The Comms Room

3:00 PM

@JourneymanGeek I obviously need to buy some dress clothes if I'm going to interview places - but shit, it's so hard to find stuff

Journeyman Geek

@Cole: nice thing about asia is, in theory, there's still reasonably priced custom tailors ;p

(bad thing is, I'll probably not be very comfortable in a long sleeves and tie)

Tom O'Connor

Also.. Fuck Yeah 20k!

3

mfinni

@TomO'Connor Fuck yeah indeed. Hit it this week meself

Dan

I've just started eating the chewiest Wham bar in the world. I'm fucked if the phone goes

ewwhite

@DanilaLadner Did you mention me to jcape?

and ooooh....

God bless you, you don't know how much you are helped me, Thaaaaaaaanks man - take care , if there is any way to send me PM please do that, again thanks ewwhite — A.G 4 mins ago

Journeyman Geek

3:05 PM

@TomO'Connor: enjoy the right to protect posts ;)

Tom O'Connor

@JourneymanGeek Er.. yeahh..

Journeyman Geek

oh wait, you're a mod. Enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling of... the number turning over to a bigger number ;p

Tom O'Connor

basks in his snark farm

Michael Hampton

Oh no, at 20K you get to delete stuff.

Tom O'Connor

@MichaelHampton And how was that different to a week ago? ;)

Cole

3:06 PM

@JourneymanGeek it'll cost me a butt ton of money

Journeyman Geek

@Cole: yeah

@Cole: or I could always steal my dad's One Coat. The one that he has stashed away somewhere cause he hates it ;p

Engineers ;p

ewwhite

Healthcare client... "The software told me to add domain services to the system... then run dcpromo. Is that okay?"

Tom O'Connor

Here's a thought. I think it would take me a considerably longer period of time, if I were starting from 1 rep, to get back to 20k, than it has this time around.

Journeyman Geek

@TomO'Connor: quite probably true

and there's usually a point where it gets easier

Tom O'Connor

@JourneymanGeek I'd probably get banned for snark quite early on.

ewwhite

3:09 PM

@MDMarra A client installed another domain controller by accident!!

Cole

Why does the client have domain admin rights to do so in the first place? @ewwhite

TheCleaner

Seeing the Samsung Smart TV question makes me wonder if Ubuntu will ever release theirs.

Journeyman Geek

@TomO'Connor: I tend to just pick folk who no one cares if I snark about on SU ;p

ewwhite

@Cole Healthcare.

Cole

...and?

I would assume they'd be even more restricted

ewwhite

3:11 PM

WmiPrvSE ... why is this eating up 100%?

mfinni

@ewwhite BackupExec?

ewwhite

no, it's a VM

Cole

@ewwhite AV on the VM?

I've seen Symantec products do that (SEP/BackupExec)

ewwhite

nah

TheCleaner

@ewwhite Process Monitor

ewwhite

3:16 PM

@TheCleaner client tried to turn this VM into a DC... and installed a bunch of weird programs on it.

he's the security auditor...

...

mfinni

@ewwhite wat

TheCleaner

:) I'm saying use Proc Mon to figure out what wmiprvse is doing

Danila Ladner

@ewwhite security people are stupid, never let them near any systems.

ewwhite

@DanilaLadner SO I see!

mfinni

bqatever

Whoops, mis-spelled. Bqhatevwr

TheCleaner

3:19 PM

@ewwhite Security Auditor (n) - def. = someone that runs 3rd party tools and scripts on your network regardless of impact and then says your systems are insecure but can't really explain why, just that the tools say so.

Danila Ladner

Security Auditor (n) - def. = someone that runs 3rd party tools and scripts on your network regardless of impact and then says your systems are insecure but can't really explain why, just that the tools say so.

wow this is perfect definition.

Michael Hampton

0

A: How can I block outside mail FROM postmaster@mydomain.com?

The fact that someone can send you mail addressed to your own mail server's IP address has absolutely no bearing on whether the mail server is an open relay. Open relays accept mail for any and all systems outside their administrative domain and forward them onward. This clearly is not what's de...

Journeyman Geek

XD

Michael Hampton

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voretaq7

@MichaelHampton ...did we get the date wrong twice?

mfinni

3:31 PM

Looks like I'm planning a two-day-trip to Buenos Aires for work. Anyone ever been?

Michael Hampton

@voretaq7 Third time's the charm.

voretaq7

@DanilaLadner no it's not. I like "Someone who tells you your systems are insecure, then asks you to do things to make them less secure."

