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Windows machine periodically crashes network
by John G. Heim 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

I have an Ubuntu Noble/24.04 server managing my network. It runs DHCP, DNS, and samba. Several Linux machines and one Windows machine are connected to it via a gig switch. The machines on the switch get access to the rest of the world through packet forwarding on the Linux server. In other words, I run my own router. Periodically, the network just goes down. None of the machines can talk to each other. Power cycling the switch doesn't help. Restarting network services on the Linux box doesn't help. I even tried unloading the kernel driver for the ethernet card on the Linux box and reloading it. # rmmod e1000e # insmod e1000e No joy. The only thing that seems to work is rebooting the Linux box. I was beating my head against the wall for weeks. Bought a new switch, did everything I could think of. Then, just to keep the Windows machine from being effected, I connected it directly to a port on the router supplied by my ISP, AT&T. Then the AT&T router started going down. My own network was uneffected. I had to power cycle the AT&T router to fix it. I put the Windows machine back on my own network and the problem began again. So now I know that this Windows machine is doing something to the network to make a router freeze. How is that even possible? If it is static or something, why wouldn't that effect the switch instead? Whatever is happening has to go from the Windows machine, through the switch, to the Linux server, and effect it in such a way so that even reloading the kernel module for the network card doesn't fix the problem. Anybody got an explanation for that? Any ideas at all? PS: If you are wondering why I am essentially building my own router instead of just connecting everybody directly to the AT&T router, it's because this setup is left over from the days of dial-up modems. At one time, we had a Linux box with a 56K modem providing a network connection we all shared. Anyone old enough to remember those days, someone would be on-line and someone else would fire up their modem to get on-line. That would disconnect the first person. So this was our solution. In fact, it was a beautiful thing for years before ISPs started providing smart routers. And now its so ingrained into our systems it is difficult to get rid of.

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Phone splitter boxes
by Andrew Hodgson 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

Hi. I am helping someone using an IP desk phone with an RJ9 port. They want to use a single headset with a microphone, but have the output from the phone come in through one ear and the output from the computer screen reader come in through the other. There used to be a box that did this, but they are no longer available. The user can't use a softphone for various reasons. I'm thinking a mixer may be the only option but does anyone have anything they've used recently for this purpose? Thanks. Andrew.

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Darkice and Orca
by John G. Heim 28 Nov '24

28 Nov '24

I have a icecast2/darkice server set up to stream input on the line-in on the sound card. So the stream is playing whatever is coming into the line-in on the sound card. The problem is that if I start darkice before I log in, I can't get any audio. The darkice stream works fine, I get no sound on my computer speakers. So then I can't log in at the console because orca cannot speak. Even if I log in remotely, I can't play sound files. There is no error message, I just get nothing. If I kill darkice, then everything returns to normal. I can start orca at the login screen and log in. Then if I restart darkice, everything continues to work. In otherwords, if I start darkice before accessing the sound device as a regular user, darkice seems to take over the entire device, even output. If I access the sound card before I start darkice, everything is fine. It must be some kind of permissions problem but darned if I can figure out what. I'm running Ubuntu noble/24.04.

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dectalk usb
by Isaac Brofman 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi, does anyone know if there is a dectalk usb addon for nvda

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modern endpoint management training
by Fayre, Jason 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Hello, I'm being asked to investigate courses in Modern Endpoint Management. Does anyone know of any companies that are offering this that are accessible? Just want to make sure I don't need to use an inaccessible virtual machine. This is related to technologies such as Microsoft Intune. Jason Fayre Assistive Technology Specialist | Enterprise Endpoint Compute | Employee Technology Services | CIBC 81 Bay Street, 14th Floor Toronto ON, Canada, M5J 0E7 | Tel: (416) 412-2678 | jason.fayre(a)cibc.com<mailto:jason.fayre@cibc.com>

