@Dashrender

I ended up putting a wireless card in that PC for now...quickest fix when I have so much else to do...not sure why the onboard card decided to act up.

@JasGot said in Softphone for Windows PC???:

What goes in the domain field in the account setup?

Nevermind 😞
Too simple. The same domain I use to login to the admin interface. Doh!

@travisdh1 said in Eero Inquiry:

@scottalanmiller said in Eero Inquiry:

@stacksofplates said in Eero Inquiry:

@Dashrender said in Eero Inquiry:

@dbeato said in Eero Inquiry:

@WrCombs You cannot hide your SSIDs on Eero. You also have a limit of your Main SSID and Guest Network. It is geared for Home and really small environments.

https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/214588166-Why-can-t-I-hide-my-network-SSID-with-eero-

Why Eero over Ubiquiti? Business versus consumer. Does the pro version have APs with wired connections?

Prob because management is much easier. I ditched my APs and edgerouter for a single Amplifi which I can update and control from my phone. My mom has a Deco setup and it works very similarly and is great as well.

Easier if you do it yourself. But if you have a support company, I think the Unifi is easier. The Eeros always made for a lot of extra work when we had to deal with them.

At a former job, we had an Amplifi system that caused ~8 hours of un-needed billable time. If it would have been a UniFi system, we could have fixed it without the site visits.

You can grant remote access to Amplifi. Aftyer I set it up at my mom's, with her credentials, I then added myself as a remote admin.

@scottalanmiller said in Facebook at Work (Meta Workplace)?:

@Pete-S said in Facebook at Work (Meta Workplace)?:

@gjacobse said in Facebook at Work (Meta Workplace)?:

WHY,.. Why would you do that. That is ten times more poison them Sharepoint.

I don't know. Don't companies use Sharepoint?

I guess I'm wondering in general if companies use internal social sites. Or perhaps they just use messaging apps like Teams and Slack or just...nothing.

So OTHER social sites, yes. We've used the ones from Microsoft (Yammer) and Zoho Connect and the idea is fine. I like them. I just wouldn't use one from Meta. But conceptually, I find them slightly useful but not very.

what he said - I've never seen a company using Meta's workplace version.

@Pete-S said in NoMachine Server running, not found:

@travisdh1 said in NoMachine Server running, not found:

@gjacobse said in NoMachine Server running, not found:

This is a bit frustrating - It seems that NoMachine is 'hit and miss' being being able to receive a connection. Searching for a device that is online find none, and the device shows running. Restarting the service may fix it, but many times doesn't seem too, and restarting the computer leaves the same issue - not found.

Some threads suggest re-installing it - which I will do, but seems like a poor fix on a service that should run on boot.

It's it just my aggravation is causing this or am I looking for something else?

That's why I never ended up using NoMachine. Too many issues like that.

And it's not free for commercial use - at least the last time I looked.

Can be, depends which one you are using.

@scottalanmiller Weird I haven't see that, that is a new one for me.

@scottalanmiller

I wonder if your assumptions are correct. They are probably just using gethostbyname() / getaddrinfo() to find the IP and then it's the OS (Windows) that is responsible for the behavior you're seeing.

As I'm sure you know those function are part of socket programming functions of the OS. Based on BSD originally but Microsoft must have added code to deal with netbios, wins and whatever they've been doing since the days of Wfw.

Linux by comparison only deals with name resolution by DNS and manual hosts files. I can't think of anything else right now at least.

@JasGot ok cool, gotcha, it seemed the other way and just wanted to clarify.

sent over recommendation and leaving it at that .
thanks !

@JaredBusch I should clarify - IPO is not the plan. IPO being thrown around is because our volumes are now equivalent to publicly traded companies. Sorry for the confusion.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

@PhlipElder said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

@scottalanmiller said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

The same sales tactic is used to sell expensive "you have to pay the vendor extortion rates for support" over open source products that are known to be far better for decades. It's probably the best known scam in our industry. And once people overpay and get too little, the vendor has customers over a barrel and they feel that they can't expose to management that they spent a fortune and got less than they would have gotten for cheap or for free. And so the spending spree continues because no one up the chain wants to expose what they've done.

Three cluster setups:
1: Cisco Small Business Pro series Gigabit and 10GbE
2: NETGEAR Gigabit and 10GbE
3: Ubiquiti Gigabit and 10GbE
4: Mellanox/NVIDIA 10GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

Guess which ones we've had the most grief with? Which one's the least?

I can't stand the suspense. Please tell!

Cisco woudl be reliably the biggest problem. Never seen anything require more support, have more problems.

Netgear is cheap, and we've seen lots of issues. Nothing is as bad as Cisco, obviously, but Netgear relies on easy to manage, easy to replace and if you have the right mindset it'll crush Cisco in the big scheme.

