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CentOS how to install VMWare tools?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 21, 2007 / 4 Comments

If you are working with a virtualization platform then most of the time some components are needed for host integration. I have installed my CentOS virtual machine on a VMWare Server host and now I want to install the VMWare tools. How to install VMWare tools on a CentOS operating...

Posted in CentOS
CentOS how to change hostname?

Posted by Ivan
/ November 21, 2007 / 37 Comments

I personally prefer to install CentOS as my linux distribution. Today I needed to change the hostname of my virtual guest machine running CentOS. How to change hostname of a CentOS system? There are several ways to do that but I am using the old way. VI is my friend and still...

Posted in CentOS
Security: Privacy on the Internet and solve that with JanusVM

Posted by Ivan
/ November 14, 2007 / Leave a comment

As a security professional I am concerned for my logs left on the ISP going to the Internet. Couple months ago I heard something about a “Tor” network. My requirements was to initiate a tunnel based a TCP application like Remote Desktop Client (RPD). After some research on Google and...

Posted in Security
Windows Live Writer

Posted by Ivan
/ November 11, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I was working on my notebook and I installed Windows Live Mail. I joined to Google Gmail and I wanted use Windows Live Mail as my mail client. Gmail supports the IMAP protocol and I wanted to see how this was working with a local mail client. Getting Google Adds...

Posted in Windows Live Writer
Windows Server 2008 Domain Join with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / 6 Comments

The following command will join the NET-IIS-01 workload into the Networknet.nl forest domain. Enter the Administrator password and after the netdom has finished reboot the server with shutdown.exe /r /t5.

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core IPv4 configuration

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / Leave a comment

View the installed interfaces netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Configure the fixed IP address, netmask and the default gateway netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”nr” source=static address=192.168.1.1 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.254 Configure the DNS server netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”nr” address=192.168.1.1 index=1

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core License Activiation by Script

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2007 / Leave a comment

Windows 2008 Core server does not support GUI and right clicking your computer and use the control panel options to activate the server is not available anymore. Copy the script below and supply your own license key code. Open notepad from command prompt. Eg notepad license.cmd; paste the the code below...

Posted in Core Server
Whitebox PC: building my Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2007 / 1 Comment

Last week I finally got some time to install and build my Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600 machine. The components were all purchased online: 1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping 2.4 GHz 8Mb €228,50 1 x Asus P5N-E €105,00 2 x Corsair 4096MB DDR2 PC6400 Matched Pair TwinX...

Posted in Personal
Rename Windows Server 2008 Core with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 2, 2007 / 2 Comments

Type the hostname.exe command line to see the current computername which has been generated by the Windows setup. Select the computername and press enter on the keyboard. Now we are going to rename the server and prepare it for dcpromo process.

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core DC install Windows 2003 forest

Posted by Ivan
/ September 6, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I installed my first Windows Server 2008 Core server. This new server should act as Active Directory Domain Controller. Windows Server 2008 release introduces Core Server concept. I wanted to learn more about Core Server and planned to install this server as additional domain controller. Just before promoting the new Core Server...

Posted in Core Server

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