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Windows Mobile User Server Syncronization without Offline Files or Roaming Profiles

adren_blog_root — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:46:56 +0000

So as a Linux/Unix guy I absolutely cannot stand how poorly offine files or roaming profiles perform under winows. It’s just pathetic especially when you can setup a Samba 3.5 or even 4.0 server in a few minutes and get the same thing working so much better with little effort. So in an effort to …

Bonding Network Interfaces in Debian

adren_blog_root — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:47:02 +0000

Awhile back I posted how to do this in gentoo… I did this a couple days ago on debian and thought I woudl post it as well… First install ifenslave… apt-get install ifenslave Then modify your configuration in /etc/network/interfaces (you may want to stop your interfaces prior to this if you don’t want to reboot) …

Updating Samba – Duplicate UID’s

adren_blog_root — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:29:47 +0000

So over christmas break, I updated samba on the high school’s server and after I finally got kerberos working properly again (can’t use IP addresses in the updated krb5 configuration) and I thought everything was good to go… about 1/2 the students can’t access thier My Documents any l longer. Come to find out that …

LibreOffice Debian 6

adren_blog_root — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:44:52 +0000

So getting my automated install ready for this summer, Debian does not have Libre in their repositories as of yet and I have yet to find one containing it… I found one for Ubuntu that doesn’t work though… why anyone runs that disgusting distro I don’t know. Anyways I downloaded the .debs and placed them …

Laptop Setup for Offline Authentication and End User Wireless Management

adren_blog_root — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:53:13 +0000

For Linux to deployable to an end user in an enterprise environment a couple of things need to happen. First they need to be able to log in whether they can see the server to authenticate or not. We still have an Active Directory domain here in Orion so I needed to allow windows users …

How-to Create Preseed Answer Script For Debian

adren_blog_root — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:50:07 +0000

Step 1: Build a System the way you want to auto install them. Step 2: Get the example preseed script to modify: Debian 6: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt Step 3: Get the additional answers you will need. You will need to install debconf-utils package to do this. apt-get install debconf-utils debconf-get-selections debconf-get-selections --installer Setp 4: Add/modify the example preseed …

Auto-mount and umount on login cifs Debian 6 using pam_mount

adren_blog_root — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:34:52 +0000

So I’m working on my Debian 6 Squeeze setup to deploy in a lab at the High School over the summer and I wanted a nice clean way give users access to their Windows my documents. In the past I’ve mounted /home via nfs or cifs which has worked well but recently I’ve had issues …

Importing existing balances into PSCafePOS

adren_blog_root — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:13:36 +0000

The school I work for will be changing their lunch software at the end of this year and I’m pushing for using the open source software PSCafePOS. It will do everything we want to out of the box with the exception of online payments. Most likely when we switch student information systems next year the …

Symbolic links on NTFS

adren_blog_root — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:15:27 +0000

Apparently there are such a thing as symbolic links on NTFS… I discovered this yesterday as I needed to create the behavior so that student shortcuts could be the same regardless of whether Office was installed on 32bit or 64bit windows and regardless of which version of Office since their start menu is tied to …

Vixiecron Gentoo Editing

adren_blog_root — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:08:36 +0000

It’s been a couple weeks since my last post so I figured I needed to put something on here soon… I’ve been pretty busy, just ran my second 1/2 marathon on Saturday and cut 34 seconds p/mile of my pace… Now it’s time to get ready for Chicago and concentrate on getting donations for the …