RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
I was refering to ObjectGUID, you on the ball as usual Joe :oP It was easier for me to get the ldapDisplay name an not having to do magic tricks with System.DirectoryServices in .net to get the ObjectGUID out of the directory. But it that is the best way (and Eric hasnt given us his answer

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Well. Gil you bring up some interesting points here- I am building a schema tool and search tool sounds fun huh... Now to give you some more info about the info, I use some "simple" code to get all the mandatory and optional attributes for a specified class, those attributes are the

[ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a particular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Tronco
Here's the situation. We've got a number of W2K DCs that are Compaq DL360's with dual NICs. Each one of them has a production interface that is reachable by clients. The second interface has a presence on a non-routable network that is used exclusively for backups. Since the DC sees both

[ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Roseta Radfar
hi, any one can give me the name of a good cache software that works with transparent proxy and can be used on windows 2000 server. any good that you may have used and know that is a good one. thanks in advance. roseta

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a particular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread simon.geary
There are a few steps that have to be followed to disable dynamic DNS registration on a DC, you will probably find it's not just invalid GC records that appear but invalid host entries as well since Netlogon will by default register all IP addresses with DNS. This kb shows you how to disable

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Rutherford, Robert
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RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Rutherford, Robert
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RE: [ActiveDir] win98

2004-05-20 Thread Salandra, Justin A.
It doesn't fail, it then relies on broadcasting. What that article talked about was putting the same WINS server in the TCPIP settings twice so that it tries the first then the second then the first then the second and so on. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a particular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272294Product=w in2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;198767Product=w in2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246804Product=w in2000 One of these 3 will probably take care of the issue for you.

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a pa rticular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
Yeah - uncheck the checkboxes that say Register this connection in DNS on the TCP/IP properties of the backup NIC's . -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From:

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish? Straight proxy caching for a speed increase, or are you also looking to do authenticated proxying? Roger -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc.

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a pa rticular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
That's right - I did forget Netlogon registers the NICs. See the posts from Michael Smith and Simon Geary for KB articles. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Rutherford, Robert
If I remember.. Winproxy will do almost anything you could want on a proxy front. It's also relatively cheap. http://www.winproxy.com BR, Rob -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2004 13:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] a

[ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership

2004-05-20 Thread Mike Welborn
Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the Activedir.org mailing list. Thanks you Michael Welborn

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Roseta Radfar
a cach for a speed increase and a strong one! -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 5/20/2004 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

RE: [ActiveDir] Is it possible to Disable GC registration on a pa rticular NIC?

2004-05-20 Thread simon.geary
That will prevent the DHCP client service registering the resords in DNS but as these servers are DC's you also need to prevent Netlogon from registering the records so that tick box wouldn't be enough. If any of the DC's are DNS servers there are even more hoops to jump through to completely

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
and Eric hasnt given us his answer to his question What question is that? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos Magalhaes Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter I was refering to

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
" I can conceive of a scenario (maybe more, you tell me) where lDAPDisplayName is not unique. Anyone want to take a swing at it? Attached is my first answerno peaking! ~Eric" That one :P From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Thursday,

RE: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership

2004-05-20 Thread Craig Cerino
Please continue FEMALE membership J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Welborn Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Discontinue Mail Membership Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
I answered it though in the attached file. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlos Magalhaes Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter I can conceive of a scenario (maybe more, you tell

RE: [ActiveDir] win98

2004-05-20 Thread joe
If the client is an H node it will try broadcast no matter how many WINS Servers you have listed, it will occur after it has gone through the WINS List and not resolved the name. If the client is P node it will not do the broadcast. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Blonde moment - this hasnt been my month... *Blushing* From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:33 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter I answered it though in the attached file. From:

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000 Personal preference for secure, fast cache only proxy is Squid, but it only runs on Unix. I run an OpenBSD/Squid cache combo at home to speed up my access. Transparent proxying is kinda hard - you need to put the box inline

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000 Im not clear on this thread I dont think. Are we talking about web content caching or authenticating caching? That hasnt been spelled out, and I assumed web content caching, but was not sure. ~Eric

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Thats why Ii was thinking maybe ObjectGUID might be the best way to go... Nice point to keep in mind though good stuff Eric. CM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:09 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir]

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000 Web content, it would seem. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. From: Eric Fleischman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread joe
I don't think you can do a change notification with the Dot NET stuff yet... You have to use the LDAP API. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> (watch for url wrap) Anyway, that seems slow on the search, is dot NET really adding that much overhead? I just did a quick

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous bind

2004-05-20 Thread joe
btw, KB 326690 still mentions 7th bit. Ugh. I sent another note to MSKB folks to catch the other 7th bit references in that article. They got some of them, just not all of them. :oP Setting up a heterogeneous environment is a pain. Putting *nix clients (or services) into the AD mix is not

[ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
I think this thread has been on here before, but I just wanted to verify it once more. In order to use LDAPS on DC's Microsoft Documentation says a CA needs to be installed on the DC. Does anyone have any information on other methods to do LDAPS without the CA requirement? Thanks, Todd List

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous bind

2004-05-20 Thread joe
[EFLEIS] - So we think it is easier to sync over a subset of data to the other directory, extend there and populate there? Rather than just putting it all in the main directory? I'm sorry, I just disagree. :) Hmm I have mixed feelings on this one and would say... It depends. I can see

RE: [ActiveDir] User modifiable attributes

2004-05-20 Thread joe
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question Also need to be careful here with mucking with the property sets so as not to hurt sensitive apps dependent on them... coming to mind right off would be Exchange which has heavy dependence on property sets. You would almost certainly end up

RE: [ActiveDir] Anonymous bind

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
There's no question that this is a sliding rule. And I think somewhere else down in that post I noted that but am not seeing it right there. The bottom line is that there will always be a cost/benefit to putting a piece of data in a replicate location which spreads out to other servers where it

RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000

2004-05-20 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] a good software for cache on windows 2000 ISA would be another option. It doesn't have to be inline so much as it has to be specified at the client to use a proxy with all other http requests being denied at the firewall. ISA in cache mode works very well from the

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Tony Murray
Hi Todd The DCs require a certificate issued by a trusted CA. This can be the Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authority (installed on a member server) or a third party CA. There are certain preconditions for the third party CA. More info here.

