I had all sorts of fun today trying to get Subject Alternative Names working with my OpenSSL Apache server. Got there in the end though! I have been using OpenSSL on my CentOS servers for quite a few years, with certificates for Apache generated in OpenSSL, and then signed by a server that is a … [Read more…]
Applies to: Turba 3 with a mySQL backend. This was driven by the need to store 3 email addresses in Turba to ActiveSync with Apple iOS devices, which store up to 3 email addresses per contact.
This software – Air Video, http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html – rocks… Enables streaming of videos, Divx, MKV, flv, etc to iOS devices. A small Java server component runs on the media server, and uses FFMPEG to convert on the fly to a format that is suitable for the client, which can be purchased through the App Store. I … [Read more…]
Everything running off an Internode 3G connection at the moment…The Optus 3G network certainly has its moments… 🙁
Started last week as a Consultant for SMS Management & Technology (http://www.smsmt.com). Pretty manic first week, straight out on site at a client in a Project Manager role.
Well, I bought a new camera (after the old one reached its use-by date)…. It’s a Canon EOS550D – 18MP of goodness, does video too, so that will be a whole new learning curve. Now I just need to wait for Adobe to update their Camera Raw plugin for Photoshop so I can continue using … [Read more…]
A lot of this taken from http://wiki.makethemove.net/index.php?title=LDAP-Samba Samba will serve three main purposes: Act as a Primary Domain Controller for Windows clients Serve the network printers to Windows clients Serve files to Windows and Linux clients To act as a primary domain controller, Samba needs to access LDAP as the central authentication database.
Haven’t posted for a while! Took the family camping last week, got very wet, but a good time was had by all! Going to have to get back into posting more often… 🙂
Introduction and LDAP Design Thanks to http://wiki.makethemove.net/index.php?title=LDAP-Samba. A lot of this is taken directly from there with modifications for my setup. Our domain will take the form of dc=simonandkate,dc=lan and OpenLDAP will be installed on Server01.
I had a motherboard failure a couple of weeks ago in my CentOS server. I couldn’t get the same model to replace it, so ended up with an Asus P5Q board. Slotted in OK, but I then had all sorts of fun trying to get it running properly with CentOS 5.3. Issues being: Network card … [Read more…]