I have a application server (Windows 2008 R2 64 Bit) with third party hosting service provider They say my server location is California
When I Remote-In to my server, my server Timezone is set to Central Time.
If I open google on my server and search for "current time" it says Washington DC and gives Eastern Time.
How can I exactly figure out where is my server physically located?
Can this be possible server machine time and Server browser time be different?
You can get a general idea by doing a lookup/GeoLocation by IP. Try this: http://www.maxmind.com/. Logon to your server and get it's IP address. Not the local one, try getting it's outward facing IP by going to whatismyip.com and use Maxmind to get a general idea of it's location.
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I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 Express database.
I have written a Delphi application that uses a TADOConnection object to connect to the database. It works just fine on my computer. It fails to connect from other computers on the network.
It gives the error message:
Cannot open database "PeopleNetLink" requested by the login.
I have found all sorts of questions about this error message. I have found none that used SQL Server authentication and worked on one computer and not on others.
My connection string is
Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;
Integrated Security="";
Persist Security Info=False;
User ID=PNetLink;
Initial Catalog=PeopleNetLink;
Data Source=W1CNVS02\SQLEXPRESSPAY12;
Use Procedure for Prepare=1;
Auto Translate=True;
Packet Size=4096;
Initial File Name="";
Use Encryption for Data=False;
Tag with column collation when possible=False;
MARS Connection=False;
DataTypeCompatibility=0;
Trust Server Certificate=False;
Server SPN=""
Further experimentation reveals that if I log on to another computer as an admin, the program will log in successfully. This tells me that it is not using the user ID specified in the connect string. Now the question is "why not?"
This is a bit of a long-shot, as I don't have Sql Server 2008 installed, only the 2014 version. And maybe you've tried this already, but I spent hours on this problem before I found the step I was missing.
Assuming a utility like MS's PortQry shows the server's local network firewall is open and that your edition of 2008 comes with a copy of Sql Server Management Studio installed:
Start SSMS on the server,
Right-click the Sql Server's Properties
In the Properties pop-up, click the Connections tab
Check the checkbox "Allow remote connections to this server."
In some Sql Server editions, "Allow remote connections ..." is not check by default, which seems to square with marc_s's comment.
Update: Regarding your added "This tells me that it is not using the user ID specified in the connect string.":
If you open the DFM as text and hand-edit the connection string so that the "User ID" has a completely bogus value, then go back to the connection string builder, you should find two things:
The Enter information to log on to server reverts to Use a specific user name and password, so if you then click Test connection, the test unsurprisingly fails.
If you then select Use Windows NT Integrated security and click Test connection again, the test succeeds.
From 2., it is evident that the "User ID" in the connection string is ignored when using Windows authentication. That doesn't seem surprising to me, since the point of using Windows authentication is that the credentials used are those of the logged-in Windows user. You've already established that if you log in on the other computer as an admin (I assume you mean a Windows administrator account), the connection succeeds, so I'd have thought that the non-admin account needs to be added to the Sql Server's recognised users if you're wanting to connect using that ID (though I confess it's not at all clear to me whether you're actually trying to connect using Windows authentication of a specific Sql Server account).
If you're still stuck try using e.g. the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server instead of the SQL Server Native Client. You might also single-step through this article:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/523c7b7e-6216-4790-87cb-945f3c1f4c5e/can-not-connect-to-microsoft-sql-server-express-2012?forum=sqlexpress
Also, google
sql server express 2008 remote "secpol.msc"
and note articles such as this one
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sqlserver/en-US/1f5221bf-f5c3-4307-836b-a4f9dc07f02f/very-strange-remote-connection-issues
I know in airports, for example, I've connected to their AP, and it pops up a browser window to log in on my device. Is it possible to do so with NodeMCU in lua, or even with c firmware?
This can accomplished by setting the DNS server for a connecting client [via DHCP] to a sort of DNS proxy. It doesn't need to be a fully featured DNS server, it only needs to be able to either return a static DNS answer for any host name query or forward the request to a real DNS server, to resolve host names as usual.
The static answer effectively hijacks web requests at the DNS level, by forging the DNS answer, causing all host names to resolve to the IP address of a local web server. That local web server ignores any Uri details and serves a login prompt for every request. It must also maintain a list of client MAC addresses that have authenticated.
NodeMCU does have a built-in DHCP server, as part of it's built-in WiFi AP, but running both a web and a DNS proxy in ESP8266's limited memory would be a hell of a trick. I think that two of them working cooperatively, interfaced using the SPI bus might be workable... maybe even three of them, one dedicated to maintaining the list of authenticated MACs, expiring them, etc.
