@Pete-S said in Opinions on POS/label printers?:

@Dashrender said in Opinions on POS/label printers?:

@Pete-S said in Opinions on POS/label printers?:

@scottalanmiller said in Opinions on POS/label printers?:

Any reason not to look Dymo? We like them a lot.

Does Dymo make standard thermal transfer printers? I thought they only made printers that would print on their own media.

What does this mean? I have Dymos all over, we buy non Dymo branded labels from Amazon and they work fine. Is there something special about that type of label though?

What I meant was that Dymo makes printers that takes Dymo labels. Sure other might make compatible labels but that is not what Dymo had in mind. Dymo sells their printers because they want you to buy their labels (which is where they make money).

Zebra and others on the other hand makes generic printers that take standard size media - just like an office printer takes "letter" size paper.

OK I getcha... like Keurig tried to pull with scanning a barcode on coffee pods - total fail! People will do damned near anything to override your lock-in when possible.

@scottalanmiller said in Making an RDP Terminal Server with Ubuntu Linux:

I recommend the Remmina RDP client tool, it's the bomb.

I love Remmina as a client.

@JasGot said in Exchange 2010 (On-prem) Migration to Hosted Exchange/Office 365 Planning:

@wrx7m How did your migration go? Have you done any more? Just curious what tools (if any) you used......

I'm about to start a migration and need to decide if I am going to do it as a pst import, or a migration from on premise exchange to cloud, and if so, do I use the built-in migration tool at admin.exchange.microsoft.com or a third party tool.

I am interested in what you did and what the pros and cons were.

Thanks!

Ended up doing a migration using the standard MS tools. Been a few years now and am glad I did it.

@RojoLoco and that's what I appreciates about you RL.

@DustinB3403 said in Office 365 Suite - User Licensing T&C:

And what I specifically was hoping someone had a link for was to MS's license or T&C saying that "no you can't share an account for multiple people".

Obviously this doesn't exists since the way the software is procured is per user.

Right, they won't repeat it because they have it in writing already. But you can always show that it is 1) assigned to a named user 2) at the time of procurement you have to agree to a single human.

That's better than any T&C link.

@scottalanmiller said in BitWarden - Self Hosted for many users:

@IRJ said in BitWarden - Self Hosted for many users:

@scottalanmiller said in BitWarden - Self Hosted for many users:

@IRJ said in BitWarden - Self Hosted for many users:

You can however use an unofficial Bitwarden server fork that is free.

Is it a fork? Looks like a separate project.

Yeah, you are right. I didnt know much about it. My coworker uses it for his personal server and really likes it. When I saw this thread I asked him about it again so I could help @Kelly clear things up.

Looks perfectly nice, wish it had more of a "showing it off" website.

He says its actively maintained and follows BW updates pretty frequently.

@dbeato said in Exchange - Different Domain, Same Forest Users:

@Dashrender said in Exchange - Different Domain, Same Forest Users:

@G-I-Jones said in Exchange - Different Domain, Same Forest Users:

I went to lunch and came back and boy did this thread get juicy. @scottalanmiller , as always your input is both appreciated and needed. I'm really trying to learn all I can about everything, and you all (to include @Dashrender , @DustinB3403 regularly) come through time and time again to school me. For that I'm eternally grateful.

The grand silver lining to any of this is that I've not only got more experience now with things I've previously never touched (i.e. multi-domain Exchange deployments and AD trusts), but I'm learning too that some things I'm questioning like "why do we need another domain for this?" are apparently more rooted in my own understanding of things than inexperience on my part, which means despite all the failures on his or my own part, I am learning.

I've talked to the boss and he agreed that we adjust the trust and make them the same forest. I'm not going to push the issue any further but am going to try to get as much out of the situation as possible for me.

Once you do that - you'll only have one exchange system. that system will have both .net and .org in it and life will be generally much easier for you.

Or move to Office 365, G Suite, Zoho or some other external email system.

LOL

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX update negated/erased an Asterisk Dial Code we had set?:

@Dashrender said in FreePBX update negated/erased an Asterisk Dial Code we had set?:

yes, this would drive my users insane.

It is a setting. Turn it off.

I wouldn't want it off whole sale. I could definitely do that for most users, but my phone does have a display large enough to tell me I have missed calls - and I call those people back, even if they didn't leave a message. More often than not it's beneficial to call them back and solve whatever problem they were having.

