Posts by CimmerianX

If you are accesing the exp, then you need admin or exchange admin rights on the user account.
If you are accessing the OWA, then you need an account with an email mailbox and that has not had web access disabled.

It's all about automating how switches talk to each other. I'm not personally a 'fan' of letting networks do this type of thing. I mean, letting it auto detect duplexing and speed is one thing, but letting the switches determine what ports will trunk seems kindof useless and can be a bit dangerous.

For the novice, i suppose it can help with setting up trunking.... but seriously, If you can't design and manage your inter-switch trunks, you probably shouldn't be doing this job in the 1st place.

I might be a little old-school, but I like to set my networks up manually, and turn off this extra auto discovery stuff that cisco has inplemented. I like to know exactly where my switches trunk, over what ports, what VLANS are allowed over tunks, etc...

Jim wants you to add that line. Doing so will redirect all requests to winderlandads.com to, essentially, no where. That will at least keep the ads from showing.

You should also consider that the router is compromised.
What router do you use? Have you tried setting static DNS in router... or even better, try setting static DNS on the PC to see what results you get.

I also found this.... hope it helps.
http://greatis.com/blog/search-redirecting-11/remove-wonderlandads-com.htm

What reservation length did you setup on your scope? IF you set it to never expire, then you you can be out of addresses.
For wifi, I use 8 hour to 1 day, for Ethernet based scopes, I use 7 days. But those numbers are totally up to you.

Look at your server's dhcp panel....
Is the scope active?
How many leases are currently in use?
Is DHCP services running?

Whatever you buy, if it comes with a warranty from a known provider (e.g. Dell, Best Buy) then you can buy with confidence. Even a 90 day Warranty is better than a blind purchase from ebay.

What kind of specs can you get with $300?

Clonezilla will not restore a 320 GB partition to a smaller, 250GB partition... even if the actual data is <200GB.

Acronis Home has a free trial for 30 days I think. You can backup and restore using this... I've used it both in the OS and from a boot CD to grab complete sysprep images of hard drives and to backup my own machines in the OS at times. It will work from larger to smaller drives.

True.... but I'm also thinking about certain software, expecially from smaller vendors or out of business vendors, that may have issues with Win10. Hell, the bank I left many years ago still ran it daily Balancing applications on a 16 bit DOS machine... simply because it worked flawlessly so there was never a need to upgrade away from it.

I don't think MS would make it recommended....or force it on users. There's too many builds with older hardware/software that will lack drivers and/or updates to work with 10.

I'm think class-action lawsuit if a forced win10 update broke my legacy video card or something like that.

LAst time I checked, these were the Win7/8 updates that were doing the Win10 update nagging. You can remove them by running the following (copy paste into .bat or .cmd file and run it)

wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2976978 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2977759 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3021917 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3044374 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /norestart /quiet

KIK messenger is a good alternative. Works for wifi only devices.

If you go and look at your electrical panel, there are breakers/fuses down both sides, you might even have 2 panels. For network over electrical to work, all plugs must be on the same phase (think of it as all your house's electrical split down the middle with sides A and B, all plugs must be on either side or side B, if they aren't then they won't communicate.)

ok - So take your wife's laptop to and plug it in here. The laptop works at the other jack and is on ethernet and not wifi, correct? Plug it into the questionable ethernet jack and see what you get.

This way, if the working laptop now fails, the problem is on the jack. If the laptop works, then the issue is on the MAC desktop

Be 100% certain that wifi is disabled on the laptop when testing this.

When you are on the laptop, and it works, open a terminal and run IFCONFIG and paste the output here so I can see. There's nothing personal, so its safe to post.

OK - 1st thing, take a known working laptop to this questionable desk and plug in then test. This will ensure the plugs are working and we can stop looking at those.

IF plug is working, then make sure the MAC is set for DHCP on the networking setting and not set for static. When your network settings for ethernet are DHCP then you should automatically get an IP address. The IP will be shown here.

Nothing will happen. Since you have only 1 connection between the 2 switches. There's no danger of any loop that I can see from the short summary,

Are all plugs currently sync'd. Many surge protectors can interfere with these plugs too, so remove if in use.

Does the laptop get an IP address?
Can she ping the gateway?
Can she ping outside the gateway? e.g. ping 8.8.8.8

There is usually 1 gateway per subnet.

When a machine wants to communicate with an IP address that does not reside in a directly connected subnet (an ip outside it's subnet), then the traffic is sent to the default gateway. The GW must be in the same subnet as the machine since the traffic is sent via layer 2 to the GW mac address.