Note that the only part of this I have done on an ESP 8266 is some very simple web server functionality, so it's mostly theory. If you try it I'd be very interested in hearing about it. :-)
You might want to try out CaptiveIntraweb project (https://github.com/reischle/CaptiveIntraweb) which is based on NodeMCU.
There is also thread (http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3618) on ESP8266 community forum that discusses the solution details.
I'm trying to map a network drive of an SBS 2011 server.
Even though there are no existing connections (net use returns an empty list, process explorer doesn't find any handles for connections to the server) I get 1219 error message.
In order to map the drive I use the following commands:
NET USE * /D /YES
NET USE y: \\sbs\[dir_name] /USER:[domain_name]\[username] /PERSISTENT:YES
The environment:
Windows SBS 2011 Server (\sbs)
Win7 Professional 64Bit, in sbs domain
I can map the drive using the IP address, but the program needing to access the drive tries to access it via its name (\sbs) and fails (well, I think at least that this is the reason).
Another bit of info:
I previously had joined the domain with a different user (user1). For some reasons I left and rejoined the domain using a different one (user2).
When trying to map the drive in Windows Explorer it automatically suggests user1. Could it be that there are some old settings that make Windows think that user1 is still connected to sbs?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have installed Plastic SCM server in one of my PCs at home (Windows 7 - Home Prem). The server is accessible from the clients residing inside my home network. It is resolved using the home network PC name as the server address / visible name.
However, I would like to be able to have access to the server from outside the home network. Ideally, I would like to use the IP that has been assigned to the PC, by the ISP, where the server resides. I can deal with the intermittent IP address changes. The PC is just a regular, personal use PC (i.e. not configured as a server).
A couple of questions: Is this possible to access Plastic SCM server from outside the home network using the IP address that the ISP assigns to the PC where PSCM-Server resides?
Second, the server config tool automatically displays as the visible name of the PC, the name assigned in the home network. It does not allow me to enter an IP address. If the answer to the first question is yes, how can I enter the desired IP address?
Are there any configurations that must be in place on Windows 7 (Home Premium), perhaps?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Plastic SCM servers listens in two ports: a SSL one and an plain TCP one. I'd strongly recommend you to set up an SSL connection if you're going to open up the port on the internet.
http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/08/ssl-enabled-plastic-connections-reborn.html
In order to configure your PC:
As you pointed you'll need to redirect the traffic from your router to your PC
The "redirection" must go from a public port to the Plastic SCM port (the TCP or the SSL ones)
Your PC should have the firewall configured to allow incoming traffic to the Plastic SCM port
Regarding your question about "the server configuration": no, it just shows you the name, you can't set the IP since it simply takes the IP/name from your server. It wouldn't work otherwise, unless you mean you've a multi-IP machine. Is that the case? Do you have more than one network card in your PC? If that's the case, there's a way to specify where to listen, but let's confirm first your scenario.
I'm making the assumption that you are using Plastic 4.x (I don't know how similar the 3.x version is to this)
The answer to your first question is YES. I frequently connect to my home plastic server from my work machine to view or grab projects/tools that I need.
Your second question is not technically accurate - what you need is the CLIENT tool to access your server IP address - and that IS possible.
To answer your final question - how to do it: start the Client Configuration tool on this "external" PC.
On the third page of the CLIENT configuration tool, it asks for the Plasti SCM server selection - it gives you an entry for the server address, and an entry for the port.
You most likely have set up the username/password access type on the server, but you could also have used Local users - be sure to select the appropriate log-in type you configured your server for on the final page.
Your only other consideration is the Firewall on Win7 (and as pointed out by Pablo, your router config to 'point' to your server machine on the desired ports (8087/8088) need to be forwarded) must allow those ports to be accessed. (I believe 3.x used different ports)
I know this one is the weirdest of all weird questions I have asked till date. But I have a reason.
The problem is that I have a no of websites hosted in diff servers (I dont own these servers) and every website has some pages where I have to enter some execution date and time. The date/time I enter should be of the timezone in which my website's host server is running.
Just want to know if there is any good utility/website which can tell me the timezone/location of my web host if I provide the web site address.
You can put on each of those servers your own "system" page that will display the current time.
<%= DateTime.Now.ToString() %>
And you will access it like: http://site-no-x.com/timecheck
Something like this. Simple and effective.
ADDED: Keep in mind also that web servers and database servers can also have different time settings. If a hosting company (theoretically) keeps the web server farm on East coast and has the database servers on West coast, you will see different dates returned by .NET's DateTime.Now and SQL's GETDATE().
This isn't likely to be possible, as timezones are set at the OS level. (i.e.: You'd need to check programatically on each server itself using your language of choice.)
As such, it might be easier in the long to fix the scripts.
So you can't modify the code to have the thing use UTC?