Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

Configure Windows 2008 as NFS share for VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0

This step-by-step guide contains necessary steps to setup Windows 2008 as a NFS server for VMware ESX server.
Source: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/188140

*** On Domain Controller, Install Identity Management AD Schema Extension for Unix


# run: servermanagercmd -install ADDS-Identity-Mgmt
That installs
Identity Management Active Directory Shema extensions for Unix
and Active Directory (eg ), if not already installed

# Create AD user 'root', uid = 0
# Create AD group 'root' (pre-win2000 group name e.g. 'root-') gid = 0
# Set unix properties of 'root' user to uid = 0 and gid = 0

*** On file server, install Service for NFS

# Set Identity AD Name to your AD domain

*** On file server, Configure Share

# Create SMB share
# Set NTFS Perm to Everyone Full Control

# Permission for NFS:
## Allow anonymous access: uncheck
## Root Access: allow


Friday, August 7, 2009

Telnet URL Protocol Handler in Firefox

Firefox does not handle telnet link url "telnet://" out of the box.
To enable this simply click on a telnet url and set telnet application of your choice in pop-up dialog.
Default Windows's telnet application seems to be there already.
There's also check box to remember this choice and prevent dialog popup in the future. This can be changed in firefox preferences.

My telnet/ssh application of choice PUTTY works with this method.

With current version of firefox it's a lot simple than before where there was no GUI one need to start with opening "about:config" in URL bar and configure firefox preferences manually, or edit preference file in Firefox application folder.