Re: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)
Are you using a mail services (postini) to check your outbound mail, if so is your account ok with them, have you tested from outside using a site like http://mxtoolbox.com HTH, Bob Smith -- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Cc: Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com Subject: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost) Stuck on this one. (1) Exch 2003 server that is my SMTP outbound connector (1) Exch 2007 server that only hosts mailboxes For some reason my Exch 2003 server stopped sending outbound emails on Friday. All messages are getting stuck in the queue and show the connection was dropped by the remote host when I look at the queue. I made sure that our outgoing IP (24.56.73.162) is NOT on spamhaus or other blacklist. So everything looks good there. If I try telneting from the Exch 2003 server, it opens successfully to a destination mail server, but as soon as I try typing H (for Helo), it disconnects with a connection to host lost message in the command prompt. I also, just for test purposes, tried telneting from the Exch 2007 server (even though it does NOT deliver outbound mail at this time, it only forwards stuff to the Exch 2003 smtp connector), to various mail servers and the SAME thing happens from the 2007 server. I can telnet, but after typing H, the connection to host is lost. What's more interesting is, on my local machine, I CAN telnet into any internet mail server and typing H does NOT drop the connection at all. I'm doubting it's a firewall issue because telnet isnt blocking the telnet session from Exch 2003. I'm doubting we're on spamhaus, etc. (checked the spamhaus.org website to be sure), and my ISP says it's not them dropping the connection.. So Any ideas? Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: The network path not found
Jim, Check that the following services are started: Workstation, DHCP Client, DNS Client, Server, TCP/IP Netbios helper, Computer Browser. Have you tried to create a share on the system to see if you can browse it then, also try enabling NETBIOS over TCP/IP HTH, Bob Smith -- From: Jim Dandy jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: The network path not found I've got a Server 2003 domain. One Vista computer on that domain doesn't show up in Network Neighborhood. From an XP machine if you do start run \\computername\sharename I get \\computername\sharename The network path not found I've also tried \\FQDN\sharename and \\ipaddress\sharename and get the same results. If you try to access the Vista machine from another Vista machine it fails with the error Windows cannot access \\comptuername\Sharename Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve the network problems, click Diagnose. I get the same error if trying to access with either FQDN or ipaddress. If you click on diagnose it says the most likely problem is that port 445 is closed. Here is some additional info 1) I can ping the computer using either it's NetBIOS name, FQDN or IP address 2) File and printer sharing is enabled 3) For testing purposes, the firewall is disabled on the Vista box. 4) If I bring up Network Neighborhood on the Vista computer it can see itself but other computers can't see it 5) I tried removing the Vista computer from the domain and adding it back Any other suggestions on what I might do to get this working? Perhaps there is some service that is not running that should be running? It used to work on this computer. I'm not sure why it stopped. Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ 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/ ~
Re: The network path not found
Jim, Any Anti-Virus running on it, if so what kind, any errors in the event logs, and you mention it is in a domain any policies that may be preventing this, is it in a separate OU than the other systems. Bob Smith -- From: Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: The network path not found Good question, whenever we find the issue it will be something simple I missed. But this is Enterprise 7 and it is joined to the domain. -Original Message- From: Alan Monaghan [mailto:al...@gardnerweb.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The network path not found Just to be sure. This is the version of Vista that can talk to the network and join a domain. The only reason I ask is there were a few versions there that could not do that and don't want to overlook the obvious. Felis demulcta mitis ... Alan G. Monaghan [ MCSE+I - Win4.0/ MCSE - Win2k/ BJCP # C0389(Recognized) Ò¿Ó¬ ] Systems Administrator Gardner Publications, Inc. *Phone .. 1-513-527-8867 *Fax 1-513-527-8801 *Cell ... 1-513-378-0919 *E-mail . al...@gardnerweb.com *URL http://Bullwinkle.GardnerWeb.Com/ -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The network path not found Saw those just a bit ago. They are all enabled and started, netbios over tcp/ip is also enabled. Yep, I have an everyone full control folder shared and cannot even hit that directly. Tried by IP address also. For now Windows Firewall is disabled. -Original Message- From: Bob Smith [mailto:b...@neconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The network path not found Jim, Check that the following services are started: Workstation, DHCP Client, DNS Client, Server, TCP/IP Netbios helper, Computer Browser. Have you tried to create a share on the system to see if you can browse it then, also try enabling NETBIOS over TCP/IP HTH, Bob Smith -- From: Jim Dandy jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: The network path not found I've got a Server 2003 domain. One Vista computer on that domain doesn't show up in Network Neighborhood. From an XP machine if you do start run \\computername\sharename I get \\computername\sharename The network path not found I've also tried \\FQDN\sharename and \\ipaddress\sharename and get the same results. If you try to access the Vista machine from another Vista machine it fails with the error Windows cannot access \\comptuername\Sharename Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve the network problems, click Diagnose. I get the same error if trying to access with either FQDN or ipaddress. If you click on diagnose it says the most likely problem is that port 445 is closed. Here is some additional info 1) I can ping the computer using either it's NetBIOS name, FQDN or IP address 2) File and printer sharing is enabled 3) For testing purposes, the firewall is disabled on the Vista box. 4) If I bring up Network Neighborhood on the Vista computer it can see itself but other computers can't see it 5) I tried removing the Vista computer from the domain and adding it back Any other suggestions on what I might do to get this working? Perhaps there is some service that is not running that should be running? It used to work on this computer. I'm not sure why it stopped. Thanks for your help. Curt Finley ~ 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/ ~ ~ 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/ ~ ~ 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/ ~
Re: Home drive mapping quizzler
The issue my understanding pop up after XP SP3, to resolve the problem use the FQDN so instead of \\fileserver\users\username use \\fileserver.comp.com\users\username in AD you can get the FQDN by right clicking on the server and go to properties. HTH, Bob Smith -- From: Eisenberg, Wayne wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Home drive mapping quizzler My google-fu is below par right now, maybe some of you have the answer: We use the AD home folder info (on the profile tab) to map users' H: drive to \\fileserver\users\username . 97% of the time it works as advertised. However, sometimes it just maps the H: drive to \\fileserver\users and doesn't go all the way to the next level. We unmap and remap the user to the proper location manually and life goes on. But why is this happening at all? Is it just a Microsoft-ism? Is there some bizarre glitch running amok? Any ideas? ~ 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/ ~
Win 7 Install Issues
I was finally able to get WIn7 32 64 off the TechNet site, appears that changed the download location halfway through the day, during the install I was alerted to the fact that Win 7 no longer supports Windows Mail (I use Outlook for Company Mail and Windows Mail for Private Mail) after completing the install this morning in fact Windows Mail (Had Backup not to Concerned) was removed but it does not delete the mail settings and mail itself (Ok, this is good but MS could have better about this, I can see where it might cause some concerns), so I fired up Windows Live mail and did an import and all back to normal, I also noticed the Vipre Enterprise was crashing, so I went to Sunbelts site but I was unable to correct this so I temporarily removed this until there is a resolution. HTH, Bob Smith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: FTP though an F5 BigIP
Michael, Just wanted to let you know that I was able to resolve this issue, it was caused by FTP flipping from active to passive, I setup a VS and connected it to the pool and still the issue persisted, after doing some research on F5 website, and changing the script to passive, it worked perfectly. Thanks again for your responses, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:50 PM Subject: RE: FTP though an F5 BigIP Well, that's what you want to change. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Bob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FTP though an F5 BigIP Hi Michael, No persistence and no stickiness. Thanks for the reply, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: RE: FTP though an F5 BigIP Do you have connections to the F5 set to sticky? (That is, IP persistence.) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Bob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTP though an F5 BigIP Hello All, We implement an active/passive F5 BigIP last weekend for 2 webservers, since then a daily FTP Job on the webserver to offload the log files has failed, nothing else has changed in the environment, same firewall, same servers, these were previously connected to Kemp LB's (through the kemps it worked fine) and we replaced the Kemp with F5's, has anyone run into this. Thank you in advance, Bob Smith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
FTP though an F5 BigIP