So, each of your subnets would have 1 gateway:
**192.168.1.0/27 GW: 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.32/27 GW: 192.168.1.33 **

Gateways are assigned to machines in the subnet via DHCP or statically within the network config.

Now on the router, the concept is pretty much the same.
Run 'SHOW IP ROUTE" to see the current routing table.

There would be a 'C' for each directly connected subnet. The gateway of the router is the 'Gateway of last resort" with can also be identified as a route for destination 0.0.0.0/0. The gateway for these is, essentially, your router's default gateway..... that is the device for the traffic that does not fall within any other location in the routing table. This GW is usually your ISP's router IP. You would need to setup 1 interface for the ISP router network.

Right here: You can attach tasks to a event log...

http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2011/01/get-an-email-notification-on-system-logon/

How are you going to assign subnets to the Layer 2 switches? If they are layer 3 switches, then keep the /24 subnet on the router and connected switchports, then assign any subnet you want behind each of the 3 switches.

For Debian based installs (ubuntu) the path rubberman gave you equates to /etc/network/interfaces .
With Network manager, this directory and any interfaces configured within it are ignored. Honestly, I don't understand how network-manager stores all it's data. Manually editing those files are usually going to cause more headaches than anything else. Stick with the net-man gui.

Next, Wifi networks are 99.9% of the time in a native mode, meaning no VLAN tag is applied to the outbound packets. You usually don't need to vlan tag wifi.

I'm wondering what VLAN interface was deleted? "dmesg | grep eth" should give you an idea of what interfaces are available at the moment.

You can take 1 port off your wifi router and cascade any switch to that port.
You don't need a smart switch for this, any unmanaged switch will do fine. SMC EZ switches are cheap and work well.

Don't worry about bottlenecks. To stream a 1080p movie is about 6-10 Mb/s. if you get a Gigabit switch, you could stream 1080p movies to over 50 devices before your single gig port becomes the bottleneck (a little exagerative, but you get the point).

The bottleneck will occur at the disk on the plex server as the read speed of the data is probably far below this number.

So, go get yourself an unmanaged gig switch and cascade it off your router and you are good to go.

I don't know what you mean by a partition reset.....

If your system has a Recovery Partition and an option to Factory reset do the default install again, that's your best best. Most PCs come preloaded with an 'recovery app' that will restore to factory default or would let you burn CD that you could use to restore to default. IF the machine came from the factory with photoshop installed, then the factory default image would have that as well. If you got this from a private party, then you are out of luck on any software.

With a downgrade from 10 to 7, this is a common complaint. 95% of the time, a wipe and reload is the best fix.

FYI, try classic shell as a start menu replacement to get rid of that gawd awful flying turd, MS called the win10 menu.

What IP does your PC (room a) have? ARe the 2 cables in Room b plugged into the LAN side? Make sure nothing is plugged into the WAN port in room b.

I have no idea what you are asking.

Its a feature in routing to avoid routing loops after a failure..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_horizon_route_advertisement

I give the same advice to everybody.

Unless the theft recovery is built into the BIOS somehow.... it is useless. Most of these programs won't work unless you log into the machine. For MAC or windows that means automated signin that allows the theif to connect the mac to his own wifi AP. These softwares are useless unless someone plugs them into a network or can sign in to the GUI to activate Wifi.

What's more valuable to you, the value of the laptop, or the data contained therein. For me, it's the data, no question. My password files, ssh keys, emails, data, etc....

I would rather encrypt the drive so that no one can access. This means all that tracking software is useless because the laptop won't boot. But, 99.99999% of the theives out there will never touch my data.

Plus, cops will not waste time going after a $100-$500 phone or laptop. If you go confront the theif, then you are just asking to get shot or arrested for harassement.

Just encrypt your data instead

to be cautious, use the dry run option 1st.

rsync --verbose --recursive --ignore-existing --dry-run <src> <dst>

you can also use a cp command with --no-clobber.
cp --no-clobber <src> <dst>

Usually, files like JPG images can be checked by using both the size, as indicated. When I need to recover files off a bad drive, I use the JPG header and footer to mark the beginning and ending of the file. Other times, I use just the header and read in the next 1MB to ensure I have the full Image. When you recover, make sure you have the proper HEX header for the filetype. e.g. for JPG files, the hex header is FF D8 FF E0 and the footer is FF D9.

Where did you get this address? From the ISP?

in Ipv6, the link local addresses are non-global, unicast and will have the prefix of fe80:. Depending on your host, you run ipconfig /all or ifconfig (or whatever command for the platform) and list out the ipv6's for each interface.

