Very good to meet today with s…

Posted on December 15, 2011 by richard

Very good to meet today with some of the new corporate customers of Network Presence in #Adelaide I look forward to working with you all.

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RT @everynetcomau: Get “DOUBLE…

Posted on December 14, 2011 by richard

RT @everynetcomau: Get “DOUBLE DATA QUOTAS” on any Australian National ADSL Plan, see http://t.co/hkD20Api

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For my Facebook today’s tweet …

Posted on December 14, 2011 by richard

For my Facebook today’s tweet is – NetPres blog: Public Cloud or Private Cloud, either way, get into it! http://t.co/XJMZBJbk

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-12-11

Posted on December 11, 2011 by richard
  • We use and recommend Martin Print at http://t.co/mqhiztMX for great price & quality printing with free shipping Australia wide. #NetPres #
  • We can help you virtualise your legacy or old physical server & systems and "put them into the cloud" http://t.co/ijWnDqKJ #VPS #NetPres #
  • @michaeldyrynda Can do re: DNS Management facilities. Depends on what you're looking for. Pls email & we can discuss it from there. #
  • "Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in.." http://t.co/YGta9iy8 HT @Jason #
  • A good write-up over a couple of posts about how Monitoring & Testing can "lie to you" http://t.co/wQ3yK2lg #devops #NetPres #

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Available for Consulting & Contracting on Internet, Linux & Open-Source in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne & Adelaide

Posted on December 11, 2011 by richard

Following the sale of the Groundhog development team and work pipeline to DWS in Adelaide recently, I’m now available at short-notice for brief work contracts in Adelaide (primarily), Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney in Australia, as well as Asia, Europe and the US.

My preference and major availability for is brief or short (days to 1 month fulltime work duration) highly technical or specialist system or network work on Linux or FreeBSD Operating Systems and I specialise in detailed or complicated open-source technology deployments, upgraded, re-factoring, etc.

As mentioned above, my availability for on-site attendance is limited to hours, days or up to 1 month fulltime on-site work duration in the above cities, but I can telework on different time period basis too (eg: in our outside ‘business hours’ on-call SysAdmin based in Adelaide, South Australia).

If you have a need for my services, please feel free to contact me by email to richard networkpresence.com.au or phone on +61 414 882 225 and other details and information are in my LinkedIn page.

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We use and recommend Martin Pr…

Posted on December 9, 2011 by richard

We use and recommend Martin Print at http://t.co/mqhiztMX for great price & quality printing with free shipping Australia wide. #NetPres

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We can help you virtualise you…

Posted on December 8, 2011 by richard

We can help you virtualise your legacy or old physical server & systems and “put them into the cloud” http://t.co/ijWnDqKJ #VPS #NetPres

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@michaeldyrynda Can do re: DNS…

Posted on December 6, 2011 by richard

@michaeldyrynda Can do re: DNS Management facilities. Depends on what you’re looking for. Pls email & we can discuss it from there.

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Configuring Apache 2.2 LDAP auth to an Active Directory server

Posted on December 5, 2011 by richard

I greatly appreciated finding this page through a few Google searches, on how to configure Apache v2.2 web server to authenticate against an Active Directory server using LDAP.

The steps are also listed here in short-form incase the source site is lost in time.

a) Turn of ‘referrals’ in /etc/ldap/ldap.conf with

REFERRALS off

b) Install and enable the Apache ‘module’ authnz_ldap using your Operating Systems package tools.

c) The Apache config extract for the auth sections are:


AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthType Basic
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://your-AD.server.hostname:389/DC=your-domain,DC=your-dc?sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=user)" NONE
AuthLDAPBindDN "LDAPROUser@DOMAIN"
AuthLDAPBindPassword "foo"
require ldap-attribute objectClass=user

Then restart your Apache, it’s that easy.

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“Never give in. Never, never, …

Posted on December 5, 2011 by richard

“Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in..” http://t.co/YGta9iy8 HT @Jason

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