Installation of MAC OSx86 in VMware (Windows)

Last two days, I tried to install MAC OS 10.4.9 in windows VMware after i got to know that MAC OSx86 was able to run on Windows (Intel) machine.I found many sites do guide the installation of Mac OS x86. There are various way to install the OSx86 but what i want to show here is a very simple installation with the use of VMware 6.

Firstly, you must have the following files & software before you start your Mac OSx86 installation:

1. tiger-x86 image file. [tiger-x86.tar.bz2]
2. VMware Workstation. [ I'm using VMware Workstation 6
3. Minimum 6 Gigabytes hard disk space.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Install VMware Workstation into your PC.

Step 2: Extract “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″ file into any folder. You can use WinRAR to perform the extraction. Please remind that the data files from “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″ is 6 gigabytes size. So please make sure you extract it into a sufficient free space hard disk drive and the hard disk partition format/type is NTFS.
( if your partition is FAT32 or older format, you will be facing extraction error because FAT32 supports a single file size up to 4 gigabytes only. [ I encounter this problem twice before i get to solve this. my stupidity.. :P]

Step 3: After everything is ready & VMware is installed, launch the VMware Workstation now.

Step 4: Now select “New Virtual Machine” icon or go to menu “File”->”New”->”Virtual Machine”.

Step 5: At first dialog screen, click “Next”. In “Virtual machine configuration”, select“custom” and click “Next” button.

Step 6: For “Virtual machine format”, select “New-Workstation 5″ and click “Next” button.

Step 7: When asking about “Select a Guest Operating System”, select “Other” from the radio button. And Select “Other” also from the drop down list of “Version” selection.

Step 8: In “Name the Virtual Machine”, you are about to name your virtual machine name and select the location of your virtual machine. You can give any name for the virtual machine but i chose “Tiger” as the name. Now, “Browse” to the folder that contains the extracted files of tiger-x86 image [tiger-x86.tar.bz2]. Your folder should have following files: floppy.flp, tiger-x86.nvram, tiger-x86.vmdk, tiger-x86.vmsd, tiger-x86.vmx, tiger-x86-flat.img, and some .log files.

Step 9: After select the location of the folder, click on “Next” button. You will be seeing a message dialog box about “…Having two virtual machines installed in the same location can cause problem…”. Just click “Yes” from the message box.

Step 10: Now you will have to specify the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine. If you have large memory in your PC, you can allocated more to the virtual machine else i would recommend to allocated at least “Recommended memory” size [green pointer] from the dialog box. Just click on “Next” button again once you specified the amount of memory.

Step 11: In “Network Connection” options, choose “Do not use a network connection” for now and click “Next” button.

Step 12: In “I/O adapter” types, select “Buslogic” from SCSI Adapters.

Step 13: Now you will see the “Disk” dialog box, select the second option, “Use an existing virtual disk” and click “Next” button.

Step 14: After you chose to use an existing virtual disk, you are required to select “the existing disk file”. Thus, just browse to the extracted folder and select the virtual machine disk file. The filename is “tiger-x86.vmdk”. After select the file, just click on “Finish” button. Then the message box will totally disappeared from the screen now but the VMware Workstation is still there. Don’t worry.

Step 15: Mac OS Tiger x86 is ready to launch now. Just select “Start Virtual Machine” from “Tiger” virtual machine or click on the Green Arrow button ( PLAY button) on the top left corner of the VMware.

CONGRATULATIONS!! You shall enjoy your Mac OS Tiger x86 in your VMware now.

Passed RHCE !!!

Hi,

I have passed RHCE exam and i have scored 92.9 out 100. Thanks !!!

RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302) Fifth Edition - Michael Jang

The Best Fully Integrated Study System Available

With hundreds of practice questions and hands-on exercises, RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide, Fifth Edition covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.

