This guy takes a computer with MSDOS 5.0 installed and then upgrades through every major version of Windows all the way up to Windows 7.
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RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Encrypted Microsoft Active Directory Authentication
So after a few hours getting Linux authenticating happily from Active Directory, I turned my attention to getting it all working with encryption.
Initially I had tried a telnet to port 636 (the LDAPS port) which failed, so it didnt look like my AD box was talking LDAPS. Somewhere to start I guess!
So after a few hours getting Linux authenticating happily from Active Directory, I turned my attention to getting it all working with encryption.
Initially I had tried a telnet to port 636 (the LDAPS port) which failed, so it didnt look like my AD box was talking LDAPS. Somewhere to start I guess!
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Microsoft Active Directory Authentication
Today I set out to get RHEL 5.x (Specifically 5.5) to authenticate from a Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory. I used plenty of web pages, none of which were 100% correct for my setup, so I thought I’d document exactly what I did here for my own future reference, if anybody else finds it useful, so much the better. To start with, thanks to the following pages, between them, they got me about 80% of the way there:
- Scott Lowe has a useful howto here. It is version 4 currently, click around his site to ensure he hasnt updated it before you use it as a reference.
- The second resource I used is here.
Back to Windows
After nearly 7 weeks without having to suffer Windows in any of its incarnations, I returned to work today and had the pleasure of XP on my horribly clunky Thinkpad. Very shortly after booting it I was presented with the following error message.
What a wonderful dialogue box and what a ‘Useful tip’. A Google search suggests it is something to do with the Windows Bluetooth stack. Oh I dont fucking care you stupid program, I just wanted to message somebody, you worked 7 weeks ago, why are you arsing around now.
As an aside, I notice the 8.3 filename, which still at some level seems to exist in Windows XP. How quaint of it!
The windows experience.
So I’m on a wikipedia page which has a OGG file. These are the steps taken to listen to the OGG.
* Next to the link is a large play button. I click it. A Java system tray icon appears along with a large tooltip saying something about Java. Nothing else happens.
* I click play again, nothing
* I open the ‘media help’ page in a new tab
* Try to switch to the tab with the standard keyboard shortcut ctrl-2. nothing
* Switch to the tab with the mouse, windows dialog ‘application has stopped responding’ Firefox crashes.
* Re-open firefox, visit the wikipedia page, navigate straight to the media help page.
* Download the ogg codec pack
* Install the codec pack
* Tell windows ‘yes i meant to double click that installer’
* Wait
* Click the ogg link on the original page, offered to save file (not play it)
* Save the file to disk
* Find file (firefox put it some temp folder so had to use find to locate it)
* Double click it. ‘Do you want windows to look on the internet to find out how best to handle this file?’ yes
* Windows cannot identify the file.
* Manually run Windows Media player, drag file onto player window.
* Player is busy ‘loading library’ so nothing happens
* Wait, try again
* Nothing, no message.
* Shift Right click -> open with, manually choose Windows Media Player. file plays.
yay! 2008 and I feel computers have really come a long way.
