Monthly Archives: September 2013

CentOS6.4 – X11 Forwarding session using SSH fails

Posted on September 27, 2013 by hedscratchers

From time to time I use X11 forwarding to connect to various web management interfaces on remote servers, I had just done a new install of CenOS6.4 64-bit minimal to try out Backuppc, went to run the webGUI by doing … Continue reading →

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Samba troubleshooting tips & tricks

Posted on September 25, 2013 by hedscratchers

You are having problems getting samba to do your beck and call, and it’s not working as it should, well here a few things to help you diagnose things – it’s assumed you have the basic already configured. First, crank … Continue reading →

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Rolling back Samba to an older version on RHEL

Posted on September 25, 2013 by hedscratchers

I recently had the need to downgrade the version of samba that comes with RHEL6.4 64-bit, I had authentication issues within our domain environment with the newer versions, older versions of samba seem to work fine, so I needed to … Continue reading →

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Creating a SELinux policy for the named daemon in a chrooted BIND9 configuration

Posted on September 5, 2013 by hedscratchers

I recently configured chrooted BIND9 slave on RHEL6.4 64-bit, with SELinux enabled, with this enabled the named daemon failed to start, easily tested by disabling SELinux, and then starting it, which would then be successful.  So, I needed to create … Continue reading →

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