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OpenVPN connection issue on Windows Vista and Windows 7  Problem When connecting to an OpenVPN tunnel on Windows Vista or Windows 7, the OpenVPN GUI shows the connection as successful, but the protected network can not be reached. Solution Start OpenVPN as administrator. This is necessary even of the account launching OpenVPN is an […]
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Proxmox KVM storage migration from local to NFS In order to be able to use the live partition migration in Proxmox, the KVM partition needs to be on NFS or iSCSI. Here is the process for an NFS storage. – shut down vm – rsync -av /var/lib/vz/images/<VMID> /mnt/pve/<NFS VOL>/images/ – edit /etc/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf – change ide0: […]
Where can we view the lock out triggers / logs? There are a few ways to do it. The log itself is in /var/log/lfd.log – this provides you with all the information about what lfd is doing. lfd is the process that keeps track of many things: login failures (technically it is called the “login […]
Authentication in Apache is done through htaccess, either from the configuration file or from the .htaccess file in a given directory. Note that only full directories can be easily protected with this method. Here is how: (first log in to the shell, as this method only works if you have shell access) $ cd …/html/protected_dir […]
usage: sitelookup [ -w ] [ -s ] [ -d ] [ -u ] [ -a ] [ domain,wp_user,site_handle,site_root,site_admin ] -w:wp_user is the top level unix user (admin1) -s:site_handle is the site equivalent of wp_user (site1) -d:domain is the hostname for a site (myco.com) -u:site_admin is the username for a site (bob) -a:returns info on […]
A) Converting a Name-based site to a ip-based sitelogin as root and run the command: EditVirtDomain -c ipinfo,namebased=0,nbaddrs=\[\],ipaddrs=\[new_ip_addr\] domain_namewherenew_ip_addr is the new ip addressdomain_name is the domain name of the site e.g. EditVirtDomain -c ipinfo,namebased=0,nbaddrs=\[\],ipaddrs=\[10.5.3.2\] mydomain.com B) Converting an ip-based site to a Name-based sitelogin as root and run the command: EditVirtDomain -c ipinfo,namebased=1,ipadrs=\[\] domain_namewheredomain_name […]
To secure admin server connections that are not running on a secure Apache web server, one can use “stunnel”. For example, to secure Sun One ASP, the following command will do it (to be run on the server to secure): stunnel -D 7 -P/tmp/ -p /usr/share/ssl/certs/imapd.pem -d 5143 -r localhost:5100 Of course, you may want […]
I got a couple of WiFi VoIP phone to test with. The Linksys WIP330 and the DLink DPH-540. Both phones are a pain to set up, and they are not ready for prime time. However, for someone that travels and wants to stay connected, they still seem to be the only available option. For the […]