XFreeRDP error BIO_should_retry returned a system error 32 Broken pipe solved

Published on September 26th 2023 - Listed in Linux Windows Network - 0 comments

MSSQL Available Space alert: How to manually grow the database file with SSMS

Published on July 11th 2023 - Listed in Monitoring Databases Windows - 0 comments

Unable to connect with PuTTY using key authentication after distribution upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04

Published on March 21st 2023 - Listed in Linux Windows - 0 comments

Unable to mount CIFS share on Linux: mount error(13): Permission denied (cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13)

Published on January 4th 2022 - Listed in Linux Windows Samba - 8 comments

Monitoring Windows hosts with NSClient++: Service and system checks using NRPE and API

Published on September 27th 2021 - last updated on October 5th 2021 - Listed in Windows Monitoring - 0 comments

check_nrpe 4.x and NSClient++ 5.x: (ssl_err != 5) Error - Could not complete SSL handshake

Published on August 20th 2021 - Listed in Monitoring Windows - 0 comments

How to get a Windows 7 virtual machine (without Service Pack) ready to use

Published on August 9th 2021 - Listed in Windows Virtualization - 0 comments

Samba 4: getent passwd does not show Active Directory users, but wbinfo -u works fine

Published on March 31st 2021 - last updated on July 12th 2023 - Listed in Linux Windows Samba - 5 comments

Troubleshooting Windows client unable to join a Samba 4 Active Directory (Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password)

Published on March 30th 2021 - Listed in Linux Windows Samba - 0 comments

Monitoring of Samba (CIFS) share stops working with error: Result from smbclient not suitable

Published on March 18th 2021 - Listed in Linux Windows Monitoring Samba - 0 comments

How a dying SSD of a Windows virtual machine killed the physical Linux host

Published on January 25th 2021 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux VMware Virtualization - 1 comments

How to use [CTRL] [ALT] [DEL] key combination in standard Remote Desktop

Published on January 11th 2021 - Listed in Windows - 5 comments

Western Digital SSD Dashboard (Software) broken, shows empty black display

Published on November 13th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Windows - 1 comments

Monitoring of Windows services with NSClient and what to do if services should NOT be started

Published on September 18th 2020 - Listed in Monitoring Windows - 2 comments

Unable to mount NTFS partitions on a drive which is part of an Intel isw raid (fakeraid)

Published on April 9th 2020 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - 0 comments

Using NSClient++ and NRPE to run local WMI queries on Windows hosts

Published on October 30th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Windows - 2 comments

Windows 10 and Server 2016 clients block access to (Samba) shares with public guest account: Technical analysis and workaround for event 31017

Published on July 22nd 2019 - Listed in Windows Linux Security Samba - 4 comments

Using check_win_net_usage monitoring plugin with Windows host running with German language

Published on July 8th 2019 - Listed in Monitoring Windows - 0 comments

Dell support links updated in check_esxi_hardware and new Python on Windows install guide

Published on July 2nd 2019 - Listed in Windows VMware Virtualization Hardware Monitoring - 0 comments

Hard drive to SSD upgrade on a HP 250 G5 notebook

Published on May 11th 2019 - last updated on May 11th 2019 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - 1 comments

Permission denied when writing on NTFS mount, even as root

Published on October 18th 2018 - Listed in Linux Windows - 1 comments

Windows: Monitoring of files or directories and alert when older than certain age

Published on March 21st 2018 - last updated on April 13th 2021 - Listed in Windows Monitoring Icinga Nagios - 0 comments

Monitor Windows disk space usage on a drive without letter

Published on December 18th 2017 - Listed in Windows Monitoring Icinga Nagios - 0 comments

check_mssql_health: Monitoring MSSQL with SQL query and negative thresholds

Published on July 28th 2017 - Listed in Windows Monitoring Database DB - 0 comments

Rename jpeg files to contain the date the picture was taken

Published on May 6th 2017 - last updated on August 4th 2019 - Listed in Windows Linux Multimedia Mac - 0 comments

Unable to delete application link in JIRA (NullPointerException: consumer)

