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Comment on No Solaris-AD Integration Update by slowe

slowe — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:30:21 +0000

Do we need a version 5?

I’m not sure yet, we’ll have to see how things play out. I think that’s something that I may be able to squeeze in, as I suspect it will take me less time to do that than it would have to do the Solaris update.

Stay tuned.

Comment on Viscosity, a Mac OpenVPN Client by slowe

slowe — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:28:18 +0000

Kaj, Jeremy,

My co-worker the CCIE did strongly recommend the use of Cisco’s VPN client, but if I was going to use IPSec I wanted something that uses the built-in IPSec “raccoon” driver from Mac OS X (whose BSD subsystem is, of course, derived from FreeBSD). I’d also heard numerous horror stories from people who’d run into problems with the Cisco VPN client causing stability issues on their Macs. For that reason, I preferred not to use the Cisco VPN client and use a third-party IPSec solution at first. While my co-worker was very gracious in working with me to make a third-party client work, he did strongly recommend using the Cisco client. Good question, though!

Comment on UAC and ktpass.exe by PiGeon

PiGeon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:56 +0000

Hi Scott, I can confirm that in elevated command prompt works the ktpass well.

PiGeon

PS: the other way how to run app elevated is pres the “START” type in cmd and press ctrl-shift-enter and confirm YES to run the app elevated.

Comment on No Solaris-AD Integration Update by Marcello

Marcello — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:32:14 +0000

Hi Scott,

What about Linux AD integration version 5 ? What is the status ?

Comment on Viscosity, a Mac OpenVPN Client by Jeremy L. Gaddis

Jeremy L. Gaddis — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:31:18 +0000

Out of curiousity, Scott, if you were working with one of your CCIEs to set up IPSec on a Cisco device, why didn’t he recommend ones of Cisco’s own VPN Clients?

Comment on Viscosity, a Mac OpenVPN Client by kaj

kaj — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:27:20 +0000

Is there a particular reason you didn’t want to use the Cisco VPN Client (CVC)? It works quite well on Win32, Linux and OS X (both PPC and Intel). If you’re into Vista 64-bit you need to use their SSL VPN Client (SVC) instead. Both clients wil work against IOS nowadays after SSL VPN feature parity in 12.4T.

Comment on VMware Consolidated Backup by Wes

Wes — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:26:12 +0000

Scott, I’ve used your article as a reference point numerous times. Thanks!

I have 15 VM’s that I run a weekly FULLVM snapshot against. The problem I have is that the VCB snapshot takes HOURS! I ran create a snapshot thru VIC and it’s completed in a few minutes or less. I’ve copied the syntax I use to snapshot the servers below.

Is there a better/faster way?

“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework\vcbmounter” -h wscadm01 -u XXXXXXX -p XXXXXXXX -a name:NWWSQL2 -r f:\mnt\NWWSQL2-FullVM -t fullvm -m san -M 1

Comment on Viscosity, a Mac OpenVPN Client by dewbert

dewbert — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:01:58 +0000

here’s another cross-platform option:
http://www.tinc-vpn.org/

Comment on No, Not That Scott Lowe by slowe

slowe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:17:23 +0000

Actually, Brian, there’s three of us.

Truth is, I’ve finally perfected that cloning process that Greg asked about back at Datanet, and my clones just decided they wanted to branch off into new areas. Nobody told me that was cheating…

Comment on Where is Bluebear Going with Kodiak? by Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:45:09 +0000

Hi Scott,

All Windows machines are banned from both our lab environment and also our production networks. At the moment we’re kind of stuck with VMware Server with ESX installs just waiting for cross-plattform management tools. I’ve registered with Bluebear for a Beta to no avail. Could you please send me an invite?

Regards,

Peter