These aren't necessarily Mesh Central replacements (one actually uses Mesh Central on the back end) as they're actually RMMs.

The first one that comes to mind, but is the one I haven't used myself yet, is RustDesk. It's completely self hosted, and includes clients for Windows, Linux and MAC. There is a completely free OSS version, and then the licensed versions are very reasonably prices imo. I'm not sure what the differentiators are between the OSS and different paid for versions.

The second one is TacticalRMM. This is the one that uses MeshCentral as the back end remote access, but you never see MeshCentral unless you go looking for it. So depending on what the issues are pushing you away from MeshCentral are, it may be a hard no-go for you. Only provides Windows clients for free, MAC and Linux clients are the only things you pay for.

Both would be way more functionality than what I remember ScreenConnect or Mesh Central making available themselves.

Please do let us know what you end up choosing.

@CCWTech said in How to get Chrome to remember which monitors to open on:

I gotta go back to Ubuntu I suppose... I just wish there were better games for it...

I use Ubuntu as well, and never had an issue playing any and all Windows games on it. Some may not have behaved or performed as well as on Windows, but if you're that bad with Windows it's likely not going to be a show stopper for you.

A couple of years ago, we discovered that AT&T geoblocks all VOIP traffic from India. We sent some configured phones to them, because the bosses were told by AT&T that it would work fine. Nope. All the tracert results clearly showed them dropping the traffic. But then a few months ago, it started working! The India team emailed me asking to change out the names/extensions, and since then we've had no problems.

@scottalanmiller oh I don't doubt there's a real person behind the account, but I don't think it has a single time engaged with the community other than to throw around marketing posts. Super duper spammy. I can't stand visiting the site without being logged in, having to navigate around all the spam from that account. If I want to browse StarWind Blog posts, I'll just visit their site.

@CCWTech said in Proxmox 8.2 is out:

@IThomeboy80 You are welcome. I keep falling more and more in love with Proxmox every day. It's just a great product!

I feel the same way.

Looking forward to the possibility of doing some migrations off of ESXi.

@IThomeboy80 said in Suggestions for an IPTV player for Ubuntu:

Maybe VLC might be a good option since it plays almost al media type files.

It doesn't handle many channels

@DustinB3403

Ha! That's the thing though, I am curious if sudo will be (at least partially derived) from the sudo we know and love, or will it be Microsoft's own thing that happens to use a command named sudo.

@CCWTech said in Can you run a Windows desktop OS as a server to run AVImark Veterinary Software?:

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Very impressive, so few people are actually looking to research and learn, just to argue. Kudos to him.

The Linux / Windows approach gives you far more flexibility. MacOS is useless in a million scenarios. But when it is good, it's really good. The UI is still pretty crap, but things like patching they can do with a reliability no one else can. No matter how hard anyone tries, vertical integration of components means things like patching can be tested completely, not just spot checked.

Yet another...

I can't access my State of Utah Retirment: https://www.urs.org/

@scottalanmiller Figured it out!
dpkg --purge pve-kernel-helper
Fixed it!

@dafyre Yes, I did. I am using a different kernel now and for the moment, things seem to be happy! (Ish!)

@CCWTech said in Unable to connect Ubuntu with Google Online Accounts:

