Cisco ASA Domain Authentication and Trust (Allowing)
May08

Cisco ASA Domain Authentication and Trust (Allowing)

ASA Domain Authentication KB ID 0000973  Problem I cringed this morning when I was asked about this, last time I had to get a client to authenticate to a domain through a firewall, it was ‘entertaining’. The problem is Windows loves to use RPC, which likes to use random ports, so to make it work you either had to open TCP ports 49152 and 65535 (Yes I’m Serious). Or you had to registry hack all your domain controllers...

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Safari – Open jnlp Files Not Download Them
Jan29

Safari – Open jnlp Files Not Download Them

KB ID 0001148 Problem Next to the rise of Nazism, war, hunger, and pestilence Java is the worst hing to happen to humankind! But because people keep using it for management consoles and things we are stuck with it. I’m particularly a big fan of the way they (Oracle) upgrade it because it’s got some huge security flaw in it, then all my remote iLO, DRAC and Cisco ASDM sessions don’t work anymore. It’s even...

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Google Chrome – Can’t Open jnlp (Java) files
Nov17

Google Chrome – Can’t Open jnlp (Java) files

KB ID 0000354 Problem It’s annoying but for some reason Google Chrome simply downloads .jnlp files rather than opening and launching the Java applications. You would think that associating .jnlp files so that they open in Chrome would fix the problem, but it does not. Solution 1. Go to the link that you are trying to launch the Java application from, and Chrome will download it, as before. 2. By default Chrome will list the...

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