Anonymous asks:

How do you unblock IP’s in the firewall? Our California Warehouse VPN got locked out. Log says "Maximal amount of unsuccessful authentication attempts reached, IP address is blocked."

This happens because of a setting you probably forgot all about. It's particularly easy to forget if you aren't authenticating through a domain controller, because it's in that section of your control configuration.

It also says nothing about VPN's, so you are forgiven if you did not think to look here. Ordinarily, blocking goes away after five minutes, but if your VPN connection kept trying with a bad password, it will get locked out again and again.

Fix the password or add that address to a "Never Block" group.

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Anonymous asks:

Why should I trust The Cloud? There is no cloud, it's just a computer that's located somewhere else!

Well, technically that "just a computer" part may not be true. For example, if you are using a service like Gmail or Office 365, it's not just one computer that provides the service. Your data is mirrored to other computers and they might be located on the other side of the world from each other. That's true for many web sites, too, even very small ones.

Also, those computers are usually far more protected from mishap than anything you own. They'll have redundant internet access, generators for backup power and be physically protected too.

But, yeah, I get it: you don't like letting go. You'd rather have local control. I feel the same way, but in today's world, you are either going to use the cloud to some extent or be content with lesser performance and capability. That's reality.

Cloud haters: You too will be assimilated

Why you shouldn’t trust your data to “the cloud”

Hosted vs. Cloud vs. In House Applications

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Anonymous asks:

Why doesn't rcp work for root? I get Permission Denied even though it works with other users?

Before I answer that, I'd like to first suggest that you forget about rcp and use scp. Unless the system you are using is too old to support ssh and scp, you really should not use rcp.

So my answers assume you cannot. The first thing to understand is that root has special rules. One is that you must use a .rhosts file in root's HOME directory. It must be owned by root and must be 0600 perms.

Be sure that root's HOME is where you think it is!

You also need to realize that any system names you put in .rhosts have to match what the system sees. Check by pinging the ip of the other site.

Another requirement is that root be allowed to login remotely. That may require an entry in /etc/securetty on some systems and you may also need to allow it in Selinux if that is enabled.

Obviously any firewalls in the way need to allow this and the rsh service has to be started or enabled in whatever functions as the super daemon on your system. As I'm assuming you are using something too old for ssh, that's probably /etc/inetd.conf or an /etc/xinetd.d file.

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Anonymous asks:

Is there a way to get Ethernet from Wireless? My landlord gives me free wireless but I need to plug my Vonage phone into Ethernet

Technically, what you want is a bridge. However, if you stop by Best Buy or wherever and tell them that you need to bridge wireless to Ethernet, you probably will just confuse them.

Instead, tell them you want a wireless repeater with an Ethernet port on it. They will understand that.

If you are Googling, searching for either Wireless to Ethernet Bridge or Wireless Repeater will find the right stuff. There's no need to spend a lot of money unless you are in a corporate environment. For home use, you can go cheap.

Then, of course, you have to set it up. Conceptually that's just a matter of getting this new device talking to your existing wireless network. That should be easy, but some of these things seem to go out of their way to be confusing. If you keep in mind the end result, you may have an easier time. What you will be doing is giving this new box its own SSID and getting it connected to your wireless. Then plug in your cable and it is done.

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Anonymous asks:

Is it possible to have two email accounts on the same Outlook? One of our users needs to periodically check another's account.

With or without Kerio, yes, it's possible, though if it were me, I'd just forward one to the other, leaving the original. You could create an Outlook rule to store those messages in a different folder if you like.

If you really want two accounts, there are two ways to do it. One is simply to create another profile and switch to that when you want to use the other account. The other way lets you add multiple accounts to a single profile. That requires Outlook 2010 and Kerio 8.3 or newer and manual configuration of the additional accounts. Kerio has a KB article that covers all that.

Adding multiple accounts in a single profile in Microsoft Outlook

Manually creating profiles in MS Outlook

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Anonymous asks:

My SCO 5.0.2 system will not boot. Error messages on the screen include /etc/getty cannot fork to run //tcb/lib/initcond: Resource temporarily unavailable (error 11) and cannot fork to run /usr/bin/mapkey: Resource temporarily unavailable (error 11).

This is is the third time I've seen this and it truly astonishes me that anyone is still running this ancient software.

I don't know if this comes from a BIOS issue in the old hardware these run on or from the old SCO Unix software, but it is related to the date. The solution is to enter an August 2015 date when the boot asks for it. Then, after login, you can run /etc/asktime again or enter the date with something like "date -t 20151005hhmm.ss; setclk -r". That should get you going until you reboot again.

Note: one customer said he had to reboot after doing this and then all was fine.

SCO Unix conversion articles

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Anonymous asks:

Is it worth resetting content and data in IOS to fix issues? I have strange issues that cannot be resolved normally.

I would say definitely yes, assuming you've tried everything else first, of course.

I recently decided to do this because Apple News in IOS 9.1 was constantly crashing a few seconds after loading. I tried all the usual tricks, including resetting settings, but News still crashed.

With any other app, I'd just delete the app an try reinstalling, but Apple stupidly doesn't let you do that with News and a number of other built in apps. Nor do the let you trash the data for a specific app, which would be another very helpful way to solve problems like this.

After resetting content and data, your device will connect to your wireless network (you'll need your password/phrase) and then ask for your Apple ID. It will then offer to restore from backup. I declined that offer as I did not want to bring back any existing problems. Instead, I just went to the app store and reinstalled every app I need.

Interestingly, doing this cleaned up over 5 GB of free space. As my iPad is old and only 16GB to start with, that mysteriously hidden data may have been what caused News to crash. News now works again, so the total reset certainly fixed that. Yes, it was somewhat annoying reinstalling and configuring apps individually, but in this case at least, the results were worth the effort.

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Anonymous asks:

I fell for a Microsoft phone scam. I let them access my computer, but didn't pay any money. What should I do now?

Do you feel lucky?

Here's the thing. Some of these fakers are just looking to make a quick buck. They access your computer, pretend to find a virus and eradicate it, collect their money and that's it. Some are even more "honest" - they might actually install software that scans for viruses.

But others may have more in mind. They may search your computer for information useful to them in other contexts, like sending spam to your friends or even stealing your identity. They might even install malware on your machine. That could be something relatively innocuous like a browser toolbar or it might be something far worse like a keylogger to steal your passwords. Your machine might be zombified and used to attack bigger targets. It might be used as a repository for illegal files or as part of some other criminal enterprise. That's why I asked if you feel lucky.

The chances are that you can just download something like Malwarebytes, scan your machine and you'll be fine. However, nobody can guarantee that as there are always new things that scanners know nothing about.

If it were me, I'd wipe the machine and install from scratch. Even that might not be enough today as some systems are vulnerable to BIOS hacks. Nor is it just that machine that is at risk: it's possible that your home router could be compromised. Is that likely? No, but it is possible.

You have to decide what risk level you are willing to tolerate. One friend of ours decided to freeze her credit reports, throw out the computer and buy new after something like this happened to her. That might be extreme, but she felt that she'd rather be safe than sorry.

Do you feel lucky?

Malwarebytes

A call from the technical department of Microsoft

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