October 14, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: networking
Posted in How To | 18 comments
For the past two months something has been going on with our firewall at the office.
I use JFFNMS to monitor my network and I began receiving notifications that certain services and ports on the firewall were randomly closing and opening. I tried to see what was going on, but nothing turned up in the event [...]
January 20, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: networking, Question
Posted in How To, Questions | No comments
Almost 3 weeks in to the New Year and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off?
Yeah right we have even more emails today and I am studying for my 2008 Microsoft Certs! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored content [...]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS kiddies,
Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and a [...]
That’s right kiddies!
Ask The Admin brought it to you first. Don’t go knocking on Amazon’s door today. Nobody will answer.
Could it be that the Shopping GIANT of the net doesn’t even have server redundancy worked out right for itself?
Anybody out there know anything about this? Doesn’t Amazon offer hosting services as well?
Hit us in the [...]
So you’ve just finished rolling out 500 new desktops using disk imaging, and you’re keeping them updated using WSUS. How are you going to monitor the overall status and health of your network?
There is a wealth of excellent network monitoring software available, both commercial and open source. One problem with many of them is that [...]
February 19, 2008 - 6:27 pm
Tags: Linux, networking, review
Posted in General | 22 comments
I would like to monitor event logs on multiple windows machines – maybe ping them every so often?
I used to use something called Emon but it seems pretty outdated. I looked at bigBrother but it seems too expensive.
Do you have a solution?
Have you heard of VMWare??
If you are game then keep on reading… It [...]
February 13, 2008 - 3:00 pm
Tags: networking, Open Source, review, Security, windows
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 comments
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and still using Telnet on Windows because you haven’t found a more viable alternative (You know who you are) We have some good news for you!
Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows [...]
November 7, 2007 - 5:52 am
Tags: networking, windows
Posted in General | 9 comments
Davey writes to us that he needs to get access to his home Vista machine over the wireless network and it would make his life easy if he can do it – like he does it in XP or 2000.
Dave connects using a browser or command line to file://machine/drive$. As we have covered before the [...]
September 11, 2007 - 4:20 pm
Tags: networking
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 comments
So a lot of my end users don’t know what N.A.T. is . And if you haven’t guessed it – it’s not what is pictured on the left! Most end users have no idea what the difference is between their external and internal IP addresses or Public vs. Private. Chances are they will never know [...]
August 28, 2007 - 12:15 pm
Tags: networking, windows
Posted in Admin's Arsenal | 15 comments
So you’ve just finished rolling out 500 new desktops using disk imaging. How are you going to keep them updated? As you know, Microsoft releases updates on the second Tuesday of each month. You need a way to approve and install these updates on all your desktops and servers, and you need to do it [...]