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One of my clients called me reporting that their server stopped responding and so they rebooted. Upon reboot, the server seemed to hang forever and would not actually boot. I attempted to boot into safe mode, nothing, active directory restore mode, nothing, recover console, nothing.

Next step is to boot the windows 2000 server CD-ROM and run a repair (note be very careful about trying this on a domain controller, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE TRYING ANY of THIS STUFF, USE GHOST AND BACKUP THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO AN IMAGE FILE SO THAT YOU HAVE A BASELINE TO GO BACK TO)

Even running the command from the recover console would not allow me to boot and do anything. Never before had I been so completely locked out of a system.

Ok so you have just installed Debian for the first time and now want to do something useful with this new Linux box. How about we set up a web server that has php and mysql support. Then we will install phpMyAdmin to make it easier to manage the databases. If you have no idea how to install Debian, see the post, How to get started with Debian before attempting this part.

Lets log on to the Debian box as root.


apt-get upgrade update
apt-get install apache
apt-get install phpmyadmin
apt-get install mysql-server


Don’t forget to change the root passwords for this stuff. To test it get the ip address of your Debian box using the

Recently, it has come to my attention that some of my customers are wanting to have an automated way to set their profiles stored on a server so they can roam around and get their profile where ever they go. I decided to write an article on how to do just that.

Configuring a Roaming User Profile
You can configure a roaming profile by using the following procedure.
To configure a roaming profile for users:
1. Create a folder on the server where user profiles will be stored. This will be the top-level folder that contains all the individual user profiles.
2. Configure the folder as a shared folder, and give all users Full Control permissions.

One of my clients called me reporting that their server stopped responding and so they rebooted. Upon reboot, the server seemed to hang forever and would not actually boot. I attempted to boot into safe mode, nothing, active directory restore mode, nothing, recover console, nothing.

Next step is to boot the windows 2000 server CD-ROM and run a repair (note be very careful about trying this on a domain controller, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE TRYING ANY of THIS STUFF, USE GHOST AND BACKUP THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO AN IMAGE FILE SO THAT YOU HAVE A BASELINE TO GO BACK TO)

Even running the command from the recover console would not allow me to boot and do anything. Never before had I been so completely locked out of a system.

Ok so you have just installed Debian for the first time and now want to do something useful with this new Linux box. How about we set up a web server that has php and mysql support. Then we will install phpMyAdmin to make it easier to manage the databases. If you have no idea how to install Debian, see the post, How to get started with Debian before attempting this part.

Lets log on to the Debian box as root.


apt-get upgrade update
apt-get install apache
apt-get install phpmyadmin
apt-get install mysql-server


Don’t forget to change the root passwords for this stuff. To test it get the ip address of your Debian box using the

Recently, it has come to my attention that some of my customers are wanting to have an automated way to set their profiles stored on a server so they can roam around and get their profile where ever they go. I decided to write an article on how to do just that.

Configuring a Roaming User Profile
You can configure a roaming profile by using the following procedure.
To configure a roaming profile for users:
1. Create a folder on the server where user profiles will be stored. This will be the top-level folder that contains all the individual user profiles.
2. Configure the folder as a shared folder, and give all users Full Control permissions.

This is detailed step step debian networking tutorial for Beginners and advanced users.This includes Configuring your network using GUI,Command line,using ifconfig with examples and troubleshooting your network tips.

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Recently, it has come to my attention that some of my customers are wanting to have an automated way to set their profiles stored on a server so they can roam around and get their profile where ever they go. I decided to write an article on how to do just that.

Configuring a Roaming User Profile
You can configure a roaming profile by using the following procedure.
To configure a roaming profile for users:
1. Create a folder on the server where user profiles will be stored. This will be the top-level folder that contains all the individual user profiles.
2. Configure the folder as a shared folder, and give all users Full Control permissions.

XO FLEX PRI

A Few Experiences that i would like to share.

1) The Flex PRI is not a true pri its an IP/PRI. This has some limits on what your t1 can do, such as being able to set you out going caller id and some advantages that a normal T1 can not do, split your t1 channels dynamically into bandwidth or voice channels depending on what you need.

2) Out of the 3 months that the t1 has been active, i have only been able to use it for about 1/2 that time. Now this is not entirely XO's fault. Its just that they had no experience in making it work with asterisk. I think that by the time you read this, their customer service may have improved. This was due to XO blocking my calls. They changed a setting on the pri to not allow any calls to go out unless i had my caller id set as one of the numbers they assigned to me. After calling XO about a dozen times, having them send a tech out to my location (who said it was working fine) and then opening a service contract with DIGIUM to make sure that my settings were correct. No one could figure out why this was not working. In fact all the XO techs i spoke with couln't see anything wrong with their equipment. By chance one day i figured out that If i set my caller ID to be that of one assigned to me, the call WOULD work. It only took me 3 aggravating weeks of troubleshooting and hair pulling to figure out that little gem.