Netexceed blog by Jason Mohan» Netexceed by Jason Mohan http://www.jasonmohan.com I am an IT professional who loves to stay on the leading edge of technology, and tries to tackle most commonly faced issues by computer users, and administrators. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Build your own san or nas for free http://www.jasonmohan.com/software/build-your-own-san-or-nas-for-free/ http://www.jasonmohan.com/software/build-your-own-san-or-nas-for-free/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:40:48 +0000 Jason Mohan http://www.netexceed.com/?p=231 Openfiler is a free open source san built on linux, with a web management interface. If you ever wanted to share storage between systems in the past you would need to buy a EMC type device and spend at least $50,000 – $100,000.  Now you don’t with openfiler (www.openfiler.com), all you need is some hard drives, a decent cpu, and some memory and that’s it. You can build your own san in minutes even with software RAID 5. This is perfect to test VMWare ESX, clustering, shared storage over iSCSI, hot backups, FTP (yes it has ftp capabilities), or share files with AD authenication. Everything is managed through a easy to use web interface, so you don’t need to know linux at all (which in my case I don’t). However I do recommend at least having a gigabit network if you plan on using iSCSI. Below I’ve listed a few features of openfiler and my configuration (to give you an understanding of what you need). To download, or see more features of openfiler go to www.openfiler.com

Features of Openfiler:

iSCSI

FTP

Active Directory Authenication

User Quota for space and much more.

My configuration:

1. Openfiler OS 2.3 (www.openfiler.com)

2. Intel P4

3. 512 MB Ram

4. 70 gb drive for the OS

5.  3-250 gb drives for the storage (in software raid 5 configuration)

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Go to our download page to download PushVNC

Steps on how to setup Push VNC

1. Download the file above and extract the file somewhere.

2. Go to command line navigate to the directory called VNCpassword. Run vncenc with the password you want. Like the screenshot below where I used the password “itsmypassword”


new_password.jpg

3. Now copy all the “Password = REG_BINARY…….”, and paste it into the VNC4.ini file located in the common directory. Like the screenshot below.

edit_vnc_ini.jpg

4. Now there is two places where you need to edit the path of where you are planning to put this Push VNC program at. In this example I’m placing it in my c:\temp folder. First we’ll edit the install.bat file, and change the path where I highlighted in the screenshot below. Second we’ll edit the fp82.cmd file, same thing change the path where I highlighted in the screenshot also.

* If you want to place it on the network you need to edit it to use “net use v: \\server\share”.  Then set the path accordingly. Since I’m sharing this program with my IT co-workers I used the net use.

change_path_installbat.jpg

change_path_fp82.jpg

5. Now that’s bascially all you have to do. Now run the install.bat program and you’ll see a screen like below. Type in the ip address of the computer you want to install VNC onto, and then watch it’s magic. Remember you must be logged in as a domain admin or have such privileges to the client computer to install. Feel free to change my name and put yours.

install_screen.jpg

Much credit goes to DarkAge. If you want to dig in more and set more options check out there website.

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I have to say you gotta someitmes hate adobe. The new version of Adobe photoshop cs3 won’t allow you to install it’s version on Windows server 2003, but after some reasearch I found a way. I don’t deserve the credit the credit goes to several users who posted on adobe’s forum but the posting got deleted (I found a cached version though). Here what you do.

1. Look for file called “AdobePhotoshop10en_US_volume.proxy.xml” or “AdobePhotoshop10en.xml” (search for it).

2. Open it with notepad, scroll to the bottom, and change string starting with
{”OS… (I just deleted the OS string and replaced it with the bottom string)
to
{”OS”:{”Macintosh”:{”Require”:[{"Version":"10.4.8"}],”Exclude”:[{"Version":"10.4.8"}]},”Windows”:{”XP”:{”Exclude”:true},”Server2003″:{”Exclude”:true}}

3. Run the installation and everything should work smooth.

Hope it works for you, it did for me.

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