Cole

I may light everyone on fire.

voretaq7

cf. Our security auditor is an idiot

@Cole Use kerosene.

Tom O'Connor

@voretaq7 I love that question.

Bit of a crush on the OP, too.

Dan

3:33 PM

Didn't you take him for a drink?

Tom O'Connor

Yeah, at least once.

Was supposed to meet him last night in Worcester, but i was feeling so tired, it didn't happen.

Dan

You shouldn't do that, everyone will expect a piece of the Tom

Tom O'Connor

Serverfault dating.

@Dan You just want one.

Dan

@TomO'Connor I thought I'd better not change my avatar at first - I bet you're positively wet now

Cole

How would you handle this - tell manager our issue with Lotus Traveler is because we're using older AD and objectClass isn't indexed. Wants "proof" that Traveler does want use it for lookups to AD. Provide proof - pushes back and says "Ok, See if they can offer any more assistance on the searches until we get upgraded."

Then sends "Sounds like they will be releasing iPhones in the US in the next couple weeks. Need to do whatever it takes to get Traveler stable. Make sure this is one of your top priorities."

voretaq7

3:35 PM

@TomO'Connor is he hot? Put him in a box and ship him to me.

Cole

DUDE THE ONLY THING TO BE DONE IS TO UPGRADE AD

Dan

:(

Cole

I don't know what else to tell him.

Dan

What's the issue?

voretaq7

All the hot guys I know are not interested, already engaged to someone, or straight (and it's just creepy when the straight guy keeps asking for sex!)

@Cole . . . Index ObjectClass?

Dan

3:36 PM

I'd have thought a gay man screwing a straight man would be like a straight man screwing someone who claims to be a lesbian.

I.e. pretty hot

voretaq7

@Dan Cole's boss is an idiot. How can he give him the cyanide he needs?

Cole

@Dan Lotus products use the objectClass attribute to do lookups against AD for authentication. Prior to 2008, this attribute isn't indexed - Lotus products are also insanely LDAP heavy and killing our DC and causing Traveler to puke.

Dan

@Cole Ah, yes, well, you're fucked

Cole

@voretaq7 If I do that - then we'll be on NT4 and 2003 forever. They JUST implemented AD in 2007.

voretaq7

@Dan Yeah, it's fun when it's just a fling. When they keep trying to get in bed with you it's "Dude, come out of the fucking closet already, OK? You're at least bi so just fucking own up to it."

Michael Hampton

3:37 PM

@Cole Plan the AD upgrade, of course.

TheCleaner

@Dan I think you're thinking of prison

voretaq7

@Cole I'm not even sure you can do that in AD

Cole

@MichaelHampton I agree - but he's pushing it off.

Dan

Have you considered a new DC, in its own site, JUST for this authentication?

Cole

@Dan yeah - we have one that has 12 vCPUs for just sametime

voretaq7

3:37 PM

@Dan . . . you take that back right now you filthy pervert :P

Cole

and it's pegged all day long.

Dan

@voretaq7 I'm a solution orientated guy :D

@Cole You have got to upgrade, dude

Michael Hampton

@Cole Not anymore. He just told you to make it one of your highest priorities!

Tom O'Connor

@Dan Are you ex-army?

Uniform <3

Cole

@MichaelHampton he doesn't want to upgrade AD.

Dan

3:38 PM

@TomO'Connor Negative - that's from my run on the weekend

Cole

He wants to do everything to make it stable BUT upgrade AD.

voretaq7

@Dan At least my proposed terrible solution solves the problem :P

Cole

I just have no fucking clue how to get it through his head that this is the issue. Microsoft has documentation on it, IBM confirmed it - WHAT FUCKING MORE DO YOU WANT DUDE!?

Like I honestly have no fucking idea what to do.

Dan

@Cole Yeah, he sounds dense as lead

TheCleaner

Well..xkcd nailed it today...kudos!

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Tom O'Connor

3:39 PM

@TheCleaner Indeed.

voretaq7

@TheCleaner the alt text should have been "And if you try to make me I will find you and kill you"

mfinni

@voretaq7 Tourists?

Michael Hampton

@Cole So, he wants you to do something, then tells you you can't actually do it. Go over his head.

Dan

@MichaelHampton I think he should remove his head

Cole

@Dan nothing in there apparently.

voretaq7

3:40 PM

@Cole Write up the information from IBM and MS in the form of a report. Send it to him, CC his boss. Include the AD migration plan (as the approved solution from both vendors) as an appendix.

and update your resume.

