Computing Infrastructure

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Networks

Internets

Internet connection is provided by Comcast.

More information about the internet connection and trouble shooting can be found here: Internets

To administer the internets use the web interface located at: http://10.1.10.1 or http://modem.allhandsactive.org

Current config owners:

  • Nick Ristow
  • Tyler Worman
  • Nate Yost

WIFI

WIFI is provided by the Mikrotik Router and routed through the Comcast Connection

2 DHCP enabled SSID's are provided.

SSID: ALLHANDSACTIVE

As of: 11/15/2015 ALLHANDSACTIVE is a general use wifi connection.

Password: TheNextGeneration

Future 2/1: This connection to be discontinued.

SSID: AHA-PUBLIC

Throttled AHA public wireless. Defaults to 500k/100k per connection.

Password: TheNextGeneration

SSID: AHA-MEMBERS

Unthrottled AHA public wireless. Login with your AHA LDAP username and password using Enterprise WPA2

Future: To be turned on mid January.

LAN

Router/Switches

Router Main

Mikrotik Routerboard RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN Router Instructions: (http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:TOC)

Maintained by:

  • Tyler Worman
  • Mike Grube

Runs RouterOS 6. Upgrade rights for versions through RouterOS 8 Routerboard RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN Runs DNS server with internal static host names configured and uses google DNS after that. Cable modem points to this DNS server.

  • IP Address: 10.1.10.3 router.allhandsactive.org (internal)

Workstation Switch

Located in center of workstations

Netgear FS524

Printer

A networked BW Laser Printer

  • Model: HP Laserjet 2600N
  • IP Address: 10.1.10.2 printer.allhandsactive.org (internal)

BYB Cardswipe

Used for BYB employee's to clock in and out.

  • Model: EZ Clocking EC50
  • IP Address: 10.1.10.14
  • Owner: BYB

NAS

Controls AHA's LDAP server, Radius server, file shares and remote login. The NAS is knows as HUB@AHA. hub.allhandsactive.com:5000 (external)

  • Model: Synology DS409
  • IP Address: 10.1.10.4 hub.allhandsactive.org (internal)

Maintained by:

  • Nick Ristow
  • Alex White
  • Tyler Worman

More information about this project can be found here: Computing Infrastructure: HUB@AHA

Backups

Machines are fresh installed to same state and are not backed up. The NAS offers recovery in event of a loss of disk but we presently do not do a remote backup of user files.

Mapping drives

Copy setupDrives.vbs to C:\ from \\hub\AHASoftware

In Windows startup Local Group Policy Editor as Admin Under UserConfiguration\Windows Settings\Scripts (Logon/Logoff) add the script as a login script.

This login script maps drives for Software, Home and Share. It redirects the users desktop and my documents folder to their home folder within the NAS. The redirection of desktop/documents is disabled for the admin account.

LDAP Config

See here Computer Infrastructure: LDAP Authentication

Workstations

CNC

This machine is used to run the CNC machine in the back room.

Software

Config

Configs are backed up here: List GIT location

Harware

Specs: List them here, but we really could use a new machine. Connnected to: CNC_Machine

Maintainer

Maintained by: Tyler Worman

Licenses

Licenses to Mach3, VCarve Pro and Cut3D owned by: Tyler Worman

Todo

  • Update the tool index in Vcarve and Cut3D
  • Backup config for Vcarve and Mach3 to Tyler's GIT/BitBucket repository
  • Wipe machine
  • Install a Windows 10 license.
  • Install CNC software
  • Lock machine down to admin and LDAP enabled members (as non-admin accounts!)

Login

Username: CNC

Password: Ask Tyler

BYB LASER (Big Red/Softdog)

Hardware

Specs: List them here

Software

List software here

Maintainer

Who owns and maintains the PC and it's software?

To Do

  • Verify with Greg/BYB that it's still okay to LDAP enable the machine login - Yes, it is. Nick checked.
  • Get list of valid users from Greg
  • Create LDAP group on NAS
  • Install pGina on machine
  • Fully update machine and software
  • lock down login to admin and pGina NAS users.

