Right off the bat, I’ll tell you that there is no completely secure way to automate your MariaDB backups. I researched this for awhile and haven’t found one yet. That isn’t to say there aren’t ways to mitigate your risk, but as some point you’re going to need to store your password somewhere. If you are unwilling to invite any risk to your databases, your best options are to automate entire ba ...
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Microsoft Edge Hates My Intranet Sites
Recently, I noticed that this very site, Labsrc.com, wouldn’t load in Microsoft Edge. On my Windows 10 PC, I was able to open the site in every other browser, Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc., except Microsoft’s successor to Internet Explorer. I initially started worrying that there was some change I made that was causing Edge to hang and that all my Microsoft readers were crashing their browsers bec ...
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Please Encrypt Your Databases (MariaDB)
Security is often one of the last things IT professionals think about when starting a project. Most of the time tight deadlines and an overworked staff lead to a less than perfect implementation. Security, along with other important things…looking at you Documentation…get pushed to the back burner and sometimes forgotten about altogether. One safeguard that is seldom implemented is database ...
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When an Admin isn’t an Admin, More Windows Samba Drama
If you read my last post, you’ll know that the latest release of Windows 10 introduced an issue when connecting to public Samba shares. I showed you how this problem can be solved through the use of a local GPO. I thought that would be the last of my file sharing problems, but as usual I was sorely mistaken.
Recently, I had trouble connecting to a password protected Windows share from a Linu ...
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Windows 10 1709 & Public Samba Shares
Most users have already upgraded their Windows 10 PCs to Windows 10 1709 a.k.a. Fall Creators Update…who names these things?Hopefully everyone came out of the update unscathed and still have a working PC. Now that you’ve got the minor issue of booting out of the way, some of you may have noticed that you are having problems connecting to Windows File Shares or as us Linux guys call it, Samba ...
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