Recently upgraded my Gitlab CE install OS from ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 using the distro upgrade. After a few weeks, I logged into my gitlab server and received a notice that gitlab was outdated. Running the usual apt update process did not update gitlab. I noticed while running `apt update` that gitlab apt sources where …
.Net Core SSH via Javascript
Small project I needed to add the ability to console into devices from a web interface. Looking around SSH.Net satisfied having the web server handle proxy the connection. I came across xTerm.js as a solution for a web based console. I then needed to figure out now to piece them together. I decided I would …
Windows DNS not updating
Recently came across an issue where DNS was not updating on a windows client in a domain. The event logs only logged a standard error After going around Google and trying things with no solutions. I finally decided to investigate things with a WireShark and thats when I found my issue. Typically DNS is using …
SMF Using Cookies to show debugger
There is a way to use cookies to show the debugger in SMF. This does require modifications of your code and generally is being used for positioning in customized site setups First off, you will need to place some code on your site. You can use $context[‘user’][‘is_admin’] to hide and show it. You will need …
SMF Using Nginx to enable special variables
I came up with this little trick while working with my SMF installs. I wanted to be able to present $db_show_debug to myself but not others. There are many ideas involved in this including waiting until we loaded enough of the user profile to check if they are a admin and then enabling it. However …
Mysterious Account Lockouts
TLDR: Use PsExec and run “cmdkey /list” on affected systems. Occurs from a combination of saved credentials, DFS/domain accessing when installing software. This was a case of a very odd account lockout that lead me to a cause I’ve never seen from Windows. Normally account lockouts are fairly simple to resolve, usually it is a …
Managing Watchguard Firmware
Watchguard has two ways to upgrade the firmware. One is from the web UI and the other via Firebox System Manager. I prefer the System Manager, but when you download the firmware it runs an installer. This is leaving my programs list full of firmware update packages. Lots of clutter that Watchguard could easily fix …
The SysVol Permissions for one or more GPOs are not in sync
Been working on a issue on some of my Domain Controllers receiving the following error The SysVol Permissions for one or more GPOs on this domain controller are not in sync with the permissions for the GPOs on the Baseline domain controller In researching and testing this, I found that modifying a clean GPO would …
Fix: A BINDING-ACK message with transaction id for DHCP Server
I have been getting this error for a while on my Server 2012 R2 DHCP cluster. Every time it syncs or replicates hundreds of errors are generated. Some information around the web indicates I needed KB 2919393, KB 2919355 and KB 2955135 installed. KB 2955135 was not my scenario here, however it was installed. All …