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How to convert a domain account to a local account

I have a Windows 7 laptop that was connected to a Windows domain controller. The domain controller is no longer in operation and has been shut off. The laptop, now stand alone, works fine, but I want ...
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How to add a domain user to the local admin group remotely?

I need to add a domain user in the local administrator group remotly and I have to the local admin password
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Exim4 Disable local delivery?

I'm running exim4 as my MTA and it works great to send emails to outside emails other than my hostname. When I send an email to my gmail via command line (sendmail [email protected], etc...) it ...
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Is TLD .local not a local TLD anymore? [duplicate]

I used to use .local as TLD for small household networks however I got a popup that I wasn't allowed to use it anymore after a firmware upgrade of an Asus Router. I choose now for .lan as internal TLD....
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Stop local emails being sent to relay host with postfix

I've recently signed up to SMTP2GO (smtpcorp). I've setup postfix on one of EC2 servers and have pointed it to my smtp2go account: relayhost = [smtpcorp.com]:2525 Now all my mail is being routed ...
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Running a DNS nameserver in a .local domain

We are using an ".intranet.local" domain for our internal network. For years the ".local" domain seemed to be a sane choice for local networks running on private (RFC 1918) IP addresses. Today we ...
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Ansible local_action: stat doesnt find my file

I want to copy a file to remote nodes, but only if the file exists. I copied it into /tmp/webapps/partner.war My Task is: - local_action: stat path="/tmp/webapps/{{ application }}.war" register: ...
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Use Script To Edit Local Group Policy Windows Server 2012

I'm hardening a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine for serving secure web pages and following a guide that lays out multiple Local Group Policy Settings and Registry Settings. When researching how to ...
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Viewing the loopback interface on Solaris 10 (using snoop or another tool)

I am trying to use snoop on solaris 10 to detect traffic between a client and server both located on my machine. Question: I just want to verify that I should use the loopback interface for this. So ...
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Local and public IPs on the same switch?

It's all pretty much in the title. Is it possible to assign both local and public IPs to different nodes connected to the same switch? I have 4 servers with 2 gigabit ethernet ports each. I want ...
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local rpm repostry, that contains all packages installed on system

what I'm trying to is to make a USB disk with local repository / directory for offline installation (or upgrade) of Linux servers. Why !? Simple, I’m working on maintenance of huge cluster of asterisk ...
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Connecting a NAS directly to a 4 port switch directly to two computers, offline?

I'm looking to purchase a portable NAS, say the Synology DS1019+ for example, to use as a shared storage drive between two workstations beside each other. There is no wired network access anywhere ...
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How to connect externally to local network from local network?

I have this weird problem with a Ventrilo server software running in my linux machine. If I connect the server inside my local network, messages keep lagging etc. But users joining the server outside ...
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How can I get PHP on my local computer system? [closed]

How can I test out PHP scripts on my local computer before uploading them? I'm a bit new to this so sorry for the simplicity. My domain provider's installed PHP version is 5.2.2 if that helps. EDIT: ...
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Is there a static, server-side vulnerability/virus/malware/BadThings™ scanner?

We run a shared hosting webserver with the usual LAMP stack. It is up and running since many years ago (uhm, Apache-1.3 and PHP-3 days?) and went through many iterations. We strive to have good ...
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MySQL (local) owner and permissions

I recently successfully installed the 64 bit version of mysql-5.5.8 on a MacBook Pro in the /usr/local directory. To address a completely unrelated software (RVM actually) , I chown-ed my /usr/local ...
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Script to find out differences between local and remote file systems over SSH

I am looking for a script to find out the differences between a local and remote file systems (over SSH). Ideally the script should do the following: -browse the local file system for folders -find ...
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Use Mac OS X Server As Development Environment

I've installed Mac OS X Server 10.6.3 on my laptop to use as my normal OS. I do a lot of web development and thought it would be handy to run OS X Server so I could more easily manage my local ...
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nginx for local development

I want to use nginx for local development. This means I want to prevent other machines from being able to access my web server so it can only be accessed via localhost. Under the server settings in ...
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Name resolution for internal network hostnames

I plan on standardizing host naming conventions and want to setup an "internal" network to allow easy communication between different servers. We purchase servers from multiple different dedicated ...
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Trying to prevent server printers on terminal servers

We have 4 servers running windows 2008 r2. We have a separate print server and users are able to connect to and use shared printers. However the terminal servers appear to create local printers for ...
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Postfix and "local mail"

That's the first time I'll configure a mail server. I explain you the complete picture. Currently, my company company.com has an old-win-2008-server-with-no-way-to-know-its-current-configuration-...
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Unknown Local IP Shows Up in Netstat

I have what may be a simple issue, but it is something I've never noticed before, and I wanted to see if it was cause for concern or action was needed. When checking something else with netstat.exe ...
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Postfix - disabling local delivery correctly

I have a postfix server with a config for no local delivery. Every email sent through from websites on this server are beeing sent out, no domain on this server accepts emails localy (every domain has ...
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Local authoritative DNS setup

Love this website and have learned a lot since I started lurking. This problem is confusing the hell out of me. If I want my local DNS server to be the authoritative of example.com how do I setup my ...
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Postfix - How to enable SMTP authentication on local delivery

I have an email server running Postfix. Everything is working fine, However, recently, some internal emails received emails from their own addresses with phishing content. After finding out, I learned ...
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Set password for local admin account on all computers in domain

Before you consider what I want to achieve as insane from a security standpoint, please continue reading: I'm setting the password for the local admin account on all computers in the domain with a ...
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GPO - Local Administrator Group Management (Restricted Group vs Local Users and Groups)

I'm looking for current best practices and I can't seem to find a definitive answer. I'm looking to manage the membership of the local administrator group on Windows (Client) machines. In the past, ...
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Configure sendmail to only send to local domain

I would like to know how to configure sendmail to only send emails to one domain. I have a development server that might have customer email addresses in the database as the data is copied from the ...
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How do I allow local network access to a second dedicated webserver line?

