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  • IT Systems Engineering

    Quick and dirty NFS share on Windows 2008 R2

    February 19, 2013 /

    I call it dirty because I allowed anonymous access to the NFS share. I tried the UID mapping thing but could not get it to work properly for multiple reasons. They had not enabled the NFS extensions in AD, so I could not use the AD authentication. The “unmapped UNIX user access” option worked only for giving access to the NFS share to only one Solaris server. Other Solaris servers could not write to the same share. Hence I broke down and enabled anonymous access. So here is how to create a quick NFS share for allowing your Solaris brothers to send data to your Windows world.

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    How to Run PowerShell Commands on Remote Computers

    February 18, 2013 /

    I found an excellent tutorial. I especially love the remote session. Once you start a remote PS session, it works like you are right on the remote computer! Note: I did not run PS as administrator (on the remote computer) and still it worked fine for me. So I am not sure why the author mentions that in the step “enabling PowerShell remoting”. How to Run PowerShell Commands on Remote Computers

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    Annoying numlock toggle on Hyper-V virtual machines

    February 14, 2013 /

    Are you getting annoyed at how connecting to a VM hosted on Hyper-V toggles your numlock status? I was To get rid of this problem you can enable the numlock inside the BIOS of each and every VM . Note that you can change this setting for only those VMs which are shutdown. Also, here is a little PS script which can do it for you: Win8/Hyper-V 2012 Enable Num Lock on All Virtual Machines | wasnt nate

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