Thursday, March 19, 2020

Using sudo with WinSCP


This was specifically for HP-UX, so kornshell (KSH), but can be used for Linux with bash when you don't want users to login directly using a service account.  You will also need to give sudo rights in the sudoers file like normal, but many people don't realize that you can use sudo with WinSCP as shown below.

I think you may also need to adjust an SSH setting related to requiring a TTY if it doesn't work for you.
It would need to be changed to
Defaults !requiretty




sudo notes:
dparker         ALL = (ALL)ALL, !SU
HELPDESK        ALL = ALL, !SU
The first ALL represents the users allowed to run the command (this can be an individual or group)
The second ALL represents the hosts
The third ALL is the target (who you are when running the command)
The last ALL is the group of commands allowed

Monday, June 25, 2018

RFC 2307 Unix to AD attributes Legend

What Active Directory Attributes did the Unix Attribute tabs expose in the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in prior to Windows Server 2016?

The following Active Directory Attributes were configurable from the Unix Attributes tabs in Active Directory Users and Computers prior to Windows Server 2016. This table is provided as a reference and with Windows Server 2016 all of these attributes can be modified... see here for more details:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/activedirectoryua/2016/02/09/identity-management-for-unix-idmu-is-deprecated-in-windows-server/
 
Dialog name
AD Attribute
RFC2307 attribute
Example
User object
Group object
Computer object
UID
uidNumber
X
1000
X
 
 
Login Shell
Loginshell
X
/bin/bash
X
 
 
Home Directory
unixHomeDirectory
X
/home/username
X
 
 
Primary Group name/GID
gidNumber
X
10002
X
X
 
Members
MemberUid
X
Administrator
 
X
 
iphostnumber
ipHostNumber
X
10.2.2.2
 
 
X
NIS Domain
maSFU30NisDomain
 
“example”
X
X
X
Members
msSFU30PosixMember
 
CN=Group,CN=Schema, CN=Configuration, DC=Woodgrove,DC=Local
 
X
 
Name
msSFU30Name
 
“Server123” or “Administrator” or “unix group”
X
X
X
Computer Aliases
msSFU30Aliases
 
Alias1; alias2
 
 
X

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

unetbootin with ubuntu 17.10

Error message when trying to run unetbootin after install:
No protocol specified
unetbootin: cannot connect to X server :0


The following worked for me to resolve the issue:
xhost local:root
     non-network local connections being added to access control list
sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 /usr/bin/unetbootin

Monday, June 12, 2017

QuadStor VTL Setup Notes

https://www.quadstor.com/vtl-extended-edition-downloads.html
https://www.quadstor.com/virtual-tape-library.html

The following are the minimum system requirements
  • Multicore/MultiCPU Intel/AMD Processor system
  • 8 GB RAM. 64 GB or more recommended for data deduplication
  • RHEL/Centos 6.x/7.x, SLES 13 SP3 or Debian 7/8 for x86_64/AMD64 architecture
  • QLogic 4Gb/s or above HBA(s) for Fiber Channel connectivity
  • 1/10 Gb Ethernet ports for iSCSI connectivity

ip addr add 192.168.1.75/24 dev enp0s3
ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp0s3
# yum update
# yum install dkms gcc make kernel-devel bzip2 binutils patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers
# mkdir -p /media/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
# sh /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
rpm -q kernel
rpm -q kernel-devel
Make sure they are the same version.  Remote to start using the newest version.
  Confirm you are using newest version using uname -a.
Then rpm -e the old kernel version.
yum install httpd
yum install sg3_utils
yum install policycoreutils-python
gcc, perl kernel-devel were already installed.
/sbin/chkconfig --add httpd (RHEL/CentOS)
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

yum install sssd realmd oddjob oddjob-mkhomedir adcli samba-common samba-common-tools krb5-workstation openldap-clients policycoreutils-python -y
/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_enable_cgi 1
/usr/sbin/semanage permissive -a httpd_t
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent && sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
sudo systemctl restart firewalld
/etc/init.d/quadstorvtl start

