[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-03-06 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:52:09 +0100 schrieb lee : > >> > It uses some very clever ideas to place files into groups and > >> > into proper order - other than using file mod and access times > >> > like other defrag tools do (which even make the problem worse by > >> > doing so because this destroys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-03-04 Thread lee
Kai Krakow writes: > Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:48:57 +0100 > schrieb lee : > >> Kai Krakow writes: >> >> > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 >> > schrieb lee : >> > >> >> Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a >> >> look at it. >> > >> > You can use it with and without dom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-03-04 Thread lee
Kai Krakow writes: > Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:24:56 +0100 > schrieb lee : > >> > It uses some very clever ideas to place files into groups and into >> > proper order - other than using file mod and access times like other >> > defrag tools do (which even make the problem worse by doing so >> > beca

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:24:56 +0100 schrieb lee : > > It uses some very clever ideas to place files into groups and into > > proper order - other than using file mod and access times like other > > defrag tools do (which even make the problem worse by doing so > > because this destroys locality of

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:48:57 +0100 schrieb lee : > Kai Krakow writes: > > > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 > > schrieb lee : > > > >> Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a > >> look at it. > > > > You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you > > thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-21 Thread lee
Kai Krakow writes: > Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 > schrieb lee : > >> The time before, it wasn't >> a VM but a very slow machine, and that also took a week. You can have >> the fastest machine on the world and Windoze always manages to bring >> it down to a slowness we wouldn't have accep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-21 Thread lee
Kai Krakow writes: > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 > schrieb lee : > >> Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a look at >> it. > > You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you through > GPO is just automatic deployment of the needed registry settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-21 Thread lee
Kai Krakow writes: > Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 > schrieb lee : > >> >> Overcommitting disk space sounds like a very bad idea. >> >> Overcommitting memory is not possible with xen. >> > >> > Overcommitting diskspace isn't such a bad idea, considering most >> > installs never utilize all

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 schrieb lee : > The time before, it wasn't > a VM but a very slow machine, and that also took a week. You can have > the fastest machine on the world and Windoze always manages to bring > it down to a slowness we wouldn't have accepted even 20 years ago. This i

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 schrieb lee : > Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a look at > it. You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you through GPO is just automatic deployment of the needed registry settings in the client. You can simply cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:51:45 -0800, Grant wrote: > > To talk to this computer from another of my machines over ZT I would > > use the 10.252... address. If you tried that address, you'd get > > nowhere as you are not connected to my network. > So if 10.252.252.6 were configured as a router, cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Grant
>> The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm >> not sure. Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only >> for my domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests? >> If so, where is that configured? > > While ZT can be used to route reques

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm > > not sure. Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only > > for my domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests? > > If so, where is that configur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:29:00 -0800, Grant wrote: > The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm > not sure. Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only > for my domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests? > If so, where is that config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:52:12 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > My understanding is that ZT does not support routing of any kind. > Traffic destined to a ZT peer goes directly to that peer, and that's > it. You can't route over ZT and onto a subnet on a remote peer's > network, or from one peer to anot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Grant wrote: > > The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm not > sure. Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only for my > domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests? If so, > where is that config

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Grant
> > > Zerotier looks especially interesting. Can I have machine A listen for > > Zerotier connections, have machine B connect to machine A via Zerotier, > > have machine C connect to machine A via Zerotier, and rsync push from B > > to C? > > You set up a network and the machines all connect to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:18:27 -0800, Grant wrote: > > There is ZeroTier as a replacement for OpenVPN, and Syncthing for > > syncing. Both are P2P solutions and you can run your own discovery > > servers if you don't want any traffic going through a 3rd party > > (although they don't send data throu

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-21 Thread Grant
> > > I would > > need to be able to rsync to the laptop and I'd rather not be involved > > in the remote employee's router config. Is there an easier solution > > for that than OpenVPN? > > There is ZeroTier as a replacement for OpenVPN, and Syncthing for > syncing. Both are P2P solutions and you

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:12:33 +0100 schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > > > Overcommitting memory is, i think, on the roadmap for Xen. > > > (Disclaimer: At least, I seem to remember reading that > > > somewhere) > > > > That would be a nice feature. > > For VDIs, I might consider using it. > But cons

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 schrieb lee : > >> Overcommitting disk space sounds like a very bad idea. > >> Overcommitting memory is not possible with xen. > > > > Overcommitting diskspace isn't such a bad idea, considering most > > installs never utilize all the available diskspace. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-20 Thread Grant
> As a independent consultant, most companies over the years frown on remote > work. So I've mostly gotten stuck driving a lot, or working on things nobody > else (sane) would touch. So one does develop thick skin; but most of this > work was engineering hardware or embedded systems. It's even wors

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-20 Thread James
lee yagibdah.de> writes: > > Windows has RDP, which is a lot better than VNC. Especially when > > dealing with low-bandwidth connections. > > Wasn't RPD deprecated earlier in this discussion because it seemed to be > not sufficiently secure? Has anyone had experience with Thinlinc ? [1] It

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:39:26 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2016-01-19, Mick wrote: > > > As far as I understand it RDP is different to VNC, in the sense that > > instead of sending every pixel down the line it only sends > > compressed semantic information *about* a desktop component

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-19, Mick wrote: > As far as I understand it RDP is different to VNC, in the sense that > instead of sending every pixel down the line it only sends > compressed semantic information *about* a desktop component > (e.g. the start button, a control signal, etc.) and the client > interpret

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/01/16 06:17, Grant wrote: I'm considering allowing some employees to work from home but I'm concerned about the security implications. Currently everybody shows up and logs into their locked down Gentoo system and from there is able to access the company webapps which are restricted to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-16 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2016 07:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I've set up my home server to act as a Windows-type terminal server >> using X and tigervnc. > > OK, there you're running the X server and client on the same machine, > but the server is using VNC to display remotely. That works. Just > don't tr

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-16, Daniel Frey wrote: > I would use VPN + an X server that can spawn sessions on demand. This > way it all stays internal on the work network. One caveat: the way X11 was intended to work in this situation is that you run the X11 clients on the secure machine in the office, and run t