Enable SSL for LDAP on your Windows 2003 Active Directory Service

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Windows 2003 ADS is as you probably already know is based upon LDAP. Often you will need to query this ldap directory for authentication and other purposes. By default these queries are carried out unencrypted and can be snooped by eavesdroppers. To remedy this you can enable ldap over SSL to allow LDAP queries to […]

Backing Up IBM HMC using FTP

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Backing up your RS/6000 P Series HMC or Hardware Management Console is an important part of your operational routine. This device is the Window to your P-Series. If you lose your HMC your P-Series and LPARS will continue to function however all of the lpar information will be lost and when you replace the faulty […]

Restoring an IBM HMC using FTP

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Restoring an RS/6000 P Series HMC is something you might have to do in the event of hardware failure of your IBM HMC. If your machine has failed and you have received a replacement HMC unit from your vendor or IBM it would be in a factory default state (no configuration useful for your site). […]

Create an NFS share with Microsoft Services for UNIX 3.5

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As unlikely as it sounds to a UNIX die hard there are times when you require a Windows Server to share out an NFS folder. This document explains how to setup a simple scenario which will create a NFS disk resource on a Windows box which is mountable from a Unix client (a Sun Solaris […]

Automatically Backing Up Remote Servers with Qnap 109

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Introduction If you run an important server such as web server you should of course take regular off site backups. Now everyone knows that backups are a total pain to do manually and more often than not get forgotten. However, using linux cron you can automate this task easily and be more confident of your […]

Editing Cisco Access Lists

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Note: This is an old post recovered from a previous blog Introduction Once upon a time Cisco Access Lists were very very clunky and crude. They were a pig to manipulate and something to be avoided. Things have improved over the years and they are not so bad as they once were. For example there […]