Friday, May 26, 2017

Redhat 7 root password recovery

This is really a note for myself... since it is so terse with no pictures, but may be helpful to someone else. At the boot menu press "e" to edit the boot option find the vmlinuz line and after the root= entry find the ro entry and prior to this enter rw init=sysroot/bin/sh Press Control X and after it boots in single user mode... type chroot /sysroot passwd root passwd mount -o remount / touch /.autorelabel

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

HPUX NTP setup

/etc/hosts
192.168.1.4. ntp1
192.168.1.5  ntp2

/etc/ntp.conf
server 127.127.1.0  #Local clock
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

server ntp1 prefer
server ntp2

/etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons
export NTPDATE_SERVER=ntp1
export XNTPD=1
export XNTPD_ARGS="-l /var/adm/xntpd.log"

NTP Pool as alternate external NTP if ports are open:  north-america.pool.ntp.org

My recommendation is for NTP entries to be in DNS as cname records and then just reference the cname records in your configuration files... so if you ever need to change the NTP server you do not have to edit hundreds of client NTP client files.  Just update the DNS entries for NTP1 NTP2 etc.

The reason you update /etc/ntp.conf as well as ntpdate in the netdaemons file... is that ntpdate is intended for a single use on boot up... then from that point on... it gets updated from xntpd running from the /etc/ntp.conf configuration.  The reason for this is that xntpd will refuse to start if the local clock is off by more than 1000 seconds off from the NTP server you wish you get time from and if this happens the xntpd won't start and time will be way off until someone notices... manually runs ntpdate and then starts xntpd again.  Be careful not to cause your clock to go backwards or jump ahead after a database or application is running if it is sensitive to time.  Be sure to read about setting the options to SLEW the clock if you have things like a database running when you need to affect a large time change.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Remove Nvidia Proprietary Driver to avoid crashing

Ug... best not to purchase one of these in the first place.  Buy a different card if you can.  Nvidia is the worst.
Symptom:  Running Ubuntu 16.04 and after loading the proprietary Nvidia driver and rebooting login would fail and loop back to the login screen again.
Removed using the following:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 so you can get to a tty prompt
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo "nouveau" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo reboot
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean


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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Mounting 64 GB SDCard on Linux

64 gig cards are likely to use the exfat file system which is not natively supported on Linux.


UPDATED:  Add the Universe repository and then run the following:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils


OLD Info:
I'm running Ubuntu so I ran the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:relan/exfat
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-exfat exfat-utils

mkdir /media/sdcard
mount -t exfat -o uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1003,gid=1003,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask-0077 /dev/sde1 /media/sdcard


Initial Error Message:
Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/sdcard: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1003,gid=1003,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sde1" "/media/sdcard"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'


Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Using Ekiga Softphone with Google Hangout on Linux or Windows

In Ekiga... go to "Edit Accounts" or use Ctrl-E.
Then under "Accounts" in the pulldown menu... (There are no options to add an account in the popup window... you have to find them in the pulldown menu (Unity on Ubuntu).  Some people even think you can't use Ekiga with non Ekiga SIP accounts since they can't get past this step and even rated it low based on this, but the software is good.  I have not used their pay service yet, but since they are generous enough to offer free accounts, and free software it might be worth giving them a look and buying some VOIP minutes if you need to call landlines.

