Windows 7 – Add a non-indexed UNC path as a library

On February 11, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Add a non-indexed UNC as a library in Windows 7

There is an occasion when you may want to add a non indexed UNC path to a library inside of your Windows 7 system. Normally Windows bitches and complains when you try to hook up a UNC path that is not indexed but by tricking it we can make it happen. Here is how you do it.
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Samba and Winbind Fix for Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Services

Having issues with file sharing when inside a Windows 2008 R2 Domain? Are you getting these errors in you logs?
rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine 0.0.0.0 pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x8007 returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
A little searching online shows a lot of people with this or related problems, It looks like there’s a bug in the samba package that prevents Continue reading

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XYMON External Test Script for APC NetBotz Environment Monitor

On February 4, 2011, in How-to, Scripting, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

So you got a APC environment monitor (NetBotz) and you want XYMON / Hobbit / BB to monitor and alert if your tempature is rising? Funny me too.

I spent several hours trying to get a VB script to built to do this and I am just not a big fan of VB. So being a Perl plucker I desided to write one in Perl and share it with Continue reading

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