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<title>Anyone here with hands-on Exadata experience?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28310369</link>
<description><![CDATA[Or work in/with a company that has used it? 

Looking for some real-life, no BS good/bad feedback.

Thanks!
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<pubDate>2013-05-21 18:53:35</pubDate>
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<title>Cisco RV180 VPN Router</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28266403</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a Cisco RV180 VPN router.
The network is set up as described in the attached picture.
I can have someone from outside my network connect to the VPN router at xxx.xxx.xxx.21 and it shows them as connected using Cisco Quickconnect and they can login to the RV180 from there computer using the 192.168.100.204 address but they cannot see anything on the network. I have a printer at 192.168.100.205 and a computer at 192.168.100.68 they cannot ping them. Any ideas on what I can do? I really need them to be able to access network shares and printers using the VPN. I called Cisco Small Business help and they say the VPN is set up correct and that something on my network is blocking them from being able to see anything past the VPN router.

Thanks for any help!
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<pubDate>2013-05-06 13:57:02</pubDate>
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<title>Gee, Thanks.</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28300983</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am a sysadmin for a large business branched out across the U.S. For the last 2 weeks or so, I have been getting constant complaints from 1 particular user at 1 of the locations I manage, who constantly said he was 'locked out' of his domain account.

Of course the first time I hear this, the first thing I ask for is if the user had the Num-Lock off, Caps-Lock on, or simply forgot their password.

The first 2 were not the case, and user assured me he knew his password. To be sure anyway, I asked if they could please reset their password to a new one.

Ok, done. Maybe this will solve my issues.

Nope, 2 days later I get another call from the same user about being locked out. Now I am wondering if someone at the company is trying to be a jerk and simply using this persons login with incorrect credentials over and over until it locks him out.

So i check our logon attempt logs, and nope, all requests were made by his PC.

Ok, ruled that out too.. Now what?

He calls me today once again about being locked out, and halfway through me "unlocking him", he says to me: "ehrm...why does my keyboard look weird??"

I ask him "what do you mean".

Only to find out that someone at the company decided to be a jerk using a different method - Switching his keyboard buttons around to the wrong locations.  :uhh:

* Longest Face-Palm Ever *

Just thought I'd share, weather it be for anyones laugh or if anyone has had this happen to them before.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-17 19:59:19</pubDate>
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<title>Proper way of determining network location with GPO</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28308641</link>
<description><![CDATA[2K8 domain. I have in my current GPO the method of determining network location internally by hitting https://gateway.domain.com and externally by hitting https://www.google.com. 

The problem I'm having is that our gateway, Untangle Firewall, blocks outgoing communication from our forensic computers and shows a big nasty message if you try to access the internet from a forensic computer. By blocking this, I'm also indirectly blocking https://www.google.com traffic. All of our forensic computers are thinking they are on a public network now and the Winblows firewall, controlled by group policy, is blocking incoming legitimate traffic.

Is there a different method of determining internal/external network location with GPO?
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<pubDate>2013-05-21 09:55:31</pubDate>
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<title>Jack of all trades - Master of none</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28288046</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm going nowhere in my career right now. My position is getting outsourced within the next twelve months. I need to find a new job, but my general experience and education isn't really enough to take any steps forward.

Background - I've got an Associate's in Network Administration. Graduated in 2001, but haven't done much with networking since 2002. Went back to school in 2009 (stupidly in retrospect) and finished a Bachelor's in software development. It's mostly paper, though. The most impressive thing I worked on in school were tip calculators/etc in java that you have to run from command line. Did some JSP, visual C#, ASP, but I could whip up jack if I had to right now. I know my way around html, php, and css, but I'm not particularly awesome at it. I'm 32 with a family to support, haven't seen a pay increase since 2008, and I need to find a way to kick start my career again.

I'm supposed to be the backup IT admin at my current job, but the IT manager is of the "Do everything my specific convoluted way so they can never fire me, and not teach my backup how to do anything or even give him access to any of the systems." If he gets hit by a bus, it would be my job to get everything up and running, but I don't even have local admin rights to install on my machine. Hell, I can't delete icons from the desktop. If anything really happened to the guy, my job would be to watch everything go up in flames for three weeks while I rebuilt the entire infrastructure from scratch/watched them hire someone else to do it. So, this great experience I was supposed to get with sysadmin/exchange/practical networking/db administration never happened.

