C#.Net
Hi Colleen. I’m President of GLUGnet.org, the Lansing MI area user group for .Net. We have over 350 developers on our email list that covers essentially the entire central Michigan area. Since the Michigan economy is struggling and jobs are tight, you should get a strong response to a posting at our job website, jobcoin.glugnet.org. [...]
View Answer
| July 12, 2007 10:57 PM
Application development, Business Objects, Business/IT alignment, C, Career development, Certifications, Cognos, Computer Associates, Crystal Reports, Data Junction, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database, DB2, Deltek Systems, Desktops, Development, Distribution/logistics applications, Enterprise Desktop, Financial services applications, IBM, Linux, Management, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, Oracle, OS, PeopleSoft, SAP, SAS Institute, Security, Servers, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, SPSS, SQL, SQL Server, SS&C Technologies, SunGard Data Systems, Systems Union Group, Training, Transaction Systems Architects, VBScript, Vendors, Visual Basic, Web development, Web development tools
Hi Colleen. I’m President of GLUGnet.org, the Lansing MI area user group for .Net. We have over 350 developers on our email list that covers essentially the entire central Michigan area. Since the Michigan economy is struggling and jobs are tight, you should get a strong response to a posting at our job website, jobcoin.glugnet.org. [...]
View Answer
| July 12, 2007 10:57 PM
Application development, Business Objects, Business/IT alignment, C, Career development, Certifications, Cognos, Computer Associates, Crystal Reports, Data Junction, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database, DB2, Deltek Systems, Desktops, Development, Distribution/logistics applications, Enterprise Desktop, Financial services applications, IBM, Linux, Management, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, Oracle, OS, PeopleSoft, SAP, SAS Institute, Security, Servers, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, SPSS, SQL, SQL Server, SS&C Technologies, SunGard Data Systems, Systems Union Group, Training, Transaction Systems Architects, VBScript, Vendors, Visual Basic, Web development, Web development tools
Postfix configuration
I’m puzzled as to why you sent both me and the group messages – I wonder how many other direct messages you sent. Aside from that though…. What does your main.cf file look like? When the postfix daemon is running, do a netstat -a and see if anything is listening on port 110 (POP3), unless [...]
View Answer
| July 5, 2007 2:44 AM
Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Networking
I’m puzzled as to why you sent both me and the group messages – I wonder how many other direct messages you sent. Aside from that though…. What does your main.cf file look like? When the postfix daemon is running, do a netstat -a and see if anything is listening on port 110 (POP3), unless [...]
View Answer
| July 5, 2007 2:44 AM
Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Networking
Plz help me !!!!!!!!!!
This may, at first glance, seem to be an unhelpful response to your question but on reflection it may prove to be of value to you. Firstly, what do YOU want? Do you have any plan for where you will be and/or what you may be doing in 1, 5 and 10 years? Have a [...]
View Answer
| June 13, 2007 8:35 PM
Business/IT alignment, Career development, CCNA, Certifications, Linux, Networking, Networking certifications, Outsourcing, Training
This may, at first glance, seem to be an unhelpful response to your question but on reflection it may prove to be of value to you. Firstly, what do YOU want? Do you have any plan for where you will be and/or what you may be doing in 1, 5 and 10 years? Have a [...]
View Answer
| June 13, 2007 8:35 PM
Business/IT alignment, Career development, CCNA, Certifications, Linux, Networking, Networking certifications, Outsourcing, Training
Postfix not communicating with Mail server
The first thing to consider in all sudden changes like this is to ask “What changed?”. You mentioned your domain mail server – Is it under your control, or that of your ISP? Ask the mail folks if they’ve had any policy changes, or or mail server organization changes. Have you made any changes? Have [...]
View Answer
| May 8, 2007 12:27 PM
Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Networking, Software, Tech support
The first thing to consider in all sudden changes like this is to ask “What changed?”. You mentioned your domain mail server – Is it under your control, or that of your ISP? Ask the mail folks if they’ve had any policy changes, or or mail server organization changes. Have you made any changes? Have [...]
