Hi, Might be a n00b question. I have an IIS server with a site where I can host our website. But if I host the same website as an application in an existing site, it gives us a 500 error. But my question is how do I go about debugging it? Event logs show no related entries, IIS logs just show ...

When a client Application connects to SQL Server the login credentials are sent over the network in a TLS Encrypted Handshake Message. For testing purposes I would like to have the login credentials sent in clear text. The password would still be hashed which is fine, but my network admin wants...

I did a search around here but didnt found something like this yet. I belive this is a usefull information to know which control panels we have available and how they are considered/rated among those who used them, what features they have, what is the price base, what OS they work on. So i am s...

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu server, it setup the DHCP and all that during installation yet I have no internet (ie - unable to use "apt-get install" - it doesn't make a connection and asks for a disk). Is this not something I can just expect to "work" and that it will require some tweaking?

I'm building custom Debian environments on a remote server, which I connect to over SSH. This involves building a debootstrap environment, then chrooting into it to run a custom installer. As part of the custom install process, I need the installer to be able to ssh out of the chroot environment ...

Is it possible to install antivirus package to the server which in turn protects all the pc's on the domain, this might seem a little far-fetched but then this would reduce the processing power on the client computers (which are part of the domain) and also would help to reduce licencing costs. ...

That's the overhead in apache,does it exist for nginx?

I've just read that incorrect configuration of innodb_buffer_pool_size can caused OS level paging. Does anyone know how this can happen and how to prevent this? Currently I'm using CentOS 4 and Linux 5.0.41

On SQL server 2005, if all the databases are in Full mode (with hourly transaction log backups), is it possible to determine if rebuilding all indexes of a database can grow log file of a database? And how much can it grow? If there is no straight answer then any directions would be really appre...

So that the same queries will take similar amount of time each time, this is for developing purpose only

Hi, I'm new to nginx's rewrite engine. I'm trying to convert my old htaccess file over to nginx's format but I'm running into some trouble. # ------------------------------------------------------ # # This redirects index.php to / # # ------------------------------------...

I have centos 5 server. I have 20 computers. All of them plugged into same switch running windows xp. I can ping from 14 of them and 6 wont ping server. I checked the 6 that wont ping the server and there is no firewall. server in at 192.168.1.2. I can ping the gateway which is 192.168.1.1 from t...

I'm currently a high school student wanted to be a system administrator. The biggest thing I see on most job advertisements is experience. What really counts has experience? Is running and configuring a test network for a couple years or is it actual work experience? If it is the latter how can y...

Hey guys, I am able to query few tables on the linked server but few tables are giving me this error. Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded. Msg 0, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the curre...

Suppose the memory is enough, how does MySQL determine whether to fetch from cache or re-query?

I'm running Ubuntu Lucid (10.4) x86_64 as a guest system on a headless Debian Lenny Xen hypervisor. On the Ubuntu machine, I run an X-server with a normal Gnome Desktop which is only reachable through VNC (using vnc4server). On this X-server, every kind of drag & drop interaction seems to be...

Recently configured the IP address of the server 192.168.0.2, then I went ahead and configured its role as a domain controller (This process also configured the DNS). Now I would like to reconfigure the IP as 192.168.1.2 will this mess domain controller configuration and also the connected users ...

should I run sql 2008 and IIS7 on the same server with 12GB of RAM? This is a high end Dell server.

I'm trying to install a new bes express 5 server with a Bloomberg MDS Gateway but there doesn't seem to be much documentation on this setup. I'm comfortable with the blackberry server setup, but not on installing blackberry applications (bloomberg in this case) Bloomberg provides the application ...

Hi, I'd like to simplify the URL's to access a Glassfish V3 application by removing file extensions and otherwise shortening URL's. I've already set my application as the default application, so that there is no need to include the context root in the URL. I'd like to: * Remove file extensions ...

I install memcache from pecl and I got memcache.so. After that I add in php.ini but I got a error. [12-Aug-2010 13:02:24] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/memcache.so' - dlopen(/Applic...

i have installed PHP on win 7 from this site http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/how-do-i/install-PHP-windows-7.php and when i run this http://localhost/phpinfo.php it gave me following error Oops! This link appears to be broken. please help

I have a Java application running on Linux servers. For the monitoring purpose we are looking at CPU RSZ and VSZ values. Can you please suggest me on what values I can set the notifications for the monitoring guys.

