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  1. itsp1965

    Can no longer load web pages following Firefox 3.5.6

    Hi guys, Firefox automatically updated my browser to the new 3.5.6 version and I am no longer able to access any sites. I tried starting firefox in safe-mode still nothing. Totally removing 3.5.6 and installing an earlier version didn't help either. Has anyone run into this issue and is there...
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    AIX NIM Behind Firewall

    Folks, although I may already know the answer to this, here's my dilemma; We are trying to implement NIM in order to deploy AIX images and as one of the requirements TFTP must have all available ports open for communications behind a firewall. Since the firewall guys are balking at allowing...
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    pSeries Virtualization and VLAN Tagging

    Hello folks, we are currently in the process of virtualizing our pSeries frames and one of the pieces we are working through is the use VLAN tagging to support network virtualization. My question is has anyone worked with VLAN tagging (for the purpose of pSeries virtualization)primarily using...
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    Forcing AIX Traceroute to use ICMP Echo

    Folks I have a customer who has a network segment consisting of only pSeries servers running AIX 5.3. They need to be able to run a traceroute to another network across a firewall. It seems the firewall is allowing ICMP traffic but since *nix uses a mix of ICMP and UDP I am unable to get...
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    Citrix Releases Free Printer Driver Utility - "Print Detective"

    Ran into this today, maybe it can help you guys out http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9183 Citrix support just posted a new utility to Citrix's knowledgebase called, "Print Detective". Print Detective is an information-gathering utility that can be used for troubleshooting problems...
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    Hanging Issue with RedHat Linux on IBM Netvista

    Hi guys, I am experiencing a strange issue running RHEL both versions 4 and 5 on an IBM Netvista computer. The system boots up fine and I don't see any errors in the logs, but after a day or two.. I can be running a command like "top" or "setup" and the system just hangs. I can't even initialize...
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    Determining if dedicated interface is being used for backups

    Folks, I have inherited a few servers that were configured to use a dedicated NIC for backups. I configured the DSM.OPT file accordingly but I am not sure if it is actually using the dedicated IP address (TCPClientAddress). Spoke to our TSM admins and they say they don't know how to determine...
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    Cross Post - Blackberry Enterprise Server on VMWare

    Hi folks, just wanted to know if anyone has a BES environment setup running on Vmware and if you can share your pains/successes and any links to some useful articles regarding design and implementation. Thanks
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    Has Anyone Performed a Blackberry Server Install on Vmware

    Hi folks, just wanted to know if anyone has a BES environment setup running on Vmware and if you can share your pains/successes and any links to some useful articles regarding design and implementation. Thanks
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    TS Issue Can only RDP to Console

    Folks I have inherited support of some servers from a customer and I am having a very strange issue with one of them; This is a Windows 2003 EE server in a workgroup mode with TS enabled for remote admin only (no app mode install, no license server install). Whenever I try to run a standard RDP...
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    GUI interface for Server Core

    Guys ran into this on Petri's website. http://www.petri.co.il/manage-windows-server-2008-core-settings-coreconfigurator.htm
  12. itsp1965

    Very Slow Conversion from Basic to Dynamic Disk in 64-bit Windows

    Hi guys, I don't know if anyone has run into this, but we have a Windows 2003 64-bit server that is connected to SAN disk. Although we have no problem seeing the drives, they would all show as offline when in dynamic mode, so we had to revert to basic then back to dynamic in order to bring them...
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    VMware Server and Win2K8 Server Core Networking

    Folks for those of you who are trying to virtualize Windows 2008 server core under VMware, here is what you'll need to do; 1. Install using the standard VMware profile for Windows 2003 standard/enteprise and proceed to install 2. Once you have installed, you'll notice that networking is not...
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    VMware Server and RC0

    Thanks guys for pointing us to this forum (I was looking for it also). I started testing RC0 under Vmare Server 1.0.3 but of course the networking components cannot be identified. Has anybody gotten the network part of Win2008 working under Vmware? and if so how?
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    Issue When Creating Multiple Users with the newusers command

    I am attempting to migrate all my user accounts to a new server and I discovered the newusers command which allows you to create a number of users based on a text file which is similar to /etc/passwd. I was able to create the accounts fine, but noticed that the contents of /etc/skel aren't...
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    Kickstart Install Using FTP

    Hi guys, I have successfully managed to setup kickstart to run over FTP. Have a couple of questions though; 1. I bootup with with the CD and run linux ks=ftp://ftpserver/pub/ks.cfg Now I am assuming since I haven't configured a network stack,the server's NIC has been probed and looking for a...
  17. itsp1965

    Useradd - unable to lock password file after changing hostname

    Folks, I changed the hostname of one my test boxes in /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/networks after rebooting all is well but I noticed that everytime I enter the useradd command, my system hangs for a few seconds and then displays unable to lock password file. Does anyone know how to fix this.
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    Determining If an Account is Locked In Linux

    Folks in part of my system hardening I have set system-auth file to disable an account after 5 password tries requiring a reset using faillog -u <userid> -r My question is, wouldn't /etc/shadow flag this particular user's entry show !$ in the password string as locked. In essence how do I know...
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    Configuring system-auth for non-expiring user passwords

    Folks, does anyone know how to setup /etc/pam.d/system-auth to allow exceptions to user accounts with non-expiring passwords?
  20. itsp1965

    Creating Linux Images For Transfer To Similar Hardware

    Hello folks, I have been tasked with creating a RHEL4 image which will be deployed on about a dozen systems all with similar hardware. My customer wants to manually install on each of the systems, but I am afraid that they are bound to miss something during the course of each install. I have...

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