System Administration – Server Exam

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Today I had an exam in System Administration, and I definitely done really well in it :D . I am not usually this confident on my result but I just feel that it was fairly straight forward. System Administration is basically setting up and configuring a server that will allow client computers to connect to it, also we learn how to set up print servers and dns servers. The exam was broken down into two parts. The first part was to create 20 users and set up user folders and create a login script so that once the user logs in they will be mapped to their own home folder, a group shared folder and be able to print from the client pc through the server. For the second part of the exam, we were given a page of script and an excel spreadsheet and had to find out why the code was not working, once we found all the mistakes it was just a matter of fixing them, describe what was happening in the code and then executing the code. The end result would be more users created on the server. I think System Administration is one of the more interesting subjects that I do. Last semester we done the first section of this Module and it was more GUI based, we went through all the menus to create groups, members etc. However this semester (second semester) we are doing scripting, since we have done .vb code before in previous years in college, the scripting was welcome as we were used to writing it. So much more can be done with scripting such as creating logon scripts and setting what programs open as soon a user logs on.

Moving My Blog

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 7th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Within the next day or two, it will be likely that my blog will be down for a while. I hope that it will not be too long. The reason it will be down will be due to the fact that my hosting expires with Lunarpages in 2 days and I want to move my sites content onto my other hosting account before it is too late.

Usually transferring a domain from one set of nameserves to another will take about 2 or 3 hours to complete. It will be a lot of work to move my sites to another server but it will definitely be worth it. There are a lot of files to move and also the following sites are included in the move of servers, so they will also go down within the next few days.

First of this site Leateds, then The Entertainment Clam also a classmate of mine has a site on my server so his site will go down temporarily until he changes his nameservers, his site is DarkLeopard, there is one other site currently on this server but since i have not finished it there is no need to say what it is, one thing i will say is that i have had the idea for more than a year and hope to get around to finishing off the site at some stage in the near future :).

Tweaks

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 13th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Over the past few days i have been tweaking my website, trying to get everything back to the way it was, i have managed to do this but i could not fix my rss feed, it would not work for me. Everytime you would click the rss feed it said invalid, then when i tried setting it up on feedburner it told me that my website URL did not exist, but obviously it did because it was working.

So after a while i thought that maybe something might have gone wrong with the installation that lunarpages done when they installed Wordpress onto this blog, so i still had the files from wordpress on my old server so i decided to copy some of them over to this server, so the folder i decided to replace on this server was called wp_includes, so i began to transfer the files over which took a while, while i was transferring the files over my website went down because of syntax errors, but i let the transfer finish and when it finished my website went back up so i was happy it went back, and by replacing that folder with the old one i managed to get my rss to work again i went over to feedburner and signed the rss feed on my website up and it worked perfectly so i am happy with that.

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