Posts made by gjacobse

@thecreativeone91 said:

I've noticed that the more expensive hotels (namely Hilton) that I've stayed at have crappier internet but they also would charge me $10/day for internet because they use a per room ADSL connection. the Cheaper hotels seems to have better internet but everyone is on the same network and it's free. It's weird you'd think the more expensive hotels would have better internet.

Living in an apartment complex a few years ago, I thought it would be next to nothing to offer internet to all the units using managed switches where you are able to control each port. You want it, turn it on, don't pay, turn it off. Even then there was a way to deal with it and one a single T1 into the complex.

With today's hardware it's even easier...and in so many cases cheaper.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

You have other linksys WAPs in the office? Sounds like a good time to replace them with Ubiquiti devices...

Any excuse is a good excuse to deploy Ubiquiti

@thecreativeone91 said:

Yeah I would put the linksys in the trash bin. Get something with a interface to manage them all.

That is the plan... however - one major under taking at a time....

Which version of Outlook / Office? 2010 or 2013?
I don't have that view up either as it seems to be a pain and takes up space...

@Hubtech said:

how'd you find it?

It was a cross of things really.

About 2 or so months ago the intern (I heard that groan) had some issues with wireless and was compelled to reset the unit. Only instead of just unplugging it, he hit the reset button. No big deal even in the default mode... Until last week (OP date) when for what ever reason I started having DHCP issues. It was offering DHCP in the 192.168 schema when our network is in the 10.0 schema.

While it took some time to find just that, I started with a PC that was in the 192.168 and went to the IP, and found that it was the Linksys system.

I didn't have any means of tracing the AP signal until I brought in my Kindle, Isolated it, and got more into the back info and found that the Device was the unit. I had walked around that day, but even with the AP model, it didn't completely register that it was this.

With the WiFi analyzer on the Kindle I confirmed it after powering it off.

If I had taken the time to slow down that day and noted the model number I might have caught it sooner. Having so many different device types for wireless and such makes it a challenge.

Boils down to I found it using Sneaker Net....

@Hubtech said:

OK, Essentially I can't get a restore to work, here's the info:

• Server 2008 x64 SP2

• Backup Software - BackupAssist

• Backup Hardware - Imation RDX External USB 2.0

So I have a question about the RDX box,

What are you thoughts on it and it's throughput? are they decent enough? I've used the 'clone' from Dell RDX 1000 on the SATA bus.

Found it, it was a AP that was in the conference room.. Oddly enough it had been reset and was working for about 2 or three months before it started being a problem.

It's been locked down, and updated. and a Do Not Reset placed over the button.

@Minion-Queen said:

Wow no stories yet. I am guessing you are all too tired to function yet. Everyone I have seen looks half dead.

Sadly, I was denied (by being ignored) attendance...
Maybe next year.

I have:

• AStest
• Speedtest
• LanScan
• Portscan
• Ping Lite
• Subnet Calc
• Cloud (Dropbox, Box.net)
• TeamViewer
• Office

With the release of iOS 8, and the recent talk about the different iOS devices we all seem to have -

What are some of the tools you have for day to day IT troubleshooting?

@Dashrender said:

@g.jacobse said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Hubtech said:

I had one of these pop up at a client a month or so ago. whoever configured the switches didn't leave their login info so i wasn't able to use the management. ended up super sleuthing and found it by using a "sniffer" that basically just polled the stregnth of the AP. old school

I would do this. turn the wifi back on and sniff the signal.

Since it looks like I"ll be here half the weekend, I may do this. of course that is if I can reach it... I'm about to dig out a unused box to see if I can still reach it and go from there. My hope is that someone will figure out they aren't getting what they used to and call someone and ask - or call me about it. that would be nice and 'fast'.
Otherwise it'll have to be sniffed. Which I don't really have gear for.. If I can find my kindle, it may help being a poor mans triangulation...

Ping the IP of the Linksys, then type arp -a | findstr IPADDRESS
this will tell you the MAC of the device. Then go to your switch(es) and look through their MAC tables to find what port that MAC is on. Then look at your building map for that port location, done.

If I wasn't still someone miffed and other choice words I won't use I'd laugh...

Uhm... I don't have one. It would really be nice to have one,.. but with all the spot fires and 'crash' calls... I don't get time to address things like that.... Some day maybe... if I survive that long.

@JaredBusch said:

@Hubtech said:

I had one of these pop up at a client a month or so ago. whoever configured the switches didn't leave their login info so i wasn't able to use the management. ended up super sleuthing and found it by using a "sniffer" that basically just polled the stregnth of the AP. old school

I would do this. turn the wifi back on and sniff the signal.

Since it looks like I"ll be here half the weekend, I may do this. of course that is if I can reach it... I'm about to dig out a unused box to see if I can still reach it and go from there. My hope is that someone will figure out they aren't getting what they used to and call someone and ask - or call me about it. that would be nice and 'fast'.
Otherwise it'll have to be sniffed. Which I don't really have gear for.. If I can find my kindle, it may help being a poor mans triangulation...

@ajstringham said:

@Hubtech said:

@g.jacobse said:

This morning fun-escaped was half the network was down for some reason. Won't recount most of it, but it boils down to an Linksys WRX54 device was sending out DHCP in the 192.168 arena. Our network is configured to 10.0, so the change in IP was throwing people into oblivian when trying to get to servers or the internet. Others were 'ok' for most things.

Searched around the office for the offending device (person) but wasn't able to locate it. I had a PC that was pulling DHCP from it which is how I knew what type of device it was. Using a browser I attempted to log in... but failed.

It took about 20 minutes of cycling USERID and passwords to come upon the default USERID (blank) and password. I was in and could take it down.

I don't know where it is,.. but I've turned off DHCP, the wireless and changed the Admin Password. There were no listed DHCP leases.

It's been a fun morning.

Question: Is there some way to prevent this from occurring?

dont use dhcp.

DHCP is standard in an environment. No real good way to avoid using it unless you want to manage static IPs for every device and workstation. That's way more hassle than it's worth.

** It's likely someone plugged in the device** thinking it was a switch, or to bypass the company wifi, or to just get a wifi signal for their phone where they can't normally get one.

Oops - I may have left that out. That is what I suspect - I havea EdgeMAX lite running DHCP currently. This just popped up out of no where..

I updated last night, I haven't gotten to far into it. But it appeared that it only need about 900MB.

This morning fun-escaped was half the network was down for some reason. Won't recount most of it, but it boils down to an Linksys WRX54 device was sending out DHCP in the 192.168 arena. Our network is configured to 10.0, so the change in IP was throwing people into oblivian when trying to get to servers or the internet. Others were 'ok' for most things.

Searched around the office for the offending device (person) but wasn't able to locate it. I had a PC that was pulling DHCP from it which is how I knew what type of device it was. Using a browser I attempted to log in... but failed.

It took about 20 minutes of cycling USERID and passwords to come upon the default USERID (blank) and password. I was in and could take it down.

I don't know where it is,.. but I've turned off DHCP, the wireless and changed the Admin Password. There were no listed DHCP leases.

It's been a fun morning.

Question: Is there some way to prevent this from occurring?

What's your favorite laptop with full dock:?

I must be missing something in the translation (not language). Looking at the Main O365 Users console I don't see how that would be.
Looking in Exchange, OWA Activsync is not disabled. IMAP POP3 are.

Or do you mean when setting it up on my phone... ?

As the song says - Blame it on my ADD....

@ajstringham said:

@g.jacobse said:

Previously I had the iPhone 4,.. not compatible with O365 and the new OWA software.

So now I have a 5c and when I enter my UID and Pass - it fails. I can't see it being due to my MX record not pointing correctly,.. but I've tried both [email protected] and [email protected]. Both directions fail.

What would cause that?

If you're using Office365, what is your server address? It should be outlook.office365.com and smtp.office365.com for SMTP. Can you verify these?

Good question on teh server address.. I've searched for that a few times over the last month and have yet to find out.
As for what type of account was created - Not sure what you mean there... @scottalanmiller and NTG got me set up with my organization on O365.

Previously I had the iPhone 4,.. not compatible with O365 and the new OWA software.

So now I have a 5c and when I enter my UID and Pass - it fails. I can't see it being due to my MX record not pointing correctly,.. but I've tried both [email protected] and [email protected]. Both directions fail.

What would cause that?

It's about what I thought. If the RAID /Array changed, then it's pointless to try to pull data. Test and move forward.

I have a box of drives.. Pulls from system to be recycled. Good and 80GB plus.. maybe I'll keep them. If they are 40GB and less,... targets for the boomstick....
Thanks @ajstringham and @Dashrender

Curious - I have some drives that are pulls from one server or another here (there are several in use, and several more that haven't been used since I started last year.

I don't know they state of the data or the drives... A note has been written on the label "GOOD".

There is no way to check to see if there is retrievable data on it since I don't know the configuration of the array is there?
Since I don't know what system they came from, how the array was configured or how many drives were in the array - It's pretty much pointless to try - am I correct?

Just want to confirm my thoughts before I move on....