Posts by i686-linux

I've been having this issue (at two separate clients) where all of the volume labels for the network drives that a user is connecting to get renamed as "Disconnected Network Drive." The icon shows that the drive is connected, and if you can access files on the network drive with no problem. This has happened at both locations in the past week so it seems to me that a recent MS update may have triggered this. All of the workstations with this issue are running Windows XP SP2 and the file servers at both sites are Windows Server 2003 (pre SP1).

I haven't found any solutions (though similar issues) on either Google, or on the MS support site.

Has anyone else come across this issue, even if you haven't found a fix yet?

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

It worked. Thank you much.

Prereqs:

Windows XP SP2
Office 2003 SP1

I have a workstation at a client with the following issue:

A user periodically takes a screenshot and then pastes it into Word. All appears to be ok until the user scrolls a bit down into the document, and then scrolls back up again when the pasted image becomes plain white. If you save/re-open the document all becomes OK again and if you print it, the image prints out ok. The image doesn't appear to be removed from the document, it is just rendered as being plain white.

I quickly googled to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

anyone? :)

What do you guys think about the new Japanese sports cars out now? I'm kind of digging the RX-8 and the 350Z... Opinions?

I'm all a about the Japanese import scene. :) ... considering buying an Evo8 or RSX-S

I have very little Citrix knowledge, yet have been tasked to administer two citrix servers in a load balancing farm.

The way that printing is currently setup is that printers and permissions have to be setup manually on each of the servers. I'm hoping to find a way to setup printers on a master server, and have them replicated (including permissions if possible) to a slave server(s). If at all possible I would like it so that users on the client side can't even see printers they aren't assigned to, but if that isn't possible, denying access to printers they don't need is fine. I know there is an option to have client pritners setup automatically at login for them, but that isn't the solution that I'm looking for.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

This is Windows 2000 Server SP4 with all Ms patches and Citrix Metaframe XP (either 1.0, or 1.8... the box says 1.8 but the docs say 1.0, does anyone know how I can find out for sure?)

Thanks,

While running through some user accounts in our ADS setup I noticed that one of them is set to "Store password using reversible encryption." This is no good and does not meet the company's security requirements that I work for. My question is if I uncheck this setting will I possibly lose the ability to login as this account anymore?

This setting can also be changed in the BIOS on some Dell systems

I was given an old KDS monitor some time ago and it seems that they aren't the most reliable pieces of equipment. Unfortunately, you may want to get a new/newer monitor. I tried the tape thing, and it just doesn't seem to work well enough.

You took the words right out of my mouth when you mentioned satelite. I would definitely research that as an option.

What steps have you ran all ready? ...Please be a little more clear on the question.

I can't find anything on google/groups, none of my co-workers have seen this and none of our usual recommended spy-ware tools from here are finding this! I boot into safe mode and remove the registry keys and exe file, but after a reboot it is somehow repropogated and back in the startup!

("our usual recommended spy-ware tools from here" means the same tools that we always tell people here at daniweb to use.)

In other words...

I ran AdAware, SpyBot, and Hijack-this with no results of anything pertaining to spamremote.exe (And yes all of these were up to date) There were a few things related to SahAgent, but those were removed by adaware, and have been gone for days.

After those programs found nothing I booted into safe mode to delete the spamremote.exe file on the HD as well as the registry keys that were causing it to startup, checked msconfig as well. No records of it in the startup. Cool? No... it repropogates itself somehow from a secondary binary elsewhere on the computer.

Other resources I have checked are google/groups.google and co-workers.

Your saying in IE your getting ramdom pop-ups?

It doesn't do any browser hijacking, just random popups.

I didn't mention IE. What I am saying is that it does random popups. Whether IE is loaded or not. Hence, random.

here would be a good script:

(the pre-req is that you have ssh installed on everything and can log into every server by using public keys instead of passwords)

#!/bin/bash
 
 SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
 POWERCMD="/sbin/shutdown -h now"
 HOSTS="server1 server2 server3"
 
 # Shutdown remote machines
 for i in $HOSTS;
 do
 	 $SSH -l root $i $POWERCMD;
 done
 
 # Shutdown ourself
 /sbin/shutdown -h now

I provide no warranties so use at your own risk. :)

I would imagine that you could have one valid copy of windows, install Microsoft SUS on it, and then have your pirated machines get their updates from that. I think that would work. :)

A few other good programs are VLC (not to be confused with VNC) and xine.

