@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@scottalanmiller said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@Dashrender said in what is automation? How does it work?:

There are multiple ways to get automation. Simplest might be to write a script that copies files and execute that script using Task Scheduler (a windows service that allows you to execute tasks based upon a specific schedule).

Thanks - Got more information now:
I need to be able to automatically send a folder to compressed zip.
Then automate the import and publish.

The more information I get the more confused I become about all of this.

The first step to automating a task is defining how you would do it manually. Start there. That doesn't mean the automation will just copy that, but it helps to understand what you are doing today, before you figure out how to do it automatically tomorrow.

Do it here?
I mean, That's fine with me.

I would make a new thread about that specific task, and you could toss a link in here to that.

@moyarich said in How to sync files between a windows and a linux machine?:

@notverypunny I am hoping that I can use "cobian backup" to send files to the linux machine as well, but there isn't much information on the internet about how to do it. For some directories it will be realtime,for others it will be scheduled.

I am also looking for a free/open source application

If cobian can do a 1 way push from your central windows machine to a SMB or other standard network share you should be able to convince it to work against a share on Linux as much as against a share on windows.

I'll agree with the others that SyncThing looks like a great option, just didn't fit my use case since it wouldn't keep file ownership settings.

@scottalanmiller said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@dbeato said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@notverypunny said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@dbeato said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

@notverypunny said in OpenManage Enterprise Gotcha:

OpenManage Enterprise

That's why we put it on a VM.

Yep, it's a vm.... but the VM and the iDRAC were set to share the same NIC on the host (whoever did the initial hardware setup didn't want to / couldn't use the iDRAC's dedicated NIC)

Weird, We use dedicated iDRAC all the time.

I think "didn't want to" is the key language there 😉

Yeah... dealing with things that someone else setup is always interesting to say the least

You install something from Veeam on the host with the tape drive plugged in called "Veeam Remote Tape Access Service" and this allows Veeam on the VM to access the tape drive remotely. We have this running using the same setup you describe. Works fine and Veeam can see the tape drive from within the VM. No SAS pass-through.Capture1.PNG

@scottalanmiller said in TV as a Monitor:

@Pete-S said in TV as a Monitor:

OLED is another matter though. It's not an LCD.

But it is an LED.

Sure, but those are anything but common yet.

@Dashrender said in SIP wireless phone's on FreePBX system ...:

Looks like the W80DM/W80B are only different by a mode setting.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=2ahUKEwjjt8Cw9KvpAhVCZM0KHVSLCY0QFjABegQIARAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.yealink.com%2Fforward2download%3Fpath%3DZIjHOJbWuW%2FDFrGTLnGyphshNtpyhFJcLzNUPzFczti22pxVBo1IqAxPAwzS8JNbeQdHRoOZWBxnleU8UqMHndA34NOmQC%2Fa4gKhzUqY03VQpIS0pplusSymbolIfibhNUWtTrGnLb0V5E27UeeKMF7bwamVdkUrxJoeg51v9Yv773qI7wEZto6juv%2Ftc6zAsplusSymbol1QmKdDc&usg=AOvVaw3EzRHeUVCmVysaxByX5y0S

Thanks, I hadn't seen that.

I can see the use for this in a multi user system where you have virtualization admin. They would not need sudo access to do things.

For most though, just using sudo will suffice.

When I worked in Connecticut, employees at GE headquarters had their cell phones all hijacked by another company sharing their building and all of their texts (ALL of them) were captured and stored by another company (with conflicts of interest as well.) Any text sent to someone there was guaranteed to be not just intercepted, but stored. And they had no way to know because of the complete lack of security in texting.

nmap is so much lighter and faster than other tools, too.

@syko24 said in Anyone use Radmin VPN?:

believe it is Windows only

It is.

@Obsolesce said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:

Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.

Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.

Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.

Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint.

They are pretty much all integrated once installed. Many DEs have a software manager / software center gui now that is shortcutted.

Yeah, pretty much all DE have that now.

@DustinB3403 its been 2 years. now im using w10 . and no issue

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/How-to-convert-Forms-Likert-Scale-into-value-and-compute-average/m-p/246051

@JasGot said in Weird RDP issues with one application.:

@black3dynamite said in Weird RDP issues with one application.:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/known-issues.html

Thanks. This was it. But suddenly, it's not enough of a frustration to go without audio! Go figure.

Also does your use have an NVidia Video card? If so, they can get this.
https://developer.nvidia.com/designworks

Here's another test. It shows that IPsec is more than 50% faster than WireGuard.
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https://www.pcwrt.com/2020/02/performance-comparisons-of-three-vpn-protocols-on-a-budget-router/

Thing is that WireGuard uses the ChaCha20 cipher which is very efficient and fast on non-dedicated hardware. IPsec, and sometimes also OpenVPN, can however often use hardware acceleration on AES and is then faster.

It's the devices in each end and their architecture (ARM, x86 etc) and any hardware offloading that will determine what to pick for maximum performance on a VPN. And often it just doesn't matter - for instance when the hardware can handle encryption at WAN speed.

Nice thing about WireGuard is that it has just been included in the 5.6 kernel so soon enough it will be available by default on every linux system.

@EddieJennings said in MacVTap Modes:

One option I didn't see in the redhat doc was openvswitch. Don't they support it?

The link I posted was for RHEL 6. I just now saw that RHEL 8's documentation is online. I glanced through it and didn't see that mentioned. I'll read it more closely tomorrow.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/configuring-virtual-machine-network-connections_configuring-and-managing-virtualization

There's no mention of openvswitch anywhere in that document. I am aware of XenServer and XCP-ng uses it by default. So its possible RHEL just prefers using macvlan/macvtap instead of openvswitch.