View Answer
| May 8, 2007 12:27 PM
Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Networking, Software, Tech support
Connecting Samba to Active Directory
You have to go into the domain security policy. The specifics are covered in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555038 This is actually based on the idea that the only other OS that is compatible with the Microsoft version of Kerberos is the latest Mac OS and Microsoft by default leaves the Kerberos Signing set to Required.
View Answer
| April 5, 2007 12:17 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, General Directories, Linux, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
You have to go into the domain security policy. The specifics are covered in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555038 This is actually based on the idea that the only other OS that is compatible with the Microsoft version of Kerberos is the latest Mac OS and Microsoft by default leaves the Kerberos Signing set to Required.
View Answer
| April 5, 2007 12:17 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, General Directories, Linux, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
Connecting Samba to Active Directory
You have to go into the domain security policy. The specifics are covered in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555038 This is actually based on the idea that the only other OS that is compatible with the Microsoft version of Kerberos is the latest Mac OS and Microsoft by default leaves the Kerberos Signing set to Required.
View Answer
| April 5, 2007 12:17 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, General Directories, Linux, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
You have to go into the domain security policy. The specifics are covered in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555038 This is actually based on the idea that the only other OS that is compatible with the Microsoft version of Kerberos is the latest Mac OS and Microsoft by default leaves the Kerberos Signing set to Required.
View Answer
| April 5, 2007 12:17 AM
Active Directory, Desktops, General Directories, Linux, Lotus Domino, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
Cannot configure Squid v2.6 using webmin
You’d probably do yourself a much bigger favor by editing the configuration file manually. The main squid file is /etc/squid/squid.conf on Mandriva systems. It’s a large file, but it’s very well described in the comments. If you want to use webmin, I’d guess that you need to update your webmin package. Squid 2.6 has been [...]
View Answer
| April 2, 2007 7:24 PM
DataCenter, Linux
You’d probably do yourself a much bigger favor by editing the configuration file manually. The main squid file is /etc/squid/squid.conf on Mandriva systems. It’s a large file, but it’s very well described in the comments. If you want to use webmin, I’d guess that you need to update your webmin package. Squid 2.6 has been [...]
View Answer
| April 2, 2007 7:24 PM
DataCenter, Linux
UNIX Windows XP
Depends on what exact “UNIX file system”. If it was Linux, the most chances are that it is ext2/ext3 file system. You can use it with http://www.fs-driver.org/ driver or similar (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd , there are more). Try to detect what FS is there with some tool like recent PartitionMagic. With different FS you should use different [...]
View Answer
| January 20, 2007 8:07 AM
Linux, Microsoft Windows
Depends on what exact “UNIX file system”. If it was Linux, the most chances are that it is ext2/ext3 file system. You can use it with http://www.fs-driver.org/ driver or similar (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd , there are more). Try to detect what FS is there with some tool like recent PartitionMagic. With different FS you should use different [...]
View Answer
| January 20, 2007 8:07 AM
Linux, Microsoft Windows
Fetchmail on Mandrake 9.2
Have you tried installing the RPM? The link I’m finding is: http://freshmeat.net/redir/fetchmail/2635/url_rpm/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.i486.rpm That should cover all dependencies or list what they are if they fail to download. The site is horrible and appears to time out a lot. I’ve been trying to find out their dependencies online, but keep hitting the wall. You could try [...]
View Answer
| January 16, 2007 3:43 PM
Development, Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Network management software
Have you tried installing the RPM? The link I’m finding is: http://freshmeat.net/redir/fetchmail/2635/url_rpm/fetchmail-6.3.6-1.i486.rpm That should cover all dependencies or list what they are if they fail to download. The site is horrible and appears to time out a lot. I’ve been trying to find out their dependencies online, but keep hitting the wall. You could try [...]
