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FreeNAS

October 27, 2008

Here’s a pretty cool open source software that you can install on an old machine to use as a network-attached storage (NAS). It runs on FreeBSD and you can even install it on flash drives (installation including the FreeBSD OS is less than 64MB).

It supports popular services such as CIFS/SMB, FTP, SSH, NFS, iTunes/DAAP, and UPnP. It even has a BitTorrent client! All of these can be managed from a web interface.

I haven’t …

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user…

October 24, 2008

Error Message:

\\x.x.x.x is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.

I get this once in a while when working on files …

VMware ESXi: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer (Windows XP)

October 23, 2008

Error Message:

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.

If you get this error when installing Windows XP in VMware ESXi, simply do the following:

  1. Download this floppy image which contains the VMware SCSI drivers: vmscsi-1204.flp
  2. Upload the floppy image to the datastore using the VI Client.
  3. Edit the virtual machine settings and select Floppy Drive 1, then choose the option on the right to “Use existing floppy …

Can’t connect to SQL Server 2005 using PHP

October 21, 2008

I was updating our web application last Friday and I needed it to connect to an SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database to query some tables but my application couldn’t connect to the MSSQL server.

After a few hours of searching the internet and trying different things I finally got it to work by downloading a newer version of ntwdblib.dll (version 2000.80.194.0) and replacing the one that came with PHP 5.2 (we’re using WAMP (Windows, …

Security Warning: “The publisher could not be verified”

October 20, 2008

Warning Message: 

The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?

I got this warning message last week while testing a group policy object to run a small program from a network drive when users log in to the domain.

After some googling, it turned out that this feature was added in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and it checks whether the program has a digital signature attached. …