Cannot Join Domain?
Jan02

Cannot Join Domain?

Cannot Join Domain KB ID 0000534  Problem The primary cause (99.99% of the time) a client cannot connect to, or join a domain is DNS related. The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted Solution : Cannot Join Domain 1. To Troubleshoot you need to know the IP address of your DNS server, In many cases it’s on the first domain controller but that’s not always the case so find out (go to a WORKING...

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Run PowerShell (and Command Prompt) Administratively
Jan01

Run PowerShell (and Command Prompt) Administratively

KB ID 0000988 Problem We had the ‘run as’ service way back in Windows 2000, so the concept of running a command window ‘as administrator’ should not be difficult to understand. But the amount of times I tell people ‘You need to run that as administrator’, and they reply ‘I AM an administrator’ is far too high. With PowerShell theres no way of knowing, and with command prompt the...

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Enable PPTP Split Tunneling
Jan01

Enable PPTP Split Tunneling

  PPTP Split Tunneling KB ID 0000997  Problem I was asked yesterday, “When you get five minutes, I need you to enable PPTP split tunneling, because when I VPN into a network I lose Internet connectivity”. On inspection he was using the Microsoft VPN client, I jumped on the VPN device to discover it was a Cisco IOS router. What I discovered was, unlike the firewall VPN’s I’m used to, you DONT set split...

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Juniper JUNOS SRX NAT – Static ‘One-to-One’
Jan01

Juniper JUNOS SRX NAT – Static ‘One-to-One’

SRX NAT KB ID 0000995  Problem Setting up ‘Static NAT’ is the process of taking one of your ‘spare’ public IP addresses, and permanently mapping that public IP to a private IP address on your network. In the example above I want to give my web sever which has an internal IP address of 192.168.1.10/24, the public IP address of 1.1.1.5/24. So if someone out on the Internet wants to view my website, they can...

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Juniper SRX Commit Errors
Jan01

Juniper SRX Commit Errors

SRX Commit Errors KB ID 0000999  Problem WARNING: This article is not to cover every problem that will stop you committing the firewall config. It just serves to document problems I’ve encountered, and I how I overcame them. Solution: SRX Commit Errors I came across the following two problems whilst attempting to setup a ‘chassis cluster’. both were related to configuration existing on interfaces that I wanted to use...

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