Trainsignal

http://windowsserver.trainsignal.com/

http://www.petri.co.il/install_and_configure_w2k_dns_server.htm

Common Internet File System

GOOGLE – Common Internet File System

COMMENT: This little search turn up ‘Interesting-Combinations’ – (Specifically) in relation to SMB. The above google search lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block as the second listing on the first google-search page. Reading a little here poses the question – (without reading the complete article – and having a very brief skim of this material) , .. Are CIFS, and SMB, one and the same thing?

Guess Ill have to do some more reading, studying, printing etc etc to get some sort of handle on that question.

NAH; (Studying in that manner is counter productive) – The next page opened  – (Listed #4 on the first page of THIS google search) is, .. a Micro$oft page with the heading -  Common Internet File System (CIFS) File Access Protocol

Coming BACK to the Wikipedia entry on SMB (Pasted below) THE FIRST PARAGRAH: (Seem to answer the QUESTION posed)
In computer networking, Server Message Block (SMB) operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an authenticated Inter-process communication mechanism. Most usage of SMB involves computers running Microsoft Windows, where it is often known as “Microsoft Windows Network”.

AND; No doubt, as I attempt to connect a Linux-network, to my Windows-network, there will be other QUESTIONs, and technical-issues to be resolved, (But I get the feeling that CIFS and SMB, are going to be a required protocol) and the little ‘cifs.exe’ (292 KBs) is required, and needs to be INSTALLED.

I have have varying degrees of sucess (with regard to integrating a Linux Box with Micro$oft-Box’s) and using different Linux Distros previously, and it seems that things like midnight-commander, and the nautilus file manager’s can access the Micro$oft boxes, and NOT the other way around, so THIS is the issue that I need to resolve.

The M$ Overview: – This document contains a definition of Microsoft’s file access protocol called the Common Internet File System (CIFS). CIFS is an interoperable mechanism for a client system to request file access from a server system in a network regardless of the underlying operating system platforms of the respective systems.

INTERESTING – Document LIKE an ‘rfc’ – *but* created and hosted by M$ – Tittled – Preliminary Draft -  A Common Internet File System (CIFS/1.0) Protocol + DATED: March 13, 1997 – An Example of the ‘Micro$oft – Way’ of doing Networking

JUST TO CONFIRM MY POINT: In the first  paragraph of this website http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html UNDER HEADING – DISCLAIMER: This document attempts to provide a service to people involved with the SMB (soon to be CIFS) protocol in some way (And it is dated – 8-Oct-2002)

AFTER – Running the Downloaded ‘cifs.exe’ – it turns out to ACTUALLY be a cifs.chm file (A Micro$oft Help File) – Not anything executable here at all. Inside this help file is lots more reading and descriptions of HOW Micro$oft implement this file system protocol. I paste below the little bit that I found interesting, (I am sure the rest is also very interesting – I just have other stuff to do right now)

CIFS is a subset of the larger Server Message Block (SMB) protocol which provides additional network services including but not limited to file printing and logon services. Features supported by the larger SMB protocol are beyond the scope of this document and its accompanying license.

BELOW – is me having a little rant about the _wp-calendar dates! lol

PROBLEM: The WordPress Calendar Widget – Has placed yesterdays date on this post. JUST FOR THE RECORD: Today is the 14th October 2009 – Even the ‘Draft-Saved at 3:20am’ ? ? ? Last edited by ME on ‘October 14, 2009 at 3:16am – OK -  (Ive got an idea, which could be dangerous, for my blog – under the ‘publish’, section of the control panel there is the wrong date being ‘Oct 13, 2009 @ 23:45′ and there is an ‘EDIT’ link to click – (Dare I fix it?, ..)

I DID – >>>  ‘Dare to Fix the INCORRECT  date problem’ <<< -

RESULT: This post completely DISAPPEARED. (So I reversed the edit), .. AND it has magically come back! (Think Ill stop  trying to fix this problem, BEFORE to extends itself into other parts of the blog) , .. Happy for this post to have the 13 Oct as the date, I wont argue anymore about this issue. An Observation about HOW I tried to edit the date >>> I used the ‘Quick-Edit’ feature under the ‘Posts’ – There are OTHER places to edit the date, but Ive had enough of this little game for now.

