@dustinb3403 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:
While this is a very legacy approach it still works. If everyone is on premise (or VPN) based this should work fine.
We have remote users (using VDI) too and mapped drives work just fine regardless.
I could probably use group policy to make a mapping for each drive, then assign each GPO to the necessary user.. but I feel like that would still be a little numerous or something.
Also, I know usually this sort of things is group based access, but we have a small company and many people wear multiple hats and essentially we end up with multiple combinations of access for every employee which makes group based permissions and things challenging.
Problem: we have about 10 different shared folders as mapped drives and a handful of simple bat scripts used as AD logon scripts for users. Most users have the same exact list of drives so they all have the same login script referenced in their AD account settings. However, I have a number of users that maybe need just one more or one less of those drives mapped. So my question is is there a more common or simple method to easily map any combination of folders as mapped drives to any combination of users without having to use a separate logon bat script for each? Like I don't want to have a specific bat script for each user's individual combination of mapped drives because then I'd eventually end up with 20+ of them. I also don't want to have some users that get a drive map error because of permissions.
Example of what my logon bat scripts look like:
@ECHO OFF
net use g: /delete /y
net use k: /delete /y
net use l: /delete /y
net use o: /delete /y
net use t: /delete /y
net use g: \\fs1\GeneralShare
net use k: \\fs1\Accounting
net use l: \\fs1\Finance
net use o: \\fs1\Marketing
net use t: \\fs1\IT
Also I understand that its been said not to use mapped drives anymore and instead use UNC share, but I'm not doing that right now. Maybe down the road though.
@hobbit666 said in Changing subnet mask?:
@siringo said in Changing subnet mask?:
If I get the Cisco gear changed, prior to me changing the servers, PCs, printers etc to /24 will everything remain working??
For example, If I get the Cisco gear changed to /24 on weekend 1, will everything still communicate & work fine until I can change the other gear on weekend 2??
I know the subnets are different, but with all devices having 10.0.0.x addresses I'm thinking they still may be seen by the /24 devices????
Does that make sense?
From what i remember
no they won't talk to each other once they are on a /24
e.g. 10.0.1.X/24 wont talk to 10.0.2.X/24Have you checked the devices are using different IPs? 10.X.X.X? if your lucky they might all be on 10.0.X.X/24
They would talk to each other if you use a router. If it were me, I would just create the new network(s), VLAN(s) and router/firewall rules, then gradually move things over until everything was off the /8. That's what I did at my present company where we once had everything on a single /23
@dafyre said in Looking for a good security camera system:
@dave247 said in Looking for a good security camera system:
My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.
Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.
Any suggestions for where to start looking?
The other guys here can speak to the cameras themselves.
I've used two pieces of software for handling the recordings and such as of late. The first is Avigilon Control Center (https://www.avigilon.com). It's ok, based on Windows, and licensed per camera.
The second, I use personally to handle motion detection from a single camera at home. ZoneMinder (https://www.zoneminder.com/) is Free / Open Source
Cool thanks, I'll take a look at these 
My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.
Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.
Any suggestions for where to start looking?
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
I responded to a single thread there.. Yup. useless.
Good lord, LMAO. I'm sorry. I love that you took my advice and went over there only to discover it is indeed absolute stupidity.
Yeah so idk maybe just don't update pfsense for a while? Is there a pressing need to upgrade to the new version? I know its ideal to just have things kept updated and on the latest version but its not worth it when the system updates are such a gamble and there's no real support.
@dustinb3403 said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
@dave247 said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
@jaredbusch said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
@dave247 said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
Who dual boots OS's these days? Just use VMware Workstation or VirtualBox...
Obvious troll is obvious.
Gamers. Not everything runs under
wineI'm not trolling... I was genuinely wondering why you'd dual boot. I always used to hate that, shutting down one OS to bring up another. I'd rather have both available at the same time.
Sure, except you're having massive performance hits from running them at the same time.
Dual booting provides the full performance to whichever OS is running at that time.
Yeah I didn't know it was for gaming purposes when commenting.
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
@dave247 said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
Obvious troll is obvious. But I will answer anyway.
- No, I will not ask a bunch of tinkerers about a business essential question.
LOL ok. The forum is on netgate's website and the platform is open source so you're going to probably get a mix of knowledgeable people as well as "tinkerers" no matter where you ask. You just have to weed out the responses but I'm sure that's a better place to start than this forum...
@jaredbusch said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
@dave247 said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
Who dual boots OS's these days? Just use VMware Workstation or VirtualBox...
Obvious troll is obvious.
Gamers. Not everything runs under
wine
I'm not trolling... I was genuinely wondering why you'd dual boot. I always used to hate that, shutting down one OS to bring up another. I'd rather have both available at the same time.
@jaredbusch said in Install Windows as a Dual Boot after Fedora:
So, the internet is full of the reverse. Installing Fedora or Ubuntu or any other Linux after Windows is installed.
But I have Fedora installed first and I want to install Windows as a dual boot to a separate disk.
Booting to the USB and installing windows to that disk is easy.
What I'm not sure about is fixing grub afterwards.
Google and the older Fedora docs tell me this.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Multiboot_Guide/GRUB-recreating.htmlBoot to a live image and run this:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Who dual boots OS's these days? Just use VMware Workstation or VirtualBox...
@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:
Site has a box running pfSense for their main router.
It has an update pending.
I have not actively used pfSense for 7 years. It has generally always worked, but again, that was 7+ years ago.
Why don't you do some reading or ask at the pfSense forum?
@siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:
I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.
Each server has 3 NICs.
I'm wondering what others would do?
Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A
or
place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?
Thanks for any help.
If it's just two servers and there's no expectation for growth, I'd probably just run cables to the switches.
In my server cage at work, we have a bunch of servers, so I have everything going to a 2-stack of switches (with dedicated UPS) and then fiber trunked to the main switch stack that everything else in our environment connects to. This helps keeps thing neat and clean with regards to cables in the server room and everything on the server LAN can still function if there is an outage somewhere else. It all depends on how you want to have it set up with regards to pricing, redundancy and availability.
@scottalanmiller said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:
@irj said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:
@scottalanmiller said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:
@itivan80 said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:
@scottalanmiller They need to start revising these questions. I mean if they want to get it as close as possible to real life scenarios. Just a thought.
That, too. Like this is not a skill anyone would ever need. Ever.
Especially considering the hundreds of free online calculators. The ones that can do this in their head are network guys from 90s, and the only reason they can do it in their head is because they've worked with it back when there was a lack of technology like VLANs.
Good point. That's so true. Even if you are "good" at this, never ever ever should you try to do it manually. There is zero value to taking that risk.
Yeah, excellent point. I've thought the same. I mean, I get it, they want you to try and get your brain to really understand it but in any real world situation, always use a subnet calculator and double-check it a few times, lol.
