@garak0410 said in Share From Synology Stopped Working:

@dbeato Crazy huh but thankful for the suggestion.

If the Synology supports NTP you may want to enable it and point it to your Domain Controllers.

@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.

I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.

I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.

As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.

Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.

Nothing.

I have enough sales calls from the outside. Internally, almost no one other than IT has a need to contact me, they go to the helpdesk for any support. Helpdesk techs or sysadmins can contact me if they need assistance.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Deploying NextCloud 19.0.0 now.

Every release looks better and better. How easy is the collobora integration to get setup now?

Most people use OnlyOffice anymore cause of the better support for microsoft office formats. It installs itself now no need for separate configuration or docker containers. I think collobora is still about the same as before.

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@IRJ said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@JaredBusch said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@VoIP_n00b said in Are Security Careers Real?:

I friend of mine just made the transition to security. He said his pay doubled.

What did he transition from?

And WTF is security?

Right? Everyone says it, but what exactly is that job?

Its a cross between IT and compliance. There are different security roles, but they all fall in between those two sides. Some closer to IT, some in the middle, and some that are almost strictly compliance.

The biggest problem is that often they are just called "security" and can mean almost anything.

Likewise, the IT jobs are often just labeled "administration" or something and equally mean almost anything.

Here (a Fortune 100) the IT Security Department is a joke, It's all CYA stuff to limit liability to the company, nothing of real substance is done there, the normal IT department does more security than they do, a Chief Security Officer was hired a few years back, and I might add under the CFO, not the CIO. And they brought a few entry-level helpdesk guys from IT over with him to help the security team. No real experts. The CSO just copy/Pastes NIST documents. The guys on the team just pull emails out and stop a spread after a phishing attack or disables accounts that were compromised etc. Not real security work, it's just to limit legal liability is all.

@scottalanmiller said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

@Obsolesce said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

I was assuming "ordinary users using O365" was Windows PCs

We used to be an all Linux O365 shop. They exist.

Not sure how Email services implies desktop OS.. That's like saying everyone using gmail is using Chrome Books or AOL users still have AOL Dial up lol.

Possibly looking into do some side work on UpWork for random IT Networking Jobs.

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

nice desk/chair - what?
I personally know no one who has a nicer WFH that was working from an office before Covid, than what they have at work.

I know no one who didn't. Of course, I tend to know real workers more often than not, and not like doctors or other "professionals". Those often don't even have computers at home. But they can't work from home generally, either. But basically anyone with working value that isn't blue collar, you know their home setups are better than work because the office almost never cares and at home, they always do.

Most of ours do, of course most of our people will work from home here and there on some days (we allow a lot of flexibility as a family first company) such as work from home when kids or sick, out of school etc. plus, we have a lot of people that will do work after hours from home (like myself) because we just simply get more done without the distractions. We tend to issue out most people docks for home and work when issuing laptops.

Incase anyone is looking fo a good local NVR software that works with ONVIF IP Cameras and can do facial recognition I found one that is pretty good: https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/ It works on Linux or Windows and MacOS for both the server and client. It has has good facial recognition for the price I was looking at Luxriot Evo S but it was going to cost me around $3,000 to do the same thing. would be good for Small business use as well, I'm using it at home.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

#@%%%%$ VLANs! Someone made a different VLAN just for the WiFi on their main network and didn't add it to all the switches. VLANs still suck people.

This is why you use Ansible Playbooks

@scottalanmiller said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

@thecreaitvone91 said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

@matteo-nunziati said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

@JaredBusch so currently the file is pushed to a server placed at customers' sites?!
You can write some http API but still you need to set the server.
Can't you othetwise keep the sftp server at the source and let customer use any ftp client (even the browser) to download it? Basically this reverse the process snd customers pull the file.

Winscp offers scripting automation as well so you could send that to them to automate the download to whatever folder. I believe it offers some recording function as well if you don't want to manually script it.

SCP is part of Windows now by default. If your OS is up to date, or if you add it directly as a component, you don't need any third party tools. SSH/SFTP/SCP is there for CMD/PS to use and you can automate that way.