Fravia – searchlores

Fravia passed away on Sunday, 3rd May 2009

Deeply saddened to learn today (Sunday 4th October 2009) the author of ‘searchlores‘ has passed away, many months ago now – and am surprised to be affected so much by this.

http://fravia.com/swansong.htm

Found out while reading / searching / sniffing around various technical – security based info – and came across http://blog.dkbza.org/ and this little post on his blog />>> post-permalink (<<< More links here)

http://www.searchlores.org/main.htm

Three Easy Rules to Beat Scam Artists

Another useful information resource in the same category http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

QUOTE – Taken from  the Russian-Brides.com.au website – You will have to follow the link below to read HOW the ‘Three-Easy-Rules’ work in full.

The wide spread of Internet dating in the last 10 years has created a new kind of scam artists – people who make Internet dating scams their profession. If you are new to the world of Internet Introduction it is easy to fall for the scams.

However, it is equally easy to avoid them if you know about typical ways these scams are usually performed.

RUSSIAN BRIDES has a very clear and simple policy on scammers. We run compulsory verification security checks on all women who apply to be included in our Photo Catalogue. We consequently publish only about 15% of all applications we receive.

How Big is BIG?

GOOGLE – the milky way galaxy facts AND;  Swinburne Astronomy Productions – Bigger than Big

This reminds me of the Monty Python movie – Life of Brian, song ‘Always look on the bright side of life’, where they spew out all these Milky Way facts, pointing out that you, and I are insignifigant in the bigger scheme of things,  – ‘How Big is Big?’

OUR HOME: The Milky Way Galaxy;
The arrow points to our Star the Sun, which is any one of several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. – Pictured here, – The Star closest to our Sun is 4.5 light years away. – A Light Year is the distance light travels in one year. – Light moves at the speed of 186,272 miles or 300,000 kilimeters per second. – Our Sun is 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. – So the light that we see coming from our Milky Way Galaxy’s center, left there 30,000 years ago. – The know Universe contains over 1,000,000 Billion of other Galaxies. – The Milky Way Galaxy contains at least 400 billion stars. -

We are living on a planet that is in constant high-speed motion around itself and traveling on its orbit around the Sun. – The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles or 40,000 kilometers. – The Earth rotates around its axis once every twenty-four (24) hours time, or one whole day and night. While Planet Earth is rotating on its axis at the speed of over 1000 miles or 1609 kilometers per hour, Earth is also traveling, revolving on its oval orbit around the Sun at the speed of about – 67,000 miles or 107,200 kilometers per hour once every 365 days or one whole year.

How Big is BIG?

All About the Milky Way – The Milky Way is simply the common name for the galaxy that encompasses our solar system.

Stat – Counter

I might try this when I get time to do a little research reading etc

What is STATCOUNTER?
A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats.

Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

Deleting Tags

To many tags have been added, – and now, (With the Tag-Cloud – plugin/widget) installed, there are NEWER tags that are NOT being displayed.

Maybe less IS more.

M$ Deployment

Just a quick note to myself to RE-Visit this  -  Vista / Windows-7 / Server / Technet / Deployment site again soon.  (The video provides a nice introduction, and overview for image deployment).

Spammy _ URLs

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES;

DEFINITION: (Spammy Types of URLs – Is an ongoing topic that is rather large in itself – AND beyond the scope of this little comment, sorry to anyone that might be offended by this, but once again, I dont have time to Translate Chinese, or Read, or investigate possible intruders onto my blog, BUT; I will make exceptions to this ‘rule’, if anything unfriendly starts appearing ANYWHERE)

EXAMPLES; (Of spammy type of urls found so far – munged and pasted below)
http -:- // – www -.- elcohkg.com/
http -:- // – www -.- elcojp.com/
http -:- // – www -.- findonblogs.com/
http -:- // – www -.- elcoes.com/

TESTING:  (Internal Link to GRD – Blog – Comments + SpammyURLs)

I have to create a new category for this topic – This is a topic to be expanded upon – AFTER completing some other ‘major – projects’.

Network Diagramming Tool

Network diagramming tool Visio-2007

Interested in seeing the cost of visio-2007? – click-here (Opens in a New-Window), and then on ‘South-Pacific’ (If you want the price in AUD, Australian dollars $) -

AFTER; (entering details and email) – Ended up at Data3 This site FAILs in basic navigation – I can not find what I am looking for and have given up at this point in time.  (There are easier ways to get a price on Visio-2007) – This has been more an exercise in exploring Data3 – Smoke & Mirrors – VERY Flashy ‘Corparate’ Website. (It has lots of eye-candy, and maybe I have missed something), ..