Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer

When trying to add a computer to a domain or trying to map a network drive, then chances are someone has been stupid.

Check rsop to make sure that the following policy hasn’t been changed to anything silly:

Administrative Tools
> Local Security Settings
>> Local Policies
>>> User Rights Assignment
>>>> Access this computer from the network

This should probably be the list that is suggested in the explanation for this policy and at least include Authenticated Users.

The ingredients:

You need an insane amount of:

• Streaky Bacon
• Sausage Meat
• BBQ Sauce
• BBQ Rub/Powder

Firstly you make a lattice of bacon, you’re supposed to make it as tight as you can.

You should end up with something looking rather close to:

Now sprinkle the lattice with BBQ Rub/Powder:

Then squash your sausage meat ontop:

Now liberally apply chopped cooked bacon:

Cover with copious amounts of BBQ Sauce:

And roll up into a sausage, leaving the lattice behind:

Pinch the ends a little to keep all the goodness in:

Now roll the lattice around the sausage meat, and place the seam at the bottom. Cover liberally in BBQ Rub/Powder:

Now place in a pre-heated oven at 180c for around 75 minutes, I used a glass dish to keep the fat and juices in:

Around half way through the cooking it looked like:

And now it’s done, look at all that bacon juice:

Take out of the cooking container and place on a chopping board to cut:

And now display pure bacon perfection:

The recipe is shamelessly stolen from BBQ Addicts…

By default, this doesn’t appear to be detected by NetworkManager with Fedora 13.

This is because it requires usb_modeswitch to work. Installing the usb_modeswitch package fixed it and the dongle was picked up by NetworkManager.

Seems ideal for money laundering and supplying the likes of Al-Qaeda with funds.

In other news, I went for a short run yesterday morning, only about 2 miles, but here’s the route:

And then they did it again!

On most desktop drives, where you do not have another copy in RAID, you want the drive to keep re-trying for ever.

When you’re running drives in RAID, however, you want the drive to error out quickly and allow a spare to be mirrored in.

If you want to use a Desktop HDD in your RAID array, consider running:

smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sda

This will set the timeout to 7 seconds, a relatively reasonable length of time to wait.

If you’re in the situation of having a large number of drives attached via conventional SATA controllers, like I do, you’ll probably want to make this a little easier. You can run:

for i in `ls /dev/sd[a-z]` ; do 
    smartctl -l scterc,70,70 $i ; 
done

For more details, you will want to have a read of this page.

A quick Google on installing Linux on other Thecus models suggests that they are standard x86 hardware and perfect to get Linux onto.

The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s no VGA port on the back of the device:

Not to matter, there is a header on the motherboard for VGA:

First things first, you need a VGA cable, some pliers and other cutting instruments:

Carefully remove the blue plastic case and as much metal as you can from the cable, you should end up with something looking like this:

Next, you’ll want to ease your new plug into the holes on the motherboard. Use paper to insulate any metal parts of your plug from unintentional contacts on the motherboard. You’ll need to use something to hold the plug in place, paper works well. You may need to wiggle the cable a little to get signal:

Once you’ve got the cable in place, a quick reboot of the Thecus will give you the option to press DEL to enter the Phoenix BIOS:

Now you’ll need to change the boot order to allow your device to boot from USB CD-ROM before the Hard Disk. I couldn’t get LAN(PXE) booting to work. Then you’ll be able to boot from a CD and install an operating system of your choice.

A few useful bits of output:

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GHM (ICH7-M DH) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
03:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)
06:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)

cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5500  @ 1.66GHz
stepping    : 2
cpu MHz        : 1000.000
cache size    : 2048 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 0
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
                 cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
                 syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
                 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips    : 3333.64
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
 
processor    : 1
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T5500  @ 1.66GHz
stepping    : 2
cpu MHz        : 1000.000
cache size    : 2048 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 1
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 1
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
                 cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
                 syscall nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
                 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips    : 3333.13
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

caffeine.andymillar.co.uk is now fully ipv6 enabled!

[root@caffeine ~]# host www.andymillar.co.uk
www.andymillar.co.uk has address 212.13.201.140
www.andymillar.co.uk has IPv6 address 2001:ba8:0:1c7::d40d:c98c