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Microsoft Intune Remote Help
by Fayre, Jason 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Hi all, Does anyone know if the new Remote Help add-on for Intune is accessible? I'm seeing in the release notes that it may at one point have passed audio from the remote machine, but they might have removed that feature. Jason Fayre Assistive Technology Specialist | Enterprise Endpoint Compute | Employee Technology Services | CIBC 81 Bay Street, 14th Floor Toronto ON, Canada, M5J 0E7 | Tel: (416) 412-2678 | jason.fayre(a)cibc.com<mailto:jason.fayre@cibc.com>

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Unifi console
by Kieran Little 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Hi, Does anyone have any tips for successfully getting around the unified network console? My issue seems to be in say, the list of networks (settings>networks), JFW sees it as a listbox, and turning of the virtual PC cursor etc doesn’t make any difference, and can’t read anything in it. NVDA sees it as a table but that table only has the first entry. It seems to be a view they like to use, as the list of WiFI networks is the same. I had a self-hosted controller also and that seems to be the same. I think the unified app is better, but I’d rather manage it via desktop. Thanks, Kieran

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remote support
by Ibraam Wahib 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hello dears Would you please, is anyDisk accessible to use with a screen-reader? Is it transfer sound in order to control machines remotely? If not, what're alternatives? mostly free solutions please. Thanks for your support.

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Again PBX offer
by Eigeldinger Simon 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Hi all, We just received a new possible offer for a PBX. Anyone has experience or has used Alcatel OXE virtual PBX? Greetings, Simon

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Win 11: Always getting a temp profile on this laptop
by Eigeldinger Simon 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

a Hi all, It's me again. This time i should get a new computer. At the moment i am working on a Win 10 desktop PC (HP ProDesk 600 G3 Microtower). This machine will be replaced with a HP ProBook 460 G11 laptop running Win 11. We are using roaming profiles. Admin users have no problem loggging into this machine. When i login with my current user i get the following error: We can't sign into your account" and 'You've been signed in with a temporary profile So we restarted 5 times. We completely wiped the machine. This didn't help either. I also created a brand new user and tried to login as well. The same issue occurs. Then we restarted 5 times again. Nothing. Has soneone had this problem as well? Our Domaincontroller is a Windows 2016 Server. Greetings and thanks, Simon

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cisco pbx and non cisco sip devices
by Eigeldinger Simon 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Hi all, As i wrote a few months ago, we plan to get a cisco pbx running virtually. Does someone know if cisco pbx can work with other sip equipment from other vendors? Or are there problems when you are using non cisco devices? Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Proxmox Mail Gateway
by Eigeldinger Simon 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi all, We plan to use Proxmox Mail Gateway. Anyone using that as well? What do you think about it? What about accessibility? Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Recommendations for on-line poll
by John G. Heim 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

I need to set up an on-line poll for the local NFB chapter. Do any of you have recommendations for the best, most accessible, place for me to configure the poll? You know how it is, it is difficult enough to get people to respond to a poll, even harder if they encounter any accessibility problems. PS: The poll is to allow people to rank their choice for recreational activities to do in the next year. Horseback riding, rock climbing, bowling, etc.

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self-hosting a vaultwarden instance?
by David Mehler 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hello, Has anyone self-hosted a vaultwarden instance so they can utilize there own private password manager perhaps for example-sake on a Raspberry Pi? If so, how did you get it set up? I've read many howtos on it some say one thing others another. What were your impressions of the setup process and how do you like self-hosting a password manager? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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Hyper-V setup and accessibility?
by David Mehler 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hello, Is anyone using Hyper-V and if so how easy was it to get going from an accessibility perspective? I'm apparently needing a new virtualization platform as apparently vmware went up in price and the player variant is no longer freely available. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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Changing Mail Routing
by Kelly Ford 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Hello, Does anyone have thoughts on what I can try to diagnose a problem I’m having changing the destination for one of my email accounts. I currently have the mx record pointing to a Microsoft server because kelly(a)theideaplace.net<mailto:kelly@theideaplace.net> is the account I use with a Microsoft business subscription. I want to return the mail to the destination where the rest of that domain is hosted on Bluehost. I’ve lowed the priority of the MX record for Microsoft to 10 and added a new MX record at priority 0 pointing to mail.theideaplace.net<http://mail.theideaplace.net>. With these changes in place, email quits going to Microsoft but it is not showing up on the servers for Bluehost and is not being returned as a problematic address. I have no idea where the mail is actually going. If I delete the priority 0 MX record for mail.theideaplace.net<http://mail.theideaplace.net>, then my mail shows back up on the Microsoft Exchange server where the lower priority MX record points. Kelly

