First let me say that I was impressed with Linksys device. Nice little box for under $150.
I had some issues when I was deploying the QuickVPN client. The QuickVPN client allows you to connect from behind other Natting firewalls or other public networks, back to your “corporate” network. It is a piece of software that can be found at: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_CASupport_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1169671133867&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=3386724130B176&displaypage=nodata#versiondetail. When I tried to connect the QuickVPN, I would get an error message saying “The remote gateway is not responding, would you like to wait.” If you waited, it would do the same thing. If you check the log at C:\Program Files\Linksys\Linksys QuickVPN\log.txt, you see that it is failing to ping the remote gateway’s internal IP address (not the WAN ip).
The solution? Go to the Linksys’ website and download the latest firmware update - 1.2.11 as of this writing. That fixed it for me!
All the best of remote computing to you,
Luke
EDIT
It seems like you have to specify a private subnet in the 10.x.x.x range on the Linksys RVS4000. I had assigned 192.168.15.1 to the router, and I was connecting from clients that had a local IP of 192.168.1.X or 192.168.0.X. The QuickVPN seemed to work find on the 0.X networks, but on the 1.X networks I got a popup that said that it couldn’t connect. Changing the local subnet of the RVS4000 to 10.0.0.1 fixed all those problems….
Don’t ask me why it happened, but here’s the fix for some of those frustrations:
- Make sure that you have all of the correct information under the general settings of your trixbox administration webpage.
- SSH to your Trix machine
- Run the following command: postmap /etc/postfix/saslpasswd
- Now run this command: /etc/init.d/postfix restart
- Now you can do tail /var/log/maillog to check to see if it is sending email successfully!
…Now you should be back in touch with your voicemail!
Excellent forum topic - helped me out a lot:
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/vendor-moderated-forums/sangoma/crackle-line
…Or not so happy.
After spending WAY too long trying to get my sip phones to register on a remote Trixbox, I figured out that the problem was due to my local Netopia router/modem from ATT messing with my SIP traffic. Here is the solution:
Telnet to your Netopia and:
The setting is not in the web gui. You have to telnet into the
router, then type. Each line is a new command.
configure
set ip sip-passthrough off
save
exit
Restart
On the Netopia 4622xlt
Telnet into the device
Use the arrow keys to highlight ‘quick menu’ and press “ctrl-n”
That brings you to the console.
type:
ip nat alg sip enable no
save
exit
restart
That info came courtesy of the following website: http://www.junctionnetworks.com/knowledgebase/onsip/devices/router-configuration/netopia
Well my Blackberry, which I love, just quit cold. Everything was working flawlessly, then one evening at 6:15 PM, it stopped. No telltale errors in the event log would explain it.
I happen to have a good friend and client who had just been through the same problem a couple days ago. I called him and he said to go to Options->Advanced Options->Service Book (0n the phone) and delete every service book that started with “Desktop”.
After you do that, then you go to the BES, and resend the service books for that user. That fixed my problem.
Interesting that we both had the same problem within a couple days.
Ok, I’m happy now - back to Christmas celebration.
LP
Ok, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to pass IP Traffic (UPD & TCP) over a Watchguard II firewall to a Samsung PBX MGI & MCP card.
If anyone you know has experience with this, then we are going to have to renew our friendship if I don’t hear from them in the next 12 hours! 
UPDATE
I did get this resolved by creating a one to one NAT (they had a block of public IP’s) and then allowing traffic on the ports that needed it. Don’t ask me what fixed it!
LP
When printing from Internet Explorer in Protected Mode, you may find that Internet Explorer locks up. After, or possibly even before, you kill the Internet Explorer process, you receive the following error:
IE Protected Mode Error
A website wants to open web content using a program on this computer? What does that have to do with printing?
Well, thanks to several blogs, I pieced together that it is due to the fact that my paraticular printer (a HP LaserJet P1505n) is trying to open the HP print monitor when you print. Since IE is in protected mode, it blocks that (as it should).
My solution was a little ugly, but it works! I renamed the HP1006MC.exe file referenced in the error to HP1006MC.exeOLD. I noticed that there is an option to disable printer status alerts in the print properties, but since this is a network pritner, I didn’t have the option to change that.
…Back to printing!
UPDATE
Ok, for some reason I didn’t even think to try checking the box “Do not show me the warning for this program again.” Do that and click “Allow” and that should solve your problem! :) Some things aren’t as complicated as they seem!
Luke
Some services may not start or may not work correctly on a computer that is running Windows SBS after you install the DNS Server security update 953230 MS08-037
via Some services may not start or may not work correctly on a computer that is running Windows SBS after you install the DNS Server security update 953230 MS08-037.
If you manage any Microsoft server that is running DNS, be sure to read the referenced KB and exclude any IP ports that are needed by services you are using.
See below for part of the KB:
(List courtesy of Howard Cunningham)
1433-1434
1745-1745
1080-1080
1718-1720
3343-3343 (already in many systems)
1645-1646
1701-1701
1812-1813
2883-2883
4500-4500
1801-1801 (already in some systems)
4070-4071 (BES)
3500-3619
To configure the ReservedPorts registry value, follow these steps:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpipParameters
- Right-click ReservedPorts, and then click Modify.
- Type the range of ports that you want to reserve.Notes
- You must type the range of ports in the following format:
xxxx-yyyy
- Do not replace the existing values. Instead, add the additional values.
- To specify a single port, use the same value for x and for y. For example, to specify port 4000, type 4000-4000.
- If you specify the continuous ports separately and if one port is reserved and is not used, the next port is not reserved correctly, and the port is used.
- ISA Server settings only apply to Small Business Server 2000 or to Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition.
- Click OK.Note If you receive the following warning message, click OK
Warning:
Data of type REG_MULTI_SZ cannot contain empty strings.
Registry Editor will remove the empty string found.
- Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.
Notes
- You must restart the computer after you make these changes for the changes to take effect.
- If you are using any third-party applications on the server that might require you to use a static UDP port that is higher than port 1024, you should also add it to the list of reserved ports.
It is really cool… But when I tried to use it I got this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /mypath/icsblog/wp-admin/press-this.php on line 554
So…
Open the referenced file (press-this.php) and add this function at the top of the file:
function htmlspecialchars_decode($string,$style=ENT_COMPAT)
{
$translation = array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS,$style));
if($style === ENT_QUOTES){ $translation['''] = '''; }
return strtr($string,$translation);
}
Thanks to http://www.tacticaltechnique.com/web-development/php4-friendly-htmlspecialchars_decode/ for providing the function!!
And that should fix the problem!
Here is the KB on the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215/en-us
And here is a great post on resolution:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/130095-user-profile-service-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html
I hate the way Vista handles profiles. It is a pain.