If you are going to subnet internally, you can edit the link local's unicast subnet prefix with something like fe80:0:0:1 where the multicast would look like ff02: as the prefix for link local multicasts.

If it's a clean install, you should already have your default sources set to go.

I would check the basics:
Do you have intenet connectivity? Try pinging 4.2.2.1.
Do you have working DNS? Try pinging www.google.com, does it resolve?
What does apt-get update return?

Sorry rubberman, but this guy is not a student, he claims "I work for a college" and, as such, must adhere to his workplace policies.

I guess I'm a stickler for the rules....

If I were your admin and I cought you doing this (circumventing network policy and protections) I would fire you on the spot. If the admins don't want you using dropbox tools, It's up to you to bring in another workstation for the purpose of coping company documents into it for easy uploading. I wouldn't care if 'cloud storage' is 'neat' and 'cool' to you. As an admin, users like this make my blood pressure rise.

.ts is a MPG media Transport Stream File. Really used for editing. You should change the recording format of your camcorder to something more conventional if you plan on simply sharing. But I digress...

I've not worked with .ts files, but I have yet to see a format that VLC could not open/convert. Try this:
http://www.guidingtech.com/8848/use-vlc-player-to-convert-videos-from-one-format-to-another/

For ios, try MP4 files.

Does it have a VGA port for an external monitor. Plug in a monitor and boot it just to be sure you have no LCD display. If the external also fails, then you have more serious issues. It's probably not worth repairing a laptop that old.

Your PST file is obviously corrupt. If you have a backup, load it. Otherwise you can try some of the PST repair utilities that have been mentioned in earlier threads.

Swtiches will keep a table of mac addresses that are seen on each switch port. If you have 1 pc on a port, then the switch will know that port 1 has the mac for your pc and traffic will only be sent there when destinied for your mac.

You can also cascade switches. If you have a 2nd switch B connected to port 1 on Switch A, then switch A port 1 will have multiple mac addresses on that port once detected. Managed switches also have trunked ports where vlan tagged traffic can be sent across ports with the same end effect, basically.

The switch ports themselves, do not have mac addresses. The switch 'knows' whats macs are to be found on what ports.

msconfig is the correct method. Use it and disable all services, reboot and test. Turn on one chuck of services, reboot and test.... rinse and repeat until your laptop shuts down. when it does, the culprit service or program is located in the last chuck you enabled Continue whittling down.

Also, use malwarebytes and run a full scan as well.

The registry key should be Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies .... you have storedDevicePolicies

Sanity check: make sure usb key doesn't have a read/write switch on it in wrong position.

Does it write in any other computer?

Not going to work as you envision.

I've converted many physical to virtual hosts. VMWare has a conversion tool that you need (free). For Linux hosts, you can't do this while system is on since you need to boot to a CD image to get the conversion going (last time I ran it anyway).

VMDK files created from the conversion can be used in Virtual Box or can be converted into other formats as well.

Right here.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/secure-shell-ssh/4145-ssh.html

Get off the phone. Use a laptop/Pc and check your IP settings and the gateway to make sure there are no errors there. On the pc check IP with ipconfig /all and on a mac with ifconfig. Make note of the subnet mask, I suspect your mask is 255.255.0.0 and not 255.255.255.0

You are going to have to provide way more detail before we can assist. Server? Location? tested with other clients? etc...

Run the dell diagnostics... hold Fn while booting and run full diags. After which, call dell with results, even if it is out of warranty, they will still help diagnose the issue.

Also, you can try booting with a Linux Live CD to see if you can get it to boot at all.

Can you ping the gateway?
Is it a hub or a switch?
Is it managed at all?

Carbon Copy is a tool I use in my data center to clone macs.... there may be a free trail. The external disk that is used as the backup target can be used as the boot device in a pinch.

Other options are
CloneZilla - Requires some setup
Boot a linux live disk and DD the entire drive - be careful with this one to not erase your disk.

you don't type that into the router... that's a windows command.

IF you have physical access to the 2800, use a Console cable to the unit connected to a terminal emulator (e.g. putty).

enable
<enter your password>
show ip int | incl Internet address

That will list all ips on the router.

Sounds to me like this is working fine. When you switch from static to DHCP for your office, the static entries are gone. When you switch back from DHCP to static, then you must enter the info again. That's just the way it works.

Question: At home, instead of a static, can you do a DHCP reservation instead? that way you just stay on DHCP all the time.