Hello All, We implement an active/passive F5 BigIP last weekend for 2 webservers, since then a daily FTP Job on the webserver to offload the log files has failed, nothing else has changed in the environment, same firewall, same servers, these were previously connected to Kemp LB's (through the kemps it worked fine) and we replaced the Kemp with F5's, has anyone run into this. Thank you in advance, Bob Smith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: FTP though an F5 BigIP
Hi Michael, No persistence and no stickiness. Thanks for the reply, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: RE: FTP though an F5 BigIP Do you have connections to the F5 set to sticky? (That is, IP persistence.) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Bob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTP though an F5 BigIP Hello All, We implement an active/passive F5 BigIP last weekend for 2 webservers, since then a daily FTP Job on the webserver to offload the log files has failed, nothing else has changed in the environment, same firewall, same servers, these were previously connected to Kemp LB's (through the kemps it worked fine) and we replaced the Kemp with F5's, has anyone run into this. Thank you in advance, Bob Smith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: FTP though an F5 BigIP
Michael, If I am FTP'ing from and inside server to and outside server, do I need to create a pool / virtual server for that FTP connection, I only have two HTTP and HTTPS Pools right now, FTP Server is not running, we are running a batch script that does FTP from a command line to an Outside FTP server.. Thanks again, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:50 PM Subject: RE: FTP though an F5 BigIP Well, that's what you want to change. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Bob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FTP though an F5 BigIP Hi Michael, No persistence and no stickiness. Thanks for the reply, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: RE: FTP though an F5 BigIP Do you have connections to the F5 set to sticky? (That is, IP persistence.) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Bob Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FTP though an F5 BigIP Hello All, We implement an active/passive F5 BigIP last weekend for 2 webservers, since then a daily FTP Job on the webserver to offload the log files has failed, nothing else has changed in the environment, same firewall, same servers, these were previously connected to Kemp LB's (through the kemps it worked fine) and we replaced the Kemp with F5's, has anyone run into this. Thank you in advance, Bob Smith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Hippa Compliance Checklist
Dave, Please do your research and make sure you are protected. http://www.dwt.com/practc/hc_ecom/publications/HIPAAChecklist.htm Hope this helps, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:00 AM Subject: Hippa Compliance Checklist Hi gang, I'm looking into branching into Hippa compliance a bit as an IT consultant. The basic idea is to walk into a doctor's office, tell them what they have wrong, how to fix it, and implement. Does anyone have any experience in this? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks Dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: The Website is Down
The Website is DownI love the part were he goes into the bosses e-mail and deletes the e-mail that says Do not Reboot the Webserver and the boss is like, oh I cannot find the e-mail, I must not have sent it. Thanks for the laugh. Bob - Original Message - From: Roger Wright To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: The Website is Down A little rough but hilarious nonetheless: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Re: Lotus Notes Help
Sorry version 7.03, I was able to do a new configuration and have the server started but it does not appear to be send mail, what is the best way to look at the queue, and what tool should I use to administer it, client or admin client? TIA, Bob Smith - Original Message - From: Mike Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Lotus Notes Help any idea what version of notes the server is running? - Original Message - From: Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:58 AM Subject: Lotus Notes Help Good morning, A little background, this company had a outside firm doing all their support and someone in that firm starting doing bad stuff like coping the a sql database filled with private info..long story short looks like they made have done some damage as well, The notes server is unable to start, it just says starting, no mail is moving so I copied, rename and backup the notes.ini file this morning and stripped out all but the first 4 line in notes.ini, I also renamed the names.nsf and bookmarks.nsf file and was able to get it start but and I notice in the task manager that the server configuration opens but I am not seeing it so I am assuming since I am connected to a terminal session it is probably opening on the console? How can I get to an administrative screen? Where can I get the admin client? Any tips/suggestions? Thanks for any assistance, Bob Smith ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