Jun 08 11:15:59 CCW-HAL systemd[3523]: vte-spawn-8b4a59a3-a060-4bdd-92e6-285656bdb9a2.scope: Consumed 3.448s CPU time.
Jun 08 11:16:01 CCW-HAL gnome-shell[3803]: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed
Jun 08 11:16:01 CCW-HAL gnome-shell[3803]: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed
Jun 08 11:16:01 CCW-HAL gnome-shell[3803]: g_closure_unref: assertion 'closure->ref_count > 0' failed
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL systemd[3523]: Started app-gnome-org.gnome.Terminal-10924.scope - Application launched by gnome-shell.
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL dbus-daemon[3552]: [session uid=1000 pid=3552] Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' requested by ':1.167' (uid=1000 pid=10927 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.real" label="unconfined")
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL systemd[3523]: Starting gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server...
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL dbus-daemon[3552]: [session uid=1000 pid=3552] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL systemd[3523]: Started gnome-terminal-server.service - GNOME Terminal Server.
Jun 08 11:16:29 CCW-HAL systemd[3523]: Started vte-spawn-9cee1911-372a-4bb4-8b57-694984e43990.scope - VTE child process 10955 launched by gnome-terminal-server process 10931.
Jun 08 11:16:49 CCW-HAL gnome-control-c[8079]: Error showing account: Child process exited with code 1
Jun 08 11:16:53 CCW-HAL gnome-online-accounts-panel.desktop[9764]: GLib-GIO: Using cross-namespace EXTERNAL authentication (this will deadlock if server is GDBus < 2.73.3)GLib-GIO: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’GLib: unsetenv() is not thread-safe and should not be used after threads are createdGLib-GIO: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation dconf (DConfSettingsBackend) for ‘gsettings-backend’GoaBackend: Loading all providers: GoaBackend: - googleGoaBackend: - owncloudGoaBackend: - windows_liveGoaBackend: - exchangeGoaBackend: - lastfmGoaBackend: - imap_smtpGoaBackend: - kerberosGoaBackend: activated kerberos providerGLib-GIO: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gnutls (GTlsBackendGnutls) for ‘gio-tls-backend’Failed to create account: Dialog was dismissed
Jun 08 11:16:53 CCW-HAL xdg-desktop-por[3907]: Realtime error: Could not map pid: Could not determine pid namespace: Could not find instance-id in process's /.flatpak-info
Jun 08 11:17:01 CCW-HAL CRON[11093]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=0)
Jun 08 11:17:01 CCW-HAL CRON[11094]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jun 08 11:17:01 CCW-HAL CRON[11093]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Jun 08 11:17:06 CCW-HAL kernel: WebKitWebProces[11026]: segfault at 55bd22ad9adc ip 000055bd22ad9adc sp 00007ffd1f6adbe8 error 14 likely on CPU 2 (core 2, socket 0)
Jun 08 11:17:06 CCW-HAL kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x55bd22ad9ab2.
Jun 08 11:17:36 CCW-HAL gnome-shell[3803]: Window manager warning: WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x3a02767 for 0x3a02778 window override-redirect is an override-redirect window and this is not correct according to the standard, so we'll fallback to the first non-override-redirect window 0x3a006dc.
Jun 08 11:17:42 CCW-HAL systemd[1]: Starting systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
Jun 08 11:17:42 CCW-HAL systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 08 11:17:42 CCW-HAL systemd[1]: Finished systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
Jun 08 11:17:42 CCW-HAL systemd[1]: run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dclean.service.mount: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 08 11:18:10 CCW-HAL gnome-shell[3803]: Window manager warning: WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x3a029e2 for 0x3a029f0 window override-redirect is an override-redirect window and this is not correct according to the standard, so we'll fallback to the first non-override-redirect window 0x3a006dc.

Looks like it may be a known bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2019739

@CCWTech said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

@Obsolesce said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

@CCWTech said in Windows defender quarentined my VM... WTH?:

Server down this morning...
VHDX File is just gone... It's missing...
I found out that Windows Defender had detected it was (or had) a virus and quarantined it...

How Windows defender even would ever quarantine a VHDX is beyond me.

Come on Microsoft!

That's odd. VHD/VHDX files are NOT ever scanned by the host, unless of course they are mounted in the same way as a disk or USB disk is to the host OS for example. Otherwise, they are treated like a black box. So something else had to have happened for it to be quarantined by the host OS. That doesn't just happen willy-nilly.

Additionally, VM files are automatically excluded when the Hyper-V server role is installed. So again, something isn't configured correctly or something weird is going on.

What happened to you isn't default behavior.

Not sure, we 'inherited' the server. We don't do HYPER-V any longer. Everything is KVM now. (Proxmox)

But it was for sure quarantiined. Funny thing is that Windows defender scan of the actual VM shows no virus... So weird.

My guess would be that the VM's AV cleaned it up separate from the host's AV killing the VM.

@gjacobse I'm setting one up in our lab today and as a basic SMB router with VPN capabilities its OK. Compared to an ER-L I'd probably stick with the EdgeRouter.

@CCWTech said in More toxic clients / people:

It's so weird, especially after learning other cultures now that I don't live in the USA to watch how people act in the USA.

Such entitlement. It's nuts.

Yeah, you rarely get that same weird entitled attitude anywhere else.