@WLS-ITGuy said in Zoom meeting access::

@IRJ said in Zoom meeting access::

@WLS-ITGuy said in Zoom meeting access::

@scottalanmiller said in Zoom meeting access::

@WLS-ITGuy said in Zoom meeting access::

Not to mention get them trained on it while still using zoom until they're comfortable.

that professors need training on how to use basic tools like this... it's unthinkable.

1/3 of the profs here are in their early 60's so technology isn't as easy for them. Making the changes in a zoom account to require a password, change settings, etc isn't as easy for them.

These are not the people we need teaching our children if they cannot figure out how to operate a zoom call. How can we expect them to teach our kids anything of value if they cannot do simple tech tasks? School is supposed to prepare kids for the real world (which last time I checked, has a ton of technology).

Sure if this were not a specialty school then I could see how technology is essential to the teaching. I work at a graduate school where about 1/3 of the schooling isn't technology based.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning preparing to move colo's about 240U worth

I hope you have lifts and a proper tool set, that's a lot of work!

@Dashrender said in Soft Phone issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Soft Phone issues:

@WrCombs said in Soft Phone issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Soft Phone issues:

Wait, like this Vast... https://www.vastbroadband.com/

This is just a consumer home service? No wonder they don't have any support. Those places would never be able to handle this. Even Cox and Comcast don't have any business phone offerings. This stuff is low end for a HOME user!

Yep, that's it.
anything to save a buck I guess

Saves a buck? No way. That has to be SO expensive. That consumer crap is NEVER cheap. You always pay double to quadruple what a good business service costs.

Did you see they had a "business" offering on their website.

Scott - while I understand the POV you're taking - Why hasn't someone/some company stood up and heavily advertised solutions like NTG and Bundy & Assoc provide? There might be a tiny bit of advertising out there for it, but really, google searches will almost NEVER lead to either of you. The big boys are crushing you face time. And you're surprised companies aren't using systems like yours more? why?

I'm just guessing that they both have more than enough business as it is, why advertise for more?

Finishing up a big network upgrade at the Millersburg Eagles. They had a cobbled together junk before (consumer Netgear and extender for wifi, in the same small room). Now they've got 3 UAP-NANO an ER-12 (only thing I could find in stock, wanted a ER-4Pro) and an HP PoE switch. Running much better.

@Pete-S said in Does intra-VM traffic leave the host?:

@pmoncho said in Does intra-VM traffic leave the host?:

@Pete-S said in Does intra-VM traffic leave the host?:

Assume you have two VMs on the same host talking to each other, on a network that is not just an internal network inside the host.

Will the traffic actually leave the physical NIC on the host or will it just stay inside the host?

From my understanding of ESXi, two guests located on the same local host vswitch will not go out the physical NIC.

I wonder if that holds true for KVM and Xen as well?

KVM just uses the hosts network adapters, so of course you can easily setup a host-only network adapter to assign to any guest. Xen should be able to do the same thing, but I forget if it self-manages any networking.

@ndc said in I can't even:

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch that doesn't SEEM like it could be real....

It is because autocorrect in Outlook has a setting to capitalize automatically.

Oh man.

It is one of my users. I know it was a real email...

Oh yeah - that could totally be a real email in my environment as well!!!!

That could definitely happen where I work. We have a lot of people who use caps lock for all capitalization purposes, so there is room for that to be busted, and now they are having to hold the shift key down while pushing a letter. Mayhem ensues!

Accountants, accountants everywhere do this in my experience.

@sirs06 said in Run virt-manager on Windows 10:

I can not enter I get this error

Gtk-WARNING **: 18:15:17.802: cannot open display: :0

You probably need the export DISPLAY=:0 first.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

After a hell of a week, I am sitting on the beach working!

Glad to hear that you made it.
Must be a relief to finally be there

And to be done with customers. Three days I've been in country but just stuck dealing with customs!

Nice freudian slip. I'm done with customers too, who needs em! lol

@NetworkNerd They've had a couple mis-categorized sites that they quickly changed. The service is still so new, that was inevitable, they've responded well when the issues were brought to their attention. I started using the malware blocking, but don't remember seeing anything blocked yet.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering.
If you had a new customer with a greenfield and your doing the network and wifi.
Would it all be Ubiquiti stuff? Or a mix.

Example 5 buildings/cabin,
80 PC/Laptops
4-5 Servers running 40-45 VM's

Multi core fibre to 2 buildings then only a single cat6 cable for the others.

I like Ubiquiti for APs and Edgerouters.

Their network gear is priced higher than equivalent gear from other vendors most times, but I only know that to be true for the lower end 8 and 16 port switches. So I'd go with a different vendor for those (HP/Aruba are what first comes to mind.)

What you need to answer for yourself is how much of a value add is it sticking to a single vendor? Even sticking to just Ubiquiti should have you managing things in two different places because the Edgerouters use a different management backend than the UniFi routers, and you probably shouldn't be using the UniFi routers as they're more limited in a number of ways.

@krisleslie said in XenServer gave error I'm not familiar with:

@krisleslie while I may agree with you on using an SSD, there isn't a point as each are storage mediums. The host loads most of the data in ram which again means kinda doesn't matter the device unless you start talking about usb 2 and usb 1 devices. I use usb 3 which doesn't have any problems with previous-generation tech. Lastly, as far as I recall all storage mediums break unless things have changed...

