May 01 2013
Change Linux Keyboard
One can change the current session keyboard mapping with loadkeys. To load the French keyboard map, simply run loadkeys fr Available keymaps can be found in /lib/kbd/keymaps/ You can even create your own
Archive for the 'Systems' Category
Mar 11 2013
RDP Extra Session on Windows Terminal Server
Windows 2003 Server comes with 2 remote desktop sessions for administration. If another session is initiated, you will get the following error message: A workaround exists though, Microsoft have made a hidden extra session available. It can be started running mstsc from the command line. /v:server is not mandatory, you can set it on the […]
Dec 15 2012
Windows Remote Server/NAS Sync and Backup Files
robocopy is a tool that copies files but more interestingly, it lets you synchronize data from a server (or a NAS) to another Windows server. It is provided with the Windows 2003 Server resource kit tools or natively in Windows 2008 Server and above.Synchronization takes little bandwidth with Robocopy and can be a good way […]
Dec 04 2012
Hyper-v “error loading operating system” after running disk2vhd
Converting a physical Windows 2003 Server to a Hyper-v virtual machine with disk2vhd tool may throw the following generic error on a black screen on boot: Needless to say Windows is not even starting.I tried to repair Windows with a 2003 server image, fixmbr, fixboot, and they all failed.The Master Boot Record needs to be […]
Nov 30 2012
IPTables Traffic Redirection on Linux
Whether you need to redirect telnet or ssh connections through a server because you don’t have direct access to your final destination or you’re planning a web server migration, traffic forwarding comes in handy in many situations.This is easily achieved on Linux distributions that come with IPtables. Yes, iptables isn’t just for ACL rules, but […]