First off, apologies for the incredible dearth of posts for the past 3 months (Jesus!). I should have more on that soon. Suffice to say, I’m not dead. Meantime, I wanted to just point out the Ars review of Windows Phone 7, which I’m presently in the midst of skimming. And I have to say, [...]
Like a lot of SysAdmins, I work in a cave. No windows except for the odd Dell system, of course. No natural light whatsoever. It can get depressing. So I was pretty intrigued when I saw this Winscape virtual window. I’ve actually had this idea for some time. Get a large, bright screen and show [...]
I just had a rare occasion to use a Windows XP machine here in the lab. Oy, was it painful! All I wanted to do was take three simple screen shots — just three — for an instructional article I was writing for our community. It took a half an hour. I started, of course, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So far we’ve hit only one very minor snag in our migration to a single, unified authentication server for Mac, Windows and Linux. Since Mac and Linux behave so similarly with regards to authentication — in fact, I’d say they’re practically identical — and since Windows is so utterly, infuriatingly different, you can expect most [...]
So, our primary authentication server, which will be used to enable network home accounts for our entire internal network — Mac, Windows and Linux — is up and running. I’ve installed it in our server room, put it on the KVM, and switched over all the workstations. So far, so good. (My fingers are so [...]