It’s great to finally have something systems-related to post about amidst the endless bureaucracy that fills my days lately. Of course that means that — yup, you guessed it — something broke. But hey, that’s what it’s all about. Well, that and the fixing of said brokeness, of course. So we recently discovered that our [...]
In an earlier post I talked generally about my backup procedure for large amounts of data. In the post I discussed using RsyncX to back up staff Work drives over a network, as well as my own personal Work drive data, to a spare hard drive. Today I’d like to get a bit more specific. [...]
In July I posted an article about sending commands remotely via ssh. This has been immensely useful, but one thing I really wanted to use it for did not work. Sending an ssh command that contained a variable, via a script for instance, would always fail for me, because, of course, the remote machine didn’t [...]
I recently finally had occasion to learn some incredibly handy new command-line tricks I’ve been wanting to figure out for some time. Namely, controlling Directory Access parameters. I’ve long hoped for and wondered if there was a way to do this, and some of my more ingenious readers finally confirmed that there was, in the [...]
NOTE: This is the latest article in the External Network Unification project series. It was actually penned, and was meant to be posted several weeks ago, but somehow got lost in the shuffle. In any case, it’s still relavant, and rather than rewrite it accounting for the time lapse, I present it here in it’s [...]
I hit another minor but infuriating snag in my plan to unify the network, though this one was all Apple. It’s another case of Apple making serious changes to the way you’re supposed to set your server and clients and never really trumpeting much about it. Seems everything I used to do with my server [...]
Well, I did not have time to test my replica on Windows clients. I did, however, set up my BDC (Backup Domain Controller) on said replica and re-bind my Windows clients to the new master server once the replica was in place. Oddly, after doing so, Windows logins got a bit sketchy: sometimes they worked, [...]
Last week I was having all manner of problems setting up a replica of my master authentication server. After a significant deal of effort I believe I have solved these problems, though I won’t know for sure without further testing, which I will be unable to perform anytime soon due the beginning of the Fall [...]
This post will be a short one. Promise. We’re finishing up this project, and so far it looks like it’s going to be a success. We’re just adding the last little bits and finishing touches right now, but we’ve been putting out internal authentication server through it’s paces for the past couple of months, and [...]
This is one of those “I’m posting it so I remember, ’cause I keep forgetting” posts. It’s also astoundingly cool, though, if you didn’t know about it. Which I didn’t until fairly recently. If you’ve ever wanted to send a command to a remote computer without ever actually logging in to that computer, ssh is [...]