In my office we have two separate internet lines. One is for the general office internet, and the other is a dedicated line for the webserver. I've tried to connect the dedicated into our switch using ...
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Is it possible to add a .local Active Directory domain to MicrosoftOnline?

I'd like to add my .local domain to my MicrosoftOnline subscription, if possible. Does anyone know how such a domain can be verified, since it does not register in the global DNS system?
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Caching POST request and GET request on a local machine to get access to content offline

I'm looking for an existing solution that would allow us to make request normally and let a sort of proxy cache everything we do. For instance when querying a REST service the proxy would write the ...
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Missing local account after joining a domain

I attempted to add my computer to a domain and now I cannot access any of the local accounts on my computer. I had downloaded Windows Server 2012 and had two local accounts on it. Then, I attempted ...
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Local yum repo for multiple versions

I would like to setup a local repo for rhel 5 and 6. Can this be done on 1 server, or do I need one server for each major version? We have a valid, legal subscription with RH, but we would rather not ...
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Win7 - registry hack domain profile to local profile location

With Windows XP, if I wanted to add a user logging in locally on their computer to a domain and keep their local profile, I could change the profile location in the registry for the domain profile to ...
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How do an ISP's DNS servers resolve a local hostname?

This might be a stupid easy question for some of you, but I couldn't find a fast, accurate answer online. I had a problem recently where I was trying to SSH to a local FreeBSD server, but the ...
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User in Administrators group has not the same rights as Administrator (Win 2022 R2) for fresh build

We've been having the issue where a domain user in the builtin\Administrators group, does not have the same access as Administrator, but only on fresh builds of server 2022. Servers that we upgraded ...
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Huge oplog size after full sync on one secondary causing performance issues - MongoDB

I'm a MongoDB newbie. I have a replica set with 3 members (1 primary and 2 secondaries) on CentOS 6 and Mongo 2.6.8. One of the secondaries crashed because of high consumption of memory and I couldn'...
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Cannot resolve a single A Record from client machine

I set up a simple Bind server on my VPS and it is working properly. The problem occurs with my local windows machines, which are connected to internet through the home router. I created an A-record ...
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Will Any Popular Root CA Sign a host.domain.local Certificate?

My boss refuses to allow private IP addresses into a public DNS definition. So I am unable to put the private SVN box IP (svn.ourcompany.com) into a .com DNS record. It exists only at svn.ourcompany....
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How to publish local domain names on my local network?

I'm developing several websites locally, each of them having its own pseudo-domain name, and its Apache VirtualHost: mywebsite.localhost images.mywebsite.localhost anotherwebsite.localhost I'd like ...
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When do local GPOs apply if a computer is a part of a domain?

when do local GPOs apply if a computer is a part of a domain? What would be an example scenario when local GPOs would be relevant for a computer that is a part of a domain? Can I somehow 'use' local ...
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Which user takes precedence domain controller administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003

I need to know which user takes precedence, domain administrator or local PC user created using user account for Windows 2003. Basically, what I want to know is if there is a service running using a ...
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Remotely remove user from administrator group, and make it effective immediately

I am trying to write a simple powershell script that ads a domain user to the local admin group on windows machines, and then after 30 Minutes removes them. This is what I have so far. Param( [...
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Make local server accessible from internet in a local network within a sub-domain?

I recently tried to open a mail server for our company. For some reasons it was better to make mail server separate from other server(s) in data center, so we plugged another server to our local ...
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How does a packet traverse from one local process to another local process in the following iptables graph?

I've found the following iptables chart: How does the packet traverse iptables tables when the packet is sent from one local process to another local process? Regards.
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Would I have a performance gain if I list entries in my hosts file to domains that are pointing to the server machine?

I must admit, I'm a software engineer and this stuff is not really one of my areas of expertise. I have a Web Application in .NET 4 which connects to various web services hosted on the same machine. ...
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How to send local mail via postfix to another server

I have postfix set up for use as an STMP server to send mail for my domain, but I receive email for the domain via gmail/google apps. The reason I use my own postfix is because I send out a lot of ...
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Unbound DNS resolver for a network

I'm actually trying to create a DNS resolver for my local network, to do so, I choosed to use unbound, so I installed it on an Arch Linux server, and it's working, but only for the local machine (127....
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Set a system's time server to itself

I work on a standalone network that has 3 domain controllers all running Server 2008 r2. Two of the servers are physical (DC1 / DC2) and one is virtual (DC3). I want all my systems to refer to DC1 as ...
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