This article explains how to add a Netgear ReadyNAS Business Pro share to a VMware ESXi host as an NFS (Network File System) datastore. Although I’m using Netgear RadyNAS in this example, similar process would apply to any other NFS compatible NAS device.

To change MySQL root password login to the server console and run following command: mysqladmin -u root -p  password ‘new-password’ You will be prompted for your old password and new password will be set to newpass.

To forward extension on Trixbox Asterisk server: Login to admin web GUI PBX > PBX Settings > Extension > [extension] Under Device Options change value of field dial To forward to an extension on the same VOIP server: SIP/601Where: 601 – extension you are forwarding to To forward to an extension to another outgoing trunk: IAX2/Boston/601Where: IAX2/Boston…

If you use IVR (Interactive voice response) on your Asterisk / Trixbox setup, Enable Direct Dial option allows callers to directly dial extensions. By default it doesn’t allow to dial-in into conferences. If you try you will get response similar to:“That option is invalid. Please try again“

VMware vSphere  and VMware Workstation allows seamless mouse movement between your physical and virtual machines. In most situations this is a desired behaviour, but sometimes you may want mouse cursor to be captured inside a VM. For example, I was testing Windows 8 as a virtual machine and it’s much easier to navigate Metro edge…

Setup Asterisk Trixbox 2.6 Server Skype Connect SIP trunk to accept incoming Skype calls Linksys SPA and Cisco SPA VOIP phones Issue Incoming calls via Skype to some Linksys / Cisco IP phones get rejected. Asterisk debug show following reason : — Called 715— Got SIP response 406 “Not Acceptable” back from 192.168.6.19— No one…

Issue Asterisk (TrixBox) server is not functioning properly. Internal calls working fine, but external incoming and outgoing time-out and fail. Looking at Asterisk Command Line Interface (CLI) output (connect with asterisk -r) noticed unusual behaviour: Normally when incoming call is received, Asterisk outputs number of executed actions into CLI and receiving phone starts ringing in…

Joomla Media Manager default Upload Limit is 10MB.This can be changed: Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7: Content > Media Manager > Options > Maximum Size (in MB) Joomla 1.5: Global Configuration > System > Maximum Size (in bytes) If you try to upload file which is too large, you should normally get the following error:This…

php.ini can be located in quite few different places depending on your Linux distribution and Apache installation. Some common places are:/etc/php.ini /etc/php/php.ini /etc/php5/php.ini /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini/usr/bin/php5/bin/php.ini If you still can’t find it, run:find / -name php.ini This will find all files with name php.ini on your server.

Problem: All Joomla websites hosted on single virtual server are down. Trying to access any of the sites, web browsers display following errors:Infinite loop detected in JErrororDatabase Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL phpMyAdmin web interface displays login screen would not allow to login (simply reloads the page after submitting…

Samba is a free Linux/Unix software which provides file and print access for Microsoft Windows clients. If you have a Linux file server or Linux based NAS device on a network with Windows clients you are probably using Samba. Samba deals with file locking, preventing file corruption and data loss when two or more clients…