RE: [ActiveDir] Cats & dogs (was A root dc question)

2004-05-15 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
Oh my, this has flamewar written all over it. Oil and water, Palestinians and Israelis, Microsoft zealots and Novell bigots, dog people and cat people. This thread can go nowhere but downhill. But what the heck, I'll give it a little shove. Joe, I really have trouble putting "refined" and "yakkin

RE: [ActiveDir] A root dc question

2004-05-15 Thread Daniel Gilbert
Cats treat humans like slaves, now a Dog, it knows how to greet you at the door after a rough day in the forest. Ever come home after a rough day and have the Cat greet you with anything other than distain? Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread joe
It queues up a replication request immediately. You can watch it happen if you want, go grab adqueueloop from my web site and watch the DC you are forcing the replication on and click the button. You will see several replication requests get queued up. joe -Original Message- From: [

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Sorry the first point kind of made me think in that direction. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence > that

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread David Adner
When I initiate replication either via Sites and Services or repadmin, does either simply tell the DC to force replication at the next scheduled interval? Or do they cause an immediate replication? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
> that is how the replication takes place isn't it? (#3?) Correctdid I say something that inferred this is not the case? In rereading my note below I don't think I did. We're somewhat generalizing the mechanics here, but yes, from a high level, we replicate on a per NC basis over the COs

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Smart Array & Failed Drive

2004-05-15 Thread Brian Desmond
Murray- Thanks for the reply. I checked and I'm using the Win2k driver. I'll try upgrading that on Monday - rather not upgrade scsi drivers from my living room couch . Screenshots in phyiscal and logical mode of the ACU are at www.briandesmond.com/acu_physical.jpg, and www.briandesmond.com/ac

RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Very strange, it shouldn't be there, you can remove it. I have only ever seen that in place when the ADC was installed on a machine. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings

2004-05-15 Thread Kern, Tom
No, my bad. its at the same level. no adc was installed. -Original Message- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings Ewww. No you shouldn't have that there unless did you install the ADC

RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Ewww. No you shouldn't have that there unless did you install the ADC on the DC? Even still, I wouldn't expect it under the NTDS Settings It should be at the same level as NTDS Settings if I recall correctly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings

2004-05-15 Thread Kern, Tom
under the dc and ntds object in sites and services. exchange is not running on a dc. -Original Message- From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings Are you looking under the Services section

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread joe
I think we typically talk about CO and naming context because that is how the replication takes place isn't it? (#3?) When you get down to it, the actual replication queue item is NC based, not connection based. If you force it to replicate a specific connection (ala sites and services tool) it wi

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread David Adner
Ah, I see it now under /showreps. Thx :) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric > Fleischman > Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 15:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence > > Sure, so long as y

RE: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread Eric Fleischman
Sure, so long as you understand the caveats: 1) A DC doesn't initiate replication wholesale so much as it does initiate replication on a particular connection object (a CO is the "connection" so to speak between two DCs from a replication perspective). 2) Replication is inbound from a CO perspectiv

[ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

2004-05-15 Thread David Adner
I know repadmin /showmeta will tell me when an object was last updated, but is there a switch (or other command) to just show when replication was last initiated on a Dc, regardless if anything was actually replicated or not? I know I can enable more logging for the NTDS service, but I'm curious i

RE: [ActiveDir] OT exchange settings

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Are you looking under the Services section in the Exchange branch and seeing this and did you have Exchange running on a DC? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:41 PM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [A

RE: [ActiveDir] 04-011 Issues

2004-05-15 Thread joe
I would agree that matched our experience with servers, very clean. Workstations on the other hand had some issues. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Durant, Ryan A Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE

RE: [ActiveDir] A root dc question

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Cats rock. They play with you, you just don't usually realize that they are playing because they don't come up and drool on you. A dog is like beer, harsh and in your face. A cat is like wine, very smooth and gentle and refined. I can leave the house for days and know the cat will be fine and won't

RE: [ActiveDir] A root dc question

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Acutally one of the books is by Mika and Sakari. Mika/Sakari used to do NDS training so have quite a few references. That would be the Inside Active Directory book. Again, you should familiar with the ground concepts before diving into that one as it gets deep fast. joe -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] A root dc question

2004-05-15 Thread joe
The books I mentioned are for those with a good understanding of what is going on with AD. A good starter book is Robbie and Alistaire's O'Reilly Active Directory book - The Cat Book. Don't worry about asking questions, as mentioned before, that is what the list is about. I am just, hopefully, war

RE: [ActiveDir] Enumerating DCs from a workstation that is not me mber of domain.

2004-05-15 Thread joe
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Enumerating DCs from a workstation that is not member of domain. You should be able to specify a domain and I get resolved in the background for you   The general format is    LDAP|GC://domain.com|servername/object   where | means OR.     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: [ActiveDir] GPO troubles

2004-05-15 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
So what's the fix?  Do I have to send out .reg files that undo the GPO?  That wouldn't be much fun. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Darren Mar-EliaSent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveD

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Compaq Smart Array & Failed Drive

2004-05-15 Thread Murray Wall
In all my playing with Compaq smart arrays, this is the case and everything that you have done is correct. I would like to know what version of the Smart Array utility you are using. I have version 2.90a as well as the web version. Also, the driver that you are using, was it the driver that c

RE: [ActiveDir] Enumerating DCs from a workstation that is not me mber of domain.

2004-05-15 Thread AD
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Enumerating DCs from a workstation that is not member of domain. Al,   You hit the nail on the head about my intentions. I did say vbscript or vb.net but I still appreciate that the fine folk in this forum are trying to help me.   I read the code in the link provided. L