Windows automatically hides devices that are not presently connected to the system, but they still exist in Windows’ configuration. This is especially problematic when changing virtual network adapters and not being able to remove IP configurations from old adapters. To resolve: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER. Type “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1“, and…
Month: May 2016
Quick and Simple Way to Export DHCP Scope Settings From One Server to Another
Applies to: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016 From the command prompt on the source DHCP server run the following command:
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netsh dhcp server export c:\dhcp.dat all |
2. Copy the “dhcp.dat†file to the new, or destination, DHCP server and run the following command:
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netsh dhcp server import c:\dhcp.dat all |
While running the export command, the DHCP service will be temporarily…
“Host SMBus controller not enabled!â€
CentOSÂ guest instances in VMware sometimes come up with the boot error message:
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piix4_smbus 0000:00:007.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled! |
This error is being caused because VMware doesn’t actually provide that level interface for CPU access, but Ubuntu try to load the kernel module anyway. How to fix it:
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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf |
add the line:
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blacklist i2c-piix4 |
Reboot. NOTE: for older versions use blacklist i2c_piix4…
Find out mapped network drive logins
If you have shared drives in a multi-domain environment and need to know what each drive was logged on as, this is the command to find out:
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WMIC NETUSE GET Name,UserName |
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WMIC NETUSE LIST /FORMAT:LIST |
or Another way to see this is to look on the machine that is hosting the shares. Look in Computer Management -> Shared Files ->…