Those Little Everyday IT Issues

After the Windows 7 enterprise has been updated to SP1, it can no longer connect to the RDP of a server. The same user is able to connect to the RDP from another windows 7 PC without the SP1. The error states, "The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol"    To resolve it, I uninstall the KBs listed below as well as disabled the UAC and things are working again. KB2621440 KB2667402 KB2840149

Configure the AAA Server (Using local database howto is out of this scope) Log in to the zone director and configure the AAA Server from Configure > AAA Servers as shown in the figure below. Name: Give a name for the AAA Server for identification {jcua for this example} Type: Active Directory Global Catalog: {leave it un-check} IP Address: IP address of the domain controller Port: 389 {ldap port} Windows Domain Name: domain name {test.com for this example}   Configure the Hotspot Service Configure a Hotspot to authenticate the users before allowing the traffic from Configure > Hotspot Services as shown in the figure below. Name: Give a name for the hotspot service {JCU-Wireless-Provisioning for this example} Login Page: https://wireless.test.com/activate {or https://zonedirectorIP/activate} Start Page: I leave to redirect to the URL that the user intends to visit Authentication Server: The AAA server that we created {i.e., jcua} Accounting Server: none {out...

Steps to install Vmware tools on CentOS 6.5 minimal installation. Grab the centos minimal iso and install the OS. I got it from here . Edit the network interface using vi (text editor) from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to enable the interface on boot (ONBOOT=yes). Give a static IP if you want. Bring up the interface by running the command ifcfg eth0 up.  I like to use the text editor vim instead of vi so i installed it. This installation installs the Perl tools too which is required to run the vmware tool installation script. If you don't want to use vim, you will need to install the Perl ( yum -y install perl ). Do a " yum update " and reboot the system. Once the system is rebooted, go to VM > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools to start the installation as shown in the image below.   Create a folder running the command mkdir /mnt/cdrom .  Mount the cdrom to the location created by executing mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ...