Posts by CimmerianX

SIP does not like NAT. That's a fact. To get around this problem several solutions are available depending on what your devices offer. i.e. STUN, ICE, TURN, SIP Fixup are all available. You may need to enable one or more of these features on your phone or router for this to work.

Get Virtual Box. Install it.
Get an ISO of a linux distro of your choice (i.e. linux mint, ubuntu server)
Create a new virtual machine within virtual box, mount the ISO to the virtual machine (in settings), and boot the virtual machine.

Write away.

Also, if you don't know the package name, then use the following

apt-cache search [search term]

Does the drive tray use a single sata connection or does it have a sata lead per drive slot?

IF it's a single lead, there would be some on board logic to show multiple drives through the simgle conenction, but it would still be 1 device you are ejecting, affecting all other connected devices.

The cages with multiple leads conenct 1 drive to 1 port with no onboard logic to speak of.

Here's an idea off the top of my head.

Just like the MS 'home' directories, Microsoft's 'best practices' states that you should share out the 'home' folder, then protect all the individual subfolders belonging to users with NTFS permissions.

i.e.:
\home
-\john
-\mary
-\kate

You would share out \servername\home
Each subfolder would be setup such that each user had RW access and that's it.

I would guess you have a similiar structure for your documents folders. You could use the same 'best practice' guide and have sharepoint mount the \servername\documents\ folder for everyone. Sure, everyone would have to find their names in the list to get to their documents, but it solves your sharepoint issue immediately.

IIRC, A Workgroup'ed PC or host can only share resources to 10 computers at once. That's the limitation. If you have 30 - 40 units, then setting up a Windows domain is a good idea.

Along with all the reasons JorgeM gave, there are other benefits to a Domain model. Group Policy, logon scripts, automated software deployment, just to name a few.

I don't understand your question. What do you mean by an introductory page?

Some providers don't even offer a static ip to residential customers. IN my area, to get a static you must have the much more expensive 'business' plan.

A great workaround is to use a dynamic dns service (i.e. no-ip.org, dyndns.org). I run a small service on my home server and it will register the IP with dyndns service. So no matter what IP I have at the moment, I can always use somethin like 'myhome.dyndns.org' to get to my connection.

right. you want someone who has a server on the internet to give you shell access to a host. You can get your own 'cloud' host from a provider for a few dollars a month.

No business will usually let you use their resources for free. You can find cloud server with shell access for maybe $10 to $15 a month from some sites.

Also. Is every host on the internet showing the same issue or is it just your 1 hosted server.

Can you define 'erratic'? Maybe post a ping sample showing what you mean.

Can you ping the 1st hop outbound (your ISP's gateway) and do you see the same issues?

To run a virtual host on your machine, you need the software.
Start by downloading 'Virtual Box'. It's free software and works very well. I use it every day.

In VirtBox, you can create a new virtual machine using the wizard. Setup the memory, hard drive size, etc. You'll need to download a Linux ISO from whatever distro you want to try. In the VirtBox CDRom for that new virtual host, mount the ISO. Then start the virtual host. It would boot from CD and start loading the ISO just like a normal machine.

Try this for help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DiPRrE3Bg

Sounds like your system does not have an internet connections or is missing dns entries.

Start with an 'ifconfig' and post the results.
Verify that tcpip on the adapter is setup correctly and you have the correct values.
Can you ping your gateway?
Can you ping 'www.google.com' and get a reply. If not, does it at least show an IP address.
Can you ping an internet host 'ping 4.2.2.2'?

Sounds like your keyboard has the standard number keybad on top of the qwerty keyboard. There's probably a 'numlock' light lit as well. Just turn off numlock and you'll be ok.

Your kbd might have an 'Fn' key that is used in combination with another key to enable/disable the numlock.

Try 'Safe Mode with Networking' this should load up a very clean windows yet have connectivity. If this works, then something got loaded on your machine that is interfering. You could use MSCONFIG to turn off all startup items, then turn 1 on, reboot, test, turn on the 2nd, reboot, test, etc.... until you find the bad application....

Malwarebytes is the way to go right now. Use safe mode with network to load MWB to get the full update before scanning.

Running Vista <- There's the 1st problem.
on a Sony Vaio <- There's the 2nd.

Ok I kid. QTCF almost sounds like QuickTime something-or-other. All Vaios come shipped with so much crap installed it's a wonder they boot up at all. It's probably something that it shipped with.

If you want the easy fix, decrapify your machine so that it only runs the apps you want to install.

IF you want to find the culprit, use MSCONFIG and choose selective startup. ON the startup tabs you can pick and choose what apps to launch at startup. This will be a massive trail and error effort as you select a few items to launch, test, repeat... until you can identify the bad app.

Well, changing the # of procs on a windows server after installation is never a good idea.

It depends on the model of our perimeter router. Most recent models support inbond port forwarding. So what do you have?

Logitech has unifying software that lets device become associated to USB dongles.

So if you have about $40, buy 2 logitach mice with the unifying usb dongle. Run the unifying software, and associate the same mouse to 2 different usb dongles. Plug one dongle into each pc and you should get the result you are after.

This should explain everything:
http://www.winvistaclub.com/t19.html

Stop. Don't play with the hardware settings on a VM like this. You're probably making it more difficult to pinpoint the issue.

Go and grab the free VMWare Converter tool. Load it on your machine. Use this tool to convert the questionable guest OS (in whatever state you currently have it in) into a stable state with a hardware version that is supported by your VM host.

Esxi 5.x = HW ver 8
Esxi 4.x = HW ver 7

BTW,
Host OS = the esxi host.
Guest OS = the virtualized pc.

1 host OS contains many guest OSes.

After you convert the PC to something stable, then reboot the guest OS. If you see a windows logo at all and then it stops, then concentrate on the OS, not the virtual hardware. Try starting safe mode to see if it boots. Try running a windows repair on it.

It's always beneficial to have the product in front of you while you are learning. It is for me anyway. MS has 2008 server available for download with a trail license. You should load this up on a machine or a VM and use it while learning.

So you need to ALTER TABLE (or whatever) and create the new fields for password and filename. Then re-import the data again.

Well, You could certainly publish a link the that \server\home\username folder, then edit permissions so that the approprate people have access to that folder. But that kind of goes against what a home folder is supposed to be anyway.

You'd be better off createing a \server\share and copying the imortant files out to there and publishing that link in sharepoint.

Now 1 BIG problem that comes to mind is that anyone who is not on the inside network would not be able to get to that server share. Someone on the public net would not be able to resolve \server\home. PLus you'd be insane to open that up to the public anyway. That's the reason why uploading to SP is preferred.

Because for most end users with a single switch, they want all to forward I would say. If you are at the point where you need to interconnect switches by multiple ports, you know what STP is for and why you should use it.

ack. Good luck and report back.

I don't think so.... Afaik, the documents must be uploaded into the site library before it can be shared.

In sharepoint, when you create a new 'Site' you should have a dozen or so templates to pick from. Easiest thing to do is to use one of these like the 'group collaboration' template. Any user with 'Owner' or 'Member' rights can upload documents to the 'Document Library' for that site and share it with the other members.

So if all chips have been swapped out, and the memtest results in a power off, MB or Proc sounds like a good candidate.

Something else... Does the proc have adequate cooling? Does it have an installed heatsink/fan with heat compound between the proc and the heatsink?

Sounds like you are missing or have a bad file association where the doc or docx is associated with Internet Explorer. You need to check and re-associate the doc/docx extension with the application 'word.exe'.

With sharepoint, all pages are protected via AUTH. http://servername would take you to the 'Home' site. In the Home site, if you create a new site called 'Sales', then you would use http://servername/Sales

Within each site are Site permissions. When you created the site, you can opt to either inherit the parent permissions or use unique permissions so you define access levels on the 'Sales' site.

Whatever site you are in, use the site button (upper left) and select Site Permissions.
You set permissions for "Owners - can do anything", "members - can add/edit content", or "Viewers - Read only".

Each of these groups can use userids taken from the Domain user list or from the local server user list.

So for a Site Owner, you might add 'Domain\Domain Admins'. For Sales members you might add a security group from the AD call 'domain\sales'. You can also create local users on the sharepoint server if you want and add those. Regardless, you must have some sort of user added to Site permissions to logon to the web pages.

Also, make note that the http://servername Home site is different from the Central Admin site at http://servername:portnum. IF you create a site in Home, its not accessible from Central admin. i.e. http://servername/Sales is a different site from http://servername:port/Sales

Instead of windows, try any CD with memtest+. It's a bootable CD with a memory diagnostic. It will start massive reads/writes to the memory. If your mem is 'flakey' this might identify it.

Also, I don't think we've asked if you are doing any kind of overclocking. If you are, of course set everything back to the default levels.

Moving HDs around to different machines for booting is usually hit or miss. If it's a clean HD and a new install of 8, you've tried 2 grpahic cards, and a new power supply but you see the same issues, then it's looking more like the MB or Mem.

It look slike you have 3 mem chips. I would remove 1x4 and try running to see if you are stable. Do the same for the others.

How can the fields not be there but the data is still present? That makes zero sense to me.

If the fields in a table aren't setup correctly you need to run an Alter Table command (or whatever for yoru particuliar DB) and add/edit the fields. Then run your data import again.

I guess 1st question is, did you isolate the graphic card as the source of the issue? Can you replace it with your original card and see if the lockups continue?

I also vote for the DeCrappifier.

Check your logs. Most likely is a typo or a configuration error in your conf files.

I don't know what distro you are on, but check:

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/apache2/error.log

Tail those logs while starting up the service and that should give you a clue.

As you boot, do you see anything like "F11 for boot menu"?

So the obvious question is, is a cable plugged into the machine? What port is the cable conencted into? eth0? what does ifconfig show?

What settings are you using when defining the Guest VM. What HD type, size, location, memory, proc, network, etc.

What version of VMWare?

IF you load a 2008 iso and specify the vm to boot cd first, does it boot and can you run a repair?

Encryption refers to the process by which certain files, or the entire HArd drive is 'scrambled' so that the contents could not be read without the proper credentials.

MAC includes filevault for this. It does the job and is integrated into the OS. IF you lose the credentials, you cannot read the HD or its contents.

Truecrypt is an opensource alternative for that same purpose. If you are on MAC, look at filevault and understand what it will do before you activate it.

Yes, you can move multiple files via the GUI into a flash drive.

The systems has nothing to do with the hardware other then perhaps encrypting the entire hard drive.

There is software that can help if the laptop is stolen like 'prey'.

There is software that can report on the health of the system, checking for disk problems etc...

What exactly are you looking to 'protect'?

I'd like to see the route table from PC 1. Looks like you have 2 interfaces on the same subnet. So it's possible that you make a request to 1 IP, but the answer comes from the 2nd.

What do you mean by > dns & dhcp 10.0.0.1 with statis route for 2

Since 10.0.0.2 is on the same subnet as 10.0.0.0/24, no routes are needed.

Post a SHOW ROUTE from PC 1 and lets have a look there.

Do you have anti malware installed? Might be a good idea to run a full scan. I use malware bytes. It's free and excellent. IF you use that, install it, run the updates, and opt for a full scan. It will alert you if it finds anything.

Does any other software else have issues printing to the printer? Can you print a test page to the printer? HAve you checked HP for the latest drivers for your printer?

I don't understand your question. What are you asking here? How secure is the hardware?

Depends upon what OS you are using.

If you have any typr of desktop GUI, you usually plug in the USB, it would show up as a new drive letter in windows or as a drive in mac/linux desktop. Then you just drag your files into the USB....

What are the IP addresses of each machine?
Can 1 ping 2/3?
Can 2/3 ping 1?
After a ping attempt on 2/3, check arp table. Do you see the MAC for 1's wifi adapter?
If you plug 1 in via wired, can you connect?
What model wifi/router are you using? Is it a separate wifi AP or built into router?

I'd say probably not. If the PC didn't come with a backlight, it probably isn't an upgrade. The backlight has to be controlled via keybard for brightness, the PC has to be able to interpret the command and adjust power, etc....

The external KBD is the way to go here.