I would like to download one of the hyper-v images offered by Microsoft and run it in VMWare Workstation 7.x. Is this possible? If so, can you recommend a converter (preferably a free one) that can convert from hyper-v VHD to VMWare's VMDK format? I have tried VMWare converter but it does not see...

Hi, What does free command witj -o indicate , man page says it disbales buffer adjusted line. It subtracts buffer memory from free memory. What does this mean

The requests come from a Cisco load balancer. Lighttpd returns "HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request". Is there any configuration option for lighttpd so that it will accept these requests? Modifying the request to "GET /status.txt HTTP/1.0" would work as well, but my hosting provider won't change the reque...

Hi, We're currently prototyping up a multi-tenant (note!) whole desktop (VDI) hosting infrastructure using a domain joined cluster of Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 machines. We have established test Win7 VDI pools that are hosted on the Hyper-V cluster (nodes running as Virtualization Hosts). Forefront...

I have a windows 7 64bit machine. I am connecting via wifi When i enter a new VPN profile i and try and connect i an 868 error however if i open a profile that was created a few months ago and edit the username and password to the new account i can connect i have compared every setting in the ol...

Dear Experts, I am getting a Error while accesing the share of one of the windows 2003 server. The error says"The network path was not found" even if the server is up and I am able to ping that also. What could be wrong with that server. PLease help. Regards Vikram

Hi, Im having a problem with a stalling Linux system and I have found sysstat/sar to report huge peaks in disk I/O utilization, avgerage service time as well as average wait time at the time of the system stall. How could I go about to determine which process is causing these peaks the next tim...

Hi all, Im adding a logon script to a GPO to install a program for me. Can anyone see a problem with this script? When the PC boots it comes up saying that it can find the resource? Const EVENT_SUCCESS = 0 On Error Resume Next strPlugin = "HKLM\Software\BottomlineTechnologies\TransformInstall...

As mentioned on the Windows 7 blog the only supported upgrade path is from Windows Vista to Windows 7. So your users would have to go XP->Vista->Win7, that's supported. However direct XP->Win7 is not.

HI, this question is not a technical problem. I'm student and I will finish my trainee-ship in September and obtain my degree of master in administration and security of networks but the problem is that I don't have big experiences and during my studies we have done more theories (algorithms and...

Could you recommend me some app that would monitor my RAID-1 array and inform me immediately if one of the disks fails? I am on WinXP and with the AMD 760G chipset, and the motherboard comes with RaidXpert for that purpose, but what I want is just an app in the system tray showing whether it's al...

For applications to connect to the mysql database, often the credentials are stored in a properties file, like, for example jdbc.properties that have the username, password in cleartext. Is there a very secure way of doing this ? Ofcourse, I can restrict access to this file, make it hidden etc. ...

Hi, is it possible to share mail boxes between users on Mac OS X Server 10.6.4? I know Dovecot can do this but It seems that Snow Leopard's Dovecot can't, can it? Thanks Philip

I need to login as SYSTEM because my Apache runs a process as a SYSTEM (that's what I see in Task Manager) and I need to run that process from the command-line (psexec.exe) to accept the EULA popup, otherwise it will just hang on the Apache side.

Anyone experienced with configuring Squid to forward requests to HAproxy? I use Squid as a proxy, with ACLs and other stuff, and I need to know if I can tell it to forward requests to HAproxy, which would act as a load balancer that is aware when one of the backends is down.

Help me please to write nginx rewrites instead of that Apache htaccess: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)([^/])$ $1$2/ [R,L] Rewrit...

I need to perform a scanning of areas which do not meet standard sizes of A3, A4 etc. Those scans have to be loaded and post processed by custom application. The rough idea of my colleague was to disassemble standard scanner and attach optics + electronic (somehow) to a custom device which will n...

