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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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As a sysadmin (probably like you), sometimes I need to whip up special-purpose mini-scripts to do simple monitoring tasks that I don’t want to bother our main monitoring system with… This is one of them… I needed to monitor a…
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Here’s a fun one for you. I had a situation recently where the customer had some of his windows PCs properly being populated in his reverse DNS zone (in an AD-controlled environment), and some that were not. He asked me…
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This basic (re-worded) question came in from Jeff: “Why won’t my remote filesystem mount unmount when I try the umount command?” It’s very true: If you try to umount (unmount) a filesystem that is currently being accessed, it will not…
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There are lots of ways to design and run your dhcp server and environment. Over the years, I’ve kinda’ fallen in-and-out of love with DHCP clustering; I’ve just come to the conclusion that it is more trouble than it’s worth. …
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I like the agedu utility. I recently found it while searching the ‘net, and I want to thank all involved with it (see the page for credits and info). This neat utility helps you get a general understanding of two…
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I learned lots of cool stuff last week while I was out in Provo, Utah, at Novell’s ATT Live sessions. There was simply not enough time to attend all the class sessions I wanted (in the 4 days I was…
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This question came to me from Rune (his question is edited for brevity): I’ve got a SLES 9.3 system where the users are using gzip to compress their daily online DB backups. It’s scripted, but basically it goes something like…
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This is a follow-up to an older post about administering a Linux machine from Windows, that can be found here. So, you want to get remote desktop access to your Linux server’s GUI from a Windows machine. Well, NoMachine is…
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