* = any ammount of matches of the previous expression

For example:

[[:graph:]]* is really "Any printable and visible (non-space) character repeated any number of times"

cat filename.txt | grep @

and getting the email names reduced to something in the one line. I am thinking that this will help. What I wonder is if we can get grep to simply output the found expression instead of the whole dang line.
Christian

That is what I posted about:

grep -o "[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*@[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*"

grep -o returns the matched expression instead of the whole line matched

I realized that this can be cut down to:

grep -o "[[:graph:]]*@[[:graph:]]*"

Those look awfully familiar. Did you grab those off of a "100 useful SED scripts" site? :)

Having linux clients to a terminal server is easy!

http://www.rdesktop.org/
http://www.nongnu.org/grdesktop/

And somewhere on Citrix's site they provide a linux Citrix client as well.

I just need to end up with something like keep what is directly attached to the '@' and delete anything after or before other whitespace

The Main Man mainman@domain.com
^not part of email. ^ and ^ are both parts of email.

And grep saves the day. Next time I'll RTFM better. :)

grep -o "[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*@[[:alnum:][:graph:]]*"

I haven't tested for many bugs/quirks in the results yet, but a few quick checks seemed to work fine.

If anyone has any further ideas though they would still be greatly appreciated!

I have a bunch of text files with different formats that somewhere in the file have email addresses. I would like to be able to parse through any number of these files for email addresses. Here are the types of input:

CFO: some_cfo@domain.com

misterman@domain.com

The Main Man mainman@domain.com

To take care of the situations I have the following seds:

#Removes line with an opening title
sed -e 's/^.*://'

#Removes opening and closing whitepsace
sed -e 's/^[ ^t]*//;s/[ ^t]*$//'

Those are both really simple, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to remove normal text from before the email address. I either end up clobbering the whole thing, or including it.

I just need to end up with something like keep what is directly attached to the '@' and delete anything after or before other whitespace

The Main Man mainman@domain.com
^not part of email. ^ and ^ are both parts of email.

Any clues anyone?

Has anyone seen this? I can't find anything on google/groups, none of my co-workers have seen this and none of our usual recommended spy-ware tools from here are finding this! I boot into safe mode and remove the registry keys and exe file, but after a reboot it is somehow repropogated and back in the startup! It doesn't do any browser hijacking, just random popups. This thing is damned annoying, and until it gets removed from a client's computer, I get phone calls every time there is a popup! If anyone could help out that would be MUCH appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Have you tried powering off the modem for at least 30 seconds? The steps that I would take, are to power off the modem and router for thirty seconds. Power up the modem. Give it 45 seconds or so to warm up. After that, plug in the router to the modem. Try that, and see how it goes. I have seen problems reconnecting cable modems to devices while powered on. Not all modems, nor all devices, but sometimes.

If you want it to bring up a GUI login prompt automatically at boot you need to change your default runlevel. You do this by CAREFULLY editing the file '/etc/inittab' and changing the default from 3 to 4.

If you don't mind the console prompt, but would like to bring up a GUI at your wish instead, then type 'startx' at the console prompt. (After logged in of course)

I'm not trying to sound condescending but it sounds like you might be fairly new to this. Good luck.

I run 2 versions. On my work laptop i use 9.1 with 2.4.25 kernel, latest kde and latest gnome 2.6, gtk 2.4, and I update other software a lot. My private file server that sits at home is running an old 8.1 installation with stock kernel, and is really really stripped down. I think the full install was a few hundred MB. For that machine I feel no need to update. The only thing that it has open to the world is FTP and I update that with every proftpd release.

In no particular order:

Orbital
Radiohead
DJ Tiesto
Slayer
Squarepusher
Static-X
The Doors
Ron D Core
System of a Down
Roni Size
Amon Tobin
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Nine Inch Nails
Dick Dale
Van Halen
Judas Priest
The Chemical Brothers
Ladytron
Goldie
Kraftwerk
DJ Dara
The Misfits (with Danzig)
DJ Kryptic
DJ Shadow
Dieselboy
Daft Punk
Aphex Twin
Black Flag
The Who
Gray Matter
Lard
The Dead Kennedys

The list goes on, but that gives a general idea of my musical background. :)

Using Windows 2000 server. I was testing it at the command line. That was the problem. Thanks!