My point was the other side could generate what they needed to do in the GUI of WinSCP rather than having to script it if they didn't know how https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_generateurl#script

@matteo-nunziati said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

@JaredBusch so currently the file is pushed to a server placed at customers' sites?!
You can write some http API but still you need to set the server.
Can't you othetwise keep the sftp server at the source and let customer use any ftp client (even the browser) to download it? Basically this reverse the process snd customers pull the file.

Winscp offers scripting automation as well so you could send that to them to automate the download to whatever folder. I believe it offers some recording function as well if you don't want to manually script it.

@stacksofplates said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

So you just want the system to send a text string to a few people? Like through email?

There's really nothing stopping you from doing EDI over email if the cost of the VAN is the issue, and both ERPs easily do VANs.

Just quick googling for cheap solutions you could use https://www.emailparser.com/ for the incoming side, either sort by sender or subject (or both) and save to a folder location for the incoming EDI

for Outgoing I haven't found one yet, but I'm sure there's an easy way to take your outgoing EDI folder and have it email out when a new file is placed there.

Not the best but if both sides are setup for EDI may be the quickest.

If they already have an ERP selected to replace it, I think it would be wise to see what they do and support and try to do something the new ERP can take as well so you aren't switching it again soon.

@JaredBusch said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

@scottalanmiller said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

What about a RESTful API? Simple for everyone involved, typically.

A RESTful API is what I was thinking about, but I wasn't restricting the question to a RESTful API as I don't know enough about the entire process from a development point of view.

If you are looking at moving to Restful API, this tends to be the Standard: https://www.ibm.com/products/datapower-gateway it's not cheap.

Restful API for B2B hasn't been fully Standardized yet like EDI has

@JaredBusch said in Has anyone setup an API for an internal application:

The data in question is simply formatted text.

Are you sure that isn't already EDI just without the VAN?

An EDI VAN is the normal way of doing this, There are industry-standard forms for many different things so you aren't doing anything custom for each. You just have to get the application to talk to the VAN. There's a lot of different VAN Providers

https://www.b2bgateway.net/what-is-a-value-added-network-van-and-how-does-it-work/
https://www.b2bgateway.net/edi-info/#EDI-Communication-Methods

If you do any business with big companies like Kroger, Walmart etc. They require it.

https://edi.kroger.com/EDIPortal/VansAndProviders.html
https://cdn.corporate.walmart.com/5d/8d/897b4bb84a95bb05214bf897cee3/edi-getting-started-guide.pdf
https://www.swicktech.com/SWICKtech/Resources/Blog/Direct-EDI-vs-EDI-VANs.htm

@JaredBusch said in Cell signal boost in area with limited connectivity ...:

^^^^ this is exactly what you want.

Radio waves are not a new thing and equipment exists to handle it.

I definitely recommend a professional analysis and not buying random low cost stuff you can google.

Yes, you definitely want someone that can do a site survey.

we use this system everywhere https://cel-fi.com/quatra4000/ They have a nice management interface too.

They are not self install and they will do a site survey.

@Dashrender said in Web filtering for SMB:

@thecreaitvone91 said in Web filtering for SMB:

Back in My SMB days I used NxFilter. You point your clients DNS to it (I did it using DHCP) and you can still use it if you have a domain, I just setup Zone Transfers from the AD DNS to Nxfilter, I had them setup in a failover pair. Does AD authentication for Group Lists of allowed/block sites, reporting etc. You'd normally block client devices from using Port 53 so they couldn't do their own lookups on your firewall.

https://nxfilter.org/p3/

A zone transfer instead of just making the NXfilter the upstream DNS for AD's DNS?

You couldn't do Groups or custom filters or reporting if you did it that way as all requests would be coming from the DC itself.

Back in My SMB days I used NxFilter. You point your clients DNS to it (I did it using DHCP) and you can still use it if you have a domain, I just setup Zone Transfers from the AD DNS to Nxfilter, I had them setup in a failover pair. Does AD authentication for Group Lists of allowed/block sites, reporting etc. You'd normally block client devices from using Port 53 so they couldn't do their own lookups on your firewall.

https://nxfilter.org/p3/