Published on April 3rd 2017 - Listed in Linux Database Windows Atlassian - 0 comments

Tackling Confluence migration issues (Windows+MSSQL to Linux+MariaDB)

Published on March 24th 2017 - Listed in Linux Database MySQL Windows Atlassian - 0 comments

Simple HTTP check monitoring plugin on Windows (check_http alternative)

Published on January 5th 2017 - Listed in Windows Monitoring Nagios Icinga - 6 comments

XML validation command line on Windows server

Published on September 26th 2016 - Listed in Windows - 0 comments

Amazon S3 bucket and Internet Explorer 11: HTTP 400 error because of umlaut

Published on April 29th 2016 - Listed in Windows Internet - 0 comments

Accessing WMI through a firewall - which ports are required?

Published on March 2nd 2016 - Listed in Nagios Icinga Monitoring Windows Linux - 0 comments

AMD Radeon on Windows 7: Sometimes white is yellow(-ish)

Published on February 24th 2016 - Listed in Windows Hardware - 0 comments

Connect with Pidgin to Lync 2013 in Linux Mint 17.3 (Ubuntu 14.04)

Published on January 13th 2016 - Listed in Linux Windows - 2 comments

Use WMI for monitoring auto-discovery on Windows Server

Published on January 11th 2016 - Listed in Monitoring Windows Icinga - 0 comments

Seafile client stuck in sync? Check for special characters in file names!

Published on October 27th 2015 - Listed in Windows Internet Seafile Cloud - 0 comments

How to play Age of Empires (AoE) Multiplayer in 2015

Published on October 15th 2015 - Listed in Windows Personal - 1 comments

Read or count number of lines of an Excel xlsx file in Linux on the cli

Published on July 29th 2015 - Listed in Linux Perl Shell Windows Coding Office - 2 comments

Winbind unable to retrieve user list from Windows Active Directory

Published on July 9th 2015 - last updated on April 8th 2021 - Listed in Linux Windows Samba - 2 comments

Firefox cannot save passwords, store ssl certificate exceptions anymore

Published on May 7th 2015 - Listed in Internet Windows - 0 comments

Upgrade a HDD running Windows 7, fix boot issues and resize NTFS

Published on April 29th 2015 - Listed in Hardware Windows Linux - 0 comments

Remove update uninstall folders in Windows 7 and free disk space

Published on April 11th 2015 - Listed in Windows - 0 comments

When a Windows support phone scammer reaches a Linux Systems Engineer...

Published on March 3rd 2015 - Listed in Windows Linux Internet Hacks - 0 comments

Bye Bye Windows XP

Published on July 7th 2014 - Listed in Windows - 0 comments

Cannot uninstall Cisco VPN Client 5.0 on Windows 7

Published on June 16th 2014 - Listed in Windows Network Rant - 1 comments

netio - a tool to measure network speed across operating systems

Published on September 26th 2013 - Listed in Windows Linux BSD Backup Network - 0 comments

Treasure hunt

Published on June 3rd 2013 - Listed in Linux Windows Personal - 0 comments

How to re-format a USB drive to FAT32 in Linux

Published on June 1st 2013 - last updated on November 20th 2020 - Listed in Linux Windows - 0 comments

ILO2 Firmware Upgrade fails with Internet Explorer 9

Published on February 18th 2013 - Listed in Windows Hardware - 0 comments

check_win_net_usage now handles connection errors

Published on October 19th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Windows Network Monitoring - 2 comments

Bugfix for check_win_net_usage wrapper-plugin

Published on October 10th 2012 - Listed in Nagios Windows Network Monitoring - 0 comments

Fixing slow Wireless LAN - the damn Multicast Rate setting

Published on July 25th 2012 - Listed in Internet Windows Android Hardware Personal Rant - 3 comments

How to install a KMS license server for Office 2010

Published on May 25th 2012 - Listed in Windows Network - 1 comments

Robocopy vs. Richcopy

Published on April 18th 2012 - Listed in Windows Network - 8 comments

Solve NetBackup error 2817 (FlashBackup-Windows policy restore error)

