RedAsh's Blog

Today is a big jumble, Mum. I had decided to help Alvin out as he suggested that he wanted to try out CCNA. But I did it at the wrong place and time. Now my cover is blown... darn fuck me.

It seems alot of people take me for granted when I offer them my help. Maybe its the attitude I protrayed, as a happy-go-lucky guy. The same thing happens for Alvin as it happens with Terrance at ICA. I wanna help Terrance with his pursue of MCSE and he took the whole folder, without my permission. The same thing with Alvin... haiz...

It seems that Louis kinda hate me... and Hans but not Alvin; he knows who are valuable to him ... at that point of time. He did told me to do "shadowcopy" for him today; he seem not understand that shadowcopying the entire volume can only be done by him, the system administrator who had all the rights - if done by me, I will be so dead as it will be a total security breach... so I rejected.

He seem to have forgotten that he had made a total mockery of me when I try to help him out in the first few days. Whatever... I only had to do what I am suppose to do. I am just a temp worker! Dun touch me!

Learn something I nv seen b4... like using "net use" in CMD to map LPT1 to IP addresses...

Today is something TOTALLY refreshing! I helped out Uncle Chua with installing of a switch he had finished configured. It was kinda fun. But the real fun begins when he allow me to study Firewall Issues with him. That is a rare oppurtunity!

We had been trying to figure out 2 problems. First is why the DOS (department of Statistic) is not refering to Spring SSH Server but a total entirely of another thing else. This leads me to SFTP (Secure FTP which is much lighter compare to heavy cryptosystem in a enclosed environment). And also refresh me that the need to synchronise the servers at both ends to allow file transfer. The port issue also let me relearn the terms "source" and "destination".

Second is of opening of port 22 for testing when he wants to test-run the server. Uncle Chua faces the issue of trying to open the port 22 (or to recreate one). It seems that he was so frustrated with it that as he faces the error message several times. I managed to discover a online guide in doing so "opening a port for filetranser other than port 22, but Uncle Chua seems too busy for it as he is configuring the SGnet Router - since previously it is only partially configured for only 2 of its ports)

Also manage to correct myself alot on the Spring Infrastructure = 172.20.1.48 and 172.20.1.49 are AD servers as well as DNS servers, while 172.20.2.212 is a purely DNS server... interesting... as it is dangerous to do so to allow AD and DNS in a single server object. But Louis justify that it is the only way to allow access.

Anyway, I OT yesterday at Spring to help Louis in his quest to solve the VPN issue. FIRST TIME EVER!!! Today Louis uses the LMHOSTS (LAN Manager Hosts) file to resolve the issue... but as far as I understand... LMHOSTS is used to enable domain name resolution when other methods, e.g. WINS, fail. Do not tell me that WINS servers are down and Louis uses DNS and LMHOSTS to workaround them? No wonder he uses TELNET to troubleshoot... that is correctly used mainly for remote troubleshooting.

Anyway, also figured out that SCSpring uses SecureAge for its Laptop, just like ICA. NetProtect is the software use for SCSpring VPN Mgmt Console, and DigiSAFE is the client for VPN encrypted access.

Interestingly, El Gamma is involved in the context of what I learnt. HAah so it does has a use afterall =-D