Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

samba & static wins entries

yes. you need to think about this from time to time.

 Static WINS Entries  
   
Adding static entries to your Samba WINS server is actually fairly easy. All you have to do is add a 
line to wins.dat, typically located in /usr/local/samba/var/locks or /var/run/samba.  
   
Entries in wins.dat take the form of:  
   
 "NAME#TYPE" TTL ADDRESS+ FLAGS  
   
where NAME is the NetBIOS name, TYPE is the NetBIOS type, TTL is the time-to-live as an absolute 
time in seconds, ADDRESS+ is one or more addresses corresponding to the registration, and FLAGS 
are the NetBIOS flags for the registration.  
   
A change that has been made to the wins.dat will not take effect until nmbd has been restarted. 
It should be noted that since the wins.dat file changes dynamically, nmbd should be stopped before editing 
this file. Do not forget to restart nmbd when this file has been edited.  
   
A typical dynamic entry looks like this:  
   
 "MADMAN#03" 1155298378 192.168.1.2 66R  
   
To make a NetBIOS name static (permanent), simply set the TTL to 0, like this:  
   
 "MADMAN#03" 0 192.168.1.2 66R  
   
The NetBIOS flags may be interpreted as additive hexadecimal values:  
   
 00 - Broadcast node registration  
 20 - Peer node registration  
 40 - Meta node registration  
 60 - Hybrid node registration  
 02 - Permanent name  
 04 - Active name  
 80 - Group name.  
   
The 'R' indicates this is a registration record.   
Thus 66R means: Hybrid node active and permanent NetBIOS name. These values may be found in the 
nameserv.h header file from the Samba source code repository. These are the values for the NB flags.   
   
   
 nameserv.h  
   
    92 /* The wins flags. Looks like the nbflags ! */  
    93 #define WINS_UNIQUE     0x00 /* Unique record */  
    94 #define WINS_NGROUP     0x01 /* Normal Group eg: 1B */  
    95 #define WINS_SGROUP     0x02 /* Special Group eg: 1C */  
    96 #define WINS_MHOMED     0x03 /* MultiHomed */  
    97   
    98 #define WINS_ACTIVE     0x00 /* active record */  
    99 #define WINS_RELEASED     0x04 /* released record */  
   100 #define WINS_TOMBSTONED 0x08 /* tombstoned record */  
   101 #define WINS_DELETED     0x0C /* deleted record */  
   102   
   103 #define WINS_STATE_MASK     0x0C  
   104   
   105 #define WINS_LOCAL     0x00 /* local record */  
   106 #define WINS_REMOTE     0x10 /* remote record */  
   107   
   108 #define WINS_BNODE     0x00 /* Broadcast node */  
   109 #define WINS_PNODE     0x20 /* PtP node */  
   110 #define WINS_MNODE     0x40 /* Mixed node */  
   111 #define WINS_HNODE     0x60 /* Hybrid node */  
   112   
   113 #define WINS_NONSTATIC     0x00 /* dynamic record */  
   114 #define WINS_STATIC     0x80 /* static record */  

Friday, August 22, 2014

finding orphaned vmware templates or vmtx hell

what happens when templates and parent directories haven't consistent names or reside in 
directories that share the same name, and of course, are all over the place? you sigh.  

then you "open the book".  and when i say "open the book" i mean it the way
the portuguese mean it. think sailor talk, only worse.

vmware isn't very nice in that via vsphere you can't figure out where your "assets" reside. 

that's *okay*. gui fail.  
 
various powershell cli scripts are losers, too. what you need to do is actually query
the sql db that the vcenter uses.

so, off i go to vmware's support site; and i find this:  
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004139  

COOL. install more junk on my system. since this is running sql server 2008 express,   
i get this:  
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7593  

flock. i go through the totally non-intuitive install for sql server 2008 studio express.   
just install "a new instance". you're not really installing sql server 2008. i cancelled   
when i saw that under installation. i read up.  and the i went for it.  no worries. 

and then you run the tool.  

of course you've kept the name of your db and passwords handy, right?   
well, if you went with the vmware defaults, just to a network browse, connect to your   
local sql server express db. it should look like: YOUR_VCENTER\VIM_SQLEXP  
and do local auth. it is okay.  

you run this query that vmware support gave you:  

select VPX_ENTITY.NAME as "VM Name", VPX_VM.FILE_NAME as "File Name / Path"  
From VPX_VM inner join VPX_Entity   
where VPX_VM.FILE_NAME LIKE '%VMNAME%'  
on vpx_vm.ID = vpx_entity.ID   
order by VPX_entity.name;  

it barfs. holy heck. re-write the query and get expected results:  

use VIM_VCDB;  
select VPX_ENTITY.NAME as "VM Name", VPX_VM.FILE_NAME as "File Name / Path"  
From VPX_VM inner join VPX_Entity   
on vpx_vm.ID = vpx_entity.ID   
order by VPX_entity.name;  

and there you go. of course the datastores are completely unfriendly,   
but you can ssh into your client boxes and figure it out pretty quick.   
of course you can.  

 go get some coffee. you're awesome.  

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

old linux box old samba join old

Adding a Linux domain member machine

configure the smb.conf file with all happiness.  Include workgroup, authentication via domain, etc.

check if config is nifty fine:
% testparm

to check if ldap auth via nsswitch is okay, execute:
%getent passwd
%getent group

join the domain:
% net rpc testjoin -S 'PDC' -U Administrator%yesyes
% net rpc join -U Administrator%oreilly

if errors abound, may need in smb.conf:
client schannel = no

or... just do it again.

afterwards, check if all is fine:
% smbclient -L localhostname

it should show something like:

Anonymous login successful
Domain=[ONTHEPHONE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service (bollocks server (Samba 3.0.22))
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (bollocks server (Samba 3.0.22))
        localtest       Disk      testing in /usr/local
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[ONTHEPHONE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.22]

        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        FARMINGTON           bollocks server (Samba 3.0.22)
        PDC                  onthephone server (Samba 3.0.11)

        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        ONTHEPHONE           PDC

If the server is a BDC, do not forget to:

% smbpasswd -w 

Monday, August 11, 2014

oh the humanity or updating intel nic drivers on esxi 5.5.0

yeah. fun stuff. so vmware, too lazy to update your isos? search through the archives for the correct async ones and unpack the archive and upload the thing called offline-bundle and then scp up to an esxi host - be sure to have ssh service running, is that what you're telling me to do? okay.

~ # esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/yes-local/isos/igb-5.2.5-offline_bundle-1682588.zip 

Installation Result
   Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
   Reboot Required: true
   VIBs Installed: Intel_bootbank_net-igb_5.2.5-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820
   VIBs Removed: VMware_bootbank_net-igb_5.0.5.1.1-1vmw.550.1.15.1623387

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

ubuntu 9.04 sources.list

jaunty is my friend. it does unfs.
/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security multiverse

Friday, August 1, 2014

manually umount and mount an nfs volume on esx 5.5

vmware esxi 5.5 says the nfs volume is not accessible. really?
 esxcli storage list  
 yep. not accessible.  
 esxcli storage nfs remove -v nfs-store  
 remove it. do whatever you do to fix the issue. then... re-add per below.  
 esxcli storage nfs add -H 192.168.6.66 -s /data/dev/nfs-store -v nfs-store  
                         ^               ^                      ^  
                         |               |                      |  
                         nfs server      |                      |  
                                         nfs export             |  
                                                            local datastore name