@Pete-S said in System Admin - checklist for Don'ts and Important points please!:

Maybe I'm alone but on the top of my list:

1. Only use Microsoft as a last resort when all other options have been explored.
2. If you get paid by the hour disregard #1.

Option 1. - What do you say / do when the Owner specifically states, Windows Only environment. NIX and Apply need not apply -

@Obsolesce said in Power shell syntax: Get- Map drives:

Why not do it via Group Policy or other similar means?

It's the state - I don't have access to GP... or much really - and the few scripts I have made, I pulled out since they 'refuse' to use anything with logic...

@Grey said in Power shell syntax: Get- Map drives:

@gjacobse Are you recreating the same shares from one server to the next or just restoring "drives" to an endpoint?

This is at the user level - the idea is that when they move / replace a computer, I can get the current shares for the user, and the re map

I expect this is quite possible, but not found the syntax as of yet.

I currently grab the network share using

net use > mapped.txt

I know it can also be done with

Get-smbshar

I would think that there is way to get them and restore them once in a new computer .

As of yet I have not found the correct syntax -

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

@gjacobse said in UNMS Cloud:

@IRJ said in UNMS Cloud:

@VoIP_n00b said in UNMS Cloud:

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

If you have nearly ten devices, it might be worth buying one or two to get the free cloud hosting. Pays for itself eventually. You only need the very cheapest of devices for it to count.

What devices count towards the 10?

Ah -

There's the rub. I won't have 0 devices after 30days... ah well.

10, not zero.

dang keyboard - yes,.. 10,.. typed 10,.. but as you can see,.. only the 0 typed... ugh.. I give up -

@IRJ said in UNMS Cloud:

@VoIP_n00b said in UNMS Cloud:

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

If you have nearly ten devices, it might be worth buying one or two to get the free cloud hosting. Pays for itself eventually. You only need the very cheapest of devices for it to count.

What devices count towards the 10?

Ah -

There's the rub. I won't have 0 devices after 30days... ah well.

well -
I suppose I could do this as well,.. I have two APs and a POE Switch - Free you say,..

(scribbles notes)

As mentioned in another thread, I have Diet-Pi running on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ that is acting as a Print Server, and APC UPS monitoring device. Since I actually re-built the SD card, I've not gotten that up and running yet though -

But - I have a Dymo 330 Turbo connected, and Linux being the awesome system it is, found it and added it to CUPS like it's suppose to. However, I have a rather unfriendly name as the default.

DeviceURI usb://DYMO/LabelWriter%20330%20Turbo?serial=04031709272675

I'd like to change the URI to something a little more friendly, but want to make sure that it works of course.

Starting with

lpinfo -v

direct usb://DYMO/LabelWriter%20330%20Turbo?serial=04031709272675

Shows the current name for the Printer -

What is the proper method of changing this, as what I am seeing is a tad confusing as of yet.

Would it be:

DeviceURI usb://DYMO/Dymo330?serial=04031709272675

Incidentally, you could likely do this with a raspberry pi zero and a USB add on board for a smaller footprint if needed

@scottalanmiller said in Dymo vs. other print servers:

@CCWTech said in Dymo vs. other print servers:

It seems really high compared to other brand of print servers out there.

because it's from the printer maker.

You can always make your own with a Raspberry Pi for very cheap that will support as many printers as you'd reasonably want.

You beat me to it- I actually just did this with a raspberry pi three and diet pi, it also run apcupsd to monitor the APC 1000 running my core network.