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

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 [...]

July 21st, 2010 | Category: Linux, VMware | One comment

Vmware : How to install Vmware Tools on Backtrack4- Final

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/ [...]

June 29th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Linux, VMware | Leave a comment

Linux : How to Disable Direct Root Logins

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 [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Category: Asterisk, Linux, Q & A, Security, VMware | Leave a comment

VMware : The new feature of VMware workstation 7

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.

Possibly Related [...]

January 7th, 2010 | Category: VMware | Leave a comment

Install VMWare Workstation 6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10

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 [...]

November 21st, 2009 | Category: Linux, VMware | Leave a comment
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