Category Archives: Technical

Full Connection to AD

Posted on January 19, 2019 by larry

I was able to get a new CentOS 7 authenticating against AD for both a command line login and a web page. In addition, I am able to access openldap securely to get a web page to securely connect as … Continue reading →

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OpenLDAP on CentOS 7

Posted on January 18, 2019 by larry

Now that I got AD working, there is got to be a way to get ldap working easily. Kind of a struggle, but it could be because I should start from scratch. I am trying to use an existing server.

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Adding CentOS 7 to AD

Posted on January 17, 2019 by larry

I am able to easily add a CentOS 7 box to an active directory network. It is extremely easy, so much easier than running setup or editing Basically yum install sssd realmd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common samba-common-tools krb5-workstation openldap-clients policycoreutils-python … Continue reading →

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CentOS Kickstart

Posted on January 16, 2019 by larry

Kind of learned this the hard way, but when you kickstart a machine for CentOS 7, 1GB of RAM is not enough. A default install on VMware workstation only assigns 1GB of RAM on a CentOS VM But on an … Continue reading →

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CentOS on Brix

Posted on January 15, 2019 by larry

Kind of disappointed that I can not easily install CentOS 7 on my Brix computer, Looks like I will reach out to community and try and get it to work. BUT for what the primary purpose, running a VM, yeah … Continue reading →

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Moving to Office 365

Posted on January 13, 2019 by larry

Got most of the group on to Office 365 Essentials. Kind of nice having One Drive integrated across everything. Trying to figure out what skype does too. Did more work on the Gigabyte Brix, actually got a VM to run … Continue reading →

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Brix Small Computer

Posted on January 12, 2019 by larry

Found this deal on Frys weekly ad (in hindsight it was a meh deal) It is a Gigabyte Brix Celeron 4105 barebone PC. The computer and the SSD was a good deal at $125.oo but you have to add RAM … Continue reading →

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Go All In on Apolonio.Tech

Posted on January 9, 2019 by larry

One of the domains I own is apolonio.tech. I am going to push a lot of stuff to it just to get going on it. One huge change from my other domains is that it will not be reliant on … Continue reading →

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Plex Pain

Posted on January 4, 2019 by larry

The Live TV recording is a pain with plex. Really the only reason I got it. I knew sometimes the EPG wouldn’t get updated so a show would be missing. But what is annoying is that there was no way … Continue reading →

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Little Optiplex Won

Posted on December 29, 2018 by larry

I got NVidia NVENC encoding working, and an optiplex with a lower end Quadro video card beat an 4 core Xeon. Trick is you need to compile your own Here are the details Here are the results of different versions  … Continue reading →

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