RE: [ActiveDir] Authentication Problems.

2003-06-09 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Looking into my crystal ball. You're using downlevel (i.e. pre-Win2k) clients, and have enabled password complexity requirements. This was done after creating non-complex passwords for the users. Either disable password complexity, or reset their passwords to something

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Ahh, SPAM. I love it. I'll take yours! Seriously, the only way to reduce the impact of spam on your network is to never accept it. Content filtering works to an extent, but that requires you to accept the mail, therefore taking the resource hit on your network. Not to

Re: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Rob Freeman
Depending on their budgets, here are a few solutions: If they can not spend a lot, go with open relay filter. Starting cost is $25 for the stardard version and $99.00 for the enterprise version. We use this with some of our smaller clients. http://www.vamsoft.com/orf/ If you want to add

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Title: Message Although this thread has nothing to do with AD, right now I am using Norton Antivirus for Exchange 2000, it allows you to filter some content and works pretty good and is included with the product. The only thing is it scans the entire Exchange store for content and subject

RE: [ActiveDir] Trying to run DCPromo and getting error 5171

2003-06-09 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: Message Is the second machine pointing to the first server for DNS? -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-From: steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Craig Cerino
Title: Message The biggest issue with Nortons SAVF is the fact that Exchange 2K handles APIs on every message differently so you could end up with slip throughs as far as SPAM is concerned. (I got this info directly from Symantec since we use it too) We are currently in the process of

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Friese, Casey
Title: Message I'm evaling GFI's MailEssential's and MailSecurity products as we speak. Thus far I've only had 3 false positives and they occured because I was agressively filtering out any pieces of mail that had remote images tagged in them. The product is very stable and has 3 ways of

RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange, and SPAM filters or blacklist or...

2003-06-09 Thread Robert Moir
Title: Message Wow. This is like a list of reasons not to touch symantec products. fwiw i'm using mailsweeper as a smtp gateway, filtering incoming (and outgoing) messages for spam, viruses, other undesirable stuff and it understands that just because i filtered "Sex" as a banned word, that

RE: [ActiveDir] Authentication Problems.

2003-06-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Title: Message Another possibility is that manual mappings to shared drives were done under an old password, and the system stored that in the registry. Disconnect the network drives and then reconnect. We do our standard mappings in the login script, and strongly discourage manual mappings

[ActiveDir] windows 2000 group policy preferences

2003-06-09 Thread Graham Turner
just wanted to pick up on others experiences of using preferences (as opposed to true policies) in w2k gp objects. experiencing behaviour which is at best described as inconsistent in the application / refresh of values set in the non-standard registry hives issues may stem from the format of

RE: [ActiveDir] Trying to run DCPromo and getting error 5171

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel Chaveco
I had a similar problem and solved it by installing NetBEUI/BIOS on both servers and then tried to join the domain. It worked fine.Roger Seielstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the second machine pointing to the first server for DNS?

[ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Rittenhouse, Cindy
Please help. I have 3 servers, in 2 different domains that keep showing up in DNS with both their correct ip address and an entry with ip address 192.168.234.235. I keep deleting these entries, but they keep reappearing. There must be some significance to this ip address. Does anyone have an idea

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Can you run nbtstat -a 192.168.234.235 from the command line, can you ping the number? -Original Message- From: Rittenhouse, Cindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries Please help. I have 3 servers,

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Rittenhouse, Cindy
No, I can not ping it and nbtstat results host not found. -Original Message- From: Bryan Schlegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 13:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries Can you run nbtstat -a 192.168.234.235 from the command line,

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Bryan Schlegel
Sorry I don't have too much, check these links out. Maybe KB article Q292822 could help you out. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292822 http://support.ap.dell.com/docs/software/smdrac3/RAC/en/readme/read33.tx t * Due to functional details that are specific to Windows Dynamic DNS servers,

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO
Sounds like you have a ghosted adapter that was setup running a private IP address at some point and still exists in the registry. Try this: Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Rittenhouse, Cindy
Thank you very much, this is exactly my problem, all 3 of these servers have DRACIII cards. -Original Message- From: Bryan Schlegel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 13:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries Sorry I don't have too much,

Re: [ActiveDir] Trying to run DCPromo and getting error 5171

2003-06-09 Thread rick reynolds
also, if you are logged in on the server with a valid id and password for the domain, and that id has permissions to add a computer to the domain, you wont need netbeui - Original Message - From: Daniel Chaveco To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Wright, T. MR NSSB
I actually have the same exact problem with a Dell PE server... I tried disabling the DRAC during boot as I thought that may be the cause and that was no help. I also tried disabling Dynamic DNS registration on that interface after I read this KB article

RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries

2003-06-09 Thread Rittenhouse, Cindy
Apparently, Dell has a fix for this problem on their 2650 servers. Check the Dell Premier site for BR57110.exe. -Original Message- From: Wright, T. MR NSSB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 14:52 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] bogus DNS entries I

RE: [ActiveDir] Single sign-on

2003-06-09 Thread Sharma, Shshank
Title: Message Hi All, This is about user credentials. 1. What attributes (if any) in the standard out-of-the-box active directory store should I looking at if I want to know the credentials of the user logged in currently ?, and; 2. What methods can I use to get the values of these

[ActiveDir] OU and GPO Design Comments

2003-06-09 Thread David Adner
I'm interested in feedback on the following OU and GPO design. Simple OU structure, something like: |--Branches |--Users |--Computers The Users OU would hold around 5000 users and the Computers OU an equal amount of workstations and servers. GPO's would be created for the users

RE: [ActiveDir] OU and GPO Design Comments

2003-06-09 Thread Rick Kingslan
David, We do something similar in our environment (15k computers, 25k users) with each of our campus buildings or remote sites as a Branch as you have it termed, with Computer sub-OU for workstations contained there, and some type of OU for user objects. In one domain we have ~18 branches