Worked extremely little with Mellanox. Known to be really good stuff.

Ubiquiti is definitely what I'd use most of the time. Good management, better pricing, and has the "easy to replace" advantages that take Cisco out of the serious running. Nothing Cisco could do (but doesn't anyway) could touch the safety net of being able to have spares instead of waiting for clueless engineers to putz around.

@PitzKey said in Exploring VitalPBX:

Phew! Wow, I just spent quite some time reading through almost every comment in this thread.
Fast forward to now, it seems like most issues were addressed.

Worth mentioning that we have been using VitalPBX in single and multi-tenant mode since I think early 2019 and have struggled with a ton of issues, but we are glad to see the progress they have made.

This was a good throwback ride!

Yeah, we use it heavily too.

@scottalanmiller said in Decentralized Identity:

@Dashrender said in Decentralized Identity:

@scottalanmiller said in Decentralized Identity:

@Dashrender said in Decentralized Identity:

And those situations exist why? because Google and Facebook make a mint knowing more about YOU - the product.

But twitter, GitHub, Discord, Apple and others don't and exist too. It's an easy thing to provide.

Do those platforms offer centralized authentication? And - is it open to anyone to use? i.e. could ML choose to use Apple's APIs to do authentication?

Yes, very common. We have hooks for many (not apple I don't think) available but it's a pain to maintain as they are third party and is it really valuable?

Some sites that I use offer Apple for sure. I see it all the time.

Is it valuable? I'd love the ability to use everything off my MS account - so yes, I think so.

But a websites need to support dozens or more "centralized" or as the stupid video puts it - decentralized - authentication providers would definitely be a PITA for them.

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

@Dashrender said in POTS line replacement:

@pmoncho said in POTS line replacement:

If there is paper to start and confirmation is needed, then I don't see how the process can be cut down any further than what is there other than automating the file name, watermark the barcode and the software "filing" the doc in the system against the patient.

Exactly.
In our case, a person must tell the system what type of document it is, and what do do with it once it's uploaded. That can either be done, and the output generates a barcode - the barcode goes on the page - then scan/upload to the sytem.
OR the person scan/uploads the document - then while confirming it's on the screen - they tell what kind of document it is and what to do with it.

To me the barcode is a huge waste of everything. AND introduces a failure point (what if the scan does a bad job on the barcode?

I'm guessing you probably have users that misclassify scans too? What is required if that happens?

that's called just being human - If it happens though - I'm fortunately completely unaware of it.
I assume if it's misclassified, that whoever finds it can change it - or task it to someone with admin rights (but not me) with a request to fix it.

Now all of that said - there is equal chance of misclassifying it when making a barcode versus classifying it on the fly after uploading the image.

@Pete-S said in Zoho Zillum - family oriented mail and cloud storage:

Are you perhaps referring to the Zoho Workplace bundles? The "Standard" tier ($3/user/month) doesn't have much cloud storage and the "Professional" is double the price ($6/user/month) but it's the closest to Zillum features and storage.

Yes, that's the standard business bundle with the features. At $3 is get more email storage but less "other" storage. Although for documents and other stuff that the platform is meant for it is unlimited. So that's quite a bit depending on how you use it.

@Dashrender said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33:

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33:

You can use an RDP client if you want for Windows users.

I've read that - I need to figure how how that works.

We have some customers using them, but we don't use them internally AFAIK.

@notverypunny said in Self-Signed certs for LDAPS:

So I'll start off by acknowledging that self-signed certs are less than ideal for most purposes.

Right now my goal is to get rid of plain-text LDAP on the network and want to make sure that I'm not trading one security hole for another.

I've found a couple of sets of instructions online and figured I'd run the idea past the assembled brain-power before going too far down the rabbit hole.

https://anandthearchitect.com/2019/10/10/active-directory-self-signed-certificate-for-ldaps/

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/667ec29d-d83a-49b4-9280-308964359154/best-way-to-enable-ldaps-self-signed-certificate?forum=winserversecurity

https://www.javaxt.com/wiki/Tutorials/Windows/How_to_Enable_LDAPS_in_Active_Directory

Open to other suggestions to move from LDAP to LDAPS, but I'm in an environment that has too much legacy stuff to scrap it and / or AD so that whole possible course of action is the non-starter to end all non-starters.

In an on-prem only AD environment, no problem using self signed.

@Pete-S said in rDNS PTR records - why?:

your own IPs

They really need to be your own IPs (reassigned because no end account ever actually owns them) and not just a randoms static IP from your ISP.

Enterprise fiber is one of the few places where i know the IP addresses are mine. I know they are, because I have the ARIN account for them.

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Thank you for the heads up @scottalanmiller