TLA reader Drew Dressler saw the instructions posted on this site on  using a Windows CA to generate and SSL certificate for an Apache webserver.  He has another method he wanted to share that he uses to do the same thing.  These instructions assume you have apache 2.x running on a linux box with 2.6 kernel or later with ...

During our migration we had a lot of issues with date formats. The old system didn't save its date as a type and as such caused us all sorts of trouble. The key to getting the dates working was to apply a cryptic yet simple formula to the date values in Excel. The original Date Format was stored in Unix Epoch time. This is calculated as the ...

There are quite a few organizations that have their infrastrucutre running on Windows yet the web presence runs on Apache.  This site once ran on Apache as well but I used my Windows CA to create an SSL certificate for the server.  Someone asked me how to do this and here is how! On the Linux server open up a terminal and run the ...

Ned Gnitchel finishes off his article on integrating AD Authentication with Linux/Unix using Samba WinBind. Today will describe the steps required to configure WinBind. A downloadable version of this article is available at the end of this article which includes links to more information. Configuring Winbind The following sections describe the ...

I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who has written an excellent 2 part article on integrating AD Authentication with Linux/Unix using Samba WinBind. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration. This is 2 part article will be published today and tomorrow and ...