When you perform the same steps on OS X (Yosemite 10.10.1) it does as desired.

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Fix the storage issue then move to VMs on the systems that you have, most likely.

Another factor that people forget with FakeRAID until it is too late... if your OS crashes your RAID is useless. With hardware RAID you can rebuild your RAID after a drive loss even when the system is offline. The datacenter people don't need to know if the OS is healthy, if it is on, etc. They can swap drives and let the RAID controller repair the array.

With FakeRAID there is no RAID until the OS works and is healthy. So even if you replace a drive, the array might be unable to repair itself.

Dealing with someone facing this problem right now. System crashed with the RAID array lost a drive and won't boot. Not the OS is having issues and there is no RAID at all.

Wish I could be helpful I haven't had a need to do this since... 2010? And that was for college.

I do remember that everyone was struggling with Ubuntu to get it connected to AD but CentOS (which is what I was using at the time) worked flawlessly.

@g.jacobse said:

I agree - that type of message just tells me that I don't want to partner with you. But it is a form of cold calling...

It sure is, something that we block completely. There is good and bad cold calling, though. If you cold call me and ask to speak to me, I'm not going to be pissed, I'll just hang up. But if you cold call and demand to set something up rather than politely asking if we can.... we are done and you are actively blocked and will never get our business.

There is legitimate sales and downright unprofessional "never do business with them" sales. A company doing these tactics definitely does not believe in their own product and is trying to get sales through an intimidation style rather than through presenting a good product.

@garak0410 Not to worry then, they even have a thing that will "fix it for you" .... uh huh 🙂

I would run a repair on Windows. Sounds like you've got some corruption on your OS.

Ugh, our country is falling apart but our politicians still find the time to dick around with trivial legislation telling us what we can and can't do.

We've just implemented a signature management system by these boys www.exclaimer.co.uk, primarily to embed our company logo into all outgoing e-mails. This works a treat with on-premise Exchange and Marketing love it (by default, anything Marketing love, I hate). They also do an Office365 version.

Over all I'm pretty happy with the way it works. The medical edition does a pretty darn good job with the medical words to without any additional training.

Though one doc couldn't get the system to accept vasectomy. We had to train that one for about 3 mins, but since it's been good.

The other key is to speak punctuation. Don't bother trying to have Dragon figure it out.

@coliver said:

From my understanding a hairpin is basically a network bridge like a router. It just takes all info going in and passes it to the appropriate point on the other side.

On your linux server does the Pertino connection appear as an independent interface?

Yes.

ifconfig results:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:4b:35:b2
inet addr:172.16.255.20 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe4b:35b2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:127046 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:283744 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33435018 (33.4 MB) TX bytes:436448592 (436.4 MB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:29941 (29.9 KB) TX bytes:29941 (29.9 KB)

pertino0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7e:a6:0f:81:df:5f
inet addr:50.203.224.9 Bcast:50.203.224.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::7ca6:fff:fe81:df5f/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2001:470:813b::1bcf:0:f02/48 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2717 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:261357 (261.3 KB) TX bytes:464420 (464.4 KB)

@scottalanmiller said:

Did you test the system at all before installing new RAM?

I didn't, no. I do know one issue that is possible is that some Dell servers require that 4/6 memory slots be filled to even boot (learned this at my first IT job) and the memory has to match. I've got 4x512MB and 3x2GB, and while they're the same speed, etc, maybe something else like the voltage is different about them preventing it from booting.

@scottalanmiller said:

One could argue, I suppose, that in a non-AD environment that that might be true. Can still be done, but isn't quite so obviously easy and transparent. But that would just be people being lazy.

Except this was a discussion about workstations in an AD (SBS2008) environment

@scottalanmiller said:

And why does one need DNS references to workstations in those cases anyway?

No idea.

@Minion-Queen said:

They do not come even close to the quality of a Mac in feeling. I have 2 separate Chromebooks here and a Mac not even close. The Chromebooks are great for what they are great for. But don't drop it. Now my Mac I have dropped about 5 times. It has scratches but it's fine.

It would be interesting to see a review where someone does exactly that, drops a chromebook vs a macbook in as similar falls as possible and see which one fails first.

Of course, if you don't do it over 1000 or more samples I guess it's not really a great test, but it would be something.

I mention this because the 'feel' can be meaningless to actual toughness. I've had cheap plasticy phones that wound up being much stronger than other better feeling devices.

I changed the default for mail, checking the MAILTO option as well changing it to MS-MAIL (this picture is from my work PC - do not an exact match).

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This did not solve my issue.

I booted into safe mode with networking (damn that's a pain in Windows 😎 and left it that way all night. This morning there were no prompts to pick an Outlook profile.

I'll boot back to normal mode tonight and see if the prompts return.

I looked through the task scheduler and didn't see anything that appeared to either launch Outlook or use the MAILTO option.

Thanks to ITcrackerjack its looking much better now. brodystackle.com

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

Can't you still install CPanel yourself?

Why? What is the benefit / point?

Ease of use and documentation galore

@Dashrender said:

I'm a bit lost.

You have two NASs at home mounted to a Linux box, that you are then sharing to CIFS so you can mount them on a Windows box?

Is the Windows box not on the local LAN? If not I guess that's why you have Pertino as part of this, because you are Pertino'ing from a non local Windows box to the Linux box which is offering a pass-through to the NASs?

If your Windows box is local to NASs, why bother going through the Linux box?

The Windows box and the Linux box are both on the same LAN as the NASes. This is more so I can access the NASes easily remotely on my Pertino network.

@david.wiese said:

i setup plex on my win7 pc without any issues. Port forwarding for outside access is setup as well. It took me all of 30 minutes to install and configure so i could watch on any device inside my network. I'm not sure what issues you had however.

In all fairness, it may have been the VM I was using. I just rebuilt a new version of it, as it had originally come from my first and only ever P2V. It never seemed stable, but the new VM is much more so.

@thanksaj said:

@nadnerB said:

@coliver said:

@nadnerB Did you reapply thermal paste after you knocked the CPU cooler?

Not yet, I don't have any on hand.

You can pick this up at most retailers. Even Staples sells this! Works great!

Not here, you go to a computer shop (that sells parts) for this stuff.

We got retweeted by Storage Switzerland too!!