- Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Solved my own problem
by Steve Matzura 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

What you have to do in order to successfully change the router address on a DLink DIR655 router is to first revoke all the reserved IP addresses. Then and only then will it let you change and permanently save the change of the router's base IP address! Once that was done, I was back on my old network with my printer and Synology box showing up once again. Yaha!

2 1

Need a Net Nut to Nib a Nasty
by Steve Matzura 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Up until yesterday shortly after lunch, my home network was managed (routed, firewalled) by a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I never enabled the wireless portion of the device because I don't need it in my little crackerbox palace of an apartment, plus there's far too much metal in the wall studs and other support structures, including the door and window onto the terrace, so I just disabled it to keep things utterly shut tight and secure. Why'd I buy a wireless router in the first place? Suffice it to say, I didn't know the place was that metallic when we first moved into it. Be that as it may, about eight or so years and three firmware revisions later, the thing finally gave up the ghost, as they say, and is now sitting in a truck on the way to a landfill somewhere--I no longer have the device. This is key to understanding my problem and why it cannot be suggested to reconnect the device in order to solve it. Yiskar has been saide. I have buried my dead. OK, the 54G was replaced with a nice new (vintage 2008) DLink DIR655n router, all ports operating at a gigabit, as opposed to 100mb for the Linksys box. The Linksys router's home address was 192.168.1.1, while the DLink's is 192.168.0.1. Two devices on my network have static IP addresses--a printer and a NAS box. Everything else is DHCP and has reserved an address on the new 192.192.0.1 network. This means now that I cannot communicate at all with either the printer or the NAS box until I either change their address or change the rest of thenetwork devices' addresses back to the old address base (192.168.1.*) I thought I would simply change the address of the router itself from 192.168.0.1 to ..1.1. Every time I try to do this, the router does its thing, reboots, and returns with the ..0.1 address. Anyone with experience with the DIR655 router who knows how to get past this, greatly appreaciated to hear from you asap, publicly or privately. TIA

2 1

Unattended installation of Windows Server 2008 r2
by Frank Ventura 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi does anyone have a sample unattended installation XML file that works with Windows Server 2008R2 and/or one that works with Windows Server 2008 Std, both 64 bit? Thanks Frank

2 1

importing public self signed certificates via GPO
by Dave 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Hello, This might be a simple question, but googling hasn't revealed the answer. I've got a web server that uses ssl to protect areas. This ssl is enabled by a self signed certificate that i issued from my own CA. I can manually import the CA's public certificate in to each machine then each system will trust the site and not pop up a warning dialog box about an untrusted cert. What i was wondering is if it would be possible for a GPO to be able to distribute the public cert to all domain computers. Thanks. Dave.

9 15

Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows Defender
by Frank Ventura 27 Mar '10

27 Mar '10

Oddly enough on the three Win 7 'puters I have in my home office I don't really have an issue with loosing JFW authorizations. However, at work on one of our training computers we routinely loose authorizations. I plugged in a second NIC into it the other day and wham, bam, my JFW authorization just got slammed. Frank -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 7:03 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows Defender Hi, There is an issue with JFW auths being lost with the earlier versions of JFW. I only got this sorted myself by completely removing all components of JFW, then using the latest JFW download. Even now, authorisations are a bit sticky, I installed another soundcard last week and lost the authorisation. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Hamling Sent: 26 March 2010 22:40 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows Defender Since upgrading to Windows 7 and JAWS 11, I have had an ongoing issue with losing JAWS authorisation. For a long time I have had Windows Defender turned off and had no problem. Last night, some how W Defender ran and this morning, JAWS has started saying that it is unauthorised; I am running in demo mode. Has anyone else had an issue with losing JAWS authorisation? Are there any known issues with W defender? Thank you in advance, Stewart. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