@mfinni what about them?

Cole

Already update resume - phone interview at 12 today.

Dan

But honestly, @Cole, there comes a point where you just HAVE to say "No, I'm sorry - but I don't know of any realistic way we can engineer around this problem without upgrading our domain"

voretaq7

@Dan over, through, what's the difference?

mfinni

@voretaq7 Just wondering if that would be the appropriate label for the putatively-straight guy you were describing

Dan

@voretaq7 Good point, it's just semantics at this point

Cole

3:41 PM

@Dan tried that too. I give up.

Dan

@mfinni Gay.

2

Cole

I'm just going to let it blow up.

voretaq7

@mfinni "insecure closet case who isn't bad in the sack"

@Dan gheyyyyyyyyyyy

Cole

And say "here's all the times I warned you that this would happen" when it blows up.

mfinni

@Dan I'm going to have a tough time explaining why I'm laughing at work. Thanks guys

voretaq7

3:42 PM

@Cole Do the report to boss-of-boss thing first

otherwise you're the scapegoat, not the prescient sysadmin

Cole

@voretaq7 he's out for the next few weeks.

voretaq7

@Cole that's OK, email will still be there when he gets back

Cole

and...he's the one who didn't even want to go to AD in the first place.

So.....yeah.

voretaq7

or if he has a secretary brief the secretary

ah

yeah, time to quit

Dan

Does being on NT help you guys at all?

Cole

3:43 PM

They've all worked together for 15-20 years - so I'm just going to get dinged

Dan

I mean, is the migration path that bad?

voretaq7

your job sucks more than mine dude

Cole

@Dan no - just laziness.

Dan

Thought so :(

Cole

Well and the Guest account

voretaq7

3:43 PM

@Dan Yes. It's terribad. There are snakes and grues and wolves!

Cole

which they're going to enable on the AD domain.

Dan

@voretaq7 We're going to need a bigger server.

voretaq7

@Cole JESUS KITTEN CLOBBERING CHRIST NO! MICROSOFT SAYS NO!

Cole

/headdesk

@voretaq7 I know

Mathias R. Jessen

@voretaq7 Easily done, change searchFlags for Object-Class in the schema from 0x8 to 0x9

voretaq7

3:44 PM

STEVE-O MOTHERFUCKING BALLMER SAYS NO AND HE BOUGHT *NOKIA :P

@MathiasR.Jessen . . . that's delightfully arcane compared to OpenLDAP

Cole

@voretaq7 as you can see.........this place sucks.

voretaq7

but good to know and filed away in the back of my brain with other AD Dementations

TheCleaner

@voretaq7 people don't enable Guest on AD...that's just bad security. Instead, create a generic AD account with the password the same as the account name and grant it various rights all over the place. :)

Dan

What would happen if the NT4.0 servers suffered a.........failure?

voretaq7

@TheCleaner Indeed.

Cole

3:45 PM

@TheCleaner then we would have to figure out WHO'S using the acocunt - which they have no idea

*account

voretaq7

@Dan Stop trying to break AD's legs!

Cole

which is scattered across 80+ sites

Mathias R. Jessen

@voretaq7 Although it only works in AD, his NT4 domains would still be fucked

Cole

@Dan they're VMs

voretaq7

@MathiasR.Jessen It's NT4. it's already fucked.

Windows NT - No Testicles.

Dan

3:46 PM

@Cole format c:\

Mathias R. Jessen

@voretaq7 Good point

Cole

@Dan I've thought about it - but then I'd just have to fixed it OR they'd recover from backup

and by they - I mean they'd make me do it

Dan

I just wanted to point out that I was still in Primary school when NT4.0 came out

Mathias R. Jessen

I'm a big fan of No Testicles 6.1

Dan

I mean, jesus christ

Cole

3:47 PM

@Dan I point that out every time it's brought up

voretaq7

@MathiasR.Jessen ...now even more neutered! :-)

Cole

"Just so you know, I was 7"

voretaq7

@Dan Jesus can't help you here. This is NT4

4

Mathias R. Jessen

@Dan NT 4.0 came out the week before I started preschool

TheCleaner

@Cole nah...it's a generic account. It doesn't matter who uses it. Justification and security logging be damned. THEY CAN TAKE OUR RIGHTS BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE....OUR FREEDOM!!!!

Cole

3:48 PM

@TheCleaner no I know - but we don't know WHO'S using guest

voretaq7

@Cole Guests.

