date:20090108

Re: Remote mirror with XP Pro

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Brouwer


What's your problem?

On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:58 PM, NTSysAdmin wrote:


Dear dear dear...how did you become an IT manager???

S

-Original Message-
From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Remote mirror with XP Pro

Good afternoon,

I thought you could set up a software mirror through XP Pro, but now
that I sat down to do it, I realize I can't.  In researching the
issue, I see that you can create a mirror on a remote system, but only
see references to 200 Server.  Does anyone know if this can be done to
a 2003 Server volume?

Instead of having two local drives configured as a mirrored volume,
I'd like to mirror a drive on the XP box to a drive on a 2003 server.
This would be done over a gigabit network, BTW.

Thanks,

Eric Brouwer
IT Manager
www.forestpost.com
er...@forestpost.com
248.855.4333





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Eric Brouwer
IT Manager
www.forestpost.com
er...@forestpost.com
248.855.4333





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Re: Facts, thoughts, references for security intrusion (espionage) reporting

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Scott

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
michealespin...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was wondering if anyone would care to share any anecdotes, stories,
 procedures they went through in following though with a security
 intrusion - with ISP logs, involving the authorities, etc.

  In the private sector, you generally have to go through the law
enforcement agencies which have juristiction.  In the US, if it
appears to cross state or international lines (typical), your main
option is to contact the FBI.  Keep in mind that they are generally
overwhelmed and thus small stuff tends to fall through the cracks.  If
it's international and involves certain countries, however, you'll get
a better response.  Be warned that affected computers may be seized as
evidence.

  See also: http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm

  Where I work, we're mainly a DoD subcontractor, so we have our own
channels.  I'll see if anyone knows of any other avenues for private
sector people.

  Generic advice:

  Save all logs from everything to offline archives as soon as you
discoverer an intrusion attempt.  If it's a compromise, ideally, take
the affected system(s) offline as soon as you discover it.  Make
complete block-level images of each individual disks before putting
them back online.  If there is evidence of system-level compromise
(Administrator, root kit, etc.) wipe-and-reload the entire system.

  Contacting ISPs can be a mixed bag.  They often don't log what you
need info on.  When they do, it will often be rotated on a short time
span.  Then getting through to someone with clue before the logs get
deleted is often the hard part.  OTOH, when this does pay off it's
some of the best kind of evidence.

-- Ben

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Re: File names that are too long - Can they be stopped?

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Wittersheim

Thanks for the feedback Ben.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Eric Wittersheim
eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there anyway to enforce a limit (Windows Server 2000
and 2003) on the length of file names?

Not that I know of. If you find one, let me know, 'cause I got the
same problem in different ways.

Part of the problem is that not all parts of Windows have the same
path/file name length limits. Reportedly NTFS itself and the innards
of the NT kernel can handle names on the order of thousands of
characters long, but that's mainly academic because the higher-level
stuff falls apart much earlier. The Win32 subsystem (which
practically everything uses) is limited to 255 characters, I believe.
Vital system components -- like Windows Explorer and the shell
libraries -- seem to have even shorter limits.

One of my favorites is users creating files in their local profile
that work just fine, but then the roaming profile sync code pukes
trying to sync back to the server. (Though I haven't seen that in a
while; it may have been fixed in XP SP2.)

Another part of the problem is that path name lengths can vary
depending on how the system is seeing a file. For example, if I
have C:\Company\Shared\Quality\Public\QMSDocs on the server shared as
QMSDocs, and the workstations map that share as drive Q:, and then
there's
Q:\some\really\absurdly\ridiculously\ludicrously\long\path\name\to\a\file.doc,
then it may be okay for the mapped path on the workstation, but on the
server it will be

C:\Company\Shared\Quality\Public\QMSDocs\some\really\absurdly\ridiculously\ludicrously\long\path\name\to\a\file.doc
which pushes Explorer over the limit. Result? You can access the
files from Explorer on a workstation, but not Explorer on the server.

The filesystems typically used on CDs and DVDs have their own limits
which are different from all of the above. So one thing that may help
the CD archive scenario is to put all the files into an archive format
which handles really long file names, like 7-Zip's .7z format.

-- Ben

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RE: Remote mirror with XP Pro

2009-01-08 Thread Ralph Smith

Somebody already mentioned robocopy that can accomplish this.  Another
option is SyncBack.

 -Original Message-
 From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com]
 Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:19 AM
 To: NT System Admin Issues
 Subject: Re: Remote mirror with XP Pro

 What's your problem?

 On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:58 PM, NTSysAdmin wrote:

  Dear dear dear...how did you become an IT manager???

  S

  -Original Message-
  From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:02 PM
  To: NT System Admin Issues
  Subject: Remote mirror with XP Pro

  Good afternoon,

  I thought you could set up a software mirror through XP Pro, but now
  that I sat down to do it, I realize I can't.  In researching the
  issue, I see that you can create a mirror on a remote system, but
only
  see references to 200 Server.  Does anyone know if this can be done
to
  a 2003 Server volume?

  Instead of having two local drives configured as a mirrored volume,
  I'd like to mirror a drive on the XP box to a drive on a 2003
server.
  This would be done over a gigabit network, BTW.

  Thanks,

  Eric Brouwer
  IT Manager
  www.forestpost.com
  er...@forestpost.com
  248.855.4333

  ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
  ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

  ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
  ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~

 Eric Brouwer
 IT Manager
 www.forestpost.com
 er...@forestpost.com
 248.855.4333

 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
 ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/  ~
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RE: Central monitoring of PC performance

2009-01-08 Thread Sean Rector

I use Spiceworks - it's free.

Sean Rector, MCSE

-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Central monitoring of PC performance

Microsoft makes a bunch of tools...

System Center Ops Manager
System Center Config Manager
Or
System Center Essentials (if you have a smaller shop)

Cheers
Ken

-Original Message-
From: Travis Krampy [mailto:traviskra...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2009 8:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Central monitoring of PC performance

Hi All,

I was just wondering if anyone is using a central management tool to
monitor 
all your PC's (disk space, CPU, Memory, software assessments, etc...).

If so, can they be used to proactively monitor and alert IT staff?

Thanks

Travis 

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2009-01-08 Thread Michael Hoffman

Enjoy

Mike

Mike Hoffman
Drum Brae Solutions Ltd


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