@JasGot said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@scottalanmiller said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@JasGot said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

@ElecEng said in Unattended remote access utility/ computer:

I have been using these recently and love them plus they give you BIOS-level access and virtual media with no limitations.

https://tinypilotkvm.com/?ref=ga3&gclid=CjwKCAjwyaWZBhBGEiwACslQo4pjQM3MLVoZgitDcyDn41jEzDcbBF3k29MzbVb8urtl0MIDuJQ49hoCJ0wQAvD_BwE

This too:
https://www.lantronix.com/products/lantronix-spider/

Same issues though, no computer to access and would need one for every machine if they existed.

No. You install it on one computer and then remote (ie; RDP) into all of the others. I only pointed it out because it gives you access to the bios and pre-boot screens like tiny pilot, which can be handy.

They are handy, for sure. I was just pointing out that in order to get those features everywhere, you have to deploy those everywhere.

Audio device settings in Teams:

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Variation for Debian 10 + Dovecot 2.3.4.1:

cat /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log | grep imap-login:\ Info:\ Login | sed -e 's/.*Login: user=<\(.*\)>, m ethod=.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Dashrender said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@Pete-S said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

@scottalanmiller said in Send an Email via SMTP from Command Line with cURL:

First the command itself, showing gmail settings here by default but obviously fill in with your own details:

Does it work? I thought gmail required OAuth nowadays and you couldn't use plain username & password for authentication anymore.

gmail still allows the creation of app passwords.

OK, then it works for now I guess.

I always cringe when I see MSPs that set up their clients MFPs and other devices using random gmail accounts.

IMHO it's unprofessional and much better to use a real transactional email service for these kinds of applications.

It depends. If it is going out to customers, then it's weird. If it is for purely internal stuff then transactional email doesn't make too much sense. But if it is internal, normally you can just use whatever internal tool you already have.

Typical scenario with gmail is that someone sets up a MFP to use a random gmail address for sending alerts and scanned documents.

When the user scans the document it's often sent to his own email address [email protected]. So primarily internal.

Well, problem is that gmail saves mail sent over SMTP in the sent folder. Which means that the "printer guy", who if often not even an employee, can read all the scanned document that was ever scanned and emailed by logging in to the gmail account he set up.

And of course sent email coming from outside your domains might be flagged as spam. So people scan documents and it doesn't work. I mean the list of problems is long.

Well when lots and lots of companies still demand to only use Gmail already, it's not so weird.

You'd be amazing how often we get people requiring that they stay on Yahoo and AOL addresses for their businesses. I kid you not.

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@scottalanmiller said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:

@gjacobse said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:

@gjacobse said in Any Experience with BeeLink Mini PCs?:

Would any micro form factor pc work? While I would never suggested Lenovo,.. their micro is about that size with 65w power supply... I'd go Dell or ANYONE else over Lenovo!

In theory, but Lenovo is typically 300% or more cost for the same thing. Lenovo we can get in country easily (they are about the only ones), but the cost is absurd. For these, in the US, prices are like $250!

I would never recommend Lenovo - to expensive for the hardware. But - it's what the office uses, I'd go HP before I went Lenovo...Unless it was free...

We've gotten two Lenovo's for free from Lenovo. Both were like $1800+ models. Both died really early. I'm literally diagnosing the dead hardware on one of them right now 😞

Dang- that’s not good. The free I refer to is the: it’s had its life and it’s heading to the trash/ recycling bin. Drive pulled and ‘scrapped’. So it’s already several years old….

The models we are using now are running about $2100 and up.

@Pete-S said in Anyone here using Zoho Sprints?:

@scottalanmiller said in Anyone here using Zoho Sprints?:

Literally deploying it this morning!

Let us know how it goes.

We ended up using the functions in our hosted GitLab instead of tracking things in Zoho Sprint.

But there is always a need to re-evaluate and improve things.

We use GitLab traditionally, too, for that.

@Dashrender said in wifi for unmanaged devices:

We have a corporate WiFi and a guest WiFi network.

The owners keep asking to put their personal phones on the corporate WiFi - The only thing this could gain them is access to the printers to print from their phones, but it's not something they have ever done.

Am I just dieing on a hill for no reason wanting them to put their personal devices on the guest WiFi?

Flip the ssid names and tell them you did it

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@StuartJordan said in Windows Volume License Vendor:

@scottalanmiller AHH ok, I thought I saw a post the other day that ended up with 500 licences.

