Questions tagged [mapping]

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Junior admin - how to discover/map the network to increase understanding?

I am a junior admin and have been tasked with gaining an understanding of the network. I know and use some of the servers on the network, so am able to tracert/ping them to see the names/addresses of equipment there are along the way, and gradually…
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LANsurveyor creates perfect network maps, but very expensive, alternative?

LANsurveyor does a great job visually mapping my network because I can really understand which devices are on which switches. The map looks like my physical network. Many other apps I've tried prints a map, but it's hard to understand the layout.…
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Why doesn't NFS4's ID mapping give me write access?

I have installed an NFS server on an Ubuntu server system. The /etc/exports says / 192.168.178.0/24(ro,sync,fsid=0,no_subtree_check,root_squash) /home/bronger 192.168.178.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) The…
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How do I draw a layer 2 (link layer) network map containing Cisco and *NIX boxes?

I've been tasked with drawing a layer 2 network map of our very small datacenter network. There is one 1841 cisco router, two 3560 cisco catalyst switches and 4 solaris sunfire T-1000 boxes. I have logged in to the cisco boxes and downloaded the…
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map domain to subdomain

I'm working on a project where people can sign up and have multiple shops for themselves. Let's consider that Mark signed up to our site and created a shop for himself: markshop.shop.com Now, mark wants to map a domain called markshop.com to…
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How to determine what device is physically connected to network switch?

So, I've been using some port mapping software and running into a problem. We have many switches spread across the network, when I do a network scan it shows the device that is physically connected to a port, and in the case of a switch, all the…
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dhcpd.conf rule-based mapping

We have ~100 physical nodes which can host a large number of VMs apiece. We need to set up dhcpd on one machine to distribute addresses in a predictable fashion based on MAC address. We'd like to go with a scheme such as: Physical host address:…
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Amazon AWS Ec2 instance, Elastic IP, Domain name from external domainseller, and Google Apps for Email

We are hosting our site on an Ec2 instance. Our Elastic IP is w.x.y.z and Public DNS is: ec2-w-x-y-z.compute-1.amazonaws.com. We've bought a domain name domainname.com from a lesser known domain-name-seller. We added an A-record pointing…
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DELL switch 6248 port and mac mapping using SNMP

I have a Dell 6248 switch. I connect some of my servers to it and want to know which server nic connected to which switch port. I try using snmpwalk to get this information, but I just can get mac/ip mapping of my server nic from switch, I still…
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Automatic layout of manual network mapping

So I have a small business network mainly consisting of two routed layer-2 domains with a total of ca. 100 devices spread over ca. 2000m² production and office spaces. Typical problems to solve using the graph would be: Over what (cable) path is a…
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How do I map a network in Visio?

I work for a organization which runs several servers mainly used for internet to schools and Exchange on the corporate side. One of my tasks during my training is to be able to understand the network and how it works. Now I don't need to understand…
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NFS4 w/o Kerberos : name mapping works, permissions don't

I simply want to "map by userNAME" between NFS4 client and NFS4 server, when each has different uid for a given user name, w/o having to setup Kerberos. The situation: my Linux machine (centos 7) accesses various NFS4 servers (running centos…
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Why solaris doesn't see all the DIMMS installed?

This is a SPARC T4-2 Server. It has installed 128GB memory in 16 DIMMS 8GB each. The prtdiag -v output shows ======================= Physical Memory Configuration ======================== Segment…
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Using credential name to map network folder that has identical form

We have a network share over vpn to a windows server in a different city. each person has a username to access the folder (and only that specific folder) his/her folder is same as username. user os is win 10 usr: john_smith; pw:…
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TFS 2017/2018: Migrate local to AD users

We have (evolved historically) about 50 "local" user accounts on the old server for external users. These users add Backlog Items and see work progress on subordinate elements (like tasks). Old Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL 2014 and TFS 2017. New…