copiers from [...]
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Posted 24 August 2009
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I was trying to access the internal SharePoint site at work and kept getting authentication requests while in FireFox. Some googling turned up the following fix. In the Firefox address bar type “about:config” Locate the key called “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris” Double click and put in a comma seperated list of all your internal sites. In this case [...]
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Posted 17 August 2009
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I don’t provide any print services from my FreeBSD box. So when samba refused to start because of a cups connection problem I was pretty confused. [user@test ]$ tail -f /var/log/samba/log.smbd [2009/07/29 10:06:14, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_connect(69) Unable to connect to CUPS server localhost:631 – Connection refused After some google work I found this. For those seeing [...]
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Posted 29 July 2009
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Working on my OpenAudit view. Trying to get down to 1 report that I can use to prioritize software/hardware upgrade paths for all staff. This test is just to pull out Office and Windows verision/keys. Not interested in extra stuff like Visio or Project right now since they’re special cases. Had to do some hacking [...]
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Posted 28 July 2009
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I finally have a functional Nagios install going. It’s monitoring all major services mostly through check_tcp currently but will be expanded to be more precise through some plugins soon. Also installed a new theme from http://www.nagiosexchange.org Thanks to Sitzmar for the link. Once I understood the relationships between services, hosts, and commands the whole thing [...]
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Posted 06 May 2009
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Spyware is frustrating, then later on becomes hilarious. A laptop came in from the field that had the internet connection hijacked. It would only go to some bogus anti-spyware site, and occasionally opens a bunch of popups. I ran hijackthis without a problem, then I try to run spybot. And when I hover over the [...]
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Posted 19 January 2009
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Problem: Spam is a pain and people complain about it all the time. But I don’t want more apps to maintain. Solution: Spam filtering services. So I got hooked up with Verizon business, who handles all the cell/WAN cards at work already, they offer an anti spam/virus filtering solution for $2.70 per mailbox. We’ve only [...]
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Posted 12 January 2009
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