@JasGot That is good to know.

@Dashrender Agreed.

@JasGot said in Gophemeral:

@Pete-S said in Gophemeral:

I mean you are mailing the message ID and password needed to decrypt.

You could mail one, and speak the other.

Many institutions send usernames and passwords through separate mediums.

This is anther way. If you really want to be secure, text the ID and email the password. Or call and give one of them.

@gjacobse said in Control network shares with DNS-:

This is a new one on me,.. I don’t have much more than this;

. State has AD tree with multiple domains.
. Network shares ‘require’ local DNS record for a agency domain.
. Displayed list shows servers and IPs and Host A record

I’ve never heard of controlling shares with DNS. I may be able to get more information from that team, but they are in the middle of a pilot user domain to domain migration.

Shares may be assigned to users via GPO and restricted to certain computers (here's your need for DNS).
OR they may be using AD and GPO to create shares on remote computers.

GPO Loopback is for the first option:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/group-policy/loopback-processing-of-group-policy

@JasGot said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

@marcinozga said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

It's a social problem, not a technical one.

Related to Scott? 🙂

Nope.

@JasGot said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:

@scottalanmiller said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:

That's a non-routable number. It's part of the private 192.168.0.0/16 range that anyone can use, but can't go out to the Internet.

I know. And that's really the basis for why I am asking. "Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?"

https://router-network.com/ip/192-168-99-184
https://forums.grandstream.com/t/issue-setting-up-new-skyetel-trunk-to-ucm-pbx/35731

And here's a packet capture showing this IP as the destination for the RTP traffic (from Skyetel)

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We don't use it when there is no destination, we use it to communicate with our load balances and other routing gizmos. The stuff in "line=sr-...." gibberish is the actual data that we care about, not the IP.

Its basically a way for us to securely communicate across multiple routers that are unaware of each other's existence on a call-by-call basis.

@syko24 said in Old IT won't provide documentation or passwords:

At this point my only option to support their hardware is to modify the root password on their VMWare server and then modify the domain admin password assuming there is no encryption in place. I would much rather the client contact their attorney and have the old IT hand everything over.

Pretty much, yeah, if they aren't willing to take the proper business steps, all you can do is mitigate.

UPDATE: We have replaced the router, wifi APs and enabled DHCP forwarding .... it hasn't gone down since! *Really don't want to Jinx it" Thanks all for you help I really appreciate it

@Dashrender said in Registrar Dotster when domains expire:

and it does mention they will redirect the website to an expired page, but nothing about redirecting everything through their own servers, then onto the expected ones.

Doesn't need to, shouldn't be expected to.

I'll try and make a cleaner guide later..

First, spin up your ProxmoxVE system. During the install wizard, I left the boot drive as LVM but did change it to XFS instead of ext4. You do not setup secondary drives during the install wizard. Once up, you need to create the ZFS store on each system, named the same, prior to joining the cluster. The replication process wants the ZFS pool to be named the same on both systems and you cannot name it the same (at least in the GUI) if it already exists anywhere in the cluster.
3c9d3871-d8f6-4da0-93fd-22bf8526ef6b-image.png Then from the GUI, go to the disks of system 1.
67ae2a41-d84b-4fbc-9cd0-4dea04cb5465-image.png then click on ZFS and create the storage pool name it, single disk, compression off.
4379c8d3-edf1-4733-95ce-d3bc5f2400e9-image.png wait for it to show normal.
145f1381-2d1e-4215-b29c-30e2227c00d2-image.png then repeat the process on the second system. make sure to use the same name. Now create the cluster and join the second system to the cluster.
e9401472-ad68-433a-b569-5cc14f21552d-image.png You will not see the storage on ZFS storage on system 2 when it first loads up.
0e6e610a-21fd-4317-9f15-336eec787af3-image.png But it does exist if you look.
d5efc711-8126-4e30-955a-9d0deba7db10-image.png To make it available, go to storage under datacenter.
545a0b08-72e0-4912-bf3c-f10ce2527d73-image.png edit the existing "data" and add pve2
d8022847-45ea-46ce-be11-807f01e51449-image.png now it will show up and be available for use.
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Is this perfect? No. but it is how I was able to get it setup to work.