I have a Windows share mounted on a Linux server (RHEL4) using a mount command like this: mount -t smbfs //server_ip/foldername /servername/foldername -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD -o gid=users,dmask=777,fmask=777,rw,noatime It stays working for weeks at a time but sometimes stops wo...

I've got myself in tricky a situtation. I've disabled all non windows services in MSConfig. When i restarted my laptop boots but i cannot view the screen even in safe mode. Perhaps i have disabled a driver. But i have no way of knowing which one. So, i don;t know which service i disable and ...

My workgroup Windows XP Pro SP3 permits (or establishes itself) a hundred of network sessions with workgroup computers, see the result of "net sessions" below [1]. NetBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP) is disabled. I tried to get rid of them disabling one by one a lot of services in services.msc, then dis...

$ echo -e "test1\ntest2" > logfile $ echo -e "test1\ntest2" >> logfile $ cat logfile test1 test2 test1 test2 $ rm logfile $ crontab -e * * * * * echo -e "test1\ntest2" >> logfile $ sleep 160 $ cat logfile -e test1 test2 -e test1 test2 Why am I getting the -e in the output? ...

Hi all, I am after an open source tool to monitor the network traffic of a small lan. I thought of wireshark but the ammount of details it captures its massive. What i need is just a basic analysis of the network traffic by protocol, host, etc. I am going to run this in an old box with windows x...

I'm in the process of migrating printers to a new Print Server, running Microsoft Server 2008 R2, for the most part it's been going fine. But we have a problem with a HP LaserJet 2600n. This printer is not supported by HP Universal Printer drivers, nor has its drivers been updated passed Server 2...

I was advise by my webhosting company providing managed colocation dedicated server service that adding 128Gb RAM to a Sunfire X2200M2 Server (Dual Quad Core 1.9Ghz) to run ESX 4.0 Host would not be advisable. The Sunfire server support a maximum 128GB RAM, but they say its no point adding that ...

I have read in a site that another benefit of having Lighttpd in front of Apache is lower number of child processes. Lighttpd will handle keep-alive and client requests while child processes of Apache gets to serve dynamic pages faster because of the very low latency communication between Lighttp...

Hello We have an IIS 6 on Windows 2008. We have multiple web sites on this server. Two of those sites have the same physical path. - One should have the Default.aspx page as default document ; - The other one should have index_syfab.asp as default document, which simply does a redirection on De...

Can I migrate 32bit SQL Server 2005 database to 64bit SQL Server 2008 database without too much hassle or is there somethign I need to think about first?

Hi all. Anyone has any bash script that does a daily/weekly/yearly backup script that I can use with cron. Basically it will put the backups into 3 folders. Daily backup would only have this week's backup files. Weekly backup would only have this month's weekly backup file and month backup folde...

I have Nagios checking service status and sending SMS messages about service status. Some problems are not important at night and prefer to not send them at night. define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name non_work alias Non work hours sunday 00:00-24:00 monday 00:00-09...

We have three servers running Ubuntu Server 10.04, load balancing between them through DNS. We use Django, nginx to serve content and PostgresQL as database. For PostgresQL, there are some mirroring solutions, but what is the best way to mirror our static files, using "three masters" schema? I...

I'm bit confused, I have a cron job that sends out 12 000 + emails every sunday night, now I'm not sure where the emails that are bounce get send to, will this always be the reply address specified in the email being send from? Centos is the Linux distro I use to send out mails.

Hello Is it possible to install and use window migration tools on windows web server 2008 R2?

Hopefully I am posting this on the right site. I am trying to take over maintenance of a web site. The developer used Typo3 for a CMS. The problem is that I am not that familiar with Typo3 and I can't seem to find any reference to this in the documentation. All I am trying to do is edit the t...

Hi all! After eventually managing to upgrade my debian virtual server from etch to lenny. (Read here for the full story: http://serverfault.com/questions/168808/debian-upgrade-from-etch-to-lenny-fails) I now lost the data (including all tables) from my MySQL DB. The files are still present on t...

Hey All, I have setup IIS7 and using ARR for my reverse proxy. I have setup a blank rule with the rule https: //sub.example.com/(.*) which redirects to https://localhost:8443/{R:1}. This seems to be working well except I am getting a 403 error... Any recommendations? (Can only post one URL s...

