@black3dynamite said in Running Plex in Multiple Vehicles:
I haven't tried these steps but this is what have so far.
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Create a generic plex account with a valid email address. Share your libraries to that generic account.
Might be able to skip this. Turn on guest mode or create a custom managed user at the plex server.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/203948776-managed-users/
@WLS-ITGuy said in website/IP tracking:
I need to know if a site is being accessed on my network. I have a Sonicwall NS2600 and set up the AppFlow logs but nothing is showing up there. I wasn't sure if I could use wireshark on the DNS server to see or if there was another option.
I'm unfamiliar with appflow, but it sounds like you need content filtering/tracking. Without licensing that feature, you need to create a promiscuous port at the switch to mirror the firewall port and then you could wireshark that.
@dave247 said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
@dave247 said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
@dave247 said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers:
I wanted to figure out a solution for allowing the users to login to their company issued laptops and then click one or twice and get to their remote desktops as easily and as efficiently as possible.
You CAN make all or most of the credentials between that laptop and the resulting device be cached or saved. So that it is a really quick and painless process.
True but if a user's password expires or they change it, they may get themselves locked out. We try not to encourage saving passwords too much.
For security reasons, we avoid expiring passwords. That's what makes users write them down and make them easy to guess. Non-expiring, or rarely expiring passwords, are shown to be far more secure and make things like this much easier.
yeah I know its a balance. We have had a few trade offs between password length and expiration time
NIST guidelines were updated in 2017. They mostly follow XKCD.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just set up our Amazon Fire Stick in our hotel room. Internet is GREAT here.
Yay for good internet! :clap_tone1:
It is a glorious thing.
Well, it's the Ukraine, so the hackers that move from Russia to a warmer clime have certain requirements....
@dbeato said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:
@Grey said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:
@pmoncho said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:
@dbeato said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:
@Pete-S said in Is it possibe to remove local admin on Windows Server?:
ve the local admin account on Windows Server that belongs to a domain? Or prevent logins.
Or is always possible to login as local admin (if you know the name/passwd)?I wouldn't disable the local admin of a server, it would come handy if you need to restore stuff or remove and add from the domain. LAPS works but beware
I agree with @dbeato. When sh$% hits the fan with the server, no networking or no cached credentials, you will long for a local admin account.
I do disable the Administrator account after creating my own local admin with 20+ char strong password. Less worries on both the security and DR front.
Yes, but if you have physical or kvm access, even virtual, you can use linux ntpass to turn on the admin account and reset the password. This would be the last resort if you really lost the admin access, which is rare.
Not since UEFI... At least it doesn't work with Windows 10 and subsequent kernels.
I can imagine you had problems because of bitlocker or something similar, but not UEFI, unless the system was locked out to only boot a certain way through config. Maybe you could test a UEFI boot with a Hiren's USB boot just for fun?
@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 some model was, not that one. I think that it was based on the Neon or something later on.
Yeah, well, Chevy said the Volt would look like
And we got
So I don't think car manufacturers know what's going on, really.
I always look at pcper's hardware leaderboard for new or even upgrade plans. They update the leaderboard regularly, too.
The only difference between a regular gaming pc and one for flight sims is how realistic you want to get, which speaks to peripherals (you can get entire dashboards for IFR emulation), including pedals and more. One of the cooler items to get might be an ultra wide monitor (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1457462-REG/lg_49wl95c_w_49_class_32_9_ultrawide.html) though that's likely outside the price range -- I did see a smaller one for $350 -- and you'll need to see how far this client wants to go. You could save a bit if you skip the flashy lights and/or water cooling.
@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And then the Volt didn't even end up being electric. Volt, Spark, they tried really had to make people think that they were electric.
To be fair, the engine and drivetrain are electric. There's a serialized gas engine that runs to supply electricity to the engine when the batteries run dry. It's more electric than a Prius, which is one of the worst cars on the road.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
And then the Volt didn't even end up being electric. Volt, Spark, they tried really had to make people think that they were electric.
To be fair, the engine and drivetrain are electric. There's a serialized gas engine that runs to supply electricity to the engine when the batteries run dry. It's more electric than a Prius, which is one of the worst cars on the road.
Kind of but the engine turns on for basically all driving. Anything over 25 mph or something crazy like that it is on gas all of the time.