Name:  Google Hangout    (Whatever you want to call it)
User:  <YourEmailAddress@gmail.com>
Server:  talk.google.com
Port:  5222
Resource: Ekiga
Password:  <YourPassword>
 

Once finished under the accounts tab you should see a status of "connected".

http://www.Ekiga.net

Thursday, June 11, 2015

How to Determine if an HP-UX Account is Locked

/usr/lbin/getprpw -l <account>
/usr/lbin/modprpw -k <account>

You need to know if accounts are locked
System may be a "trusted" system which means that it has higher security
enabled.
On a non-trusted system the /etc/passwd file will contain the information:
man passwd:
-s name Display some password attributes associated with the
specified name. Superuser privilege and non-trusted
mode is required if the files repository is specified.
The format of the display will be:
name status mm/dd/yy min max warn


or, if password aging information is not present
(#### e.g. that info is held in tcb directories ###)
name status
where status means: PS =passworded; LK =locked; and NP=no password.
passwd -s -a:
PS =passworded; LK =locked; and NP=no password
on a trusted system the /tcb directory structure holds the lock info;
man getprpw:
lockout returns the reason for a lockout in a "bit" valued string, where 0 = condition not present, 1 is present.

The position, left to right represents:
Google Voice and Video Chat Installer for Google Hangouts  "The Installer encountered error 1625:  This installation is forbidden by system policy.  Contact your system administrator".

1 past password lifetime
2 past last login time (inactive account)
3 past absolute account lifetime
4 exceeded unsuccessful login attempts
5 password required and a null password
6 admin lock
7 password is a *
(If the user is NOT locked, all bits will be 0)

getprpw:
for USER in `awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd`
do
printf $USER
printf " "
/usr/lbin/getprpw -m lockout,alock $USER
done

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SOLVED: Kickstart (system-config-kickstart) - Could not read video driver database

After I updated to Ubuntu 14.04 I tried to launch the Kickstart Configurator GUI and it wouldn't load.

Error Message: "Could not read video driver database"

# system-config-kickstart

(system-config-kickstart.py:18686): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/user/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/system-config-kickstart.py", line 92, in <module>
    kickstartGui.kickstartGui(file)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/kickstartGui.py", line 131, in __init__
    self.X_class = xconfig.xconfig(xml, self.kickstartData)
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/xconfig.py", line 80, in __init__
    self.fill_driver_list()
  File "/usr/share/system-config-kickstart/xconfig.py", line 115, in fill_driver_list
    raise RuntimeError, (_("Could not read video driver database"))
RuntimeError: Could not read video driver database
# 

This resolved my issue:
# apt-get remove hwdata
# wget ftp://mirror.ovh.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hwdata/hwdata_0.234-1_all.deb
# dpkg -i hwdata_0.267-1_all.deb
# apt-get install system-config-kickstart 
Hope this helps you.

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Monday, April 20, 2015

MSL6000 Service password


The default service password is 5566.
Default Factory password is 56789.
If you have lost the level 1 or level 2 passwords the factory password can be used to reset them.

If the password is no longer set to the defaults... you can discover the current password by using the MSLUTIL.exe via a serial connection.  There is no need to know the serial settings as the utility will autodiscover them.  The current configuration does not have to be reset and the password will be displayed in plain text.  You will need the correct serial cable.

More information can be obtained here:
http://h200003.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=es&cc=es&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=254838&prodTypeId=12169&objectID=c00023637

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Monday, February 17, 2014

Office Communicator via Pidgin for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Installed Pidgin from repository on Ubuntu 12.04...

Added SIPE plugin from here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/amd64/pidgin-sipe/1.11.2-1ubuntu1

Project screen shots are here:
http://sipe.sourceforge.net/screens/

I was running a live DVD so even though newer versions were available it complicated the dependencies and I was in a hurry... so I loaded this version.

Under Basic Tab:
Listed SIP account as the username.
Login:  Used my AD account and PW

Under Advanced I changed email address if different from login name to match my actual email address.


How to fix libnss3 error on Ubuntu 12.04

google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb















Answer was to satisfy the dependencies by running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgconf2-4 libnss3-1d libxss1
 
then:
download chrome for linux from here:
https://www.google.com/chrome?brand=CHMO#eula

then:
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Friday, May 10, 2013

HP-UX: HOW TO BOOT FROM TAPE EFI ITANIUM

Keep in mind that some servers do not support booting from tape, or may require a firmware update to support booting from tape.

