Posts made by MrWright4hire

Hello everyone. Longtime no see. Judging from the title of this post...is it possible, is it simple and do it has anything to do with port forwarding? Can anyone help me with this delima?

@Minion-Queen said:

Oh most everyone around here is "Special".

When we (NTG) do a job like this that is a one time thing. Our rates are based on a hourly prepaid block of hours. The larger the hour block they purchase the cheaper it gets. Our bottom rate is $150/hour. If they are looking of a long term contract than the bottom rate is more like $100/hour.

Hello M. Queen. As a company you may be able to justify $150/hr due to overhead cost. However, as an individual, I don't have to pay employees, vehicles...etc. I just quoted him $80/hr. He was fine with that. As I grow, pray for me, I may have to bump up the price.
Does that make sense? If there is something I'm missing, please do educate me.

@MattSpeller

Matt why are you too crazy!! lol!!

@Hubtech said:

I ask because I do not know who you are. If you're currently working for a company who does what you intend to do, you could use that as a launch point. Jared's numbers look good to me! but who am i.

Thank you for clarifying that Hubtech. I see your point. Now to answer who you are, I consider anyone associated with this site as someone special and with great knowledge. That's why I come to you as if you're my tech family, likewise if I have the knowledge about something I share it. Once again Hubtech, my new special friend, thank you for your suggestion.

@JaredBusch said:

I never give anyone less than $120 for a one time job.

If a client signs a consulting agreement for more long term support I will cut the they rate based on the hours I expect to average from them. I still never go under $90.

Thank you Jared for your feed back. I agree with both of you gentlemen.

@Hubtech said:

Who are you? what is your experience level? Where are you? I'd think more around 125-150/hr depending on your answer to those questions. if you're note sure of the environment you'll be migrating from....it could be a nightmare

Hello Hubtech. Without hearing your tone, your reply started off a bit condescending. However, to answer your question, I am who I say I am. My name is listed under my pic. I'm Mr. Wright. My level of experience is 8yrs deep and growing. I'm asking about prices because I'm starting off new with my own contracting company. I've always worked for someone else and never had to worry about coming up with pricing. With that said, I don't see how asking "who am I" is relevant. Now experience level and my location I understand. I don't care if I was Mighty Mouse. As long as I have the experience it shouldn't matter. This site, from what I understood, is to help aid others without making them feel more ignorant than what they are. If you find any of my questions insulting to your tech intelligence then, by all means, click away.
Now speaking to the part that actually answer my question, thank you.

@thecreativeone91
I agree, but how much would you charge per hour? I'm thinking $80.

A company bought out another company and I was asked to assist in doing a Network Crossover that involves:
testing networks, server AD Migration...etc!
What do you think is reasonable to assist. I don't want to come off asking for too much, but at the same time I don't want to cut myself either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance, |
Chris.

Commercial Break!!!!!!!
See THIS, meaning your efforts to come to one's rescue, IS WHY I LOVE EVERYONE OF YOU! NO HOMO!
Now back to the intelligent Geek part.

P.S. Thank you so much for being there for me.

@thecreativeone91 and @scottalanmiller they probably had it still up for a back up measure. That's the only thing I can think of as of now. With that said, I agree with you @thecreativeone91 about how the instance.

How would you approach this matter. I would like to move with precision as well as be organized about what order I should take certain steps. I would like to keep my impeccable reputation with this client. lol!

I'm about to take on a challange for an old client of mine. He explained his network scenario to me and to be proactive I would like to get my Mentors input on how I should approach this scenario. I told him to get someone for a faster result, but he insist on giving me his business. I'm honored, but need to refresh on my Exchange knowledge.
Can or would anyone like to help me?

Here is the scenario:
No one can share their Calendar properly. They are all using
Office 365 via Outlook. Getting "Auto-Discovery Error," but
diagnostics shows that Auto Discovery is working properly.
N.B.: As a temporary fix, I've recommended that they use the
Web version of the Calendar, instead of using it in Outlook.

Additionally, they continue to use their local Exchange
2007 Svr to create new email address (to forward and relay emails
to and from the Cloud). Client wants to know if there's
another way for them to do this or if they will always need to
use that local Exchange Svr.

The only place I visited is Dominican and Jamaica. In Jamaica they through out McDonald's due to it being unhealthy and the chickens being treated with chemicals. I was shock!

@JaredBusch, I thanked you too soon. lol! That link is down. The product isn't available any more.
Thank you for at least trying.

@JaredBusch said:

Get Greenshot

Thank you Jared.

@scottalanmiller said:

I would skip that stuff and just edit the files. It's pretty easy.

You're my Mr. Miyagi! Help me wax on and wax off. How do one go by editing by hand?

@scottalanmiller said:

You need to start over. Your Bob and their bob are not similar. They have different names and everything.

You need to great a user named bob, a group named projectX and a folder named bob. You can do this side by side with what you currently have since Bob and bob are unrelated as users, groups or files.

Once you create the right user, group and folder you use the chown command to change the user owner of a file and chgrp to change the group owner of a file. (There is a shortcut for this that I am not providing for reasons of clarity.)

So once everything exists you would use...

chown bob bob
chgrp projectX bob

To make the folder named "bob" belong to the user bob and the group projectX.

Thank you so much Big brotha! I got it to be how I want it. I'll keep in mind about the Capitalization. I got rid of Bob with userdel -r Bob and added useradd bob.
Nevertheless, I'm good now. Thank you again for inspiring me again.

@scottalanmiller said:

As a point of good practice, things like usernames, groups, and generally files, should be all lowercase. This is not Windows and sloppiness does not work out well. There is no need to capitals and it will make your life a nightmare. Bob and bob are two different things.

Gotchu! So can you walk me through how to make my Bob, in exhibit 2 match the bob in exhibit 1? I'm going crazy now. lol!

Here you go Scott:

You see how bob has projectX by his name in the first exhibit. I want to make it like that.

Hello Mango fam. I need a lil help with linux command. The issue is that I added a group and added users that group, but when I use "ls -l" I don't see the group listed by the users name. When I go into each individual user directory I don't see the group that I assign them to. However, when I do cat /etc/group I see the group and the members I assigned.
Why can I not see them when I'm in the user dir, home dir and use "ls -l"?