@Scott I went through all of your questions historically and never once have you asked for help with Nginx in this context, or any other. I'm confused as to how we got to the point of abandoning the stock approach to start down a path that was guaranteed to lead to despair, when you didn't even ask for casual community assistance. Had you asked, any number of us could have just posted our "just works" configuration files; which we just did.

I'm not trying to be overly harsh, but it feels like you sabotaged this process from the beginning. You didn't ask the community for guidance on the best approach to take, nor ask how those of us have it working got it working, you didn't ask for help on how to make that process work, and only asked for help once you had decided you wouldn't accept help and "demanded" that only approaches that are extra hard and/or impossible would be considered. You also claimed that getting this working on Windows was easier than Linux, which can only be stated if you at least got it fully working on Windows, but you implied that you could not get it working at all.

So this feels like you posted to disparage the Linux and/or Nginx approaches, but didn't even really try with any earnest. Not even the most casual first step of asking how others had done it. If you were really trying to make this work, why didn't you ask for advice and help? This would have been a really easy thing to have helped with, had you wanted us to find a solution for you. And you glommed really quickly onto the discussion on Linux or Windows, which was unrelated to your issue and affected you not at all, as if it was core to your problem and some kind of frustration - which makes it doubly feel like you were setting us up to look unhelpful, when you never really gave us the slightest option to be of assistance.

Thank you all.

Turns out for some reason in Remote Desktop I need to use "user" as username and not the account name.

This is not the case on my network, where the actual user name is used.

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@Skyetel People like to defend the weirdest things.

The only purpose of any business is to make profit. It is not like this is a secret.

Now this I most definitely disagree with.

I will agree that most businesses want to make a profit - while at the same time, not trying to squeeze out every last time of legit legal profit - instead making enough profit to the CEO's/owner's happiness...

You are injecting your own bias in here.

The purpose of the business is to make a profit.
The purpose of the CEO is to be happy.
Those are not mutually exclusive things.

Except that the CEO actually sets the purpose of the business - unless it's a publicly held company then it is more about profits, though the CEO can still make it not about ultimate profits.

No, you are not correct. A business is about profit. The people running the business in a way that is not that, are not running a business. They are running a hobby, or a charity simply to provide employment for no reason, etc. But they are not running a business.

Reset the cache on both browsers.

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It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.

Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.

You can limit it to the RDP port, though.

True but SC is much less work! RDP does have the full screen experience advantage.

So does ScreenConnect

@jaredbusch Thanks mate. Client called me in a panic because he was "cleaning up," saw the warning regarding removing an IMAP account, thought "what could possibly go wrong?" and removed it anyway.

Am headed there now and will follow dbeato's advice regarding Stellar.

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I'd wipe and install Ubuntu. I would probably ask my company to go a step further and give us new hard drives for a clean Ubuntu install.

Kids with little or no money and alot of time can be dangerous. Dont give them a chance to recover your data. That is my 2 cents.

Running DBAN for a full DDoD wipe would likely suffice as well, but who wants to let it take so long. . .

How much are 100GB laptop drives these days? I wouldn't take the risk.

Likely more than the value of the laptops. . .

That's the hard part. The time and money of even a super cheap hard drive is probably double the value of something being donated.

Understood, but you are creating potential risk otherwise.

Not creating, just not totally eliminating. But is the risk typically over $100? Not likely. Paying $100 to eliminate $2 of risk doesn't make sense.

If you can confirm there is no sensitive data on ALL systems, which is difficult to confirm.

No, that's the risk assuming not knowing anything. Unless you can confirm that there IS sensitive data, then you have to go with the average. That's how risk works. You can't just assume the worst case scenario unless proven otherwise. Nor the least. That's where average comes in. And the average system carries essentially no risk.