Hello, I have window 2003 100mbps server, i have tried using php script such as php indexer, zina pancake.org and others. The php script use to serve download such as images and music songs. I personally have 20mbps internet speed. When i use the php script (download pass thru PHP headers) , i...

I want to configure a dhcp server to assign both public and private IPs. How is the best way to do this? I would like to create a 3-leg network with the public servers in a dmz, but the key thing I am hung up on right now is how to assign both networks IPs through dhcp..

You've seen it done on sites like basecamphq.com where you would have username.basecamphq.com I'm wanting to do a similar thing, any subdomain is routed through to the same index.php file. so username1.example.com will request /home/some/path/to/www (in here is index.php) and username2.example....

I would really like to hear if anyone has (and how you did it) successfully imported PSTs into Exchange 2010 (RTM or SP1). I have tried via PowerShell (for SP1) but I am now stuck. Link to my earlier question: http://serverfault.com/questions/169404/error-importing-psts-into-exchange-2010-sp1 ...

man pages often look like a wall of text when you open them, with huge amounts of options and often not much context. But they are a great mine of information for how to use the commands. So how do you go about making sense of man pages? What are the standard sections about? How are they organis...

I forot password for wasadmin.So am not able to enter into admin pane.I want to recover the password.Where is encoded passwod located?How can i decode it?I am using same password at many other places,so i want recover password rather then resetting password.

Am struggling to understand what is going on with this one. A user is sending an email but getting an NDR back that states the address he is trying to send to as: IMCEAMAILTO-GLBCLM+40xxxxxx+2Ecom@domain.co.uk. This makes no sense to me. I was thinking this was a corrupt nk2 file on the us...

I apologize if I'm not clear enough in my question. Anyways I'm on a Windows Server 2003 domain. On that domain we have several other Organizational Units within that domain. I'm still learning about AD but I believe the hierarchy is Domain then Directories. Well anyways let's say that one Dire...

I have a web app that is going to run on multiple servers. I'd like to make sure, that requests using the same session (HTTP cookie header with value JSESSIONID=x) always communicate with the same server. That is, until the session "moves" to a different server in certain circumstances (not only ...

Possibly a simple question but I'm trying to lockdown which users can send email from the local machine. I've locked down which ones can receive by running newaliases on an /etc/postfix/allowed_recipients file and setting something similar to smtpd_recipient_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/allow...

Hi all, I'm just trying to do a quick test of a VPN set up for testing some software on. I am setting up a VPN using the "New Incoming Connection" option in "Network Connections". It seems to set up fine but I'm having real trouble connecting to it. So far I've tried connecting to it from an ...

I am developer. I had 1) AD computer Windows XP Pro SP3 (it can be any other Windows workstation OS for consideration). Since I had the hard disk of only 20 GB but needed full control over machine + setup of developing tools (Vsial Studio 2008+2010) and servers (MS SQL Server 2008 R2, Share...

Hello, I'm having this situation: I have domain admin privileges on my user account There are some domain users with unlocktime password permissions (applied by delegation over the domain) for unlock accounts The domain user with unlock permissions can unlock any account on the network. Good....

I recently participated in a discussion regarding what happens when a client requests a page from a proxy server. I just wanted to make sure that my understanding of this sequence of events was correct in the general case: User requests site A DNS request is sent (by the client, to its configur...

I have recently taken over SysAdmin duties for a SMB. They have an Exchange 2007 server in-house. Their website is hosted off-site. When trying to figure out a configuration error, I noticed that auto-discovery was not working remotely. DNS is through GoDaddy. WWW points to hosted server for ...

I am creating this in ms word, to create a 3-ring binder with tabs, full of documentation of everything about our web server. What are the main categories that I should include? We have 2 servers, both windows, 1 for web, 1 for sql server, the web 1, runs iis7 and coldfusion. I have no traini...

I have an EC2 server running that I use to process image uploads. i have a flash swf that handles uploading to the server from my local disk - while uploading about 130 images (a total of about 650MB) I got the following error in my server log file after about the 45th image. glibc detected /us...