Yes, on the tech side. We didn't buy 500. The customer bought 30 or so. And we were troubleshooting an issue and there were 500 installed.

They use new batteries, from a 3rd parry, ( not official APC batteries) , I have used the same supplier/manufacturer and have had better results (https://www.magnacharge.com).
I was wondering/curious if it could be tied to the age of the UPS.

@gjacobse said in PS ISE: Unsaved Projects:

Right now, I'll have to pencil GIT onto the project list

Yes, it's something you should be using as a matter of course all the time. Any time you are doing anything text based - system configurations, writing a script, doing some coding, you should do two things...

Use an effective tool like VS Code to do it in just because it makes you faster and gives you a standard environment for everything. Always store it in a GIT repo. Just start there for everything. Make it a habit so it always goes there first. It's just like a dedicated file store for text.

@ElecEng I used Dell tape drives a lot in the last decade and never had issues.

@taurex said in Evaluating Open-source SIEM Solutions:

@notverypunny @scottalanmiller @JaredBusch thank you for your replies. We want to monitor databases, network devices, admin-level logins, etc. both on-prem and hosted for some suspicious activities or outages. I just thought that a SIEM would take care of the analytics/response part better than a monitoring solution like Elk, Greylog, OpenSearch, Zabbix, etc. which need a lot of fine-tuning to make them work in a similar fashion as a SIEM. We will check out Wazuh and compare it to SIEMmonster Community Edition, thanks.

SIEMs are often built on top of those.

@DustinB3403 said in Energy efficiency?:

There are likely thousands of these sitting on a dock/cargo ship just waiting to get delivered to the outlets that sell em.

Nope, been on continuous back order since first release. There is no "spare" machines in the RP universe.

@JaredBusch I've never used that either, but I like a lot of their stuff. Lots of people use their switches, but Routers don't have functionality that many need.

I really wish that I could. but the cost of flights and my limit to only 30 days a year in the country on my tax status is very hard to work with for anything but visiting family. I'm super bummed about it.

@Dashrender said in Fiber Connection Termination Question:

@BraswellJay said in Fiber Connection Termination Question:

Not that I really think I need it, but out of curiosity, if I were to get appropriate fiber connector for each end and insert into the same port on both sides is that all that would be needed to make another pair active?

Maybe yes, maybe no - it depends if there is fiber behind ports 2 and 3. If there is fiber between your building connecting ports 2, and port 3, then yes, just install a fiber patch cable on each side and you have another connection.

Besides what @Dashrender said you can also turn your current fiber pair (transmit and receive) into two separate fibers with send and transmit on every single fiber. You just have to change your fiber transceivers in your switch to the bidi type (bidirectional).

Works like this:
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Bidi tranceivers looks like this (notice the single fiber connector):
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If you want even more fiber communications running inside your single fiber pair you can use optical multiplexers and demultiplexers.

Looks like this:
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This is what you use when you need to expand your communication without actually running new fiber pairs.

Every communication channel uses a different wavelength of light so they don't collide and every channel will run at maximum speed.

@JaredBusch said in SIP to PA System gateway just stopped audio.:

SIP (meaning anything using the chan_sip driver) is dead.

For reference: https://community.freepbx.org/t/asterisk-v20-rc1-is-released/85613
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@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade who are ya:

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I noticed others have had the same issue in the past.

I just saw the serial connection setup. Did you just use the USB-TTL device to connect?

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

I used this cable:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QT7LQ88?psc=1

I didn't bother with recovery, I just wanted to see what the issue was. I bought another ER-X and kept it on 1.x firmware.

Thanks for pointing!

@hobbit666 said in MPLS alternative:

So following on from another thread.

I'm today's modern day how would you handle:-
*Multiple site connections around 60 sites.
*Internet access via a
for "security" either at a single point or something per connection? Nice to have Intruction detection blah blah blah 😁 and content filtering. Will need to allow certain ports in and out (I know this is normally standard on Firewalls/UTMs but worth mentioning)
*semi managed with high SLA.

How would multiple vpns be handled. Would it be a case each sites router would have multiple vpns to each site? Or a single VPN to a singe "master" site/device.

About two years ago, we stopped using MPLS in favor of site-to-site virtual private networks. Costs are decreasing, speeds are increasing, and visibility is improving. We're using Fortigates for the firewalls, but you should be able to use whichever firewall you're comfortable maintaining. Similar use profile in terms of traffic type (Citrix ICA). We used hub and spoke vpn architecture, which works well for us; what works best for you will rely on the rest of your infrastructure topology.