Anyway, there is a policy registry key called “EnableLinkedConnections” that will enable the mapped drives to appear when running applications as an administrator. Use this reg file or see below.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“EnableLinkedConnections”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManWorkstation\Parameters]
“DNSNameResolutionRequired”=dword:00000000
“DomainCompatibilityMode”=dword:00000001

Restart the computer and then try joining the domain again.

Edit:

This post has got a lot of search hits. If you don’t have Avast installed and are still having this problem, check out this link.  If you have neither Avast nor a Realtek network card, you might have to do a bit more hunting for the problem.  I suggest using my method and uninstalling applications one at a time to see what is causing the problem.  With Windows 8 being new, there may be bugs in some of the drivers.

Edit2:

Received a response from Avast.

Hello,

This issue is currently being investigated by our development team, it is probably caused by a bug in the latest version of avast! antivirus in combination with some third party network drivers. Once the fix is available, it will be released through the regular program update.

The common symptoms are frequent or random stop errors (bugchecks or BSODs) referencing mainly ndis.sys or aswnet.sys drivers. The issue affects only Windows 8 computers, probably only with the General Availability Cumulative Update (KB2756872 – Windows 8 RTM to GDR update) installed or the General Distribution Release (GDR) versions of this operating system.

The available workarounds (with the current build 7.0.1473) include:
- stopping avast! Network Shield and avast! Firewall
- custom install without Network Shield and Firewall modules

[...]

2nd Level Technical Support
AVAST Software a.s.

Anyway, I wanted to render large, complex CAD models in the browser, mostly for experimentation.  One example we have, exported from SolidWorks in coarse mode, has approximately 350,000 vertices.  The way the code was written for thingiview, the STL to JSON rendering in PHP would bog down to an unsuable speed at even 50-100,000 vertices.  As-is, I left the converter running for about 14 hours with our complex model, and it still didn’t finish.

I decided to rewrite portions of the code to make it more efficient for my use, so I forked it.  My first commit was to make huge improvements on the efficiency of STL (binary) to JSON conversion.  Now, the complex model takes a mere 30 seconds to render.  Most of the previous inefficiencies were due to the calling of in_array and array_search (x3) for every vertex.  As the number of vertices grew, the slower each call to in_array and array_search became.  Using a hashmap (storing the contents into an array keyed by MD5 hashes of the contents), I’m able to avoid searching the array, massively improving execution time.

One day, I may take the time to update the project to the latest Three.js (a lot of the JS function calls are deprecated) and/or take a look at improving the other conversions.  For now, this will satisfy my SolidWorks to interactive web model cravings.

Finally, my solution was to copy the ISOs that the software created and burn them using a separate utility.  These files can be found in My Documents/recovery_tmp.

While neither will generate any substantial revenue, it should be an interesting experiment to see which fares better for a short-term project.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions]
“DenyUnspecified”=dword:00000001

To re-enable the ability, simply change the dword value of DenyUnspecified to 0.

Note that you will likely need to create the registry key directories for DeviceInstall and Restrictions.

Credit

You might want to increase security on your webserver by limiting what each VirtualHost or site can access. Whether you’re acting as a shared host or just want to separate your own sites, you can use the Apache2 mpm-itk module to do this. The linked article above explains how to accomplish this using Apache2 and Debian, but I will explain the simple steps required to do so on OpenSuse.

• Using Yast or zypper, install the module “apache2-itk”.
• Edit the file at /etc/sysconfig/apache2
  • Set the APACHE_MPM value to itk (ie APACHE_MPM=”itk”)
• Add the following to your VirtualHost configuration (within the “VirtualHost” tags but not in any “Directory” tags)
  • <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
    AssignUserId owner group
    </IfModule> 
• Update the file permissions on your VirtualHost DocumentRoot (chown owner:group -R somedirectory/)
• Restart apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart)

The end solution was to run a base install of Windows XP and virtualize an install of Windows 98 using Microsoft Virtual PC.  Once sharing the hardware COM and LPT ports, the virtual Windows 98 install could run the Suprastuff software to allow the Romer arm to make 3D point clouds.  Bonus: no more floppy disc file transfers.

In the later PHP versions (in this example, 5.3.8), the dBase extension is not included by default. You need to compile it from source.  Zenware’s blog post took a bit of searching to find, so I’m hoping an extra post about it will make the search faster for the next admin. These instructions (while vague) will be on an Open Suse 12.1, x64 system.  These instructions can also be generalized for compiling any PHP extension from source.

1. Using yast (or zypper), make sure you have the following packages installed:
   • PHP5-Devel
   • GCC
   • (may not be required, but specific to later versions of dBase): PHP5-PEAR
2. Download the dBase (or other extension) source files.  dBase link (I am using 5.1.0)
3. Extract it using “tar -xf file.tar“
4. Navigate to the newly extracted directory
5. Run the following commands
   • phpize
   • ./configure
   • make
6. Copy the resulting .so file in the modules directory to your PHP extensions directory (on a default 64 bit system, this might be /usr/lib64/php5/extensions). For 32 bit: /usr/lib/php5/extensions
7. Add the following line to your php.ini (may be located in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini)
   • extension=dBase.so
8. Restart apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart)