Saturday, February 20, 2010

Setup and Configure VPN on Windows 2008

1) Configure RRAS, if using single NIC then select Custom and then VPN in the configuration screens off RRAS
2) Give VPN users Dial-in permissions in AD
3) Select same Authentication protocol both at RRAS server and Client.

To enable internet on client computer after connecting to VPN:
Need to disable the option Use default gateway on remote network. You can find this by clicking the Advanced button in the properties page of Internet Protocol Version 4 (or 6) of your VPN connection.

Friday, February 19, 2010

NW Image rotator on Wordpress

1) Download Nextgen plugin from http://alexrabe.de/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/
2) Get the php-gd2.dll (GD Library) from the zip of PHP install and put that in the ext folder of PHP
3) Update php.ini with this line:
[PHP_GD2]
extension=php_gd2.dll

4) Restart Apache, if the version of dll is correct then Apache will restart otherwise not
5) Download "JW Image Rotator from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the website and copy/upload it (only imagerotator.swf) to the plugin folder under wordpress
Under Wordpress Admin console=>Gallery=>Options=>Slideshow, update the path for imagerotetor by clicking on "Search Now" button
6) Upload images to the Gallery by creating it under Main Gallery
7) In the post/page put this "[slideshow =1]" here 1 is the id of the gallery