Cisco VPN ASA 5510 under windows 10

If you are upgrading desktops to windows 10 and have a Cisco FW with VPN, you can use an alternative VPN client :

https://www.shrew.net/


http://superuser.com/questions/312947/how-to-configure-shrewsoft-vpn-to-connect-to-cisco-vpn-server 


Hmm, nobody mentioned Shrew Soft VPN Client yet ? It's a free (as in beer) and cross platform VPN client that compatible with Windows 64 bit. Although free, but support from the author has been great. Currently it doesn't support hybrid xauth+certificate mode but the feature will come soon.

Ubuntu14.04 login loop

Solved.

Problem with permissions on home folder. 

chmod -R 755 /home/nroach44 ( some user)

USB stick read only

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001617.htm

Setting drive security permissions

In the event that you do not have a write protection switch (they are less common on newer models) on your drive, you can set the and it's contents, and the flash drive itself, to be read only. This process is useful for keeping the contents of you drive safe from malware when you need to view them on a public computer.

1. Open Windows Explorer by pressing the Windows key + E at the same time.
2. Find the drive letter associated with your USB flash drive.
3. Right-click on the appropriate drive and then select Properties from the drop-down menu that appears.
4. In the Removable Disk Properties window, click on the Security tab. Under Group or user names: select Everyone and click the Edit... button.

5. In the Properties window under the Security tab, you should see a section titled Permissions for Everyone. There are check boxes in the Allow column next to each type of permission currently granted to the Everyone group. By checking the Deny boxes next to permissions like Full Control, Modify, and Write, you are setting the drive and its contents to read only.

6. Make the appropriate permission changes, click Apply and then click OK.
7. To disable write protection, repeat these steps and check the Allow boxes.

Note: Changing the security permissions in the Everyone group also affects permissions for you.

Ressetting SCCM agent if package failed to install

Resetting SCCM Agent if patch installation fails

October 26, 2013 Mike Erps Sysadmin, Windows

From time to time, a ticket will be created in regards to System Patches failing in an SCCM environment. To fix this, there are really only two major steps:

1. Rename the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder to SoftwareDistribution.old (stop Windows Update service before renaming, then restart the service).
2. Rename C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 to catroot2.old (stop the Cryptography service before renaming, then restart the service).

After this is done, run these actions from the configuration manager:

1. Discovery Data Collection Cycle
2. Software Updates Deployment Evaluation Cycle
3. Software Updates Scan Cycle

The procedure above has taken care of the issue pretty reliably. If the updates still don’t install properly, you may have to download the specific updates and install them manually.

UBUNTU - no launcher and log out screen says xbunbu

launcher and icons disappear
sudo service lightdm stop

rm ~/.config/dconf/user

sudo service lightdm start


remove xubuntu screen

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

 sudo update-initramfs -u

or just remove xubuntu theme and it will revert to ubuntu

sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-xubuntu-logo 

The user profile failed to be loaded..

Temos de ir ao registry. O que acontece é que o perfil fica tipo temporario e gera um perfil com extensão .bak.

Temos que seguir os seguintes passos:



https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947215

VMWARE-VMX eating CPU 100% and FREEZES HOST UBUNTU

Hi

we have a HOST ubuntu machine running VMPlayer and vmware-vmx was eating CPU to 100% or almost 400% ( with 4 CPU configured )

After several "google searches" i seem to have found the issue is this thread:

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/499790?start=30&tstart=0


Just run this on terminal and the rebot host UBUNTU


 vblank_mode=0 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer

This not WORK!!!!


SOLVED:

edit the file rc.local and add the lines below....

sudo vi /etc/rc.local

if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled; then
   echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
fi
if test -f /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag; then
   echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
fi
exit 0