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All the articles I've posted.

Windows Update KB4034681 (August Monthly Rollup)
Updated:Four hours of swearing at servers, kicking switches and rebooting printers and terminals and all because of a Windows Update. Our entire network uses 802.1


SMB mount error(112): Host is down
Updated:Whilst trying to mount a Windows (cifs) volume onto my Linux workstation I encountered the following error: $ sudo mount -t cifs -o user=mylogon //myserver

SRX SSH Ciphers, Algorithms & Key Exchange
Updated:When doing a Nessus scan for the first time on the new SRX320 cluster it highlighted some weaknesses in the SSH protocol. This was due to arcfour, cbc and hmac being enabled by default.

Disaster Recovery Site and VRRP
We're currently working at putting in a new SIP based phone system that is externally hosted. As we already have a disaster recovery (DR) site with a netwo

JunOS SRX too clever for it's own good!
Updated:Today the planned migration from a Juniper ScreenOS SSG to a JunOS SRX didn't quite go as smoothly as I'd have liked. We spent many hours last night and th

OpenSSL and Subject Alternative Names
Updated:Now that Google chrome has started bitching about certificates not having Subject Alternative Names because the practice of using Common Names in certifica

Squid Kerberos Nightmare
What a terrible sequence of events we suffered today. Took quite a bit of head scratching, log reading and plenty of Google fu to resolve. We use Squid wit

Owncloud 10.0 Upgrade
Updated:This should have been easier, but I guess I missed a few things I shouldn't have. I took the opportunity to upgrade Owncloud to v10.0 and also upgraded fro

Remmina/xfreerdp Certificate Name Mismatch
Updated:When using Remmina to connect to some of our older Windows systems we're seeing a certificate problem that prevents it from connecting. Remmina pretty much