http://www.totalnetsolutions.net totalnetsolutions.net - Complete Networking Solutions for business Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:10:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I see the Ubuntu battery life topic has gotten a litle more attention than normal lately, and we're happy to have new visitors. I have several new posts in draft right now, work is just keeping them from being published immediately, so come back soon! http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/09/13/hello-readers-from-stumbleupon/ I drafted something on November 2nd about problems with Fedora 7 and SELinux. This still exists on Fedora 9, by the way. Just a quick "FYI" that there's a big new technical fix posted, and your RSS reader probably didn't pick it up (Google reader and Akregator didn't). http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/09/05/backdating-posts-fyi/ I ran into a problem today where I couldn't remember the native packet capture tool for Solaris and couldn't install tcpdump, so i thought I'd put down as many as many native packet capture commands as I knew, by OS, in a single place.  I'll update this as I find ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/06/30/network-packet-capture-on-different-oses/ I've been working on something completely new for the past 2 months which has involved a lot of travel. 95% travel, which leaves precious little time to write new articles, especially as I've been spending my off-hours learning HP-UX 11 and Solaris 8 and 10. And I still ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/06/18/solaris-10-and-dhcp-aka-but-i-know-this-system/ Here's a couple of quick extra helpers for administering Windows Server 2008 Server Core. Guy Teverovsky (Microsoft MVP) has created the CoreConfigurator which gives a small GUI to many of the initial setup pieces of Server Core, so you don't have to follow my detailed (cryptic) instructions. Create Shadow Copies on your ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/04/04/server-core-administration-goodness/ I recently build a Windows Small Business 2003 Server that was a migration from old hardware. Following this guide from Microsoft makes it pretty straightforward. However, there are a few things I noticed, especially this late in Windows 2003's lifetime. The guide mentions "Join the new server to the ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/04/01/sbs-2003-and-oma/ I built a Windows Server 2008 Server Core DC last week. It's an interesting exercise because you have to use an unattend.txt file. I found quite a few places online that listed RODC unattend.txt files, but not full read-write DC unattend.txt files. So, attached to this post ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/03/20/dcpromo-windows-server-2008-server-core/ Dean Wells started out Day 3 of DEC 2008 with a recap of the Dean and Joe show. He finished up the demo of "how exactly the FSMO role works" which was amazingly detailed and deep. He also explained more about AdminSDHolder and showed off several of Joe ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/03/15/dec-2008-day-3-recap/ Tuesday the 4th started with Stuart Kwan's keynote at 8am - he talked about an eventual plug and play software "identity bus" where you just plug in identity management software, and it just works - the same as PCI or USB hardware does on those busses. It's a pretty cool ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/03/12/dec-2008-day-2-recap/ I spent a large portion of this week at DEC 2008. I mentioned previously that I'd be presenting as well. Now that I've had a couple of days back to catch up with work and home, I wanted to recap the amazing experience, and share a few bits of info ... http://www.totalnetsolutions.net/2008/03/08/dec-2008-day-1-recap/