My job currently is this: I import data in the morning from a 20 year old flat-file DB, and format it for another system, reconcile, and post it. Then I handle random tasks that come up throughout the day. I help coworkers, as long as it doesn't actually require any sort of rights. Then I get to apologize that I can't fix what I'm supposed to and see the "I know, and I feel sorry for you" look in their eyes. Then I do work on the company's websites; posts to the blog, updating documentation, pulling data from said ancient system, and side projects. Right now I'm designing an inventory control system, since we don't have one, and a new section for the website.
My boss has been rather cool about my job disappearing (She has no say in the matter.) and has agreed to help me with references and what not, and also said she'd find a way to justify paying for some classes or something, if I needed it.

That sounds, great, but I have no idea where to go. There doesn't seem to be any emerging trend in positions in my area.

I've got enough random machines and equipment laying around my basement. Do I built a pointless office network just to get experience in Active Directory/exchange/web servers and go the sysadmin route? Do I double back on programming? If so, what the heck language do I specialize in? (That's kind of the reason I didn't pursue it after graduation.) Do I fully devote myself to webdev/design? Security? Back to netadmin? Some sort of db admin role?

How did you decide what you were going to become an expert in?
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Blogsaus  "Everyone bows to something. Everyone answers to someone. Wherever your treasure lies, there your heart will be also.

Who do you belong to? " - Andrew Schwab]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-13 22:04:11</pubDate>
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<title>LogMeIn: Limited to 10 Free computers (Alternatives?)</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28071649</link>
<description><![CDATA[LogMeIn is going to limit users to 10 free computer accounts. Their product works great for us due to the following: sometimes supporting those behind a NAT, needing access without user intervention and instructing user remotely (they see my control, not lock out like RDP). I knew that the free ride was eventually going to end and want to know if there are other offerings out there. We don't need the Pro account or Central, but would consider Central if no better options are available. I think it would be better if they included additional Free computer accounts with Pro computer account purchase, maybe 1 Pro equals 10 additional Free computer accounts.

http://b.logme.in/2013/03/04/important-changes-to-logmein-free/]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-03-05 17:30:49</pubDate>
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<title>Active Directory: delete vs. disable departed employees</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28291519</link>
<description><![CDATA[When an employee leaves your organization, do you delete or disable their Active Directory account? 

I currently remove them from any groups they were apart of & disabled the account. I just started an exchange migration & i'm looking at using the personal archive feature to replace the archive appliance that i have to retain e-mail for 5 yrs (the web interface sucks) so i started thinking what should i do the mailbox/personal archive when someone leaves? 
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<pubDate>2013-05-14 22:37:17</pubDate>
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<title>Radius, NAP or something else?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28289250</link>
<description><![CDATA[Server 2012 environment, Windows 7 machines.

For security reasons,  we keep our public network physically separate from our internal, however, with more mobile devices entering the workforce, I'd like a way to allow wireless devices to log into our domain and access the private (internal) network.

The public WLAN is open for guest use.

The private network is wired ports only.

What I would like, is for Windows to authenticate the user to the network upon login to the domain.   IE,  if they are a domain user, they're put on the private network with our 172.16.x.x/16 address space in VLAN1, if they're on our public network they should be on our 192.168.x.x/24 address space on VLAN2...   

If for some reason the domain user is using an android tablet, for example, and wants on the private network,  the browser should bring up an authentication screen asking for domain credentials or guest access,  and apply that device to the appropriate network based on that login.

Does this technology exist?   Any nice step by step guides or reading that can help me get it done?
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<pubDate>2013-05-14 10:55:56</pubDate>
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<title>Determining Site Bandwidth Requirements - baseline</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28291799</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone,

Looking for some advice here. 

I've been tasked with determining a baseline bandwidth requirement (per user) that will be used to recommend network line speed requirements for branch offices. Our enterprise utilizes primarily Citrix based virtual desktops delivered from our data center over VPN connections to remote sites.

I've found some information on Citrix's site that consists of a formula to determine bandwidth requirements for HDX but that only covers Citrix based traffic and doesn't take into account traffic originating from a workstation outside of Citrix.

