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VMware : How to setup Windows Active Directory authentication on ESX 4.0

kartook — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:57:04 +0000

To setup Windows Active Directory authentication run the following command replacing “mydc01″ your domain controller name. Replace “mydomain.com” with your domain name. You can add redundancy by adding multiple domain controllers by running the command again with the other server names

/usr/sbin/esxcfg-auth –enablead –addomain=mydomain.com –addc=mydc01.mydomain.com –krb5realm=mydomain.com –krb5kdc=mydc01.mydomain.com –krb5adminserver=mydc01.mydomain.com –krb5enable /usr/sbin/esxcfg-auth –enablead –addomain=mydomain.com –addc=mydc02.mydomain.com –krb5realm=mydomain.com –krb5kdc=mydc02.mydomain.com –krb5adminserver=mydc02.mydomain.com –krb5enable

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Vmware : How to install Vmware Tools on Backtrack4- Final

kartook — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:19:54 +0000

I used VMware Workstation 7 to test this.

The BackTrack kernel sources are already in place, so all that’s left to do is install BackTrack in VMware and start the VMware tools install. BackTrack uses up around 5 GB once installed, so plan accordingly.

mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom cp -rf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-7.8.5-156735.tar.gz /tmp/ cd /tmp/ tar zxpf VMwareTools-7.8.5-156735.tar.gz wget www.offensive-security.com/tools/vmware-tools-patch-backtrack4-7.8.5-2_6_29.tar tar zxpf [...]

Linux : How to Disable Direct Root Logins

kartook — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:13:00 +0000

Allowing the root user to login directly is a major security issue, we’ll show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue.

This will force a hacker to have to guess 2 seperate passwords to gain root access. (you do have 2 seperate passwords for admin [...]

VMware : The new feature of VMware workstation 7

kartook — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:31:39 +0000

ThinPrint – Support for virtual printing allows you to print from virtual machines without mapping network printers or installing printer drivers in the virtual machine. If virtual printing is enabled in the virtual machine setting, all of the printers installed on the host operating system are available in the guest operating system.

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Install VMWare Workstation 6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10

kartook — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:11:45 +0000

Install VMWare Workstation 6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 I was able to get everything installed by skipping the installation of the modules on the inital install. Then when I tried to open the application it installed the modules without any more problems.

Seems for at least Ubuntu 9.10 the fix ??

# chmod +x VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle # export VMWARE_SKIP_MODULES=true #./ VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle

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How to uninstall Vmware workstation.bundle ?

kartook — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:28:33 +0000

I want to uninstall the Vmware workstation on my laptop .

Oprating System : Ubuntu 9.04 -64bit ..

Just following the comments …

kartook@moon:~$ vmware-installer -l Product Name Product Version ====================== ==================== vmware-workstation 7.0.0.203739

kartook@moon:~$ sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation 7.0.0.203739 [sudo] password for kartook: kartook@moon:~$

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How To Convert VMWare Image (.vmdk) to VirtualBox Image (.vdi)

kartook — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:57:38 +0000

We need an addition command-line tool called qemu.

sudo aptitude install qemu

You’ll new be able to convert a .vmdk (VMware image) to a .bin format, which can then be converted to a Virtualbox native .vdi format.

qemu-img convert /path/to/original.vmdk converted.bin

You’ll then need to use the VBoxManage utility that comes with Virtualbox to convert the .bin to a native [...]

Thin client:PocketCloud iPhone app fro VMware

kartook — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:42:28 +0000

Thin client developemtent released this week their PocketCloud iPhone app. You might wonder how can I run a large desktop on just a small iPhone screen, with no styles but just your big finger, well thin-client development guys really did solve this challange with their application. During VMworld the app is on sale for $19.99 on [...]

VMware : 4 Screen Virtual Desktop Demo using PCoIP

kartook — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:29:15 +0000

Next generation display protocol PCoIP.

So what is PCoIP :

PC-over-IP technology allows enterprise PCs and workstations to be centrally managed in a data center while providing high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN.

PC-over-IP is an innovative display protocol technology [...]

Hacking the ESX 3i Server Root Password

kartook — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:10:55 +0000

Hacking the ESX 3i Server Root Password In case you every are called in to manage an ESX 3i server, but nobody know the root password, here an easy way to ‘fix’ this challange.

Again when the ESX 3i server boots and is on the main boot loader screen, hit shift-O In the advanced option line type in:

passwdReset="TRUE"

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