Category Archives: Operating Systems

Windows : How To clear Offline Files server list

You may get into trouble if you didn’t remove folder synchronization on network server before deleting a user account or unlink a computer from domain… File synchronization still effective even if the user is no longer on the computer or Active Directory. The only way to get rid of old entries, is to do it… Read More »

Linux : mptbase ioc0 WARNING IOC is in FAULT state

Inside system logs (/var/log/messages), you may see some message like this on a system running a RAID controller (this one is from a PERC 5/i on a Dell PowerEdge server) : mptbase: ioc0: WARNING – IOC is in FAULT state (1600h)!!! mptbase: ioc0: WARNING – Issuing HardReset from mpt_fault_reset_work!! mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery mptbase: ioc0:… Read More »

Linux : Hardware Lister

Need to show full hardware contained inside a Linux machine (board, cpu, memory, pci slots, etc.) such as you do on Windows with AIDA, Sandra, etc? Hardware Lister (lshw) is the answer. http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter [official site : external link] You can shot the full output using the command lshw Or redirect the listing in a plain… Read More »

Windows : Setting LAN Authentication Level on 7 Home Premium

Windows 7 Home Premium doesn’t have the “Local Security Policy” console (aka : secpol.mmc). In order to access SMB share running the old protocol version, you need to enable the Authentication LAN Manager directly inside the registry. Open the registry editor (Start > Run) : regedit Browse to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Create a new DWORD value… Read More »

Active Directory : You do not have sufficient privileges to delete Organizational Unit

Working in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) trying to delete an Organizational Unit (OU), you get the following error : Active Directory Domain Services You do not have sufficient privileges to delete < Organizational Unit >, or this object is protected from accidental deletetion. By default, you need to uncheck the box “Protect object… Read More »

Linux : SuSE repository links for YaST

There is some useful repositories for SuSE Linux. Just add the version of the distribution you are using at the end of the links before adding them to YaST. UnixHeads Packman : http://packman.inode.at/suse/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/packman/suse/ VideoLAN Client : http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/ Nvidia : ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/