Basically looking for something that will let us advise managers for example, if you plan to have have 10 users in branch office you will need a T1 line for that site based on X kbps per user of usage.

Anyone have any ideas? Does such a formula even exist? Am I overthinking it?

Any input is appreciated,

Thanks!

Kyroku]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-15 00:29:32</pubDate>
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<title>whitelist IP&#x27;s for external vuln scan?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28181833</link>
<description><![CDATA[So our sister company holds our network security division, and they are running an external vulnerability scan on our IPs. This morning they asked us to whitelist the IP's their scans are coming from in the firewall/IPS.

Maybe I'm just being really stupid about this, but doesn't disabling one of our key pieces of outside security kind of defeat the purpose of a vulnerability scan?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-04-09 09:37:42</pubDate>
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<title>Finding &#x27;standard&#x27; memory...?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28269729</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm looking for 4 8GB chips of memory, for a total of 32.

DDR3  1600Mhz  non-ECC

Weird how its hard to find normal generic memory -- I don't want multi-colored memory, or memory that looks like its wearing a crown...   I just want the green memory with the little black chips on it...  :-)   Like the OEM stuff that ships in Dells, HPs, etc etc...

Or -- am I really looking at ~$288 for four  8GB  chips?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-07 14:49:38</pubDate>
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<title>Reporting my boss to the BSA</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28268500</link>
<description><![CDATA[My boss has been passing around torrented software the office for work purposes. 

Here's the thing:
My employer is very cheap and has been ordering people to bring their own laptop so the torrented software is installed on personal computers...

Will the BSA go after the individual employees if I complain? It seems rather pointless to report him if the guy that is the real culprit walks away free.

This is the point of the iceberg --- there have been a lot more things going on, but I don't want to get outside IT.I genuinely believe he is not honest person in general. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-07 08:01:57</pubDate>
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<title>Weird ESXi OpenVPN problem</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28278530</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm running OpenVPN on an Untangle security appliance. OpenVPN clients get assigned an IP from block 192.168.11.x / 255.255.252.0.

Within my network, I have two ESXi 5.1 servers integrated into vCenter with 5 Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and 2 Ubuntu machines. These machines are assigned an IP from block 192.168.8.x / 255.255.252.0.

A static route exists to forward traffic from 192.168.11.0 to 192.168.8.1. 

When I connect to OpenVPN, I can ping and access resources on the 192.168.8.x block except I cannot ping the ESXi server's IP addresses or any Windows IP address. I can ping and access the two Ubuntu server IP addresses and two Windows boxes on the network. 

For the test I disabled Windows firewall and enabling/disabling promiscuous mode (enabled right now) does not effect traffic routing to the ESXi servers/Windows servers.

I attached a simple graphic to represent the text above. Ideas?
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"All newspaper editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded." - Bruce Anderson "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - XenocratesCheck out my blog: http://www.johndball.com]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-10 10:23:08</pubDate>
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<title>Surface Pro for Network Administration?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28125091</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm posting this here, because this will be used mostly for remote administration of my networks...   I want something I don't need a bag for,  that I can lug around all day without recharging.

I was using a Xoom for a while, being most of our tools are web based,  or logmein accessible,  but quite honestly, it's just not fast enough, it also lacks practical things like printing, usb ports, etc.

I want the power of a laptop, with the battery life of the xoom.  I like the mobility, but need a real keyboard,  the flimsy flip / clip keyboards don't really interest me.  I also don't want the tiny screens of the minipc.

I've been considering a surface pro,  but I'm a little hesitant-   does anyone else use the surface pro in this fashion-  I plan on loading it up with all my network monitoring, server management consoles, and hopefully attach a dongle for serial cables.    

Am I asking too much of this tablet?  I HATE windows 8 on the desktop but it may be much more tolerable on a tablet format.   I guess I just want to know what other admins are using for mobile management and whether or not I'm going to be disappointed. 
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<pubDate>2013-03-21 14:36:46</pubDate>
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<title>looking for good print toner company</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28254245</link>
<description><![CDATA[Guys I need to purchase some print toner for a Dell 2350DN I normally buy OEM but this toner is expensive. So I would like to ask are there any good after market toner place out there if you know of any please let me know?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-01 20:41:49</pubDate>
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