Cole

So we have no way to give them a username and password and it's hundreds of people

TheCleaner

:)

Cole

It's people within the company.

Dan

Can't you give them real accounts?

Cole

3:48 PM

@Dan we don't know who they are!

voretaq7

@Cole Ex-Employees coming in to do work. They're guests. The best kind, like the ones who wash dishes for you after dinner no matter how much you say not to and you'll do it later.

Cole

I'm off to my phone screen - bbiab.

before I curb stomp my manager

Dan

Don't mention the NT4.0

If you have to mention that you're still working with NT4.0, you should mitigate it by explaining how you once tried to gas your manager.

Mathias R. Jessen

@Cole get that upgrade going before somebody demonstrates how haikiri works

TheCleaner

There should be an autoscript that forces a single upvote from an OP when they accept your answer.

Dan

3:51 PM

I agree

Mathias R. Jessen

@TheCleaner Agreed

Dan

Although I think there should be a lot of scripts that force a lot of things from a lot of OP's

Suicide being one

Mathias R. Jessen

Instant admission to lunatic assylums ranks pretty high too

Dan

Having "Developer" tattoo'd onto their forehead

TheCleaner

@Dan "sweet Dan answered my question and that works perfectly! No need to go back to SF and accept it...I've got crap to do...." 15 minutes later OP is doubled over on toilet.

Nathan C

3:55 PM

Go home Access, you're drunk.

Dan

@TheCleaner I'd prefer "on the floor in a pool of blood"

Right, home time - laters ladies!

voretaq7

@TheCleaner Make a request on mSO

TheCleaner

@voretaq7 OK, but I'm prepared to get crapped on by those guys

voretaq7

@TheCleaner probably

MDMarra

@ewwhite wat

TheCleaner

4:06 PM

76

Q: Accepting answer without upvoting?

Is there ever a case where you would want to accept an answer, but not upvote it? I can't think of a single situation where this would be the case.. So would it not make sense to have the "Accept" button upvote the question too?

If the up-vote is automatic based on acceptance, then for those rare situations where you want to show the correct answer but not reward the user for other reasons, you could always un-do the up-vote manually (in other words, the up-vote would happen, the user would be told the up-vote happened, but it is not set in stone - though I'm not sure if SO would need to keep track of the auto-up-vote for the situation where the user later decided to un-accept that answer and accept a different answer - that's about the only technical limitation I foresee). — Aaron Bertrand Aug 4 '11 at 15:18

and

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/117994/…

voretaq7

4:21 PM

@TheCleaner see, so you don't need to get crapped on cuz someone already did :P

Nathan C

@TheCleaner That would make the "Unsung hero" badge unobtainable lol

since it requires "0 score accepted answers"

voretaq7

@NathanC that's a st00pid badge :P

TheCleaner

@ewwhite - it's raining HP questions up in here: serverfault.com/questions/538755/…

Serverfault main site down?

Michael Hampton

@TheCleaner Looks OK to me.

TheCleaner

yeah came back this time. Was timing out for about 15 secs but other sites were fine.

DanBig

4:30 PM

@TheCleaner, it was being flaky for me for about a minute

TheCleaner

OK, good to know

MikeyB

@voretaq7 sadi.st/Ruby_Sadist.html

voretaq7

mrr?

Matt Bear

sup gents

Michael Hampton

Oh Comcrap, why do you tease me?

Matt Bear

4:46 PM

Phantom vibration syndrome

Phantom Vibration Syndrome or Phantom ringing is the sensation and false belief that one can feel one's mobile phone vibrating or hear it ringing, when in fact the telephone is not doing so. Other terms for this concept include ringxiety (a portmanteau of ring and anxiety), HypoVibroChondria (a mix of Hypochondria and Vibro) and fauxcellarm (a play on "false alarm"). Phantom ringing may be experienced while taking a shower, watching television, or using a noisy device. Humans are particularly sensitive to auditory tones between 1,000 and 6,000 hertz, and basic mobile phone ringers often f...

Michael Hampton

Matt Bear

5:00 PM

oh sharepoint, why do you hate me

voretaq7

@MattBear because sharepoint.

@MattBear hypovibrochondria sounds like some kind of sex toy.

Matt Bear

@voretaq7 lol

Michael Hampton

Matt Bear

@MichaelHampton everyone get together in a bunker, and bring your chainsaws?

voretaq7

@MichaelHampton Stolen.