View Answer
| January 16, 2007 3:43 PM
Development, Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Network management software
Oracle Database Issue
I had a similiar issue where my listener locked up not allowing access to the database from an external source nor could I connect when using tnsnames via: sqlplus user/password@database. The fix action I received was to perform one of the two following: 1 – In 10g ORACLE_HOME, rename $ORACLE_HOME/opnm/conf/ons.config to something else. Example. cd [...]
View Answer
| January 12, 2007 12:28 PM
Database, DB2, Linux, Oracle
I had a similiar issue where my listener locked up not allowing access to the database from an external source nor could I connect when using tnsnames via: sqlplus user/password@database. The fix action I received was to perform one of the two following: 1 – In 10g ORACLE_HOME, rename $ORACLE_HOME/opnm/conf/ons.config to something else. Example. cd [...]
View Answer
| January 12, 2007 12:28 PM
Database, DB2, Linux, Oracle
Mandrake Linux 9.2
I’ve used 9.2 up to the latest versions. Certainly if 9.2 is meeting your needs and you don’t want/need the 2.6 kernel enhancements, I don’t see any reasons to upgrade the underlying O/S. You can also upgrade the kernel to 2.6, if you want to: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-kernel/11904-anyone-sucessfully-compile-2-6x-mandrake-9-2-a.html I am curious why you don’t want to upgrade, [...]
View Answer
| January 8, 2007 8:12 PM
DataCenter, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Networking
I’ve used 9.2 up to the latest versions. Certainly if 9.2 is meeting your needs and you don’t want/need the 2.6 kernel enhancements, I don’t see any reasons to upgrade the underlying O/S. You can also upgrade the kernel to 2.6, if you want to: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-kernel/11904-anyone-sucessfully-compile-2-6x-mandrake-9-2-a.html I am curious why you don’t want to upgrade, [...]
View Answer
| January 8, 2007 8:12 PM
DataCenter, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Networking
MS SQL Connectivity from Linux running machine
You can connect to an MS SQL database from Linux. What exactly would you like to do? How do you plan on connecting? Via a “linux client” or via PHP?
View Answer
| January 2, 2007 10:48 PM
Linux
You can connect to an MS SQL database from Linux. What exactly would you like to do? How do you plan on connecting? Via a “linux client” or via PHP?
View Answer
| January 2, 2007 10:48 PM
Linux
Domain Administration with Linux
You should use Samba (www.samba.org). I recommend reading all documentation before deploying it. As I am actually not using it I don’t know its managing limitations if you have an existing AD running.
View Answer
| December 30, 2006 11:07 AM
Availability, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Network management software, Networking
You should use Samba (www.samba.org). I recommend reading all documentation before deploying it. As I am actually not using it I don’t know its managing limitations if you have an existing AD running.
View Answer
| December 30, 2006 11:07 AM
Availability, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Network management software, Networking
Domain Administration in Linux
You could use Samba 3.0 to setup a Windows NT like domain, but Linux doesn’t have anything comparable to Active Directory at this point. There is a thesis that has been written about using Samba 4 (the version under development) as an Active Directory DC, but since it’s not out yet, you’re out of luck [...]
View Answer
| December 29, 2006 10:27 PM
Availability, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Network management software, Networking
You could use Samba 3.0 to setup a Windows NT like domain, but Linux doesn’t have anything comparable to Active Directory at this point. There is a thesis that has been written about using Samba 4 (the version under development) as an Active Directory DC, but since it’s not out yet, you’re out of luck [...]
View Answer
| December 29, 2006 10:27 PM
Availability, Enterprise Desktop, Linux, Network management software, Networking
E-Mail Signature on MTA
not sure but thought you could do some reading and see if you might find some answers… http://www.seaglass.com/postfix/inforeply.pl To ensure that Postfix is working….. Edit the MAILSERVER=-NO- line in /etc/hostconfig. Change it to read MAILSERVER=-YES-. Save and exit the file. Open up /etc/postfix/main.cf, and edit these lines to reflect your setup. These are examples from [...]
View Answer
| December 14, 2006 9:53 AM
Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Networking
not sure but thought you could do some reading and see if you might find some answers… http://www.seaglass.com/postfix/inforeply.pl To ensure that Postfix is working….. Edit the MAILSERVER=-NO- line in /etc/hostconfig. Change it to read MAILSERVER=-YES-. Save and exit the file. Open up /etc/postfix/main.cf, and edit these lines to reflect your setup. These are examples from [...]
View Answer
| December 14, 2006 9:53 AM
Enterprise Desktop, Exchange, Linux, Networking
AMD Sempron
what does your bios report? Check your bios manual you may have to paly with some of the settings to get the throughput you want
View Answer
| December 6, 2006 7:09 AM
390, Cabling, DataCenter, DB2, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Hardware, Hubs, Linux, Mainframe, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support
what does your bios report? Check your bios manual you may have to paly with some of the settings to get the throughput you want
View Answer
| December 6, 2006 7:09 AM
390, Cabling, DataCenter, DB2, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Hardware, Hubs, Linux, Mainframe, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support
Daylight savings – Change in politics
Microsoft has posted an update to Windows XP that resolved this problem. They MAY also have updates for other Windows versions (I haven’t checked). Jay
View Answer
| November 25, 2006 7:09 AM
Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Hardware, Linux, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Oracle, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
Microsoft has posted an update to Windows XP that resolved this problem. They MAY also have updates for other Windows versions (I haven’t checked). Jay
View Answer
| November 25, 2006 7:09 AM
Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Hardware, Linux, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Oracle, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server
hi all
Right click Start… Go to properties… Select Start Menu tab… Click the customize button, Scroll down and make sure Run box is checked. Good luck, Rory.
View Answer
| November 21, 2006 6:30 AM
390, Administration, Application and Web development, Cabling, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Exchange, Hardware, Hubs, Instant Messaging, Linux, Lotus Domino, Mainframe, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support
Right click Start… Go to properties… Select Start Menu tab… Click the customize button, Scroll down and make sure Run box is checked. Good luck, Rory.
View Answer
| November 21, 2006 6:30 AM
390, Administration, Application and Web development, Cabling, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Exchange, Hardware, Hubs, Instant Messaging, Linux, Lotus Domino, Mainframe, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, OS, Routers, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, Systems management software, Tech support
R2
I’m assuming your referring to Windows Server Longhorn, the next generation of server after Win2k3 Server. The answer is yes, it is compatible.
View Answer
| October 21, 2006 1:33 AM
Application security, Backup & recovery, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, BlackBerry, Cabling, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Encryption, Exchange, Handheld, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Application Server, Instant Messaging, Linux, Management, Microprocessors, Microsoft Windows, Networking, NIC, Oracle, OS, Palm OS, Power management, Printers, Remote management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Tech support, Veritas, Windows Mobile, Wireless
I’m assuming your referring to Windows Server Longhorn, the next generation of server after Win2k3 Server. The answer is yes, it is compatible.
View Answer
| October 21, 2006 1:33 AM
Application security, Backup & recovery, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, BlackBerry, Cabling, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Desktops, Development, Encryption, Exchange, Handheld, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Application Server, Instant Messaging, Linux, Management, Microprocessors, Microsoft Windows, Networking, NIC, Oracle, OS, Palm OS, Power management, Printers, Remote management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Storage, Tech support, Veritas, Windows Mobile, Wireless
AIX Syslog Logging
You need to use the aix auditing system to enable auditing those events. (audit start or audit on) The configuration is in /etc/security/audit look in the config file. You will need to use stream mode and then add the appropriate stream commands in the audit stream file and configure the appropriate events. We output our [...]
View Answer
| September 12, 2006 12:27 PM
Linux, Security
You need to use the aix auditing system to enable auditing those events. (audit start or audit on) The configuration is in /etc/security/audit look in the config file. You will need to use stream mode and then add the appropriate stream commands in the audit stream file and configure the appropriate events. We output our [...]
View Answer
| September 12, 2006 12:27 PM
Linux, Security
