@JaredBusch said in Hyper-V teaming worth it for LACP?:

@Donahue said in Hyper-V teaming worth it for LACP?:

I attempted to make a team on the old host with (2) ports, but I did not use the method that most of the posts on ML use. I created a new vswitch with both ports as members using WAC, but I am not sure if this is the same as what I see in other posts. In WAC, I am able to

WAC did not exist when I wrote my posts.

At this time I have never even setup WAC yet for a client.

So I have no idea what the settings are.

I'm not impressed much with it. As far as I can tell, you cannot see the console of a non windows VM, because it forces it to go through RDP. Maybe there are hoops to jump through to enable RDP to a linux machine, but I have not bothered to find out why. So I am using both WAC and hyper-V manager for the time being.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I am trying to create some simple hyper-V machines on my windows 10 laptop. So far, very unimpressed. Using windows admin center, I cannot even get a console to see what is going on in the VM. If I use hyper v manager, it's a little better, but the whole experience is not nearly what I was expecting.

It's Windows and Hyper-V, how much did you want?

Unicorns and Rainbows.

@dyasny said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

So the issue with "Windows on the hardware" is that is it creates licensing restrictions that make moving your VM's around difficult among other issues.

So Windows should never be on the hardware. Just install Hyper-V and create your VM's with your licensing.

The question here is about SMBs, where you don't always have a say in what they've got, you simply have to deal with the existing stuff, under a very tight budget. If you have the option to plan and do things right, then of course there's plenty of best practice out there to follow.

And for Hyper-V to be an option, you do need Windows on the hardware. There is no such thing as "baremetal hypervisor" - every hypervisor needs an OS to be able to work, even if it's a small stripped down OS like the Xen kernel.

The benefit of "added licensing" is universal, regardless of what hypervisor you use. With Server Standard X you always get the right to create 2 Virtual Machines. Always.

Last time I checked with an MS licensing specialist, that was the case for the DC edition, and even then MS weren't too happy to activate your machines unless you also got a site license, a VLK or a select-6 pack. For SMBs, even if you do technically have the option to activate windows servers on non-MS virtual hardware, the procedure of doing that will hurt.

My information is a bit dated though, they might have improved things since 2010-2012-ish.

If you have the option to actually do things right and you are able to activate your windows vms without problems, KVM is a great choice, especially since if you have to scale, you can deploy oVirt

all of this is basically wrong.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 I think I prefer being a meatsack

how about meatstack? That sounds more IT

@travisdh1 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@gjacobse said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

The need for an 'online account' is ridiculous.. stupid MS.

There is not a need. but a strong ass push.

For typical home users - it's likely just better for them to use an MS account. In the business world - if we choose domain, all that other shit should go the hell away!

My biggest peeve with it is them asking for the password when setting up an account for someone else.

For domain computers, I always setup the first account for my own use as the admin. End users never use local account. That account is always the same for each computer.

The more I read, the more I like. Ultimately, it's just a way for me and the boys to enjoy spending time together. We also play a lot of board games and card games.

a good point that SAM mentioned to me, If you start with redundancy, you are committing the cost up front in the (most likely) unlikely event of a failure. But even if the backup strategy costs the same, you only incur those costs when you actually have that emergency.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching some DIY videos about building a home network utilizing an empty closet.

WTF is an empty closet...

Asks the guy with a wife and two female children

It's a closet in a vacant house.

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

Free time? What is a "free time?

The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up

ah yes, comcast time. That is coincidentally the same time that is used for when you make an appointment. between 8 and 2

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Comcast... 881MB file.. estimated download time 13 hours.

that's just the estimated time. You can probably shave a few minutes of that easy.

wow, thats awesome that @Ylian is here. It's a treat when you can interact with the dev

@Kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I'm hoping to fit a reread of the Stormlight Archive in over Christmas along with Sanderson's Skyward (going to have to fight for time with that one with my 14 year old).

I just started book 2. Book 4 is due out this coming year along with the last Wax and Wayne near in time.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about what he posted yesterday. Knowing that Stormlight Archive is only 4 of 10 kind of put things into perspective. Sanderson probably has a large group of people hoping for his continued health and well being.

I’m on that list. He’s in my top 3

@Dashrender said in On-Premises soft PBX:

@Donahue said in On-Premises soft PBX:

my phones are on a completely physically separate network.

Why?

It started with a an idea that we should have dual drops at all our offices, back when were just thinking of voip and we needed to redo the wiring anyways. But as it turned out, our phone system is completely isolated from our network, it's not even our equipment except for the cables. Unfortunately, this was before I saw the light and found ML. Now we are contractually obligated to have this terrible expensive phone system for the next 3-1/2 years. I will be switching when that contract is up, and then I can do whatever I want.

+1

I prefer 10, but it's honestly due to little things that I like better.

@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Donahue said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

How come I can't upvote this more than once?

What is it with everyone using 95% of their disk space so the OS can't even upgrade itself?

windows takes care of that for us. https://mangolassi.it/topic/14812/windows-temp-folder-deleted-366gb-of-junk/1

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@DustinB3403 said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@DustinB3403 said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

Anyway, in the case of the CPA we are talking about material that is not really sensitive at all.

The data files could be secured the same way as any paper records. Locked in a safe when not in use.

That would be the same as being encrypted, since the lock on a safe = encryption and the physical key = the passphrase to decrypt the drive or data.

Well, in principle only. You can walk away with the encrypted computer but it would be harder with the safe.

In most cases physical security is about delaying. You can smash and grab a laptop from the office window but it would require a lot more time to break in properly and then open a safe before someone shows up.

You have those examples a bit mixed up.

The comparable scenario would be "getting to the data" The physical medium housing that data doesn't matter.

You break the lock, you get the data. If you break the encryption key you get the data.

But a physical lock is likely easier to break and get into whatever than it would to decrypt a encrypted volume.

Reminds me of this classic:

there is ALWAYS a relevant xkcd

So to update this, searches do not seem to work in shared folders, but they will work in group folders which is an optional app. I also had to setup the backup job in NC to be a cron job and not an ajax job, and add it to the crontab for the apache user.

crontab -u apache -e

I couldn't get the fulltextsearch:live to work properly, so I added fulltextsearch:index to the cron job too.

*/15  *  *  *  * php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/cron.php
*/15  *  *  *  * php -f /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ fulltextsearch:index

@JaredBusch said in Install Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on Fedora 27:

client_max_body_size 40M;

One thing I just ran into was having to up this limit to be able to sync larger files. I would suggest flagging that in the first post so someone like me would know to change this if they work with larger files. I set mine to 16G. For some reason, this only effected the NC sync client, the browser upload as increased by other means.

@bnrstnr said in file sharing in the 21st century:

Why do you want to move away from your Windows Server so badly? You don't mention anything (that I can see), other than broadening your horizons. It's probably the best bet for your CAD files.

a list of benefits that we would get from something like NC:

• no MS licensing dependencies
• good remote access
• versioning
• the ability to share with outside parties or have them upload to us
• better searching
• tags

There is probably more I forgot.