Published on March 16th 2012 - Listed in VMware Backup Windows - 0 comments

NetBackup errors (get_string() failed) appear in Report-Problems

Published on March 13th 2012 - Listed in Windows Nagios Backup Monitoring - 0 comments

Exchange 2003: Virtual memory fragmentation errors (Event ID's 9582, 12800)

Published on February 20th 2012 - Listed in Windows Mail - 0 comments

Monitor Windows remote connections (RDP or ICA)

Published on January 31st 2012 - Listed in Nagios Windows Network Virtualization Monitoring - 4 comments

How to forward USB device to a virtual machine

Published on December 21st 2011 - Listed in Windows VMware Network Virtualization Hardware - 0 comments

Another bugfix in check_KAV.bat

Published on November 29th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Windows Monitoring - 0 comments

Check Kaspersky Server License Expiration with Nagios

Published on November 28th 2011 - Listed in Nagios Windows Monitoring - 0 comments

New Nagios plugin: check_win_net_usage

Published on November 22nd 2011 - Listed in Nagios Windows Network Monitoring - 4 comments

How to monitor Windows network traffic with Nagios

Published on November 16th 2011 - last updated on March 27th 2020 - Listed in Nagios Windows Network Monitoring - 26 comments

Create automatic ftp transfer script behind proxy on Windows

Published on October 11th 2011 - Listed in Windows Network - 2 comments

Windows help is very helpful... somewhat

Published on August 21st 2011 - Listed in Internet Windows Rant - 0 comments

Mount a HDD which is a member in Intel Raid to back up data

Published on July 8th 2011 - Listed in Windows Hardware Linux - 0 comments

USB3 problems with Asus P8H67-M EVO and Windows 7 64bit [solved]

Published on June 30th 2011 - Listed in Hardware Windows - 3 comments

How to remove grey borders on Wyse ICA/Citrix connection

Published on May 27th 2011 - Listed in Wyse Windows Virtualization - 0 comments

How to extend disksize in virtual Windows server

Published on March 21st 2011 - Listed in Windows VMware Virtualization - 0 comments

Nagiosgraph from NSClient++ (Windows) Checks

Published on December 8th 2010 - Listed in Nagios Windows Monitoring - 2 comments

Exchange 2007: Find the mailbox or folder of an e-mail address

Published on December 2nd 2010 - Listed in Windows Mail - 0 comments

Windows, IIS and the damn SSL certificates

Published on September 28th 2010 - Listed in Windows SSL Rant - 0 comments

Wyse TCX Multi-Display + VM on ESXi 4.1 + CRM 4.0 = Evil combination

Published on September 22nd 2010 - Listed in Windows Wyse Virtualization - 0 comments

Windows in public

Published on July 29th 2010 - Listed in Windows Personal Rant - 0 comments

When Windows 2003 setup cannot find the (SAS-)disks...

Published on July 16th 2010 - Listed in Windows Hardware - 1 comments

Exchange says 550 5.7.1 authentication required and rejects mail

Published on June 25th 2010 - Listed in Windows Mail - 0 comments

Follow-up on using NTLM on Windows 7 for Proxy Authentication

Published on April 28th 2010 - Listed in Windows Proxy Network - 0 comments

Using NTLM on Windows 7

Published on November 11th 2009 - Listed in Windows Proxy - 0 comments

Funny support call!

Published on March 19th 2009 - Listed in Personal Internet Windows - 0 comments

Windows 7 - the second try and a love story (?)

Published on March 10th 2009 - Listed in Windows - 0 comments

Testing Windows 7 - how?

Published on February 25th 2009 - Listed in Windows Rant - 0 comments

How to use wired LAN and WLAN without problems

Published on February 15th 2009 - Listed in Internet Windows Network - 0 comments

Asus EAH 2400 Pro shows videos in green - solved

Published on November 7th 2008 - Listed in Windows Hardware - 0 comments

Microsoft Data Access Components not compatible with XP SP3!!

Published on October 3rd 2008 - Listed in Windows Rant - 0 comments

Firefox 3 crash when trying to play a Flash video

Published on July 10th 2008 - Listed in Windows Internet - 0 comments