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Login with usb drive

a friend of mine works with diabled children and is thus often confronted with children, that are extremly slow typists. At their school every child has an account on an MS Exchange type Server so the windows clients authenticate themselves at the…
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Detect USB driver plugged in and run a certain file on it

I have some kind of a kiosk Ubuntu set up based on Ubuntu Server 14.0.2 which runs an application on chrome. The kiosk has no internet connection thus the updates to the application should be done manually. I want the update process to be as easy as…
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Installing Hyper-V 2012 R2 to USB gives INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error

I have created a bootable USB flash drive of Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core following the guides here and here. When I boot my desktop PC from the USB drive it boots up fine (after a while) and I can log in. When I put the USB drive in my…
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Bootable USB backup

I would like to create a copy of my running Linux installation onto a USB 16 GB pen drive. The current system is a basic ATX PC used as a headless server on a remote location. I would like to have a backup option in case of a hard drive failure.…
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What is a useful "transfer large things" method/medium?

Other than through the network, what does everyone use for transferring things like system images or very large files? For example, external case+hard drive like a myBook. Or, extremely large usb/flash drive. I've been using a hard drive (or…
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Apache Server with PHP/MySQL on a Thumbdrive

What's the easiest way to configure an apache-server (Running PHP/MySQL) to run on a thumbdrive? I've seen solutions that claim to do this effortlessly, but I've not had much experience with them. From the experience here, which solution is best for…
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Should I use USB drive for Solaris 11 Express

Debating on if I should use a 16gb USB drive for my Solaris 11 Express SAN server. I intend to use Deduplication which I believe may be IO intensive for the DB. Though I can't be sure. The SAN server is expected to be on 24/7 for a number of…
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Disabling USB/removable devices in software

How can I truly disable USB/removable drive support purely with software? On Windows for example I know I could disable the relevant hardware in device manager, and users would not be able to override this. This would work for the most part. What…
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How to install debian from a usb thumb drive

So far I have been following the directions here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en I downloaded boot.img.gz to my windows machine, and copied it to my empty usb key. At this line of instruction: "mount the USB memory stick…
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How to use USB Key in Xen 5.6 Environment?

I am looking for a way to use USB key on a guest OS running on a 5.6 Xen Server environment. The catch is that I need to actually detect in the Guest OS (Win2003 Server) like an actual USB Key. Attaching it as a storage drive doesnt work (It is a…
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Disable thumb drives, but allow other mass storage USB devices on Linux

I have a requirement to disable USB thumb drives, while still allowing other USB devices such as a portable hard drive. Is there a way to do this in Linux? I know the Windows side has some software that enforces this, and need to do the same on…
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Can the page file in Windows Web Server 2008 be placed on a USB memory stick?

I would like to run the page file off a 512 MB USB memory stick. This is possible with Vista and 7. But on Windows Web Server 2008 I cannot see the USB stick in the drive listing for page files. Is there any way to do this? Thanks!
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Detecting Thumb Drive use on a Windows Machine

My company has a problem with customers potentially using thumb drives to record and access information on companies' machines which we contract with to run testing applications for us. Ideally, we'd like them to lock the system down to not allow…
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Conditional `mount` in Linux: dev or nfs

I have a mount point — let it be /media/question — and two possible devices: a physical HDD and a remote NFS folder. Sometimes I plug the device in physically, in other cases I mount it via NFS. Is there a way to specify both of them in fstab so…
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Migrate Windows Server 2008 to a new hard disk

I have a machine with Windows Server 2008. I want to change the hard disk drive, but keep everything else. I don't have a cd/dvd drive and don't want to buy it. My first idea was to make a byte-to-byte copy of the disk with Paragon Advanced…
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