• 100% complete coverage of all objectives for exam RH302
• Exam Readiness Checklist at the front of the book--you're ready for the exam when all objectives on the list are checked off
• Inside the Exam sections in every chapter highlight key exam topics covered
• Real-world exercises modeled after hands-on exam scenarios
• Two complete lab-based exams simulate the format, tone, topics, and difficulty of the real exam
• Bonus content (available for download) includes installation screen review, basic instructions for using VMware and Xen as testbeds, and paper and pencil versions of the lab exams

Covers all RH302 exam topics, including:

• Hardware installation and configuration
• The boot process
• Linux filesystem administration
• Package management and Kickstart
• User and group administration
• System administration tools
• Kernel services and configuration
• Apache and Squid
• Network file sharing services (NFS, FTP, and Samba)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• E-mail (servers and clients)
• Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd), the Secure package, and DHCP
• The X Window System
• Firewalls, SELinux, and troubleshooting

Author : Michael Jang
Pages : 848

10 MB

VSFTPD "500 oops cannot change directory"

Today, I am trying to configure FTP server in my virtual Linux box.After the installation and configuration, am not able to change the directory itself. It displays the message"500 OOPS CANNOT CHANGE DIRECTORY", when i was trying to change the directory.

After searching Google, I found the solution for this. It is pretty simple, I have disabled the SELinux and ran this command

"/usr/bin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1 "

This solved my issue.

Setting up network between host and guest machines in VMWare

I am using Windows XP Host and have installed VMWare for Linux RHEL 5 which will be the Guest operating system.I will get the request timed out error When am trying to ping the IP address of host machine from Guest machine and vice versa.

After Googling, I found the solution and now am able to ping or connect between the host and guest machines.

The problem is quite simple.By default, i have selected the VMWare network configuration as NAT settings.After that, I have changed the settings to Bridge Networking.

Now it's Working fine...........

KABHI KABHI ADITI

June 28th - Special Day for Me !!

Its a nice feeling when you know that someone likes you, someone thinks about you, someone needs you; but it feels much better when you know that someone never ever forgets your birthday "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional

AVG Free is the most popular free antivirus solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. The AVG antivirus solution’s latest version is AVG 7.5. The new AVG 7.5 has improved performance and easy-to-use interface substantially compared to older versions. There are three categories of product under AVG solution: AVG Internet Security, AVG Anti-Virus Professional and AVG Anti-Virus Free.

36 MB
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SQL Service Access Denied

Today, am having a problem in windows server 2003 SQL database server.Actually, I have two database engine in my server, one is Server/MSFW (Firewall) and another one is Server/SQLEXPRESS.

The server/MSFW database engine has started and connecting perfectly without issues. But, the other one Server/SQLEXPRESS has not started and unable to start manually from SQL Configuration manager and Services.msc. It gave the error message in event viewer is

"UpdateUptimeRegKey: Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)"

Finally, I found the solution on Google :

In Services.msc, Double click on the Service which one you faced issue (Server/SQLEXPRESS) and then click on the 'Log On' tab. Change the 'Log on as' option from 'This account...' to 'Local system account'.

Types of Proxies

There are several types of proxies. Proxy of each type is designed to solve its specific tasks, however they have much in common, and their abilities coincide in many features.

HTTP Proxy

It is the most widespread type of proxy servers and when you hear just "proxy", it means nothing, but this type of a server. Earlier with a help of this proxy it was only possible to view web pages and pictures and download files. Now, new program versions (ICQ, etc.) know how to work through the HTTP proxies. Browsers of any versions know how to work with this type of proxy.

SOCKS Proxy

These proxy servers know how to work practically with any type of information on the Internet (TCP/IP protocol), however for their use in programs there should be obviously indicated a ability to work with SOCKS proxy. Some additional programs are necessary for using of SOCKS proxies within a browser (browsers do not know how to work through SOCKS proxy). However, any ICQ versions (and many other popular programs) can work perfectly through the SOCKS proxies. At last, we want to pay attention, while working with socks proxies it is necessary to specify its version: socks 4 or socks 5.

CGI Proxy (anonymizer)

This type of proxy server could be accessed only with a browser. In other programs their using is complicated (and one does not need it, there are HTTP proxies). However as this type proxy is initially designed for operation through a browser, one can use it in a very simple way. Moreover, you can construct a chain from CGI proxies without any problems.