That yields the same problem that I was having:

%%A was unexpected at this time.

Get the degree. You are gonna kick yourself in the ass if you don't have it one day when you really need it.

What would normally be the next message following the "card-02 texas..." line?

bash:

#!/bin/bash

DOMAIN=mydomain.com

for client in ServerA ServerB ServerC ServerD
do
xhost +$client.$DOMAIN
done

MS-DOS:
@echo off
for..... crap.....

I can't seem to get the for loop to work properly. Has anyone had much experience with batch files in DOS? I realize that running xhost inside of a batch file sounds silly, but there is a need for it in this situation. :)

I wouldn't doubt if the first response is RTFM, or whatever, but there is no "man" in ms-dos, and doing "for /?" didn't help at all. :)

5 REM Happy Birthday to BASIC
10 PRINT "http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040429/D82885100.html"
20 END

I'm not sure what would be causing the problem, but it would be interesting to see what other protcols this intercepts. POP/SMTP seem to be fine. Can you have these people try accessing an https:// site, or even an ftp://

Good idea Dani. :)

There may be a better way to create your site in a box, and center it, but in the past I have used the <center> tag for centering a 1x1 table, and then putting the rest of the content inside of the single table cell. I dunno if this is a hack job or standard practice, maybe that is why I'm not in web design. :)

nah, this doesn't seem like a Distro War. Just exchanges of opinions...
we're all entitled to our own anyway...

Yeah, I haven't seen anyone say "Redhat is teh sux0rz and sl4ckw4r3 0wnz!!!" yet. :)

the windows i have is shhhhh!! pirated someone gave it to me

That is most likely your problem. Who knows where that originally came from. I'm sorry but we can't help very much with pirated software here. If you can't afford a copy of Windows XP then reinstall whatever came with the computer when it was new. If you need help installing Windows that is fine, but we won't help with pirated software.

of animal droppings

What is saying it needs atapi cd-rom?

killed many people

It is truly amazing how a lot of these hosting companies stay in business. I pushed out a real quick website for a "friend-of-a-friend" type of person and the hosting provider that this company was using was terrible. I can't tell you how many times there host went down for hours or even a day at a time over the course of several months. It seemed that every couple of telnet sessions I would run would cause the site to be down. I am not even talking heavy hitting site. Low visits with static html, and the only thing done inside of the telnet session was vi!

Avenged Sevenfold -> music

section of the

I'm assuming that your cd/dvd rom drive worked before you reformatted your computer. Did you use this same drive that is installed right now to load an operating system cd to format the hard drive? Does the bios recognize the drive, but your operating system does not? Are you able to boot off of a cd? Does If the bios doesn't recognize the cd/dvd rom drive then you would you need to check cable/power/jumper settings, not driver issues. If the cd/dvd drive worked fine with the bios before, and no hardware changes were made, then there should be no reason why it wouldn't work now.

A lot of (if not all of?) the new Dell laptops are lacking legacy ports such as serial, parallel, and ps/2. I beleive that you can get a ps/2->USB adapter, otherwise you would need a usb keyboard.

Knoppix is the best on that list, but personally I'm more of a BSD person q:)

Gentoo is the best Distro in my opinion...

I am not saying that you are wrong, but most BSD people that I know tend to feel better with slackware. Kind of interesting.

Plug in an external keyboard of both ps/2 and usb type and see how those are responding.

I agree. Bash (and others) shell scripts are awesome. Very low overhead, and very powerful for "quick-and-dirty" type tools, to more complex cgi scripts for a webserver. And just think, the only interpreter you need is your shell! :) Yes, shell scripts can be limited at times when compared to others, but still, they get a job done that might otherwise require too much work in a different language.

I am not a huge C programmer, but the best one I have seen (and I'm sure some other people would agree) is the Kernigan and Ritchie C book. (Spelling?) Awesome book that teaches nice, clean coding habits.

I don't think that the profile should be killed entirely except for as a last resort. At least instruct someone to make a backup of their current profile.

Proper steps would be:

1.> Make backup of existing profile
2.> Delete existing profile

I believe in windows ME/9x that everything is stored under c:\windows\profiles, and not c:\documents and settings.