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Re: Tucows
by Ryan Shugart 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Thanks Billy, I didn't know Tucows had other domain resellers, I thought Hover was the only one. I'll start investigating this, my domains are set up for the year so I have time to figure out next steps. Thanks again. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Billy Irwin via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 8:02 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Cc: Billy Irwin <billy.irwin(a)outlook.com <mailto:billy.irwin@outlook.com>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Tucows Hi, I honestly would move to one of their other resellers. I have no JAWS issues with the stuff I have through them. As much as they have gobbled up, I wonder if they intend on operating them as separate entities or truly merging them. Best, Billy -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 8:32 PM To: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Cc: Ryan Shugart <rshugart(a)ryanshugart.com <mailto:rshugart@ryanshugart.com>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Tucows Hi all: Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I saw a few of you had contacts at Tucows. I was wondering if you by chance had been in touch with their accessibility team or had contacts on their accessibility team? Both of my personal domains are registered through Hover, which is owned by Tucows, and I cringe every year at renewal time because the control panel to manage a domain has so many basic accessibility errors its not even funny. I’ve thought several times about transferring my domains to someone else, the only reason I don’t is I only have to interact with Hover once a year to renew my domains, all my DNS records are stored on Microsoft servers, and managing DNS records in Office 365 is not a great user experience but at least its an accessible one. I’ve contacted Hover support over this and they can’t reregister me over the phone “to protect my security” but they did give me free registration for a year. I’m just wondering if those of you with Tucows contacts have a way to escalate this to the accessibility people? Thanks a lot. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>

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Tucows
by Ryan Shugart 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Hi all: Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I saw a few of you had contacts at Tucows. I was wondering if you by chance had been in touch with their accessibility team or had contacts on their accessibility team? Both of my personal domains are registered through Hover, which is owned by Tucows, and I cringe every year at renewal time because the control panel to manage a domain has so many basic accessibility errors its not even funny. I’ve thought several times about transferring my domains to someone else, the only reason I don’t is I only have to interact with Hover once a year to renew my domains, all my DNS records are stored on Microsoft servers, and managing DNS records in Office 365 is not a great user experience but at least its an accessible one. I’ve contacted Hover support over this and they can’t reregister me over the phone “to protect my security” but they did give me free registration for a year. I’m just wondering if those of you with Tucows contacts have a way to escalate this to the accessibility people? Thanks a lot. Ryan

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Testing
by Andrew Hodgson 07 Jul '24

07 Jul '24

Hi. Test. Andrew.

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Cloudflare DNS Provider and CAA records?
by David Mehler 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

Hello, If anyone is using cloudflare as there DNS provider and uses a CAA record please contact me? I atempted to do one on my other domain intending for only letsencrypt to be able to issue certificates for my domain, a dig check reveals many other providers that I didn't authorize. Obviously I did something wrong. Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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mailing lists to subscribe to as a sysadmin
by Eigeldinger Simon 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi all, Any mailing lists you are recommending to join as a sysadmin? Basically i am subscribed to the nvda lists, techtalk, teams-access, m365-accessibility, winaccess and some other smaller lists. And i also have some newsletters from the german cert. Greetings, Simon

