HOWTO: Forwarding a USB device to a Guest VM in Xen on Fedora

This procedure works with fully virtualized VMs. I would assume it works with paravirtualized VMs as well…
Shut down and power off your VM
Unplug and re-plug your USB device to see what it appears as in dmesg, then run    dmesg | grep ^usb
See these lines?:    usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 7    usb 3-2: new low speed [...]

Why "root" isn't a Domain Admin on Fedora w/smbldap-tools

For about 2 years now at work, our "root" (aka, Administrator) account hasn’t been showing up as being part of the "Domain Admins" group within Windows, or when running "id root" or "net rpc user info root". It used to, but for whatever unknown reason, stopped working.
The root account in our LDAP directory was, admittedly, [...]