FTP proxy

This type of proxies is highly specialized and aimed for work only with FTP servers. You can use these proxies in most popular file managers (FAR. Windows Commander, etc.), download managers (CuteFTP, GetRight, etc.) and in browsers.

DzSoft Perl Editor

DzSoft Perl Editor is a tool for writing, editing, and debugging Perl/CGI scripts. It has a comfortable and intuitive interface both for beginners and advanced programmers. DzSoft Perl Editor is deceptively simple, but it is really a very powerful tool. It has debugging features, a very comfortable editor with syntax highlighting, a syntax check feature that finds errors in your script, and many other features for easy and comfortable Perl development.

Key Features:
* Customizable Syntax Highlighting
* Run the script and see the result immediately in the internal browser without a web server
* Syntax Check
* Collapsible subroutines
* Customizable code snippets
* Full server simulation
* Full control of the environment variables and input data
* Code Explorer
* Can upload the script to FTP
* HTML export and print with syntax highlighting
* Super comfortable editor with savable bookmarks
* SDI interface that supports multiple instances
* Windows/Unix/Mac line breaks formats support
* OfficeXP-styled menus and toolbars
* "Run in Command Prompt" feature (with debugging)
* Built-in POD viewer with automatic detection

18 MB
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Advanced Outlook Repair

Advanced Outlook Repair is a powerful Microsoft Outlook recovery tool. It uses advanced technologies to scan the corrupt Outlook personal folders (.pst) files and recover your mail messages, folders, posts, appointments, meeting requests, contacts, distribution lists, tasks, task requests, journals, notes, etc. in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption

4 MB
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Office Recovery Enterprise 2008

This is data recovery software to fix damaged Office documents, restore lost emails and mailboxes, repair databases and retrieve files from crashed hard disks and bad diskettes. OfficeRecovery Enterprise integrates all 41 data recovery programs offered at OfficeRecovery.com. When looking for a top of the line set of recovery tools accompanied by an extensive upgrade plan, OfficeRecovery Enterprise is the right choice.

- Recovery for Word - Recovers Word documents
- Recovery for Excel - Recovers Excel spreadsheets
- Recovery for OneNote - Recovers OneNote files
- Recovery for PowerPoint - Recovers PowerPoint presentations
- Recovery for Access - Recovers Access databases
- Recovery for Publisher - Recovers Publisher publications
- Recovery for Outlook - Recovers Outlook mailboxes
- Recovery for OutlookExpress
- Recovers Outlook Express mailboxes

13 MB
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A R RAHMAN LIVE CONCERT - CHANGING NOTES

My Dream comes true yesterday evening. Yeah, I saw our God of Music "A R RAHMAN" at Changing Notes Concert, St George Ground. We guys were there at 6'O clock and waiting for our God's entry.

Our Rahman's entry was really mind blowing, he was singing Jaage Hain from the movie Guru and entered stage. I still remember the entry of our RAHMAN. Chanceless !!!

Then, he started the program with his latest hit Ellapughazum irrivanukae from the film ATM and i have listed some songs took place in the program.

• Jaage Hain - Guru.
• Ella Pugazhum - ATM
• Endendrum Punnagai - Alaipayuthe.
• Varadhe Nathi Karai Ooram - Sangamam.
  
• Vaaji Vaaji - Shivaji.
  
• Barso Re - Guru.
  
• Newyork Nagaram - Jilunu Oru Kaadhal.
  
• Enaku Oru Girlfriend - Boys.
  
• Jashna Bahaara - Jodha Akbar.
  
• Roobaroo - RDB.
  
• Munbe Vaa - JOK.
  
• Enna Solla Pogirai - Kandukonden Kandukonden.
• Kanodu Kaanbathellam - Jeans.
  
• Dil Se Re - Dil Se.
  
• In Lamhon Ke - Jodha Akbar.
  
• Adhiradi - Shivaji.
  
• Chaiyya Chaiyya - Dil se.
  
• Azeeem Shah - Jodha Akbar.
• Oru Koodai - Shivaji.
• Pray for me Brother.
• Bombay Theme.
  
• Khwaja Mere Khwaja - Jodha Akbar.
  
• Udhaya Udhaya - Udhaya.
  
• Ay Hairathe - Guru.
• Tumhari Adao Pe - Mangal Pandey.
  
• Maiyya Maiyya - Guru.
• Maduraiku Pogadhadi - ATM .
  
• Tere Bina - Guru.
  
• Antha Arabic Kadaloram - Bombay.
  
• Vande Maataram.

Some of the singers performed in the concert are: Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Javed Ali, Naresh Iyer,...

KAVO.exe and TAVO.exe VIRUS Removal

Past few days, am facing KAVO.exe and TAVO.exe virus threat detection in my office network.
I totally scanned my network, but am not able to remove those viruses. So, I try Google and found one fix for these viruses.Find below some info for these stupid viruses.

Information:

The virus kavo.exe and tavo.exe spreads from partition including removable drives, the virus copy two files periodically "autorun.inf" and another file, if you delete it from a partition, these two files return into their previous place a few seconds after removal.

The fix removes all variants of tavo and kavo virus.

1.1 MB

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Learning Windows Server 2003

Book Description
Windows Server 2003 is the right server for a world dominated by enterprise networks and web-based server applications, but getting this server up and running is a formidable task. Our no-fluff guide gives you exactly what you need for installing, configuring, securing, and managing Server 2003, and offers hands-on advice for planning, implementing and growing Windows networks without trying to teach you how to be a system administrator.

Author : Jonathan Hassell
Pages : 671

7.18 MB

DIFFERENCES IN VISUAL STUDIO EDITIONS

The following table lists the different features and tools available with Express editions, Visual Studio Standard and Professional editions, and Visual Studio Tools for Office.

 
 

Feature	Express	Standard	Professional
Programming languages included	Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and Visual J# are single language. Visual Web Developer includes Visual C# and Visual Basic.	All	All
User experience	Simplified menu options and defaults	Simplified menu options and defaults	Full
Documentation	10mb "Getting Started"; Starter Kits targeted at first-time programmers 200mb optional MSDN Express	Full MSDN Library	Full MSDN Library
IntelliSense	Yes	Yes	Yes
Code editor	Yes	Yes	Yes
Code snippets	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows Forms designer	Not available with Visual Web Developer	Yes	Yes
Web Forms designer	Only available with Visual Web Developer	Yes	Yes
Mobile Device support	No	Yes	Yes
Database design tools to create and modify tables and stored procedures	Local only	Local and remote	Local and remote
Data access designers	Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, local only. Visual Web Developer includes local and remote.	Local and remote	Local and remote
Class Designer	No	Yes	Yes
Object Test Bench	No	Yes	Yes
XML editor support	XML editing available. Basic XSLT support available only with Visual Web Developer	Full XML and XSLT	Full XML and XSLT
Deployment tools	ClickOnce only	ClickOnce only	All tools
Extensibility	Add external tools to the menu only. Use 3rd party controls.	Consume extensions	Full
Server Explorer Servers node	No	No	Yes
Reporting	SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in available with Visual Web Developer only	SQL Server Reporting Services	SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports
Source Code Control	No	MSSCCI-compatible (Visual SourceSafe sold separately)	MSSCCI-compatible (Visual SourceSafe sold separately)
Local debugging	Yes	Yes	Yes
Remote debugging	No	No	Yes
Office development support	No	No	No
Develop Visual Studio Packages with the Visual Studio SDK	No	Yes	Yes
Deploy Visual Studio Packages with the Visual Studio SDK	No	Yes	Yes
Profile Guided Optimization (PoGO)	No	No	Yes
64-bit compiler support (Itanium)	No	No	No
64-bit compiler support (x64)	No	Yes	Yes
SQL Server 2005 integration	No	No	Yes
SQL Server 2005 Editions	SQL Server 2005 Express Edition	SQL Server 2005 Express Edition	SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition

 