1 0

HP Datavault Home Server
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi, Had a lot of Dabs points left so picked up 3TB HP Datavault server with Windows Home Server on it. This is very similar to the MediaSmart server, only targeted at small businesses, but with the same software set as the MediaSmart server. The 3TB consists of 2 1.5 TB drives, grate - can consolidate two Buffalo Linkstations plus data on my SBS server onto this box. With Dabs points plus money off vouchers they keep sending me, the unit came in at about £680. I tried to get the MediaSmart server, but it wasn't available through Dabs at any rate. System is a dual-core Pentium (64-bit compatible for future proof, though current WHS is 32-bit). 2GB RAM installed. This box is very small - just over the size of a single drive Linkstation, and it runs very quiet. Lots of impressive lights on the front, very bright! As you may know the console on the WHS boxes is not accessible remotely since it uses some embedded RDP session. The workaround I made was to install WindowEyes 7.11 onto the box itself by using the Remote Desktop connection. I copied the CD contents to the d: drive of the server, then ran the setup program. It is important to choose the following - choosing the wrong option can put the server into an unrecoverable state, I did this and had to reimage the machine with the recovery disk! - Install with no speech. - Choose custom setup. - Enter your name. - Install to default directory. - Choose to use the RDP virtual redirector speech synth - not Dectalk! - No Braille display. - Don't install manual (does it matter?) - Choose default hotkey for startup. - Untick both boxes for WE autostart (very important). - After install completes, don't reboot the system, enable the RDP video chaining driver then reboot. Once the server is back up start WE on the local system, RDP into the WHS box and then start WE on there. You should get speech - the first thing you will get is a warning explaining that you shouldn't go messing around in the various different server consoles. If you run the WHS console from here (via desktop shortcut), you can do most of the items you want using the mouse cursors, including creating accounts etc. Outside the console you seem to be able to do a lot of server functions - i.e., install software, change IIS settings, etc. There is even the option to join the server to the domain, but apparently this isn't in the license agreement, so I didn't join my server to the SBS domain. I get the feeling that there is a lot of custom work on the server installed by both MS and HP, and if you change settings without knowing the workings of the custom software you will break stuff. I created user accounts which matched the passwords of my SBS account, and could access shares on the system fine. The backup feature is very impressive, backing up my Windows 7 machine in less than an hour. Restore unfortunately requires boot CD, so not going to be accessible. There is a remote access feature which is nice. You can remotely upload and download files from the server, and the HTML interface for this works well. You can choose to download whole directories, and you get them as a ZIP file. Uploading caused a bit of an issue for me, though I suspect I will use it mainly for downloading. It tries to get the remote access using UPNP, if you have something listening on a single static IP address on port 80 or 443 don't do this. They force a TZO dynamic DNS service on you, I just cancelled out of the setup for this and it seemed to work ok. There is a nice media converter on here for videos, put the video you want converting into a special share and it gets converted to MP4. There is also a media server running Twonky Media services for all those network players around. Windows Media services is obviously supported natively as well. HP have done the Mac integration piece for this as well, with a special Mac client and a Time Machine server pre-installed. Recovery is a bit of a pita, you have to connect directly to the PC (not using crossover cable interestingly enough), then press the recovery button as the unit starts. By the looks of it this asks the BIOS to boot from a PXE server which your recovery CD on the PC will set up. Once booted into the recovery environment, the wizard on the desktop guides you through reimaging the device. There are options to just reinstall the WHS partition, or to do a full format of the disks (factory reset). This just didn't work for me on my Win7 machine, so had to go and use my XP netbook to do the recovery. Overall am happy with this device, probably won't get another NAS device for ages now :). Apparently there are upgrades due out for the unit, and for older units there were paid upgrades to the latest WHS release, so am hoping they will have an upgrade option available for the next release due out early next year. Only issue with this is Windows domain support. Hope this helps. Andrew.

