@travisdh1 said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@siringo said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

So I've setup my old laptop with Fedora v28 workstation.

What can I use to, (for want of the correct Linux terminology), RDP into my Fedora laptop when I'm out in the field?

Not being command line savvy, it will need to be a GUI interface.

Thanks.

If you want RDP, install xrdp, start the service and enable it to run at boot.

sudo dnf -y install xrdp
sudo systemctl start xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Will install it, start the service, enable the service at boot time, and open the local firewall port for it.

Thanks @travisdh1 Does that allow me to use Windows' mstsc.exe and give me the Fedora desktop? Sounds too easy

bandwidth need more bandwidth, damn telco company.

@travisdh1 said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@siringo said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

So I've setup my old laptop with Fedora v28 workstation.

What can I use to, (for want of the correct Linux terminology), RDP into my Fedora laptop when I'm out in the field?

Not being command line savvy, it will need to be a GUI interface.

Thanks.

If you want RDP, install xrdp, start the service and enable it to run at boot.

sudo dnf -y install xrdp
sudo systemctl start xrdp
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3389/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Will install it, start the service, enable the service at boot time, and open the local firewall port for it.

Went ahead and did all the above and it seems to work, but I don't log in.

I get prompted for my username & password, but this comes up:

I installed TigerVNC the other week and only partially configured that, I wonder if that might be screwing up XRDP?

How can I uninstall TigerVNC?

I found that root can log in OK, but not my standard user account, which makes sense to me.

OK, So XRDP needs my stadard account to be in a group called 'tsusers' as shown below:

I don't think there is a tsusers group, so I need to create that and add my account to the group.
How do I do that?

@mlnews said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

hahaha. never done this before. rushing too much, went to add a new server as a 2nd DC, tried it twice, Server 2016. No errors no warnings, ran through the entire process twice, machine reboots post role install but doesn't come up with an option to log into the domain, only locally.

haha. machine is not a domain member!

That'll do it.

Funny it lets you go through the entire process without saying "Hey knucklehead, make me a domain member first".

Loving Packet Tracer, so easy. Learning heaps. Cisco confidence going through the roof now.
What would you guys consider essential things to know how to do with regards to configuring switches?
Thanks guys.

what a dull morning, summer is gone, winter will be here soon. bring back the warmth.

I'm trying to setup some form of management for 30 iPads.

I've setup the iPads using Apple Configurator 2.5, created a profile, prepared the profile. The iPads show as being supervised. I did but not enrolled them into DEP as part of that profile as I didn't have a ASM account at that point.

I have the iPads in an MDM I'm trialling and can see them all.

I now have an Apple School Manager (ASM) account and am trying to add the iPads to ASM.

I've followed all the instructions uploaded & downloaded certs as req'd, however when I go to add the iPads via serial number (from within ASM) the operation fails.

I've looked at the log file and there is no info in that at all.

I've tried with devices running iOS v9.x and iOS v12.x

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

replacing a faulty hdd in a dell t620

@Texkonc had some fun doing that this week.

must be something in the air. drive to be replaced was 'predicted failure'. new drive was doa. it was 2nd hand though.

Hoping someone can help me out with some basic info on how I can test a web site's security / robustness / aversion to being hacked.

One site is based on IIS, the other I'm not sure.

In a nutshell, I've just been given the responsibility of making sure the sites are secure. I've pretty much not got any experience with this and the first thing I want to find out, is if these sites are secure right now as if they're not, I need to make that known so they may be taken offline or fixed ASAP.

Thanks for any help.

helping global warming. walk into room i must sit in today. it stinks. open window, 4 degrees outside. turn on heater, 26 degrees on that. let's blow up the world!

I know the time has elapsed since MS said W10 was a free upgrade, but I've read here and there that folks are upgrading from W7 to W10 just simply by using the W10 media creation tool (or something) and it all just seems to work and activate and everything.

What are people's experiences here?

Has it worked and has it remained working & activated etc?

Thanks.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings 10:36pm and Ga Power is still flailing around, not fixing anything.

they're probably on double time and getting paid by the hour. why would you expect them to be doing anything?

Hey thanks for all the help everyone, it is greatly appreciated.

I've decided to go with LAPS as this is part of an overall 'let's tighten up security' project I've got going and my thoughts were, you can't go wrong if you go with the Vendor's recommendation.

I'm distributing the LAPS client software via Startup GPO which is working well ATM. Half way through the setup, but have stopped coz the weekend started.

I'll take a look at Salt as I need to broaden my horizons.

Thanks again folks.

@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

45 mins on treadmill, day off, lining up coffee #2, listening to dm stith.

Don't you like running outside?

Hi @Joy I don't have the knees for running or the lungs haha.

are you crawling on the treadmill?
I thought you supposed to be running in treadmill

Walking is another possibility... people have been known to walk on them too

I don't like walking on treadmill nor running.
It's like walking many hours but still stuck in one place.

Nah, you're doing it wrong. I've setup an old PC infront of the treadmill. I watch all this stuff on Youtube. I watch for entertainment, but you could spend the time doing an online course or watching the news etc etc.

@wrx7m said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

@siringo said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

@wrx7m said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

@siringo said in RDS Users Dont Receive Pwd Notice:

Hoping someone can help?

Have a problem with password expiration and Remote Desktop Services/Terminal Server users and their passwords.

RDS/TS users don't receive password expiring notifications when they log in. This is a hassle as obviously, they won't change their password before it expires and also, it's impossible for them to change is once it expires unless they have access to a domain joined PC, which several of them don't as they are 3rd party contractors.

There are a powershell scripts and free tools around to service this need, but powershell scripts can become railroaded and free tools don't always offer enough functions.

Wondering what others have done to solve this problem?

Thanks.

If you have to expire passwords, I have good success with Netwrix's password expiration notifier. They have a free and paid version. Obviously, the paid version offers more features, but I used the free one for a few years until I ditched password expiration policies.
https://www.netwrix.com/netwrix_password_expiration_notifier.html
The paid version is actually part of another product:
https://www.netwrix.com/active_directory_auditing.html

Thanks @wrx7m for the reply.

Due to a number of reasons i've decided to a PS1 script to assign new passwords.

You should post your script on ML

It's not mine, it's one I found in the Technet Gallery. I tested it and it works pretty well. You can assign a specific password to a specific user.

It lives here:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Reset-password-for-all-412fbc72#content

trying to fix up screwed up file perms on a major file share. no one seems to be the owner!

belting the crap out of hyper-v for being such a mongrel and not letting my new gen 2 vms start up.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got out of weekly staff meeting.

Only staff paid by the week need attend

I had a job in which I was paid monthly, but weakly.

trippin' out to maggot brain by funkadelic

3 days to go until I have 3 weeks off. the slowest 3 days ever to dawn on the planet I'm sure.