Exit from the boot menu to the EFI Shell

fs0:\> reconnect -r

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5704) is detected (PCI-X)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5704) is detected (PCI-X)
HP 2Port 2Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (driver 1.42, firmware 3.03.150)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5703) is detected (PCI-X)
HP 2Gb Fibre Channel Combo Adapter (driver 1.30, firmware 3.03.171)
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5703) is detected (PCI-X)
Scsi(Pun0,Lun0) HP      MSL6000 Series  0520 ( 20 MBytes/sec)
Scsi(Pun1,Lun0) HP      Ultrium 3-SCSI  G63W (320 MBytes/sec)
ReconnectController(0,0,0) : Status = Success

From this we gather that the Ultrium 3 Tape Drive is Pun1, Lun0.

At this point exit from the shell... returning you to the boot menu.  At this point enter the boot configuration menu and boot from a file if you want a one time boot and look for result of your reconnect -r output... in my case it was Pun1, Lun0.

Boot menu showed the device as follows:
Device Path Acpi(HWP0002,PNP0A03,700)/Pci(1|1)/Scsi(Pun1,Lun0)

Other helpful commands would be:
devtree, devices, map
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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Updating PERL CPAN on HP-UX

grep pass /etc/ossim/ossim_setup.conf | cut -f 2 -d "="
10.11.10.162
unconfigured

 hpsrv-11.23 root sources/modules # cpan

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> o conf
CPAN::Config options from /opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/CPAN/Config.pm:
    commit             Commit changes to disk
    defaults           Reload defaults from disk
    init               Interactive setting of all options

    build_cache        10
    build_dir          /root/.cpan/build
    cache_metadata     1
    cpan_home          /root/.cpan
    dontload_hash
    ftp                /usr/bin/ftp
    ftp_proxy
    getcwd             cwd
    gpg                /usr/bin/gpg
    gzip               /usr/contrib/bin/gzip
    histfile           /root/.cpan/histfile
    histsize           100
    http_proxy
    inactivity_timeout 0
    index_expire       1
    inhibit_startup_message 0
    keep_source_where  /root/.cpan/sources
    lynx
    make               /usr/bin/make
    make_arg
    make_install_arg
    makepl_arg
    ncftp
    ncftpget
    no_proxy
    pager              /usr/bin/more
    prerequisites_policy ask
    scan_cache         atstart
    shell              /sbin/sh
    tar                /usr/bin/tar
    term_is_latin      1
    unzip              /usr/local/bin/unzip
    urllist
    wget


cpan> o conf init

/opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/CPAN/Config.pm initialized.


CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about
100 sites that all replicate the same contents all around the globe.
Many countries have at least one CPAN site already. The resources
found on CPAN are easily accessible with the CPAN.pm module. If you
want to use CPAN.pm, you have to configure it properly.

If you do not want to enter a dialog now, you can answer 'no' to this
question and I'll try to autoconfigure. (Note: you can revisit this
dialog anytime later by typing 'o conf init' at the cpan prompt.)

Are you ready for manual configuration? [yes] yes


The following questions are intended to help you with the
configuration. The CPAN module needs a directory of its own to cache
important index files and maybe keep a temporary mirror of CPAN files.
This may be a site-wide directory or a personal directory.



I see you already have a  directory
    /root/.cpan
Shall we use it as the general CPAN build and cache directory?

CPAN build and cache directory? [/root/.cpan]


If you want, I can keep the source files after a build in the cpan
home directory. If you choose so then future builds will take the
files from there. If you don't want to keep them, answer 0 to the
next question.



How big should the disk cache be for keeping the build directories
with all the intermediate files?

Cache size for build directory (in MB)? [10] 100


By default, each time the CPAN module is started, cache scanning
is performed to keep the cache size in sync. To prevent from this,
disable the cache scanning with 'never'.

