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I recently needed to make Windows 7 work with NetWare CIFS (remember that I’m yourNetWareGuy.com, too)… The good news is that it seems to work great! The bad news is that Microsoft changed the default behavior for the CIFS client…
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I recently got this question from reader “Marshall”… “I am currently testing ZDM 7 in my organization and was having a bit of grief.. I was wondering if it would be easier to scrap that idea and go onto ZCM…
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Sub-Title: “Getting more than 1000 results from your LDAP(S) query to AD” This is part 5 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; for background, please also see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. By…
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Sub-Title: “What if you don’t know the exact certificate subject of the AD server?” This is part 4 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; for background, please also see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part…
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I’m not just “Your Linux Guy”… I’m “Your ZCM Guy”, too… As a Novell Partner, I was very fortunate to have attended the ZENworks Configuration Management 11 (ZCM 11) “First Class” training session last week. This is where the outstanding…
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Sub-Title: “Escaping commas in LDAP(S) queries to AD” This is part 3 in a series of 5 posts on this subject; please also see part 1, part 2, part 4, and part 5. If the username in your query has…
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Sub-Title: “An easier way to export a MS AD CA root cert…” After the popularity of my first post on this subject, I’ve decided to write a couple follow-ups to add some more tips around this subject. As a result,…
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Post-publish follow-up: I have now turned this into a multi-part series with additional tips and tricks. Please see part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5. Active Directory (AD) is a fact of life. There, I said it. And…
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One of the very first posts I wrote on this blog when I started in early 2007 is a tutorial on how to quickly set up Tripwire on “Suse Linux” (before they called it “Opensuse”). But the problem with that…
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UPDATE (post-publish), 20100806: Though this post was originally tested entirely on 32-bit Opensuse 11.1, thanks to the prompt by Philip (see comments below), I have set up and tested this config on 64-bit Opensuse 11.3 with the 64-bit eDirectory 8.8sp5. …
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