SYSVOL Stopped Syncing to the other Domain Controllers
I had 2 Domain controllers that stopped replicating their SYSVOL to each other. These are some of the commands used to understand what is happening and then to get it working again. Learnings Edit your Group Policies on the PDC / Operations Master (see the netdom...
Getting your public IP Address from the command line
Note: If you are filtering DNS for Proxy & Filter Avoidance or have configured you network to only allow connection to trusted DNS Servers the first two will fail so use the Web Request options linux / wsl DNS Query dig +short myip.opendns.com...
Create an account that never expires and is a member of the Local administrators group from the command line
In cmd or powershell run net user toggenator /expires:never * /add net localgroup Administrators toggenator /add To confirm net user toggenator Output of net user command User name toggenator Full Name Comment User's comment Country/region code 000 (System Default)...
Window XP – TimeZones – 1 Hour Out
Today I had to go old school. Problem: Windows XP time 1 hour out. The user changes it to the correct time but it keeps resetting to the wrong time. Cause: Operating System (Windows XP) is so old that it no longer gets Time Zone updates so it had the wrong Daylight...
N-Able RMM Remote Access Take Control
There is supposed to be an ability for the Take Control client to click Restart & Shutdown and then reboot into safe mode with networking and reconnect but I am finding that it sometimes doesn't work. So to work-a-round: Open msconfig Choose boot tab Safe Boot and...
SSH Terminal FREEZES
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270724 I had an issue where my SSH terminal was freezing in a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I would do a command with small output and it would return but when using larger commands or sudo it would hang. I have a funky networking...