@Dashrender

firewall { all-ping enable broadcast-ping disable group { address-group trusted_IPs { address 1.2.3.4 address 5.6.7.8 address 9.10.11.12 description "for remote GUI access" } } ipv6-name WANv6_IN { default-action drop description "WAN inbound traffic forwarded to LAN" enable-default-log rule 10 { action accept description "Allow established/related sessions" state { established enable related enable } } rule 20 { action drop description "Drop invalid state" state { invalid enable } } } ipv6-name WANv6_LOCAL { default-action drop description "WAN inbound traffic to the router" enable-default-log rule 10 { action accept description "Allow established/related sessions" state { established enable related enable } } rule 20 { action drop description "Drop invalid state" state { invalid enable } } rule 30 { action accept description "Allow IPv6 icmp" protocol ipv6-icmp } rule 40 { action accept description "allow dhcpv6" destination { port 546 } protocol udp source { port 547 } } } ipv6-receive-redirects disable ipv6-src-route disable ip-src-route disable log-martians enable name WAN_IN { default-action drop description "WAN to internal" rule 10 { action accept description "Allow established/related" state { established enable related enable } } rule 20 { action drop description "Drop invalid state" state { invalid enable } } } name WAN_LOCAL { default-action drop description "WAN to router" rule 10 { action accept description "remote GUI" destination { port 443 } log disable protocol tcp source { group { address-group trusted_IPs } } } rule 20 { action accept description "Allow established/related" state { established enable related enable } } rule 30 { action accept description ike destination { port 500 } log disable protocol udp state { invalid enable } } rule 40 { action accept description esp log disable protocol esp } rule 50 { action accept description nat-t destination { port 4500 } log disable protocol udp } rule 60 { action accept description l2tp destination { port 1701 } ipsec { match-ipsec } log disable protocol udp } } receive-redirects disable send-redirects enable source-validation disable syn-cookies enable } interfaces { ethernet eth0 { address 10.10.10.10/30 description Internet duplex auto firewall { in { ipv6-name WANv6_IN name WAN_IN } local { ipv6-name WANv6_LOCAL name WAN_LOCAL } } speed auto } ethernet eth1 { address 10.15.20.254/24 description "LAN 1" duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth2 { address 192.168.2.254/24 description "LAN 2" duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth3 { duplex auto speed auto } loopback lo { } } port-forward { auto-firewall enable hairpin-nat disable wan-interface eth0 } service { dhcp-server { disabled false hostfile-update disable shared-network-name LAN2 { authoritative enable subnet 192.168.2.0/24 { default-router 192.168.2.254 dns-server 192.168.2.254 lease 86400 start 192.168.2.38 { stop 192.168.2.43 } } } static-arp disable use-dnsmasq disable } dns { forwarding { cache-size 10000 listen-on eth1 listen-on eth2 name-server 1.1.1.1 name-server 9.9.9.9 } } gui { http-port 80 https-port 443 older-ciphers enable } nat { rule 5010 { description "masquerade for WAN" outbound-interface eth0 type masquerade } } ssh { port 22 protocol-version v2 } unms { connection wss:// } } system { domain-name ubnt gateway-address 10.10.10.1 host-name ER4 login { user ubnt { authentication { encrypted-password ubnt } level admin } } name-server 1.1.1.1 name-server 9.9.9.9 ntp { server 0.ubnt.pool.ntp.org { } server 1.ubnt.pool.ntp.org { } server 2.ubnt.pool.ntp.org { } server 3.ubnt.pool.ntp.org { } } offload { hwnat disable ipsec disable } syslog { global { facility all { level notice } facility protocols { level debug } } } time-zone UTC } vpn { ipsec { allow-access-to-local-interface disable auto-firewall-nat-exclude disable ipsec-interfaces { interface eth0 } } l2tp { remote-access { authentication { local-users { username hello { password 1234 } } mode local } client-ip-pool { start 192.168.100.100 stop 192.168.100.110 } dns-servers { server-1 1.1.1.1 server-2 9.9.9.9 } idle 1800 ipsec-settings { authentication { mode pre-shared-secret pre-shared-secret 1234 } ike-lifetime 3600 lifetime 3600 } mtu 1492 outside-address 10.10.10.10 } } }

@JasGot In my company, we use XCP-ng on 4 small hosts with maybe 10 VMs on them (2 Win RDP servers, few Linux fileservers...). We manage them with XCP-ng center (Windows app) in LAN and with Xen Orchestra remotely. We are very satisfied with XCP and management is pretty simple. We are no experts but beginners.
We cloned some VMs, copied them from host to host, added additoinal storage after installation...