The manual leave out quite a bit of specifics. on how to do things, but goes into detail on the technical of things.

@JaredBusch said in Headset for in office use - music and calls autoswitching:

Yes, Telegram Messenger.
There is a public ML group "Mangolassi"

Cool Thanks!

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@DustinB3403 said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@travisdh1 said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@travisdh1 said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

@Pete-S said in Blind swap / automatic rebuild on linux:

I often see that the argument for using hardware raid is to be able to initiate an automatic rebuild by just swapping a faulty drive for a new one.
A lot of people assume that software raid can't do that. But that's incorrect.

Software raid on linux (as in md managed by mdadm) can do the exact the same thing.

It's under policy and partition policy in mdadm.conf. You'll find on the man mdadm.conf page.
The spare-same-slot option would be the one that works the same way as hardware controllers usually do.

I haven't used it myself since I prefer to initiate the rebuild myself. But I wonder if you guys have used it?

I don't think blind swap is about automatic rebuild, that's a given no matter what software/hardware RAID is running. It's more about seeing the light is red instead of green on drive 6, so you know that is the one to replace.

The only example of not having that available, that I can think of, is https://www.45drives.com/

I don't know man.
A typical SMB would have no monitoring and any server would be stuck in a closet somewhere. Nobody would notice any red lights until several months later or until something breaks and then they'd have no clue what to do about it, wouldn't know who to call and wouldn't have any idea if the server even has warranty (it never has). A spare drive wouldn't be available unless it was an old discarded drive left on the shelf from the last time something was replaced.

While probably true, that doesn't really have anything to do with blind swap.

I'm just saying those that have their server park under control doesn't really need any LEDs. And those that really needs it, doesn't look at it.

But it would actually be a small thing to make a script that would indicate faulty drives. You look at /proc/mdstat and any drive showing a _ instead of U is lit up on the drive bay. It's controlled by SGPIO or SES. That's how the raid controller does it.

I thought MD was already capable of performing this. . .

I don't think so but I could be wrong.

I mean you could run raid 1 on a pair of sd cards. Since that md works on any type of block device or partition there is no guarantee that there are any drive bay lights or anything of that nature. But it's possible that there is an option for it.

Has a quick look and it looks like the ledmon package monitors md arrays and set LEDs accordingly.
So yes, software raid can indicate what drive has an error directly on the chassis with some additional software.

@kmac76 It works well, just haven't tried this.

@kmac76 said in Hosted VoIP???:

My point is - buying a dedicated Voice, or even Voice/Video, or even Voice/Video/Meetings solution is an anachronism. Personally, I view Microsoft Teams, either with Microsoft-provided PSTN access for smaller businesses, or self-provided SIP Trunking, i.e. "Direct Routing," as the best platform. Not all the corner case voice features are there yet - Cisco's platform does that better - but Microsoft's platform addresses much more critical path items that Cisco never will, whereas Microsoft will close voice gap/mostly has.

Huh - I think your idea is sound, the problem is cost. I looked at the cost of Teams with PSTN access and it was outrageous compared to splitting the PSTN access out of Teams. Heck Teams is "free" if you have M365 already.
I looked at Teams PSTN access last year it was around $20/user/month, and there is zero extension to extension calling - i.e. you want to call the person next you, you have to dial their 10 digit number. Not to mention I didn't look into what it takes to manage physical devices (desk phones) connected to Teams.
My host PBX solution and PSTN access costs me around $12/u/m, that's a significant savings.

@JasGot I have a couple customers using the CP960 with wireless mics. They are awesome. They work great for large conference rooms or spaces but another really awesome feature is the mute button on each of the mics.

@IRJ it's like tagging Trump on Twitter, I didn't want to increase his followe count

@scottalanmiller I believe @dave247

Turns out that the embedded controller is defective. HPE has a tech arriving today to replace the defective part.