Re: Workstation Naming Standards
Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards I use something simple - three letter office code, one letter code for equipment type (in this case "W"), and a two digit base-36 code (00 to ZZ) to identify the PC. PCs are therefore named GNDW01, GNDW02, and so on. I tried the spreadsheet/database approach for keeping track of who's using what PC, but it quickly became unmanageable (read: too lazy / no time to keep manually updating it) - I needed something that updated that info real-time. So I replaced the manually updated database with an exe in the logon process that records who's using what PC, along with other information, to a central location so there's no need to try and squeeze user and other info into the node name. Brian - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:11 PM Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards I still use non-descript names. In my case, car names, because theyre plentiful and easier to remember than XXY-003DC-7T. So, my computers are named things like Camry, Chevelle, Viper, Yukon, etc . and then I just keep a spreadsheet of whos using what computer, what its IP address is, etc That way, if someone moves from one machine to another, I only have to note the change in one place. Of course, were small (42 workstations) too, so YMMV. One interesting side note is that some users get really confused by this. For example, in 1995 I bought a screaming fast 100MHz Pentium, and named it Mustang. Now, over the years, that Mustangs is looking slower and slower, and as I got less creative at finding car names, I had to settle for whatever I could find. One of our CAD guys almost fell off his chair laughing when he found out his new dual 1GHz Pentium III machine was named Chevette Evan -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 2:06 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards I use the user name, but I've got a small 50 person installation. I change the name if the person changes. It simplifies figuring out who's having a problem, because I know everyone. Tougher in a large organization. I sure as heck wouldn't agonize over it. You want to be able to browse a list to pinpoint who's having a problem. And if necessary tie that back to some inventory/allocation information. Serial Number would probably work if you have a good inventory system. -Original Message- From: David James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards I don't use user names. What happens when that employee quits? You have to rename their machine as part of setting up a new user? I would use City_Dept_JobFunction then add a number for multiple job functions. DJ -Original Message- From: Osama S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Workstation Naming Standards hi, we will be deploying Win2K from scratch on the user's machines (around 700) replacing NT 4. SO I was reviewing our machine naming convention. Our Offices are located in two cities, one single domain. So far we would use something like "CityName-Department-User Real Name" (where city name and department are abbrevations) to name workstations. Usually the NT Names are the users Company ID, which is unique. I was wondering how you guys/girls are naming your workstations and users. regards Uso Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ Want to unsub? Do that here:http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsubNeed a good FAQ? Try this one first:http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/Want to unsub? Do that here:http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsubNeed a good FAQ? Try this one first:http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
Re: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir
Title: Out of Buffer Error WAG: Is the Task Scheduler running? Check to see if anyone's set anything nasty to run. Brian - Original Message - From: John Cesta - Lists To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir I am having a sort of weird problem on one of my NT4.0 SP6a servers. A while back I had to clean the server - chkdsk - seemed to work ok. After that this problem keeps occurring. One day I noticed that the files - not any directories just files - in the c:\winnt directory were gone except for two of them. I copied the files from another identical NT box in to this server's winnt directory. A day or so later they were gone again. I copied them into the dir again, a day later they are gone. I KNOW that the server does not have any viruses. I can only figure that the server may have a corrupt file system and needs to be cleaned once more. Any suggestions? John Cesta Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
Re: SirCam Virus Problem Exchange Server
Sounds like EXACTLY the same thing I'm going through - a Home.com user's system is peppering my inbox with infected messages. Unfortunately, the messages don't have a "From" address, so there's no way to contact the sender about the problem! I tried sending a message about it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but just got a form e-mail in reply. (Hint: If you don't want to receive the SirCam form e-mail from Home.com, don't mention "SirCam" in your message). In my second attempt, I replaced SirCam with S*i*r*C*a*m and received a different form e-mail. No further response as yet. so, at the moment I'm trying to configure my e-mail server to treat the home.com server (will specifically sdc1.sfba.home.com) as a spam relay, and block all e-mail from that server. When the hundreds of infected messages remain on their server instead of getting delivered to mine, perhaps then they'll pay more attention to the problem :-). Regards, Brian - Original Message - From: "Murray Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 11:22 AM Subject: SirCam Virus Problem Exchange Server > Our webmaster seems to have found a "friend" who apparently doesn't know she > has the SirCam virus. We're being sent hundreds of emails from this one > account to our webmaster. We've set up a rule to forward all these emails to > our webmasters delete folder, but apparently that's creating problems as > well. Our webmaster doesn't want us to shut down that alias, so does anyone > have any other ideas to somehow eliminate the problem. All the email is > coming from an address at HOME.COM. > > Murray > > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