Microsoft Windows Server E-Books

Book Description
Anyone who installs Windows 2000, creates a user, or adds a printer is a 2000 system administrator. This book covers all the important day-to-day administrative tasks, and includes the tools for performing each task in an alphabetical reference for easy look-up. What's the same and what's different between Windows 2000 and Windows NT? Has the GUI or the networking architecture changed, and if so, how? This book will help you bridge the gap between Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Author : Mitch Tulloch
Pages : 798

6 MB

Book Description
This handy resource offers busy network administrators clear and
concise information for daily on-the-job tasks--all in a portable
format. Key management tasks are presented in logically organized sections. You'll get details on file, print, application, mail,
terminal, streaming media, and remote servers--and much more.

Author : Nelson Ruest , Danielle Ruest
Pages : 284

3 MB

Grand Master Chess (v. 2.6)

Grand Master Chess cannot possibly leave any professional or amateur chess player indifferent to all the new possibilities. The game features multi-playing; a new sound effects algorithm lets you choose your own mp3 directory. Computer intellect adjustment is capable of selecting preset installations. The scaling algorithm is so remarkable that you can actually see all the small details of the chess figures. Some sets feature real figures, such as antique Iranian chess, provided be Geogiy Ivanov.

While the design varies from traditional to futuristic, flexible settings allow the levels to vary for people with different skills. There is a three-level hint (showing whether the move is available, showing all possible moves and giving advice.) Grand Master Chess supports network gaming, so you can communicate with your opponent, as well as enjoy a network chat. Network gaming lets you choose your own partners, according to your preferences or manually.

22 MB

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HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY !!

INDIA ROCKING !!

ISA Server 2006 Issue

Today morning, I am unable to access the internet from ISA server itself. And from the client cannot access ISA server.

In IE, I got a message “The ISA server denied the specified Uniform resource Locator”
Actually am a newbie of ISA concept. So, I learn some basics of ISA and firewall rules thru Google. Finally I sorted out these issues.

After installing the ISA server 2006, we have to create two outbound firewall chain rules for accessing external network as well as internal.

Two rules as follows:-
1. To allow all outbound connections from local host and internal to External network (This for internet access)

2. To allow all outbound connections from local host and internal to internal and local host network (This for internal network access)

Find more information about ISA at MSFORUMS Page

the PURSUIT of HAPPYNESS

Yesterday i got a chance to watch this awesome film !! Sorry for the late review

the PURSUIT of HAPPYNESS

After I watched this movie, I remember how difficulty and tough to get a good job.Because this film express the feelin to pursue and really touched my heart.

I don't have any other words to express about this film.

CHRIS GARDENER

Am a great fan of will smith, I watched his movies I am Legend, I robot, Bad boys and MIB,i like his style of acting,walking and modulation in those movies, But after i watched this movie i like his performance also.

I forgot his original name and remember only the CHRIS GARDENER (will smith character name).He lived as a Chris gardener in this film.Amazing Performance !!!

In climax scene, chance less !! Will...only you Will

If you miss this Pursuit of happyness, You will miss Happyness

Compression and Archive using TAR

Different types of compression using the TAR command

[root@linux ~]# tar -cvf /tmp/etc.tar /etc  <==archive only,not compress
[root@linux ~]# tar -zcvf /tmp/etc.tar.gz /etc  <==archive&compress(gzip)
[root@linux ~]# tar -jcvf /tmp/etc.tar.bz2 /etc <==archive&compress(bzip2)

Lonely Cat Games SmartMovie v3.1

SmartMovie is a video player for your mobile device, withcounterpart PC converter utility. With the converter, you may prepare any video clip for playback on your mobile device.Play your videos on your mobile device, anywhere, anytime, youneed just a few steps: Convert any video file on your PC into a phone-friendly video file. Upload video into device/memory card. Play the video in SmartMovie Player installed on your mobiledevice.

