Want to create an application icon (shortcut) for Ubuntu 18.04LTS, and could not easily find a method for doing this really simple operation, so have created this blog so I don’t have to search around again in the future Continue reading
Within a FreeNAS Jail I wanted to setup a Google Cloudprint Server, which would allow my Chromebook, Android Phone to print to a Network attached Printer. Continue reading
Having owned a Dell 1660w printer for some years, I have found it annoying that there seems to be no official Dell Linux drivers. Dell Windows & OSX users are well catered for but, that does not help if you have a device running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
This article documents how to setup an OpenVPN server on a FreeNAS Jail, allowing user(s) to be able to access the Freenas UI via the VPN but also other areas of the network where the Freenas server resides. The user will need to specify a username, password to be able to login. The password can be set by the user, however they will also need Google Authenticator to provide a 6 digit code.
I was messing around the other day with RSA encryption and came across the site http://nmichaels.org/rsa.py. It demonstrates how to use RSA encryption to encrypt/decrypt a text string. I was interested in the key generation for this, this page just has a generate button however, I wanted to understand how I could generate my own Public Modulus, Public Exponent & Private Exponent in the hexdecimal format. Continue reading
Background
I use SCCM, Operating System Deployment (OSD) and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 update 1 to deploy Windows 7 SP1 (x64) and application installs during the build process. The problem was a .vbs script which populates some auto-logon keys called via SCCM OSD during the application installation process was being hit with registry redirection, forcing any registry entries to go into
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
rather than HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon. Continue reading
Within Windows it is sometimes necessary for a device to automatically log on, without prompting a user for a user id or password. This could be for the purpose of running a device as a kiosk, where a the device starts auto logs on and then the kiosk application loads full screen without any user interaction. There are obvious security issues with this, and to keep this article simple and concise lets ignore these for the time being. This article shows how it is possible with adding the appropriate registry keys. Continue reading
This article attempts to document how to configure Dovecot and domain & users’ mailbox quota sizes using information contained within PostfixAdmin and its associated tables.
During PostfixAdmin install time, the database is requested where PostfixAdmin can store additional tables. Selecting the same database as postfix itself neatly installs these additional tables, that can then be used by Dovecot to monitor mailbox quota sizes. Continue reading
This article sets out the steps needed to support multiple domains and their users’ email accounts allowing them to recieve emails via secure IMAP and send emails via a secure SMTP server using their POP3/IMAP credentials. This is particularly useful for mobile users (road warrior) who may not have a consistent ISP provided SMTP server.
This article has been put together from countless other articles so that it should provide an all inclusive set of instructions.
I wanted to keep statistic of how many visit my blog was receiving on a daily basis. So I installed the Google Analytics For WordPress Plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress).
Once activated you will need to go to the Continue reading