I think that's more about the amp draw. If you're a lead-foot, then it needs more juice to meet demand. If you try to hypermile it, then I bet you'd be able to commute without ever touching your gas tank. Conversely, a prius will always use fuel in every commute. Do you have a Volt? Maybe Turo has one to rent?
I spent a lot of time researching them and was close to getting one except that I already have a sedan and don't need another, though I did need a truck with 4wd for winter commuting and I did buy that in November. Once my motorcycle is out of the shop (annual maintenance), I'll be back on that for my primary commute.
We looked at the Volt when I lived in Texas. And what we found was that because they had hard speed limits like @Reid-Cooper mentioned, no matter how light on the "gas" you are (and I'm insanely light, I beat the fuel economy rating on any car I drive, by huge amounts) it goes to the gas engine at a speed so low that basically you hit it the second you are out of the driveway. It might be pure electric while you are parking, but no actual driving activity will it be electric. We were quite serious about getting one and realized that the electric nature of it was a total farce.
The gas mileage on the thing might be really great. But it was anything but an electric car.
https://www.voltstats.net/
Data is pulled from OnStar. I have no idea how people are driving to be 100% EV on the leaderboard, but it seems to be possible!Might be fake data. They wouldn't sell us a car that would ever drive electric no matter what we did.
I was reading https://mangolassi.it/topic/21706/which-nas-os/13 with some interest since I need to expand my storage capability for home servers and was hoping to see a good suggestion. Since there isn't a solid answer, let me ask a different way:
How would you create an NFS/SMB compatible storage bucket that's able to be grown (as a datastore and file system) which can go beyond 2tb limits and still be easily managed while maintaining a high throughput and (obviously) minimal outage?
I currently have a legacy 2008 server and I have had all the smb shares on there (for years) and it's time to decommission that. All the shared data has to be moved, and instead of keeping the 9 logical drives, I'd rather just have a vmware guest managing 4-6 shares/datastores. I've already got the new DC set up to replace the 2008 system.
I was thinking maybe a NethServer using the shared folders tool, but I'm unsure how that works.
@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
This has to be the most insane process to get help desk tickets created.
You know, I don't miss reading the Spiceworks community. Thank you for reminding why I don't miss it.
@wirestyle22 said in Remote Backup of Files Site to Site from Windows to Linux:
@IRJ said in Remote Backup of Files Site to Site from Windows to Linux:
Going LANless has a ton of advantages
I have tried to introduce a lot of things and my boss essentially told me to stop because nothing will ever be implemented. Then on my review one of the questions was what new technology I have brought into my company.
Setting up a new Spiceworks server. Management requested it. I advised them not to. The original request was for Lansweeper, but the org is too big for that. I'm going to install the version of Spiceworks that I kept prior to their community integration.
So, if anyone has an idea on free 500 node network scanners, I'd love to hear it. 
I was thinking to myself about the growth of file systems on a VMWare system. I hadn't considered it before and was wondering how the growth is handled; is it linear? It couldn't be, right? If I create 3 VMs, and expand two of them to add more space to an existing vmdk, it's tacked on from free space on a file system held by the hypervisor, but then does that mean we're creating a file system on a pre-existing file system, and do the allocation tables themselves generate excess waste? How efficient is that?
#ShowerThoughts
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sister in law came back from a trip to Scotland.
Is this any good I'm not a scotch drinker
It is good.
No, wait. Horrible. Yes, absolutely vile. Best that you let me dispose of it for you. I'll PM you my address.
I get it. But most don't companies that give free software for reviews usually target well known review sites/bloggers in private. They don't simply have a web page for all to see that is dedicated so that any Tom, Dick, and Harry that can open up a Wordpress account, post a 250 word review, and get free stuff.
It’s just led to some shady practices in the past where they were asking people to spam forums with reviews if you didn't have a blog to post the review to.
I actually purchased a 2 camera license from them but decided to move onto Blue Iris that seems to have better documentation and development. I was also a bit concerned on what information from the Xeoma server instance "phones home" to the Kremlin while its running. Its bad enough we have to use Dahua and Hikvision cameras that are Chinese made and ripe with security issues most of the time.
I use Unifi cameras. Pretty good and an easy NVR.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just verbally beat up the meraki/cisco sales rep that tried to get me to renew the contract on the free AP I got from them. Laid out all the reasons that their yearly renewals suck, then admonished him for spelling my name wrong in the email, saying I'd never give him a penny because of the misspelling. Promptly got a response, still trying to sell me stuff.... I unleashed hell on him. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.