What you're forgetting is the HUGE AMOUNT of random writes done to /var/log on XenServer/Xen/KVM/etc. USB drives just aren't meant to handle that many writes.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Officially 6 months into 2021! Where did the time go?

It's time to renew my license tags already! Where did the time go for sure.

@Pete-S You need to run it with docker start apereo/cas
Also note that Docker containers don't automatically start after a reboot.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I made the mistake of asking for a lab server for our cloud based SAAS POS system that I'm the "Admin" for - so Now I'm stuck in online training for the same system that I know very well after 4 sites that I've installed... and support - ...
and the guy that I'm "replacing" (they dont know I'm looking to leave) Told them we wanted access to the beginners lab Server "because thats what I use." . . . . . . .

This is brain numbing..

Of I already went through this training 2 times last year before the site was installed (by the way)

@Dashrender said in Apple Mac Going to ARM RISC:

I wonder how much Apple's ability to change architectures is because of their market penetration, or better said - lack of penetration?

Sure their fans will be pissed they likely have to rebuy their software again for a new chip, but they are such rabid fans, many don't seem to mind. But I think this doesn't matter in general because of the small size of their deployments.

Microsoft has been trying to do this for years - and continuously failing.
Now some if not all of that failing could be because the platform has been slow in comparison to Intel systems, But lack of support for existing software/hardware and HUGE sunk investments I think are what really stop it.

When you control the entire hardware and software stack, making these changes is much, much easier.

Microsoft has traditionally failed at this because they have to support every piece of hardware made for the past 10-15 years.

@pete-s said in Subnetting:

@travisdh1 said in Subnetting:

@romo said in Subnetting:

@wrcombs Classful networking was replaced with CIDR- Classless Inter-Domain Routing, which basically allows you to subnet your network to whatever size you want without really taking into consideration the specific IP ranges that where used before for subnett classes before.

So as you mention, it is totally find today to use the 10.X.X.X and subnet it to only have 254 hosts in the network when using a 255.255.255.0 mask if that is what you require for network.

I tend to use a lot of different 10.x.x.x/24 subnets when working with clients, just because of the headaches caused by using a 192.168.0.x/24 or 192.168.1.x/24 that all the consumer junk defaults to.

That's only a problem if you connect consumer junk to the LAN without first setting the IP or setting it to DHCP if applicable.

But maybe it's the clients that hooking up gear on their own. In that case they deserve to be punished!

I've got way to many people that need punished. They like to buy random stuff and then call us and whine when it doesn't work.

@openit said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

@scottalanmiller said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

@openit said in How can we recover data from Hard Drives were on RAID 10 without controller?:

Again, since it is RAID 10, it will have a pair (for striping), is it HDD 1 and HDD 2 will be pair one ? HDD 3 and HDD 4 will be pair 2?

Only QNAP will know that one. I bet no one has it documented.

I asked QNAP Support on this, below is his reply:

" Due to I do not have information of the RAID array metadata, the information provided below is based on default assumption, which is same as your reply.

Disk 1 and Disk 2 is first pair

Disk 3 and Disk 4 is second pair"

I went with straight configuration while setting up RAID on this, so I believe it will have same default pair.

In that case, Disk 1 and Disk 2 are like RAID 0 array, and I can use any recovery software with these two drives, which supports RAID 0 to recover, obviously by taking precautions like disk status check and dupe the drives?
@scottalanmiller @CCWTech

Not quite. Disk 1 and 2 are mirrored. Disk 3 and 4 are also mirrored. The "RAID 0" array is across the two mirrors.

So you could use disk 1 and 3 or disk 2 and 4.

What you described would be RAID 01, which was never popular because of so many reasons. A couple off the top of my head, same amount of drive space overhead as RAID10 and disk failure is much harder to deal with.

@scottalanmiller said in Subnetting:

THe smallest that I will ever deploy is a /23 and really, a /22 is the smallest I should consider. There's no reason to be smaller than that unless you have a very special case.

Yeah, we still have /24 all over the place. Ends up being a pain because you run out of address space for even small places.

@Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

Plex needs lots of CPU power if your clients require transcoding. I have a 4 core E3 Xeon, 1231 I think, running Fedora on bare metal, but Plex and others run in docker containers. All my media is sitting in Google Drive, I have that mounted with https://github.com/plexdrive/plexdrive , some use rclone too. Google Drive for business cost me $12 a month and comes with unlimited storage, I think I'm pushing close to 100TB now. I've had way too many drive failures, I even had LSI SAS controller flipping on me, and after spending close to $1500 on storage alone, I said screw that. There's even Plexdrive docker image to keep your base system kosher, I think it comes with option of UnionFS and MergerFS, but that's more advanced topic.

See https://cloudbox.works/ for some ideas, I built by server in similar way. Cloudbox is a set of Ansible roles to setup completely automated media server. Mine is a bit different, I use Traefik as reverse proxy, with added OAuth2 authentication layer.

Has anyone priced out storage and/or services through Vultr?

I'd imagine that a smallish Vultr instance with Wasabi storage would be about ideal if you want everything online.

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Now that's some funny **** right there, and so typical.