Michael Hampton

5:07 PM

Of course.

Nathan C

I'm going to see Insidious 2 tonight...:D

Friday the 13th or not lol

Matt Bear

so my wife found a baby rattlesnake in the driveway last night

voretaq7

@MattBear ADORBS! Adopt it and raise it as your very own. Teach it to bite the letter carrier.

Matt Bear

well, to be more precise the cats found it, and the wife went to investigate what the cats were messing with

and my wife went running down the drive way, and flew into the bed of my truck

somehow...

the cats had already chewed the tail off, i just popped its head off and threw it in the trash can

ewwhite

@mdmarra are you around?

Matt Bear

5:13 PM

@ewwhite no, he's asquare

MDMarra

@ewwhite sup

ewwhite

Call my cell

MDMarra

sorry, not available for a call until later

ewwhite

I need advice!!

Oh, working for real?

MDMarra

I'm on a call until 2 and then I have DR testing for a client :(

ewwhite

5:14 PM

Well, my team is objecting to my use of SDHC cards in VMware ESXi hosts.

And explaining this stuff is getting tiresome.

Maybe I'm not diplomatic enough.

Cole

@MathiasR.Jessen Dude I've been pushing for it for almost 10 months now. Keep getting told no.

Magellan

@ewwhite Diplomacy doesn't mean much when the people you're talking to aren't using logic but instead responding emotionally.

Cole

Interview on Tuesday after my phone screen I had at noon.

Magellan

@TheCleaner There's a badge for getting n accepted questions with no upvotes.

Your proposal would require deleting that badge.

MDMarra

@ewwhite you need VMware advice from me?

You really are in dire straights

Michael Hampton

5:21 PM

So... the iPhone 5C. Does the C stand for crap?

Joel E Salas

@ewwhite Diplomacy has failed

MDMarra

@MichaelHampton color

or crap

Matt Bear

@ewwhite aggressive negotiations, with a clue by four!

MDMarra

Yo, I love when payday is on a sunday so I get paid on a Friday instead

Magellan

@MDMarra I loved working at places on a bi-weekly pay cycle instead of semi-monthly.

Those months where you got 3 paychecks were awesome.

Joel E Salas

5:23 PM

@Magellan It doesn't matter that much, does it?

You have income, expenses, etc

all else equal it's the same shit every month

Cole

Blah

Boss took off at noon.

Magellan

@JoelESalas Do your budgets based on 2 paychecks. And 2-3x per year you have an extra couple thousand to pay down debt, put in the vacation fund or buy motorcycles.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan lol budget

Matt Bear

@Magellan we just switched to bi-weekly.. I prefer semi monthly

Joel E Salas

I pay double car payments, pay off credit card, put the rest into VGENX and suck it up if there's something I want

MDMarra

5:25 PM

@JoelESalas You laugh, as I would have a year ago. Just wait until you marry 40k in student loans

Joel E Salas

@MDMarra fuck that bitch

Magellan

@JoelESalas we have children, a mortgage, 6 vehicles, and I have child support. There is a budget. =)

Joel E Salas

HNNNG

MDMarra

SIX vehicles?

S-I-X

Joel E Salas

@MDMarra one for every day of the week

Matt Bear

5:25 PM

@JoelESalas well yeah, thats why you marry them!

MDMarra

ESS-EYE-EX

Joel E Salas

except the sabbath

Magellan

@MDMarra 3 motorcycles. 1 shop truck, 1 classic car, and 1 family sedan for hauling kids around.

Matt Bear

@Magellan that's not 6, that's 2

MDMarra

If you're having cash flow problems, I feel bad for you son. You got 99 problems and your motorcycle addiction might be one.

2

mfinni

5:27 PM

@MDMarra Is that counting bicycles?

Joel E Salas

@mfinni If your bikes are expensive enough

Magellan

My neighbor has 3 motorcycles, 11 mopeds, 1 car, and 1 creeper/rescue van.

Joel E Salas

Fucking seattlians

what do you call them

seattleites?

seattopians?

Magellan

@JoelESalas No, we're making up for the regular Seattleites. Most of them own one car that only moves every 2 weeks to make sure that the moss and algae isn't getting too thick.

Matt Bear

@JoelESalas its spelled "D-O-U-C-H-E-B-A-G-S"

Joel E Salas

5:28 PM

@Magellan Is the Seattle Chill a real thing

People seemed perfectly friendly in bellevue and other lands

actually no they looked at me funny

Magellan

@JoelESalas Maybe? I associate mostly with people from the East Coast.