2 2

HP Datavault Home Server
by Andrew Hodgson 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hi, Had a lot of Dabs points left so picked up 3TB HP Datavault server with Windows Home Server on it. This is very similar to the MediaSmart server, only targeted at small businesses, but with the same software set as the MediaSmart server. The 3TB consists of 2 1.5 TB drives, grate - can consolidate two Buffalo Linkstations plus data on my SBS server onto this box. With Dabs points plus money off vouchers they keep sending me, the unit came in at about £680. I tried to get the MediaSmart server, but it wasn't available through Dabs at any rate. System is a dual-core Pentium (64-bit compatible for future proof, though current WHS is 32-bit). 2GB RAM installed. This box is very small - just over the size of a single drive Linkstation, and it runs very quiet. Lots of impressive lights on the front, very bright! As you may know the console on the WHS boxes is not accessible remotely since it uses some embedded RDP session. The workaround I made was to install WindowEyes 7.11 onto the box itself by using the Remote Desktop connection. I copied the CD contents to the d: drive of the server, then ran the setup program. It is important to choose the following - choosing the wrong option can put the server into an unrecoverable state, I did this and had to reimage the machine with the recovery disk! - Install with no speech. - Choose custom setup. - Enter your name. - Install to default directory. - Choose to use the RDP virtual redirector speech synth - not Dectalk! - No Braille display. - Don't install manual (does it matter?) - Choose default hotkey for startup. - Untick both boxes for WE autostart (very important). - After install completes, don't reboot the system, enable the RDP video chaining driver then reboot. Once the server is back up start WE on the local system, RDP into the WHS box and then start WE on there. You should get speech - the first thing you will get is a warning explaining that you shouldn't go messing around in the various different server consoles. If you run the WHS console from here (via desktop shortcut), you can do most of the items you want using the mouse cursors, including creating accounts etc. Outside the console you seem to be able to do a lot of server functions - i.e., install software, change IIS settings, etc. There is even the option to join the server to the domain, but apparently this isn't in the license agreement, so I didn't join my server to the SBS domain. I get the feeling that there is a lot of custom work on the server installed by both MS and HP, and if you change settings without knowing the workings of the custom software you will break stuff. I created user accounts which matched the passwords of my SBS account, and could access shares on the system fine. The backup feature is very impressive, backing up my Windows 7 machine in less than an hour. Restore unfortunately requires boot CD, so not going to be accessible. There is a remote access feature which is nice. You can remotely upload and download files from the server, and the HTML interface for this works well. You can choose to download whole directories, and you get them as a ZIP file. Uploading caused a bit of an issue for me, though I suspect I will use it mainly for downloading. It tries to get the remote access using UPNP, if you have something listening on a single static IP address on port 80 or 443 don't do this. They force a TZO dynamic DNS service on you, I just cancelled out of the setup for this and it seemed to work ok. There is a nice media converter on here for videos, put the video you want converting into a special share and it gets converted to MP4. There is also a media server running Twonky Media services for all those network players around. Windows Media services is obviously supported natively as well. HP have done the Mac integration piece for this as well, with a special Mac client and a Time Machine server pre-installed. Recovery is a bit of a pita, you have to connect directly to the PC (not using crossover cable interestingly enough), then press the recovery button as the unit starts. By the looks of it this asks the BIOS to boot from a PXE server which your recovery CD on the PC will set up. Once booted into the recovery environment, the wizard on the desktop guides you through reimaging the device. There are options to just reinstall the WHS partition, or to do a full format of the disks (factory reset). This just didn't work for me on my Win7 machine, so had to go and use my XP netbook to do the recovery. Overall am happy with this device, probably won't get another NAS device for ages now :). Apparently there are upgrades due out for the unit, and for older units there were paid upgrades to the latest WHS release, so am hoping they will have an upgrade option available for the next release due out early next year. Only issue with this is Windows domain support. Hope this helps. Andrew.

1 0

outlook, imap, and gmail
by David Mehler 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Hello, I've got several outlook issues and one imap synchronization issue with gmail i'm hoping someone can help with. I'm using outlook 03 as an imap client to talk to gmail's imap server. A few months ago i had to rebuild a box so i backed up outlook's .pst files and rebuilt the machine. I then used the web interface of gmail for a time as i was on the road and didn't want to restore the files. Well, last night following a microsoft kb article i ran outlook's import wizard and pulled the various backed up files back in to outlook ending up with a single file, rather large as it has several years of messages in it. Outlook can see this. My problem now is i have two imap accounts, the original gmail and another one. Let's take the gmail first, I've got messages on gmail, some of which are not on the .pst file, and some in the .pst file that are not on gmail, I want to synchronize these two so that no matter which interface i use, i'll have access to my complete email set. I thought that was one of the points of imap, but can't seem to figure out how to do it, help appreciated. My second question is outlook 03's inbox cleanup wizard, at least i believe that's what i'm having issues with. This behavior in the past has been with the gmail account, at intervals my inbox is emptied, the messages it contained are still in the all messages or all mail folder so they're still there, just been taken out of where i wanted them to be for easy access. I want to turn off all outlook's autocleanup and purge and archiving features. Lastly, I now have a second imap account and want to manage it's messages from within the same outlook interface/profile. Ideally i'd like the messages from the second accound to go to a separate inbox and folder space, but that i can get to easily. I've not found much on these issues, if anyone has any suggestions i'd like to hear them. Thanks. Dave.

2 2

router lights
by David Mehler 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hello, Simple question here, how do user's tell which lights on a hub, or switch are active and their color? Thanks. Dave.

6 9

choosing a new imap client
by David Mehler 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

Hello, I'm ready to put together a new system and am looking at a new imap client. Previously i used outlook 2003 with jfw 10, which worked, but had one serious error. At an undetermined time my mailbox would be purged, and although the messages were still in my all messages folder, this was accessing imap for a gmail account, they were no longer easy to get to. This i atempted to disable, mailbox cleanup and similar features, which wasn't it and i never solved the problem. So, now my choices are outlook 2007 with presumably the same issue, or thunderbird version3 i believe is out. I am not sure of thunderbird's accessibility. I'm going to be dealing with multiple imap accounts, one gmail, and two others, and i'd prefer secure access. I'm looking for prose and cons to outlook 2007 and thunderbird with jfw in a multiple imap account environment. Any usage appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

1 0