Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Symantec Enterprise Vault Deployment Scanner

Just a quick note, the post “Accessing Windows Shares Via Cname Alias” is also relevant when performing an install of Symantec Enterprise Vault. The deployment scanner will indicate that the strict name checking and loop back registry keys be adjust … Continue reading

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Forget GVFS, we’re going DAAP

I’ve been struggling getting my linux machines to play back my smb/cifs hosted MP3′s over GVFS “mounts”. This has been a problem for a while now (ever since Rhthymbox gvfs/smb access broke back in the transition from Ubuntu 8.04 to … Continue reading

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ESXi USB Stick How To from Linux

Quick cheat sheet on how to put ESXi/VMvisor on a USB stick using linux: Download ESXi Open the ISO (Archive Mounter works) Open the image.tgz file Drill down and locate the VMware-VMvisor……dd.bz2 file Open the dd.bz2 file, and extract the … Continue reading

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Accessing Windows Shares Via Cname Alias

Ok here’s the situation, we migrated all the files from an old file server to a new file server of a different name. All the shares looked good, all the permissions were in place, and everything seemed to be working … Continue reading

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Installing VMware Tools On Base Debian Install

Base Debian install with: apt-get install psmisc (for the kill all command) apt-get install linux-headers-kernelversion (uname -r) apt-get install build-essential VMware tools install: mount /dev/cdrom cp /cdrom/*.tar.gz ~ cd ~ tar xzvf *.tar.gz cd vmware-tools-distrib ./vmware-install.pl

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