Joel E Salas

but I'm weird so that happens everywhere I go

Magellan

My neighbor grew up here was born on long island and lived there for a few years after high school.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan On public transport: would you rather pay a fare proportional to the distance you traveled, or a flat fare regardless of the distance?

Magellan

Well, this is cool. Guy to do the phone screen just had a Sev1 pop-up so he called me about 5 minutes in advance to reschedule for later. Very considerate.

Joel E Salas

5:30 PM

Also you can empathize with why he wants to leave

Magellan

@JoelESalas I've done both. It evens out considering that the people WAY out there don't get jack squat for bus service.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan As a personal philosophical choice though?

Magellan

Considering that the actual operating cost of a bus passenger is roughly $10 a head, I'm not sure it matters. They'd rather take the lower amount and get more money in the door than force poor people that have to live 30 miles out to pay even more.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan YOU'RE NO EAST COAST PERSON!

all east coast people are like "pay proportional to the ride"

Magellan

Because once you get out there, nobody rides the bus unless they 1) really have a pressing need or 2) they can't afford downtown parking.

Joel E Salas

5:33 PM

all west coast people are like "flat fare"

Magellan

@JoelESalas I've been here 15 years, and grew up in the more rural parts of Upstate NY and MI.

I also worked in Social Service IT for 9 years.

@JoelESalas I used to think 'proportional'. And the commuter rail does work that way. But the proportional thing was so that the suburbs could get some damn bus service instead of once every 60 minutes and only during rush hour.

Joel E Salas

@Magellan Suburbs are a shitty place to live, I feel for anyone that's forced to live there

tbh I've engineered my life to never live in the suburbs again

voretaq7

@JoelESalas Suburbs aren't bad

@JoelESalas and if you come to NY you'll find that we're mainly in favor of flat fare

Tanner

I'm using PowerShell to do some FTP stuff. The username is foo@example.com, but it's sending example.com\foo to the FTP server, which it doesn't like. FTP is using PSCredential and I'm not sure if that's what's trying to change the username. Anyone have any ideas?

Cole

I almost didn't come back to work after lunch.

voretaq7

5:42 PM

@Tanner . . . .

Tanner

@voretaq7 issat bad? lol

voretaq7

"I'm using PowerShell to do some FTP stuff" - - - "I'm using cut crystal champagne flutes to serve PBR at my party"

Tanner

@voretaq7 Well, my options are to automate it or transfer stuff every 30 minutes by hand...

voretaq7

@Tanner ...fine but MUST you use FTP? Filthy beast!

Magellan

@JoelESalas That was me in a former life with a former wife. Rid of both of them for the most part. Glad to be starting over with someone that's not a complete narcissist.

Cole

5:44 PM

@Tanner why FTP?

"Fucking Terrible Protocol"

Tanner

@voretaq7 Yes. :( Must be FTP...

Not my choice. Wasn't the other company's choice either. But that's what we asked for......

Cole

I have absolutely zero motivation to do anything for the next ~3 hours

ewwhite

@MDMarra Yeah, I need a sanity check.

Magellan

@Tanner So it wasn't your choice, but it was (effectively) your fault? =)

ewwhite

@Cole You went through VMware training, right?

Did they talk about USB boot?

Cole

5:52 PM

@ewwhite not in depth.

voretaq7

@Tanner YOUR COMPANY IS BAD AND ALL OF YOUR TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES SHOULD FEEL BAD! :-P

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ewwhite

@Cole But I can't be the only one who advocates it.

voretaq7

@Tanner but in answer to your original question, I think PSCredential is Domain\User format

you would have to "adjust" the username you send manually I think

mfinni

@voretaq7 Documentation tends to agree. It's meant to be a secure way of handling MS credentials

Cole

@ewwhite I've only done USB boot for small companies with standalone ESXi servers.

mfinni

5:54 PM

For FTP, the username is just a text string

voretaq7

@mfinni yeah - internally it's some special structure, but when it gets .toString'd or equivalent it is always Domain\User

mfinni

@voretaq7 Yupper

voretaq7

so @Tanner you could just take the string form, do terrible things to it with regexes, and then send the mangled string to the FTP server. It won't know the difference

ewwhite

@Cole not for SAN?

mfinni

@voretaq7 So, if the FTP server in question was IIS, and was in/trusted the domain inside the PSCredential, you'd be good.

TheCleaner

5:55 PM