I tried to install KVM few times and I find it confusing to setup and manage.

@Obsolesce said in VMware Community Homelabs:

@Pete-S said in VMware Community Homelabs:

5 billion hits per day is Google type traffic

You are confusing 5 billion hits/searches per day with requests. Not the same thing.

Yes, you're right, I was confused. I read "requests" but thought "page views".

@Obsolesce said in Finding specific file type that has no extension:

Is there anything inside the file that can tell you? For example, if you write a script that cats each file or whayever and looks for specific string, then moves it if it matches.

I don't know what those files are, so ya. Just thinking out loud without any info.

No, because they are just ancient like ~20 + years old, no extension or really anything to hit on. Apple still supports Postscript Type 1 fonts, but nothing else does.

I managed to get it to work with what I needed with the above.

Additionally I created two reports 1) listing all of he postscript type 1 fonts and 2) listing truetype and opentype fonts.

So now we can build a list of things that needs to get upgraded.

To find the non-extension'd postscript type 1 fonts I used

find . -type f -d -empty >> old-crap.txt

To find the modern fonts I used

find . -name '*.ttf' -d >> modern-font.txt and just replaced .ttf with .otf, .otc, .ttc, .tte and .dfont and appended the same modern-font.txt file for each of those.

To come back around to the initial question, I'll throw GLPI + FusionInventory into the mix as a decent replacement for SpiceWorks. You keep the ability to have your whole IT environment managed and documented in a single system (Equipment, users, ticketing, contracts, contacts etc etc....)

@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:

@Obsolesce said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:

@wrx7m said in Group Policy - HKCU Registry Update (via GPP) For All Users, Only on RDP Server:

t only applies the setting when linked to the OU of the user

We'll according to that screenshot, it IS a user setting.

Yeah. I want all users or a group of users who login to the RD00 server (and only this server) to have this GPP modifying HKCU to apply. Is it even possible?

Yes, it's possible.

Ensure the GPO is applying to the user. For example, if User1 is in the Company > Users OU, then make sure that GPO is either in Company or Users OU and the Users OU is inheriting the GPO. Verify with RSOP and gpresult that user is getting the policy.

I think, but it's been awhile since I did much with AD GP... (like you are in the screenshot) use item-level targeting to the server name.

Test it by having one of the in-scope users log on to a difference server, run gpresult and see if it's applying, then try it on the targeted server and see if it applies then.

@Dashrender said in "Access Denied" RENAME.bat:

Manually running the script won't give you the same results you would get running it via GPO - FYI.. there are subtle differences.

In this case it's the same.

@JaredBusch

@JaredBusch said in Nginx setup:

@smartkid808 said in Nginx setup:

@thwr said in Nginx setup:

I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife.

Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16651/install-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-on-fedora-27

@JaredBusch said in Nginx setup:

@smartkid808 said in Nginx setup:

@thwr said in Nginx setup:

I prefer nginx over everything else when it comes to reverse proxies. There are special purpose proxies like Traefik, but nginx is the ultimate general purpose swiss army knife.

Nice. That's what I gathered from what I read. Now to work on getting it setup. Tried once a while ago and gave up. Now to try again ^_^

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/16651/install-nginx-as-a-reverse-proxy-on-fedora-27

Thanks Jared, I'll take a look at that.. I'll follow your CentOS7 steps in the link. Hopefully I can figure out the conf file. Looks confusing. My brain hasn't been really working lately. lol

@scottalanmiller said in Calling MeshCentral Users / Experts:

@JaredBusch said in Calling MeshCentral Users / Experts:

Can a moderator edit post 3 to wrap all of that is code block tags ```

Done

Thanks.

So without a time clock, you can't be sure employees are at work or working? I haven't used a timeclock since my teens. I know this doesn't address your issue, but didn't realize time locks were still a thing. I only note time deviations at my current job, such as PTO or sick pay.

However, I agree with the others. Fire people who are stealing from the company. Time = money, no difference here. As IRJ pointed out, limiting this from only Onprem may cause unintended limitations and force the bad actors to do it in other ways anyways. I'd only do that if they forced me to after explaining it may not be a real solution.