AHA LASER

Hardware

Specs: List them here

This PC is currently not turned on and is sitting in the loud noise room. It needs to be cleaned. Tyler W. has the registration info for the software.

Software

Inkskape Gimp Retina Engrave

Maintainer

Who owns and maintains the PC and it's software?

To Do

  • Clean and move from loud noise room.
  • Extract image from machine so we have a backup before wiping. (unsure how authentication of software will go)
  • Create LDAP group on NAS for Little laser
  • Install pGina on machine
  • Fully update machine and software
  • lock down login to admin and pGina NAS users.

5 Public Workstations

Current state

Specs:

  • PC1 - Win 10 Pro AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHZ 8GB - DEMO (LDAP)
  • PC2 - Win 7 AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHZ 8GB (MAKER Login)
  • PC3 - Win 7 AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHZ 8GB (LDAP)
  • PC4 - Win 10 Pro AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHZ 8GB - Demo (LDAP)
  • PC5 - Win 7 AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHZ 8GB (MAKER Login)

Future state

5 Managed Windows 10 workstations. Software updated by Ninite, Windows updates kept up to date by service account script.

Easy to build a new image from scratch with instructions for doing this here: Computer Infrastructure: Building new Workstation image

Setup Steam

Valve requires Steam to run as admin to perform many of the game installs via Steam. To do this at AHA we run Steam as admin via a program called Runasgui. Runasgui runs a service as admin, encrypts the admin password and locks it down to a specific application (in a secured location). The resulting shortcut it makes runs the Runasadmin client and escalates the program running to run as an administrative user!

Download Run as gui from the link below or get it from the NAS AHASoftware Steam setup share! Link: http://download.cnet.com/RunAsGUI/3000-2094_4-10913442.html

As Admin: Install steam to c:\Steam (RunAsGui Flips out otherwise) Install RunAsGui Admin to default install path (Install for just this user) Install RunAsGui Client to default (for all users)

Run RunAsGui Admin and configure it to run steam as admin. It will create the following as a shortcut: %programfiles% (x86)\Smart-X\RunAsGUI\RunAsGUIExec.exe "'%programfiles% (x86)\Smart-X\RunAsGUI\Steam_admin.rag'"

The tool doesn't like the (x86) while configuring it in the GUI. To get around this when configuring RunAsGuiAdmin remove the (x86) and just leave the %programfiles% in the config gui. Once it's configured and password changed, place the Steam icon in an area it gets copied to every new user profile.

Copy the resulting icon (also stored on the NAS) to: C:\Users\Default\Desktop (it's a hidden folder!)

Test it as out a user.

To do

  • Allow demo of machines until 2/15 by users and during this time provision members with accounts.
  • Reset all passwords.

AHA installed software

Individual Installed:

pGina Arduino Studio
OpenSCAD LibreCAD FreeCAD EagleCAD KiCAD

Ninite installed:

Chrome Firefox Steam
DropBox Google Drive Skype VLC Audacity
Java 8 JDK 8 .Net 4.6 Python
Notepad++ Eclipse
PuTTY WinSCP 7 ZIP WinRAR FileZilla
Gimp Inkscape Paint.Net
LibreOffice PDF Creator

Restore Workstations

Guide here: Computer Infrastructure: Restoring Workstations

The workstation restoration process involves wiping the machine, copying down an image from the NAS and running updates.

Virtual Machines

Future State: HUB@AHA has 1 Ubuntu VirtualBox image that get mounted to the 6 public workstations at login. It's maintained by AHA and configured with default settings for the space. You may clone the image for your personal use.

Todo

  • Create base image
  • Install additional software
  • Configure home directory mount via LDAP.
  • Install VirtualBox extensions.
  • Mark it read only.
  • Share to network via NAS.
  • Configure login script to mount this share at login.

Base Image

A base install of the latest LTR Ubuntu image that is reasonably patched.

Additional software

These packages are installed in addition to the base install.

  • Arduino
  • Eclipse
  • JDK
  • Inkscape
  • Gimp
  • Blender
  • OpenSCAD


If you need additional packages please contact Tyler Worman to request a base package be added to the distribution.

Usage pattern

Copy the VM to your private folder on the NAS and use as needed. Wipe/Restore from base image as needed.

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