1.5 MB

CyberLink PowerDVD Ultra 7.3

The No.1 Player for High-Definition Movies
Watch new high-def movies on HD DVDs or Blu-ray Discs
Experience exceptional audio quality with 7.1 home theater audio, and high-definition Dolby Digital Plus and DTS
Enjoy extreme image performance with optimization for the latest graphics cards
Access interactive movie content with support for BD-J and iHD
Play movies with advanced controls and smart DVD utilities

High-Definition (HD) Video
Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs - New movie features and vastly improved image detail
High-definition format support - Playback of HD file formats H.264, HD MPEG-2, and WMV-HD Advanced display technologies - Exceptional support for widescreen monitors, including the latest content protection standards for digital connectors
Hardware acceleration - Optimization for high-definition graphics processors from Intel, NVIDIA and ATI

Advanced Movie Interactivity
Interactive movie features - BD-J and iHD technology provides links to online content, games, and other disc extras
Next-gen navigation - Overlayed menus, movie bookmarks, and zooming offer new ways to enjoy movie content
Advanced content - Movie commentaries displayed in Picture-in-Picture mode let you watch a movie while referencing content like comments from actors and the director

Home Theater Audio in HD
High-definition audio technologies - Pure high-definition audio with Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, DTS
8-channel surround sound - The ultimate home-theater audio support with true 7.1 channel Dolby Digital EX and 5.1 channel DTS
Advanced audio effects - The feeling of surround sound quality via sound systems, headphones, and on notebook PCs, with technologies from Dolby, DTS, and CyberLink

Smart DVD Utilities & Advanced Controls
Say-It-Again - Never miss a word with auto dialog looping
Read-It-Clearly - Move subtitles from your movie screen
See-it-All - Extend your notebook viewing time by saving power and auto-adjusting playback speed
Freestyle controls - Choose from 5 UI modes, multiple skins, and colors Download

90 MB

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

♥♥ WISH 'U' ALL ♥♥

♥♥ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY ♥♥

Types of DNS records

Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following:

* An A record or address record maps a hostname to its 32-bit IPv4 address.

* An AAAA record or IPv6 address record maps a hostname to its 128-bit IPv6 address.

* A CNAME record or canonical name record makes one domain name an alias of
another. The aliased domain gets all the subdomains and DNS records of the original.

* An MX record or mail exchange record maps a domain name to a list of mail
exchange servers for that domain.

* A PTR record or pointer record maps an IPv4 address to the canonical name for that host. Setting up a PTR record for a hostname in the in-addr.arpa domain that corresponds to an IP address implements reverse DNS lookup for that address. For example (at the time of writing), www.icann.net has the IP address 192.0.34.164, but a PTR record maps 164.34.0.192.in-addr.arpa to its canonical name, referrals.icann.org.

* An NS record or name server record maps a domain name to a list of DNS servers for that domain. Delegations depend on NS records.

* An SOA record or start of authority record specifies the DNS server providing authoritative information about an Internet domain.

* A SRV record is a generalized service location record.

* A TXT record allows an administrator to insert arbitrary text into a DNS record. For example, this record is used to implement the Sender Policy Framework specification.

Other types of records simply provide information (for example, a LOC record gives the physical location of a host), or experimental data (for example, a WKS record gives a list of servers offering some well-known service such as HTTP or POP3 for a domain).

Windows Offline Files Synchronization Issue

In my client desktop (XP), I found some error and warning messages during system log-off.
The error messages are :-
1. Files of this type cannot be made available offline.
2. Unable to made archive1.PST file available offline

Then, I verified and reinitialized the CSC (Client Side caching) database files by the following procedure.

1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The following message appears:
The Offline Files cache on the local computer will be re-initialized. Any changes that have not been synchronized with computers on the network will be lost. Any files or folders made available offline will no longer be available offline. A computer restart is required.

Do you wish to re-initialize the cache?

2. Click Yes two times to restart the computer.

After I created a new offline CSC database and start synchronization.
Issue Solved !!

Windows Installer....Preparing to Install....Issue

Today, When i trying to open the QuickBooks application in one of our client desktop,I got one pop-up window for "Windows Installer..Preparing to install" thats all...application struck, not able to open.

Then I repaired and re-installed the QuickBook application, nothing worked.After that i found one cool patch for this issue.