I have set a password for screen sessions in my .screenrc. It works great, any time I need to re-attach to a screen session I need to enter the password. There is another feature where you can lockout the current terminal (ctrl+a, x). This is a fantastic feature for locking the terminal really...

I'm trying to find a way to force any user that logs into our Citrix XenDesktop environment from a particular workstation/thin client to log directly into a specified Desktop Group rather than be presented with a list of all desktop groups that user is entitled to. Is this possible?

Hi-- I'm trying to script a backup system for several servers, some Windows, some Linux. I'd love to be able to use rsync but I can't (at least not in all situations, since some servers I can't install rsync to, and some are Win servers). To add a wrinkle, some servers I have SSH access to, and...

I'm a consultant and I'm not happy with my workflow and want to get some suggestions. Current workflow: Paper notebook where I track time and what I accomplish for clients, I have Outlook where I track to-do items and use the calendar, twice a month I have to go into Excel and prepare Work Order...

-Can I use the cloud to do "Grid computing"? what I need is parallel computing where I do some rendering and would like it to do some heavier calculations for matlab. To combined the computing power of some or all computers in to "one task" if it is running multiple threads -How many controller...

This is my first time managing my own server and apache is giving me many headaches. My VPS provider provides me with a control panel to load OS images. I installed an image that has Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP and Webmin pre-installed. http://imgur.com/pxYvE.png http://imgur.com/HqUlj.png Someti...

Hi! I am on debian, raid1, one of the drives seems dead. root@rescue ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sda2[0] 486279424 blocks [2/1] [U_] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 2104448 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> root@rescue ~ # is it...

I have an Sql query that looks up a person based on SSN and returns the PersonID (identity column). There is a index on the SSN column in the persons table. I have an old VB 6 application that uses COM/.NET interop to call this query. When it does it runs relatively slow. I set up a trace using ...

I have been trying to access the Employee ID field from Active Directory using the following code. I am able to view the given name,sur name and voicetelephone number but the employe id is not visible.I know for sure that it is "there" in AD. Is it something to do with privileges.My dev machine...

Hi all, I just made a big mistake. I set the Everyone group Deny permissions on a folder shared.. How do I recover that ? Please help..

I want to keep two directories "in sync" such that the local version may contain only a subset of the remote version. So, syncing them up should result in any changes to the local subset being pushed to the remote directory, and any changes to the remote directory, that are made to the relevant ...

I have a server with a few different domains on it (each in a separate VHost). Each VHost runs fine, executing PHP properly, etc. For the sake of example, two of the domains are foo.com and bar.com. I'm trying to create an alias on foo.com that will include files from a directory on bar.com. Easy...

Their website says they can be found here: http://www.netgear.com/Home/Landing/en-US/WW_VisioStencils.aspx But in reality that simply redirects to their home page (excellent site management Netgear!). Specifically I'm looking for stencils for the ProSafe FS108 and FS116 switches. Thanks in ad...

I need to migrate 2 Windows virtual machines running as a Xen DomU to VMWare ESXi. I've migrated a lot of the Linux and Solaris DomU without any problems but don't know what to do with Windows - after I convert the disks, it simply doesn't boot, stuck on "Loading acpitabl.dat" and then freezes. ...

My account was locked and I've got this error on my workstation Event Viewer Security log: Logon Failure: Reason: Account locked out User Name: [myusername] Domain: [mydomain] Logon Type: 3 [means Network login] Logon Process: NtLmSsp Authentication Package: MICROS...

This is actually a two part question. I've got a LAMP configuration and a web site that relies heavily on the error_log functionality built into PHP. The error log is growing rather large in size. My first question is can I configure PHP (php.ini) to output these error messages to the Apache...

Hi I'm running a wamp server on a windows xp box. I have a .htaccess file that contains AuthType Basic AuthName "restricted area" AuthUserFile C:/wamp/www/.htpasswd require valid-user and a password file .htpasswd user:$apr1$4EPQ5/..$aRu05NnKW3Zhpf2m1Jst2. password = password The .htacce...

I'm looking for a way to migrate a SharePoint 2007 task list to SharePoint 2010 and preserve all the fields (including Description, which is typically not shown in columns). How can I do this?

I'm running a fully updated Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i686 server. I have an single XFS volume in an LVM group called /dev/mapper/vg0-bigthree. If I boot to single user mode and ensure that the volume is unmounted, I still get the following every time I try to run xfs_check: $ sudo xfs_check /dev/ma...

I am using .htaccess to use a custom page for 500 errors. I wanted to know how I could modify it to pass along the url they were attempting to the custom error page the current line is like this: ErrorDocument 500 http://www.thoughtsonliberty.com/wordpress/about-2/server-issues/

I'm using TightVNC to connect from my work computer (Fedora) to my home desktop (Windows 7). For some reason when I attempt to type in the remote desktop (vnc viewer) the keystrokes aren't sending to my home desktop. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is and/or how to fix it?

Hi, We've got an existing Mercurial server running under Windows 2008/IIS that is using Active Directory for authentication. We have three existing users that have no problems at all with Mercurial. Clone/push/pull all work just fine. I was trying to get another domain user set up with Mercur...

I'm trying to create a Windows Server 2008 Image that will prompt for a new product ID on startup. Is there a way to force 'sysprep' to clear the current product key and require the user to enter a new product key?

Hi, I would like to run a script when an email is received. I added this line to /etc/aliases myuser: "|/home/myuser/mailer.rb" When I send an email to myuser@domain, I see permission denied error in the maillog. Aug 12 14:17:59 stag postfix/local[29300]: E5B8F67024F: to=, relay=local, delay=...

I am looking for some decent intranet portal software for my 50+ person company. It should provide at least the following functionality: company news, employee directory, photo albums, and hosting of documents. Does anyone know of anything, open source or commercial?

I have a very basic and newbie question. I was told that we have a "Gigabit Network". So, I ran a quick scp test by copying a file to another machine and the transfer rate is only 35MB/sec. Shouldn't the transfer rate be near the 1GB/sec? Also, is there a command line that will tell me that I...

I have a wireless router through which multiple computers/printers and iphones are connected. Also, two switch ports are occupied by a desktop and a ip camera. I want to connect another 'wired ip camera' to my router, but dont want to run 40ft of wire. Is there a product X (such as a wireless sw...

I have two laptops. One is running Windows XP Pro and one is running Windows XP Media Center. They both have all the Windows updates. When I brows to a static web page that is hosted by a web server on the laptop, it fails about 15% of time. The browser progress bar moves very slowly. There ...

I have a Windows 2003 R2 server "appserver" with various shares, I can access this server and shares from any machine on the network accept from itself. I can list the shares by going to "\appserver\" but when i try to access any of the shares I getthe error message "No network provider accepted...

Error Warning "Event SRV error 2012 in Windows Server 2008 R2" is being logged with increasing frequency. NIC drivers were updated recently. There are some drops in the switches. This is the error: SRV 2012 While transmitting or receiving data, the server encountered a network error. Occ...

I am trying to set up an openvpn server and client, with all client traffic being routed through the server. I am currently able to access the server through the client, but when I enable 'push "redirect-gateway def1"' on the server, the client loses all ability to connect to the internet, vpn or...

I'm setting up a system with 1 App server and 1 DB server, I want to use pgpool's connection pooling features to help ensure site stability and reduce overhead. Should I have pgpool setup on the app or db server for maximum impact?

My DNSmasq configuration is as follows: dhcp-range=private,192.168.128.100,192.168.128.200 dhcp-range=public,192.168.129.100,192.168.129.200 dhcp-option=private,option:router,192.168.128.1 dhcp-option=private,option:dns-server,192.168.128.1 dhcp-option=public,option:router,192.168.129.1 dhcp-op...

Hi, Does anyone store vm backups on their local server? We have a HyperV server with some dev VMs, and it was mentioned how we would store the backups on the local server but also at a remote location. The idea being that storing the backups locally will make it quick and easy to restore VMs, ra...

seen this error usually in the morning when users log in, it is from their own workstation. is this something to be concerned about, it has happend for about 1 month now. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks. sample of error below From the system log via DnsAPI Event Type: Warning Event...