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Accessing remote system in Amazon WorkSpaces with a screen reader
by Lukasz Golonka 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear all, My employer recently decided to move most of our software development activities to a remote systems accessed via Amazon WorkSpaces. By default it just connects to an Amazon Linux 2 running Mate as an GUI, which obviously will not work with a screen reader. My initial idea was to access this remote system via SSH, which is a supported scenario for accessing WorkSpaces, and while it will be possible to write and compile code that way, there are some activities that require a GUI, accessing our GitLab instances via a web browser being a prime example. Note that these web applications are not and will not be accessible from our main machines i.e. they are reachable only from the systems running inside the WorkSpace. According to JAWS's documentation its remote access solution has support for accessing remote Windows inside WorkSpaces, so I gave this a try. Sadly this either does not work, or I'm missing something very obvious. AWS supports two protocols when creating a remote machine: WSP and PCoIP. When running JAWs on a remote machine using the former it does not detect that it is running in a remote access scenario and relies on transferring audio to the client. For the latter while JAWS claims to be running in the remote mode the authorization is not taken from the client JAWS's speech is also transferred as an audio and not using a remote channel. Has anyone tried and successfully used JAWS's remote support in Amazon WorkSpaces? JAWS's documentation for remote access is sadly very basic in this area. Note that I am aware it should be possible to achieve the similar goal by using NVDA Remote, however that will require a remote server which is visible both from my work machine and from the system running inside the WorkSpace, which is going to be pretty difficult, as main reason for deploying WorkSpaces in the first place was separation of these two environments. Obviously any alternative proposals for accessing remote Windows in WorkSpaces are very welcome. Thanks for your help! -- Regards Lukasz Golonka

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Navigation in the Azure UI has become very inefficient.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 14 May '24

14 May '24

Hello, Perhaps someone could direct me in the right direction. The people I previously raised this kind of problem with are no longer with Microsoft. In the update released just over a week ago, the navigation in the Azure portal has become painfully inefficient. Previously to navigate the list of tabs / pages for a blade, I would do the following: 1. Press control end. Press shift r. Press E to get to the search box. Tab twice. Jaws would recognise that I was in a list of items similar to a treeview and would quite comfortably read the list as I arrowed through. Now: I go to the region using step one and two above. But the treeview is no longer recognised properly. I can read the first few links. When it gets to the sections such as config for example, I can't keep using arrow down to move through the list. The virtual PC cursor is re-enabled. The item is then no longer a link. Jaws just reads it as text. There is also a button after each item that says "Add to favourites". This means I need to listen to a lot more speech and I need to arrow through a lot more. Also, take the example where I want to find the add button in one of the blades. I would previously do the following: 1. Press control and end to get to the bottom of the page. 2. Press shift and r to move to the last region. 3. Press b three or four times to find the close button. 4. Then arrow down until I find the button that I want. I arrow down so that I don't miss any important messages at the top of the blade. Now, because of all these buttons to add to favourites it takes far too long to find this simple add button. By the way, I have disabled the collapsable menus that came out in this update because they made the situation even worse! Regards Darragh

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Nginx SSL question
by David Mehler 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hello, Do we have any advanced admins of the Nginx web server? I'm doing some configuration changes on a spare Nginx web server to evaluate them before putting them on the main server. I've got a question on the ssl_protocols configuration option. I'm wanting to support only TLSv1.3 and TLSv1.2 I've seen configurations written in both of the following ways: ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2; or: ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; Question, which is correct? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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using jump servers
by Fayre, Jason 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hello, At work, I have a situation where I need to access a server through a jump server. Essentially, you RDP into the jump server, then RDP from that server into your final destination. Does anyone know if JAWS will support an RDP connection like this? Jason Fayre Assistive Technology Specialist | Enterprise Endpoint Compute | Employee Technology Services | CIBC 81 Bay Street, 14th Floor Toronto ON, Canada, M5J 0E7 | Tel: (416) 412-2678 | jason.fayre(a)cibc.com<mailto:jason.fayre@cibc.com>

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