iTayb's questions

I've created few centos instances, and it seems like all of them got a internal dns records:

ip-{IP}.eu-central-1.compute.internal

However I need more helpful names, especially because IPs are changing.

I've given these instances names, by the ec2 console, and by running hostnamectl set-hostname {HOST} --static, but even then, these names doesn't get registered on the internal DNS service.

I want these hostnames to be registered automatically, as these internal IPs are changing.

How can I get it to work?

I've just granted permissions for a MSA (Managed Service Account) to some resources.

Can I verify it works, by running a cmd.exe process with the credentials of the MSA account, and check I have the proper permissions?

Is there are way to pin the "Run" button to taskbar through group policy or a script? Only the specific items needs to be pinned. The other items are not to be touched.

Partial solutions I found on net:

1. pinitem.vbs , but can only pin binaries.
2. The powershell solution uses the same mechanism.

I want to create a SOCKS server on my gateway server.

PuTTY has it's -D switch which allows dynamic SOCKS proxy through the given SSH connection. Is it possible to do locally, without a SSH connection, with PuTTY?

If not, which cross-platform tool can help achieve the task?

I thought about creating a local SSH server and run putty [email protected] -pw Password -D 1000, but I hope there's a better solution.

I want to make a script that closes open files in our storage.

I can do it with compmgmt.msc, connecting to the storage as a remote computer, then I go to "System Tools" --> "Shared Folders" --> "Open Files".

Is there a Command-line interface for Computer Managment MMC?

I've created a WIM file with filesize of 120MB (based on WinPE3.1).

When I add it to the Boot Images section, the presented filesize somehow became 746MB.

When I sniff the bandwidth of the network adapter while fetching the image, I see that the actual traffic passing is 386MB.

What is the correct filesize? Why are they so different?

I'm on an IT team in my company and I would like to block youtube to users. I don't want to just deny access to the whole youtube domain, but only to replace the .flv/.mp4 request with the one that I want. That way, if someone tries to watch youtube videos on the network, He'll get a video of why using our expensive bandwidth for pleasure is a no-no.

I thought about using a packet manipulation program and just replace the video ID with something that I want, but I didn't manage to do it right.

I would like to log my bandwidth into a database and find out when my windows server 2003 is being used the most. I want to feed the database with the bandwidth passed from the last feed (let's say it's 15 minutes).

I know that the netstat -e command returns the bandwidth passed since interface's start. Is there a way to somehow reset that counter without disabling and reenabling the interface?

If not, is there a better way than caching the last sample and calculating the difference each time?

I'm scripting in python if it's related.

I've always used PuTTY (win32) in order to access my servers through SSH. Yesterday I upgraded OpenSSH on my server from 4.3 to 5.8 and it seems that PuTTY doesn't work now. It asks for a password, then confirms that the password is correct, and then gives the fatal error Server refused to start a shell/command.

When I try to log on with cygwin's OpenSSH, I have no problems.

I'm looking for the fastest way to copy files from a VM to physical servers.

Setting up a network between them isn't a thing I'd like to do. I believe it is much more secure when not having one.

VMware suggests using the Copy-VMGuestFile cmdlet from their PowerCLI interface, however I find it slow (Running at approximately 1.5MB/s).

I thought of the following:

• Creating a new virtual hard drive, moving the files in, and download the .vmdk file from the server, then extracting it locally. It is possible, however will not work with working VMs, and I don't want to shut-down the VM every time I want to move files.
• Use the virtual floppy device and download the .flp file. It works even if the VM is running, but it is limited to 2.8MB.

Do I have any other way?

I'm using ESXi 4.1.

Thanks.

I need an automated SSH login method. In Windows, plink has the -pw flag, but it's not supported in OpenSSH.

The "right" way to do it is to use keys authentication, but I'm not interested in these. Instead something much simpler.

I've tried the sshpass package but unfortunately it's not supported in OpenSSH5.8.

Any suggestions.

Hey. I had part of my harddrive destroyed. I managed to successfully recover the all six .oab files and one "extend" file from my Outlook 2003 Application data folder.

I'm trying to deploy it on a new machine, but it seems that some registry key is required. Is there a way to deploy these files into a new outlook 2003? (or maybe 2007/2010, everything that words)

Thanks.

I have a VM of approx. 18GB. Sometimes I need temporally clones of it, so I clone it. The problems are:

• It takes a while until it's done.
• Sometimes I happen to need dozen of clones and I'm running out of storage.

I wonder if there's a way to create a VM that saves only the delta (difference) since the delployment out of the source machine. That way each new VM's filesize should be 100MB at most, and creating it will be much faster.

I've heard that VMWare View is using this concept. Is such a thing possible for ESXi as well?

I'm using ESXi 4.1 with VSphere 4.1.

Thanks!