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Quick Answer:

1. Stop Citrix IMA Service

2. Run ‘dsmaint recreatelhc’

3. Start Citrix IMA Service

Whe got the same messege on our Citrix servers:”Citrix Presentation Server is unable to retrieve the license server location. Check to see if the Citrix Independant Managemane Architecture Service is running without errors.If Necessary, set the license server […]

View Additional User Information in AD Users and Computers

View Additional User Information in AD Users and Computers.

How can I view additional information about a user in the AD Users and Computers snap-in?

The Windows 2003 Resource Kit has a hidden .dll file called Acctinfo.dll. After registering the .dll with the following command, it will add a new property page, called […]

YouTube – Daniel Tosh Destroys an iPad

YouTube – Daniel Tosh Destroys an iPad.

A good site for drivers

http://www.driverguide.com/ USER NAME is: drivers PASSWORD is: all

To access the guide, follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to http://www.driverguide.com/ Step 2: Click on the member login link. Step 3: You will be asked for your user name and password. (please make sure the user name and password are in lowercase)

Programatically Add Printers

Using a tool from the Windows Zero Administration Kit (ZAK), which is called con2prt.exe, you can connect to network printers from the command line (or through login script) and even set the default. ZAK can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/Recommended/Featured/NTZAK.asp – this mentions it’s for OS’s up to NT 4.0, but the only took I […]

Change Registry via Group Policy (GPO)

Here are a couple articles that explain how to make registry changes via Group Policy (GPO). This was used to get Screen Savers to work correctly when the regular user needed permissions to a registry key. Here is how you set registry permissions via GPO: http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20050111_set_registry_permissions_using_group_policy.phtml

This is the change you need to make […]

Windows Server 2003 Alias Problem

If configured correctly, Windows 2003 will respond to aliases, CNAME’s, multiple names, etc. But this is broken as of SP1… http://www.mcse.ms/archive183-2005-5-1632584.html

Yep found an answer.

1. Locate the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

2. Add Value Value name: DisableLoopbackCheck Data type: REG_DWORD Radix: Decimal Value: 1

“Thierry Van de Vaerd” <thierry.vandevaerd@telenet.be> wrote in […]

Slow Network Performance Between Host & Guest

Running a Windows guest on a Linux Host and using Samba to share files from the host, I have witnessed extremely slow file transfer performance. I have seen this on multiple stations and multiple situations.

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=509389 Basically:

ethtool -K eth0 tso off

and restart Samba. This worked for me, and I also put the […]

Increase VMWare Disk Size

Basic notes:

– Do not use Dynamic Disks in VMWare! – You cannot re-size the OS disk using this process, but likely can with 3rd party utilities. – NEVER decrease the size of a disk (says you can – don’t)!

Now the steps:

– Shut down the guest (consider disabling network to be 100% […]

cs_config_failed

cs_config(CS_LOC_PROP) failed -or- DynaLoader.pm

Error that occurs when using freetds and Sybase, DBI::Sybase http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/2005q2/018504.html

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 21:32, Stephen More wrote: > >> When I use perl DBD::Sybase in Redhat AS 2.1 and Solaris 9 with freetds > >> and unixODBC, I always get the following > >> error: > >> > >> […]

IP Addresses to number (Integer) and reverse

Also see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Miscellaneous_functions.html

Given the dotted-quad representation of a network address as a string, returns an integer that represents the numeric value of the address. Addresses may be 4- or 8-byte addresses. INET_ATON(expr) Given the dotted-quad representation of a network address as a string, returns an integer that represents the numeric value of the […]

Outlook PST File Compression

After deleting a large number of e-mails from an Outlook Post Office (PST File), you may need to compress it to get back that space. Here’s how: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6247-0.html?forumID=12&threadID=103136&messageID=652031

Hi,

In response to the question, how do I compress a .pst file – this may be what you are looking for. 1) In Outlook, select […]

MS Excel – Do Not Show #N/A

If you don’t want to see that nasty #N/A when doing lookups in Microsoft Excel, you can use the ISNA function in an if statement. (From http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=446 )

So, our criteria is IF the VLOOKUP returns #N/A, give me an empty cell, but if it doesn’t, give me the result of the VLOOKUP.

Let’s […]

SSH Brute Force Attack ipTables

Add these rules to protect yourself againsed the SSH brute force attack. iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -m state –state NEW -m recent –set –name SSH iptables -N SSH_WHITELIST iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -m state –state NEW -j SSH_WHITELIST iptables -A SSH_WHITELIST -s $TRUSTED_HOST -m recent –remove –name SSH […]

BigBrother Problems on FC5

Using bbc1.9e-btf (not the most recent version as of this writing, but it matched the old system) generated this message in BBOUT:

Mon Apr 10 12:45:55 2006 bb-local.sh /bin/sort: open failed: +4: No such file or directory

The DISK status page showed:

red Mon Apr 10 11:25:35 EDT 2006 – Filesystem of /usr/local/bb/bbc1.9e-btf/tmp is […]

Batch convert images with ImageMagick

I’m posting this just because I’m sick of having to re-figure out the command line whenever I have to do it!

The idea is to process each file in the current path in the form of *.jpg, then resize it to a max of 96×96 (so when complete, the final image will not have […]

Getting NetJuke to work with PHP5

When upgrading from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4, you end up getting PHP5. Many people suggest downgrading to get NetJuke to work, but I don’t like that!

The message in the logs is:

[client 71.192.16.106] PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_PRIVATE in /var/www/html/netjuke/lib/inc-common.php on line 675

Link: http://www.jinzora.com/njforums/viewtopic.php?t=596&sid=53c5ea8dcb1af614e9f359e3988e1f73

This article descibes […]

Making transparent images with Gimp

I know this is in Linux and there should be a Gimp category, but whatever…

I do this with regularity, and always have to Google the instructions. So here they are! The Gimp: Making Colors in a GIF Transparent By Crouse USA Linux Users Group Web Site: http://www.usalug.org

Sometimes when working with an image […]

Get SpamAssassin Working with updates

A short article with links and ‘needs’ to get Spamassassin working with SARE updates, etc.

Run the following and fix errors:

spamassassin -D –lint 2>&1 | grep -i fail

– Used ‘yum install perl-Razor-Agent’ to resolve the Razor2::Client::Agent dependancy – Had to build Net::Ident by hand

Run sa-update once to populate the default rules. […]

Adding a Javascript PopUp Window to HTML

You can add Pop-Up functionality to a web page quickly and easily with a little Javascript. This is useful for help screens or any other informational screens where you don’t need a browser window with full functionality and you don’t want to lose your existing page.To do this, add the following to the <HEAD> […]