Perform cache scanning (atstart or never)? [atstart]


To considerably speed up the initial CPAN shell startup, it is
possible to use Storable to create a cache of metadata. If Storable
is not available, the normal index mechanism will be used.

Cache metadata (yes/no)? [yes]


The next option deals with the charset your terminal supports. In
general CPAN is English speaking territory, thus the charset does not
matter much, but some of the aliens out there who upload their
software to CPAN bear names that are outside the ASCII range. If your
terminal supports UTF-8, you say no to the next question, if it
supports ISO-8859-1 (also known as LATIN1) then you say yes, and if it
supports neither nor, your answer does not matter, you will not be
able to read the names of some authors anyway. If you answer no, names
will be output in UTF-8.

Your terminal expects ISO-8859-1 (yes/no)? [yes]


If you have one of the readline packages (Term::ReadLine::Perl,
Term::ReadLine::Gnu, possibly others) installed, the interactive CPAN
shell will have history support. The next two questions deal with the
filename of the history file and with its size. If you do not want to
set this variable, please hit SPACE RETURN to the following question.

File to save your history? [/root/.cpan/histfile]
Number of lines to save? [100]


The CPAN module can detect when a module that which you are trying to
build depends on prerequisites. If this happens, it can build the
prerequisites for you automatically ('follow'), ask you for
confirmation ('ask'), or just ignore them ('ignore'). Please set your
policy to one of the three values.

Policy on building prerequisites (follow, ask or ignore)? [ask]


The CPAN module will need a few external programs to work properly.
Please correct me, if I guess the wrong path for a program. Don't
panic if you do not have some of them, just press ENTER for those. To
disable the use of a download program, you can type a space followed
by ENTER.

Where is your gzip program? [/usr/contrib/bin/gzip]
Where is your tar program? [/usr/bin/tar]
Where is your unzip program? [/usr/local/bin/unzip]
Where is your make program? [/usr/bin/make]
Warning: lynx not found in PATH
Where is your lynx program? []
Warning: wget not found in PATH
Where is your wget program? []
Warning: ncftpget not found in PATH
Where is your ncftpget program? []
Warning: ncftp not found in PATH
Where is your ncftp program? []
Where is your ftp program? [/usr/bin/ftp]
Where is your gpg program? [/usr/bin/gpg]
What is your favorite pager program? [/usr/bin/more]
What is your favorite shell? [/sbin/sh]


Every Makefile.PL is run by perl in a separate process. Likewise we
run 'make' and 'make install' in processes. If you have any
parameters (e.g. PREFIX, LIB, UNINST or the like) you want to pass
to the calls, please specify them here.

If you don't understand this question, just press ENTER.

Parameters for the 'perl Makefile.PL' command?
Typical frequently used settings:

    PREFIX=~/perl       non-root users (please see manual for more hints)

Your choice:  []
Parameters for the 'make' command?
Typical frequently used setting:

    -j3              dual processor system

Your choice:  []
Parameters for the 'make install' command?
Typical frequently used setting:

    UNINST=1         to always uninstall potentially conflicting files

Your choice:  []


Sometimes you may wish to leave the processes run by CPAN alone
without caring about them. As sometimes the Makefile.PL contains
question you're expected to answer, you can set a timer that will
kill a 'perl Makefile.PL' process after the specified time in seconds.

If you set this value to 0, these processes will wait forever. This is
the default and recommended setting.

Timeout for inactivity during Makefile.PL? [0]


If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the
CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in
the $CPAN::Config takes precedence.

Your ftp_proxy?
Your http_proxy?
Your no_proxy?
You have no /root/.cpan/sources/MIRRORED.BY
  I'm trying to fetch one
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
Fetching with Net::FTP:
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY
Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY from ftp.perl.org
Fetching with Net::FTP
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.gz
Couldn't fetch MIRRORED.BY.gz from ftp.perl.org
Your ~/.netrc neither contains ftp.perl.org
  nor does it have a default entry
Issuing "/usr/bin/ftp -n"
Local directory now /root/.cpan/sources
Timeout (900 seconds): closing control connection.
Bad luck... Still failed!
Can't access URL ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/MIRRORED.BY.

Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file () are valid.
The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'

Could not fetch MIRRORED.BY
CPAN.pm needs at least one URL where it can fetch CPAN files from.

Please enter your CPAN site: [] ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/cpan/
Enter another URL or RETURN to quit: []
New set of picks:
  ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/cpan/
  http://cpan.mirror.clemson.edu/

commit: wrote /opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/CPAN/Config.pm

cpan> reload index

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> reload cpan

Changed perms on Cwd.sl to include execute
hpsrv-11.23 root /root # cd /opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/PA->
hpsrv-11.23 root auto/Cwd # ls -l
total 48
dr-xr-xr-x   2 bin        bin             96 Oct 29  2009 .
dr-xr-xr-x  39 bin        bin           8192 Nov  1 16:17 ..
-r--r--r--   1 bin        bin              0 Jan 19  2006 Cwd.bs
-rw-rw-rw-   1 bin        bin          16384 Jan 19  2006 Cwd.sl
hpsrv-11.23 root auto/Cwd # chmod +x Cwd.sl
hpsrv-11.23 root auto/Cwd # pwd
/opt/perl_32/lib/5.8.3/PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/auto/Cwd
hpsrv-11.23 root auto/Cwd # ls -l Cwd.sl
-rwxrwxrwx   1 bin        bin          16384 Jan 19  2006 Cwd.sl

    *  Crypt::DES is not installed
    *  Crypt::Rijndael is not installed
    *  Socket6 is not installed




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Friday, April 12, 2013

BEST HEADSET FOR ALTIGEN IP710 PHONE

Altigen IP710 Phone Manual is here:
http://www.altigen.com/system_manuals/50a/ip710_admin.pdf

This phone supports both RJ9 and 2.5mm headsets.   Below you see the RJ9 option.

HW261N

26716-01 Quick Connect Cable

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

HOW TO ADD STREAMING MUSIC TO CARS WITHOUT AN AUX JACK

If you need Bluetooth Phone and Streaming Music/Audio (A2DP), and a solution that works even if you do not have an auxiliary input jack, you can purchase a nice Belkin device that streams both via your car radio's FM band.  You simply tune your radio to the same frequency as your Belkin is transmitting on.  This Belkin device is nice because it gives you the charger with a USB connector slot so you can use this to power two devices from the same cigarette lighter power receptacle rather than only powering the Belkin device.



This Jabra device is a pricier option, but adds some additional features and Jabra is widely known for their phone accessories.



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HOW TO ADD STREAMING MUSIC TO YOUR CAR


If your car is equipped with an Auxiliary audio input jack this solution will work for you.  My car actually supports Bluetooth phone use, but did not support the A2DP Bluetooth Profile required to stream Audio.  All that is required is that you have an aux input jack.  You then change your car radio's input source to the aux jack, power up the Aluratek AIS01F, use your phones Bluetooth menu to connect to the Aluratek device, and then start enjoying your streaming audio or music from your cell phone.  You could use it to stream any application accessible on your cell phone... like Pandora, YouTube, Navigation directions from Google Maps, or Mapquest, or just enjoy your MP3 collection on your phone via your car speakers.  I use this in my Buick Regal to stream music and android trapster or google navigation information.  It works great!




This unit includes a rechargeable battery so you can use it for portable applications... you can essentially plug this device into any speaker that has an input jack and make any speaker Bluetooth accessible.  Personally I combined this unit with a USB car charger like the Energizer car charger you see above.  Alternatively you could purchase or utilize a USB wall charger for your house, and use the built in rechargeable battery to supply your power when using it in your car.

NOTE:  If you need Bluetooth Phone and Streaming Music/Audio (A2DP), and a solution that works even if you do not have an auxiliary input jack... click here.


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