Such an awkward title, I know. It's just hard to encapsulate the following error message into a blog post title: Create virtual machine 172.16.1.129 Error caused by file /vmfs/volumes/0-cb8d2a5-20-f15722/win-2k8.vmdk Basically, I'm taking ghetto to the next level by using my Dell Optiplex 745 workstation as an ESXi 4.0 …

Just a handy little reference for myself. #Internal PPTP Server vpnserver="172.16.1.10" iptables -N pptp iptables -A pptp -p tcp --destination-port 1723 --dst $vpnserver -j ACCEPT iptables -A pptp -p gre --dst $vpnserver -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -j pptp iptables -t nat -N pptp iptables -t nat -A pptp -i …

Recently, I used my Windows-based domain's Enterprise Root Certification Authority to secure my subversion repository that is hosted on an Apache-based server. The process was rather straight-forward and relatively fast -- especially because I skipped over all of the file transfers and just used vi/notepad to …

Some things just belong on Linux. Like Subversion and Apache, for instance. I've seen the ghetto workarounds for Windows-based Apache installs and no thanks -- I'd much rather waste my time on ghetto SharePoint workarounds. But I sure do like the way Windows-based web servers such as IIS seamlessly and securely …

This was ridiculous. Since apache-devel isn't available in SLES (and I do understand why, but give me the option at least!), I had to sync up one of my SLES machines to an OpenSuSE repository and get all of my necessary packages required to compile mod_auth_pam. I was required to downgrade quite a few packages, but …

Thank Science for SuSE Linux Enterprise 11; it's made this process relatively easy. SLES 10 SP2 was giving me a headache because of some Windows 2008 based Active Directory authentication issues but upgrading SLES 11 took care of all that. First thing is first, setup samba to authenticate to AD. Next, install the …

Well that couldn't have been easier! Here's all it takes to authenticate SLES 11 to Windows Server 2008 based Active Directory. During the initial install of SLES, I performed the following: Selected samba-client and winbind during the software installer phase Added my domain's DNS servers to the intitial network …

Recently, we migrated a web application to a SharePoint server. The web application is a custom built ASP/ASPX app that supports Integrated Windows Authentication. We were able to run the application successfully using Anonymous Access but we were unable to authenticate from remote computers when Anonymous Access was …

Ow, the other day I was infected by the the Vundo trojan. I believe the trojan came in through an infected webpage and attacked a Java vulnerability on my machine. During the cleanup, I installed a variety of anti-malware software, including Microsoft Windows Defender. Although I don't believe things can be 100% clean …

Update June 2 2015: FINALLY, Y'ALL! Looking Forward: Microsoft: Support for Secure Shell (SSH) I'm currently playing with Windows Server 2008 Core and I'm really at a loss trying to figure out why Microsoft seems to go out of its way not to adopt SSH. SSH seems like such an easy and straightforward answer to remote …