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Making SQL Server Express listen for TCP connections
Start Configuration Manager (separate program with that name), go to “SQL server network configuration”, choose “Protocols” bellow that – right click TCP/IP and click enable if not enabled already. Right click it again – choose properties this time, choose no for “listen all” unless you are exposing service to other machines, then on next tab…
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Basic linux firewall configuration (iptables)
Linux firewall divides all traffic into 3 groups First two are obvious, third group I guess also covers nat and similar features. Traffic is controlled by adding accept or reject rules to appropriate group – compared to OpenBSD’s pf iptables seems to be missing tables (weird choice for name, he he), all rules seem to…
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How to install deb file on linux
dpkg -i filename.deb
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IPsec based VPN using FreeBSD
Since I wasn’t really able to find information how to set this up on one place here is short recipe. Prerequisites: After this some introduction to entire problem comes handy. Most important thing to understand here is how IPsec actually works within operating system – you can get some help here from setkey (8) with…
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How to create pdfs from man pages
man -t page_name | ps2pdf – page_name.pdf Sometimes this pdf actually looses some formatting (I don’t have any idea why), so it might make more sense to create plain ps fileman -t page_name > page_name.ps Note: You might want to change page size in /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC (by default it is set to letter there)
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How to make tsclient use freerdp instead of rdesktop in freebsd
First of all why anyone would do that? Because rdesktop doesn’t support newer encryption schemes supported by remote desktop while freerdp does. When connecting to new server xfreerdp will ask you whether you trust offered public key (similar to ssh), so it is good idea to run it from console that time, also if it…