March 2017 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

win10 machines not playing nice with each other
by David Mehler 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Hello, I've got a network with several win10 machines on it. One all can get to and pull shared files. Two others are not sharing, the shares are visible, under thieir computer names, but when I go to them I get an error user is not authorized. Permissions on the shared folders are to allow everyone full access, that's under the sharing tab as well as the security tab of the folders in question. I am not using home groups and all of the machines are in the same workgroup. If I had a Pi I would look at setting up a domain. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Windows Automatic Repair Loop
by Barry Toner 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hi all, I’ve a Windows 10 machine that I attempted a Reset on. After the machine became unresponsive I left it for some hours. I got some eyes briefly, and discovered it was hanging on the Windows Installation screen. I thought Reset was automatic? Either way I took a sledge hammer to crack a nut as I’d no eyes around and formatted the HD. I then created a bootable Windows PE disc, and confirmed it boots on another system with no problems. It won’t boot on the Windows 10 machine even though the last I checked the BIOS was set to boot from optical media first. I got the IOS KNFB reader app on the go and discovered I was on a Windows Automatic Repair Could Not Repair your system screen. Something about try Advanced options or shut down. Every key stroke I can think off does nothing Power cycling just loops this screen. I blew away all partitions on the HD so where is this coming from? There’s no other drives in the machine and it’s not wired to any network. More importantly any keystrokes or ideas how I can get the machine just to POST normally so the optical media will boot and I can re-image the box? Cheers, Barry.

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win10 machines not playing nice with each other
by David Mehler 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hello, I've got a network with several win10 machines on it. One all can get to and pull shared files. Two others are not sharing, the shares are visible, under thieir computer names, but when I go to them I get an error user is not authorized. Permissions on the shared folders are to allow everyone full access, that's under the sharing tab as well as the security tab of the folders in question. I am not using home groups and all of the machines are in the same workgroup. If I had a Pi I would look at setting up a domain. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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accessible file compare Visual studio 2015
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi All, I'm not sure how relevant this query is for this list, but I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance. I am working on a team project using Visual studio 2015 and Jaws v18. The code is on TFS and I frequently face issues when there are conflicts and in understanding the differences between my local copy and the server version. Does anyone know of any accessible methods or solutions that would work? Thank you Chamandeep singh Grover

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accessible file compare Visual studio 2015
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi All, I'm not sure how relevant this query is for this list, but I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance. I am working on a team project using Visual studio 2015 and Jaws v18. The code is on TFS and I frequently face issues when there are conflicts and in understanding the differences between my local copy and the server version. Does anyone know of any accessible methods or solutions that would work? Thank you Chamandeep singh Grover

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Visual studio and Visual Basic
by Christian 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi all, I am thinking about learning Visual Basic and just have a few questions. This may not be the right list, but hope someone can help. Any good resource for learning Visual Basic? And also, I just read that Visual Studio 2017 has just been released, maybe this is the version to go for? Many thanks for any tips!

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sip soft phone android apps and Asterisk PBX
by David Mehler 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hello, Is anyone using an android phone with a Sip soft phone app to connect to an Asterisk PBX? I've got recommendations on two accessible soft phone apps, CSipSimple and Zoiper. This is on a Nougat system. Any pro con reports for either of these apps or any information on other apps appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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sip soft phone android apps and Asterisk PBX
by David Mehler 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hello, Is anyone using an android phone with a Sip soft phone app to connect to an Asterisk PBX? I've got recommendations on two accessible soft phone apps, CSipSimple and Zoiper. This is on a Nougat system. Any pro con reports for either of these apps or any information on other apps appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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wiki.iavit.org back up
by John G. Heim 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Hi Everybody, The wiki is back up at wiki.iavit.org. That is the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists. It went down because the mediawiki package was removed from ubuntu server and an upgrade removed the old package. If you have any info of general interest to blind or visually impaired technologists, please consider registering as a user at www.iavit.org and creating a page on our wiki. You will have to request an account and have it approved before you cant create and edit pages. Sorry but spammers are just so much trouble we had to do it.

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Recommended Jabber clients
by Katherine M. Moss 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi all, This one has just come up; trying to connect to a private Jabber server (uses our AD domain credentials, and I was hoping to find a good Jabber client; I tried Spark from Ignite Realtime, and turns out screen readers can't get even an ounce of information worth a dang out of it. Also tried Miranda in the past, but have been told that when AD is used, Miranda misses important information; without AD, though, it works just fine. Not to mention, I can't even seem to log into it anyway, not from work, at least. If it matters, it has nothing to do with work; it's a personal project. I know tht Instantbird works, though that thing's not been updated in around three years. Any others? I would assume that the server is running either Openfire or Ejabberd. Thanks.

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