Re: Microsoft Has Nimda
It's fairly easy to determine which directory you've used to install Windows, so this can be considered only as a minor deterrent. Now, if you were to also (1) install IIS on a different partition, and (2) configure IIS to use host headers for all sites... Brian - Original Message - From: "Clayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 6:31 PM Subject: RE: Microsoft Has Nimda How many people out there still install Windows (what ever version) into the Winnt or Windows directory? How many of these stupid worms would die if Windows was installed into a directory with some other name? H. Clayton Doige IT Manager MCSE, MCP + I Gameday International N.V. Bound in a nutshell, King of infinite space... T: +5 999 736 0309 ext 4537 C: +5 999 563 1845 F: +5 999 733 1259 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: McCarthy, Kathleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 20, 2001 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Has Nimda Hey, I agree too. From what I've read about Nimda thus far, it uses exploits that there have been patches out for for months. And the spreading through file sharing issue takes advantage of systems that haven't locked down their permissions. I've kept my servers and workstations patched with the most current and I lock down my machines - I don't leave any default permissions, I remove/disable services that aren't needed, etc. I haven't been infected by anything for over 2 years now - but I have plenty of logs to show that I've been attacked, just none have been successful as of yet. I'm sure that there are/will be worms developed to exploit vulnerabilities that there aren't already patches for, but it seems to me that the majority of the worms circulating all exploit vulnerabilities that there are already fixes for. If someone gets hit with something there are already patches for, I can't feel sorry for them. Kathleen McCarthy -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 14:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Has Nimda I was beginning to think I was the only person who held this opinion! http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
Re: Hiub recommendations
The SMC TigerSwitch 6724L2? We've got one of those. No complaints. And at that price you can afford to buy two and keep one as a spare :-). Brian - Original Message - From: "Charles Whitby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Hiub recommendations > > You can get an SMC 10/100 24-port managed switch for $652.00 from CDW > > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
Re: Slightly OT: Win2K Video Capture Cards
Just in case no-one's piped up with a solution yet...! The ATI TV Wonder tuner card ($70) can be used to capture stills. Dead easy, just select the video-in instead of cable-in, then use the camera icon to grab any pics. Alternatively, you can the digital VCR utility to record the entire video signal to disk, then go back and grab and stills that you want. The ATI TV Wonder VE can what you want as well, for For more info, http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/tv_wonder/index.html Of course, being able to watch cable-TV on the PC comes in handy too at times :-). Not sure about the quality though - if you want, I can try grabbing a few pics off my camera and send you the images so you can judge the quality for yourself. Note: Once properly set up, the ATI Multimedia Utilities are easy to use. However, ATI's driver installation process seem to be in permanent beta mode, so expect a few "issues" when trying to install them. Once installed though, they seem to work well. My card was provided with older drivers that don't support W2K. However, you can download drivers that do support W2K from their website. http://support.ati.com/products/pc/tuners/atitvwonder_drivers.html Alternatively, you could simply use one of ATI's All-In-Wonder cards that works as a normal video card as well as providing video/still capturing facilities. That way you can get the still-capturing without having to add an extra card to the system. Regards, Brian PS: Totally OT: Is your David Clark the creator of DUMAX? - Original Message - From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:36 AM Subject: Slightly OT: Win2K Video Capture Cards > Can anyone suggest a good video capture card for a Windows 2000 Pro machine, > where the normal everyday user is NOT an admin? It doesn't need to capture > video, just good quality stills off of a video signal. > > Our Materials Lab is purchasing a "video camera" for their stereoscope > (read: microscope) that has a video signal feed, and they would like to be > able to capture high quality stills. > > TIA for any help y'all can provide... > > Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I MCDBA > David Clark Company Inc. > > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