"Windows Installer CleanUp Utility"

I used this utility to remove my (Quick book) application program in Windows installer configuration information.

Wow...Issue solved...

Find more information about this utility at Microsoft KB

VPN Server Deployment

Yesterday, I have worked on VPN server deployment in our office. We are planning to use our windows server 2003 as a VPN server.

But In our windows server 2003, we have only single NIC.

So, I have deployed VPN server according to single NIC. The procedure as follows

1. Configured RRAS server for single NIC
2. Enable Router to forward PPTP packets (1723)
3. Create a VPN client

After established the VPN connection, the VPN client not able to ping or communicate to the RRAS server. So, I Google it and found the following useful information.

Cannot reach beyond the RRAS server from VPN clients?

Many a time we face this issue - after making a VPN connection to the Routing and Remote Access server, we are unable to reach the machine on the network behind the VPN server. Here are a few tips to troubleshoot this.

Let's consider this example to understand this well.

VPN Client <---Internet---> RRAS server <----------------> LAN client

Static pool configured on RRAS server: 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10 [This means that the VPN clients will get a 10.0.0.X address from this pool]

Public interface of RRAS server to which clients connect: 65.54.46.9

Private interface of RRAS server: 192.168.0.4 (The LAN clients on this network will have addresses 192.168.0.X)

We want to reach the LAN client 192.168.0.16 from the VPN client 10.0.0.2. The following are the things that we need to ensure for this

(1) Need to have proper routes on the VPN client to reach the machines behind the RRAS server

For our example, on the VPN client we need to have a route to reach the LAN client i.e. for 192.168.0.16 as the destination with the VPN server (10.0.0.1) as the gateway as follows.

route add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1 if

This route makes sure that any packet destined to the LAN clients will go out through the PPP adapter of the client to the server's internal interface. As the RRAS server has one interface on the same network as the LAN client, it will route it accordingly to the LAN client.

On the VPN client side, a default route can also be added which can be used to reach the internet [otherwise even internet requests will go through the RAS server].

This concept is called split- tunneling and is explained in the below article. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

(2) Need to have correct routes on the LAN clients behind the RRAS server for the VPN clients

The packet from the VPN client will reach the LAN client if the route on VPN client is proper which is ensured by (1) above.
However, for the packet from LAN client to reach the VPN client, we should have correct routes on the LAN client too. For example, when you try to ping 192.168.0.16 from the VPN client, the routes on the VPN client will aid in the echo request to reach 192.168.0.16.

However, for the echo reply from 192.168.0.16 to reach the VPN client, you LAN client should have a route for the VPN client with gateway as the private interface of RRAS server as follows:

route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.4 if

This way, the echo reply destined to 10.0.0.2 will reach the RRAS server which is the next hop according to the above route. Once it reaches the RRAS server, the server knows how to send it to the client as it will have a route for all clients conencted to it.

Note: On the LAN clients, a reverse route can be added individually on all the clients or all LAN clients may be pointing to some router which then can have a reverse route for 10.0.0.0 network OR RRAS server itself can be the default router for LAN clients

NDTV Indian Of The Year - 2007 "Thalivar Rocks"

The much-awaited and much-anticipated ‘Indian of the Year Award 2008’, launched by NDTV, was finally on declared on 17th January, at Hotel Taj Palace. Started by NDTV a couple of year back, ‘Indian of the Year Award’ has today become one of the biggest honors to be bestowed on outstanding Indians, by a media house. The award is meant for those who have shown promise and excellence in their respective fields. It is a way to honor them for the efforts they have put in for building the ‘Brand India’.

Winners of NDTV Indian of the Year Award

NDTV Leader of the Year: "Dr Manmohan Singh"
NDTV Entertainer of the Year: "Rajnikanth"
NDTV Sports Leader of the Year: "Vishwanathan Anand"
NDTV Music Award: "A R Rehman"
NDTV Business Leader of the Year: "Mukesh Ambani"
NDTV Indian of the Year: "Indian Soldier"
NDTV Global Indian of the Year: "R K Pachauri"

Source : NDTV