Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Hi all,

Not really had much time to post, Uni work hasn’t really kicked in again yet, but ive got plenty of projects on with work that have been keeping me battling with command prompts throughout many nights :P

Also, it’s a good time to sort some of my own projects out, and so ive re-formatted my Linux NAS/Router, upgraded our houses backbone to gigabit ethernet (5 port netgear gigabit switches are really cheap now!) and moved my main PC’s os over to windows Vista Ultimate *i know… going with the trend, but it’s damn nice!*

Anyway, Thats pretty much it for now, just got a final few more bits and peices to tweak in my samba config then im off to bed.

//Matt

Just an update, moved all my stuff back to uni friday night, was meant to be heading home for a few hours and some last bits on saturday morning, but was up late unpacking / setting up all my techie crap, and slept through the day!

JoeJoe Appeared on the irwell around 5 and we headed to the pav for a few pints with sam. Pav’s got some really good drinks deals on at the mo (cheaper drinking is NEVER bad!)

Then headed back to Sam’s for some beers, ended up setting up his new box with linux, supplying NAT Routing, DHCP, multiple samba shares to act as a NAS for his data (copying data took HOURS!! Hdd’s suck!) AND a routed VPN (using openvpn www.openvpn.org) to my room for File access between our houses NAS servers. All nicely scripted so the settings survive over reboots
Its now 8.30am on Sunday, been up all night, sorting out samba permissions.. and moving large files! Learnt a few new things about samba options, and daemonising openVPN.. Tis all good!

Anyway, gonna catch some zzz’s now! Later

//Matt

Whyyyyy am I still up.

Anyway, still have a full bottle of coke left so i’ll continue..
Just a tech update really. If you install OCS and none of the clients ‘Report in’ with their inventory’s.. Don’t go scratching around your linux box for something broken. There probably is nothing wrong, It’s just the default update interval time is 24 Hrs after installation. Test it works properly by manually running this command on a client:
(from the ocsInventory program files folder) ‘OCSinventory /debug /server:ip_to_server’

You should see an entry now in the admin interface for that PC. Time between updates can be changed with the prolog_update setting in the web config settings page. Hope that helps someone

//Matt