Hi, We have a couple of test VMs which we use to test software on. We would like to have a virtual machine revert back to a saved state everytime the VM restarts. I believe virtualbox calls this feature "Read-Only Mode". I know I can manually revert to a snapshot each time however I would lik...

I have an OEM version of Windows 7 running on a Dell laptop, which was recently purchased and I'm unable to locate the Windows 7 key on the laptop or any material included with the laptop. The laptop came with only 2 GB of memory. I'd like to upgrade it to 6 GB, but doing so will require me to re...

I have a server running VMWare ESXi with one physical NIC. This server is running 3 VMs (S1, S2, and S3) which are all running Windows Server 2008 R2. I want to set up NAT routing on this server such that only one of those servers has an external IP, and all incoming requests go to that single...

Hello, I am migrating SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. I have followed the 81 page microsoft guidelines here: (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=52b7ea63-78af-4a96-811e-284f5c1de13b&displaylang=en) and have run the migration prepartion tool which completed successfully and then ...

Hello, I have installed kannel in a virtual machine (ubuntu 10.04). I did not change any of the default config and tested the fakesmsc. This work fine. When I plug my iPhone in USB, I do not see any /dev/ttyUSB showing up (I though this was how modem was mounted). Could you please help ? Thanks...

Some emails sent via mail() on my server are not reaching their destinations. I've checked the mail logs and I have no log entries since Aug 5th. I'm not sure where to begin looking into what might be the problem. I have confirmed that some mails are being sent/received.

I'm looking for a preferably small and very stable linux proxy. Nothing fancy. I've tried squid but its too bulky for what I need. Any recommendations?

Is backing up a SQL Server via doing a complete backup of the VM image rather than backing up individual databases a bad practise? I can imagine that backing up the entire image looses the granularity of having several tlogs of each db for each day. Is this generally a bad thing? Thaks

I've got a Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Server and it's recently started getting numerous 'kNetworkError's in Server Admin.app when viewing services. It's acting as a gateway w/NAT and has been so for quite some time. There is one glaring issue, bootpd crashes all the time with t...

I have a mailbox server with a mailbox database and a public folder database. I add a second mailbox server and create a mailbox database and a public folder database on it. For mailbox databases, I'm setting up a DAG for both of them. For public folders, I want all of the PFs, system ones and...

My current Windows Workplace Network need some users to have restricted access to the internet and some users to have full access to the internet. So I used a OPENDNS as it turned out to be the most simple and yet cost effective option (as in free!) So I granted those users limited accounts and ...

I have been looking around for something to replace my (ancient) ISC-DHCPd server. A DHCP server with a database backend sounds like a great idea to me, as I could then have a nice, friendly web interface to my server. Surprisingly, I can't any major open-source projects that offer this. Does ...

I'm battling with getting a C process working that needs to link in Oracle dynamic libraries. It compiles and runs fine under the oracle user (the user oracle was installed against) but not under another account. The obvious reason is that the default oracle install doesn't grant read or execut...

How does one prevent hotlinking of swf files from Amazon A3? Flash files don't send http referrers, so I've tried to set a bucket policy that restricts to certain referrers at Amazon, but no luck. And this typical anti-hotlinking .htaccess at my server doesn't work: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ...

My ASP.NET site is running slow, and I decided to troubleshoot it to figure out what to tackle first. I've used Fiddler2 to see where the bottleneck is, the results DO NOT MAKE ANY SENSE!!! Please see below and let me know what am I doing wrong? When I request an image from my local server, I ...

I just upgraded a simple Ubuntu webserver from 9.10 to 10.04.1 and our nagios claims UNKNOWN for the single snmp check we run against it. It was working previously, so this baffles me. I installed the plugins on my desktop and get this output when I run it (obfuscated where appropriate: $: ./ch...

I have an exchange instance installed and working, but I do not want this machine to delivery email itself. To explain:- Exchange server hosts domain foo.com. User A logs in to send a message to userB@foo.com Exchange looks up this user, and delivers it locally. This message never leaves this bo...

Hi, I have an haproxy server doing load balancing for a few nginx servers. When the request passes through the request domain becomes the ip address of the nginx server and not the original request domain. Is there any way to have haproxy forward on the origin request domain?