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Mulnick, Al
Not sure about putting the CA on a DC but I can't think why it would be a requirement. You would need a cert for ldaps. This is probably where the recommendation came from to use an Enterprise CA http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;247078 However, in light of the question I

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
If memory serves me correctly, that probably stems from the fact that most people want to do auto enrollment, auto enrollment need be done from an enterprise CA rather than a standalone one, and enterprise ca's (root or subordinate) need be on DCs. That said, you don't need to do that for

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Tony Murray
Hi Eric According to the Step-by-step guide to setting up a Certificate Authority (http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/security/casetupstep s.asp) the enterprise CA can be either a member server or a DC. The enterprise CA requires the following: Windows 2000 DNS Service

[ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Douglas M. Long
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question Now you are going to think this is dumb, but even knowing that the page file should atleast be on a seperate disk from the OS, I have never done so. From what I have read, it seems like when you put a page file on another disk, you actually have

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Yes, unless you remove the one on the first drive. In the box where you configure the pagefile, you can set the one on the system drive to 0 and it will go away. It will complain about memory dumps, but if you don't need that you can ignore it. You can set the size for each pagefile as you want

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Tieman, Harold A Mr ANOSC/FCBS
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question Configure the second page file, then disable the one on the OS partition. -Original Message- From: Douglas M. Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] PAGE

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Hunter, Laura E.
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question Not necessarily. You can configure your page file to live on the same drive as the OS, on a separate drive, or to exist across multiple drives. If you remove the pagefile from the "OS drive" (read: set the maximum size to 0), you will lose

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question ...and remember that you will no longer get the crashdump ability, so you may as well disable that. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tieman, Harold A Mr ANOSC/FCBSSent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:19 PMTo: '[EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Problems with File permissions

2004-05-20 Thread Snow Brent Civ OO-ALC/ITMD
I know this question is kind of off topic, but this is the first time I have ever seen this problem, I have a computer that has a 120 GB C drive and just because today when the user logged into the system, all of the files on the C drive were set to read only, when we try and change them

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Douglas M. Long
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question Ok, so sounds like I want to keep one on the OS drive also...Is there a way to set priority on which one to use first??? Right now, here is what I am thinking for the setup of my DC RAID-1 2 drives OS, Software, and System Logs (and

[ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Kern, Tom
is there an attribute i can set in adsiedit,ldp,etc to hide a user from appearing in the usual admin gui utlilties like aduc? also when you look in group memebership, to not have s(he) appear there as well? thanls List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ:

RE: [ActiveDir] Problems with File permissions

2004-05-20 Thread Snow Brent Civ OO-ALC/ITMD
Only if it was pushed down via group policy...but if that is the case then it would be affecting the rest of the computers in that OU...I have not removed it, and when I checked it was there From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick - IT Department

RE: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Mulnick, Al
Can you give some background on what you want to accomplish? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:00 PM To: ActiveDir (E-mail) Subject: [ActiveDir] hidding users is there an attribute i can set in

RE: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Lou Vega
Not sure about an attribute, but shouldn't you be able to set the security permissions on the user(s) in question with a DENY ALL for whichever group or user you are trying to keep out? At the very least the object will show up but will show up as UNKNOWN and the person with the DENY ALL access to

RE: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread cflesher
I did something like that in my environment. Basically, I put all the users in an OU into a group, and allowed only that group, plus various pertinent admin groups, to read/list resources. It works well enough, but can take time to get it all down. For a real large environment, it may not be the

RE: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Kern, Tom
when opening up aduc, i'd like the user not to appear. also, if s(he) is a member of groupA, when looking at membership of groupA thru aduc, that user should not appear. i would think there is an attribute of that specfic userclass which you can set so it would not be visible via the normail gui

RE: [ActiveDir] PAGE file

2004-05-20 Thread Roger Seielstad
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange 2003 Question I'd leave the page files on the OS drives in both cases. Keep in mind that once the system and whatever apps are running, the OS drive really won't get hit for anything. Roger -- Roger

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
Joe- My understanding is that they are indeed correcting the er..challenges withSystem.DirectoryServices in the 2.0 Framework. I can echo Gil's comments--today it uses COM Interop, as is evidenced by the COMInterop exceptions that I get when something pukes and I can also confirm

AW: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
Maybe the AD List Mode will be an option for you: http://www.chrisse.se/MAQB.asp?ID=34 Ulf -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Kern, Tom Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2004 20:00 An: ActiveDir (E-mail) Betreff: [ActiveDir] hidding

[ActiveDir] OT, How to change wording on screen when computer is locked

2004-05-20 Thread rmcdonald
What I am looking to do is change the wording on the screen when a computer is locked where it says This computer is in use and has been locked. I have it when the user log's in but I want to change it when it's locked as well but I can not find out where to do this for the life of me. Any help

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Gil, Yeah that's the exact steps that .net uses, under the hood it uses ADSI , most of the hard work you then have to manually invoke the COM pity PInvoke just kills the idea of the LDAP API You know how clients are it HAS to be .NET (I can imagine Eric smiling now) You keep

Re: AW: [ActiveDir] hidding users

2004-05-20 Thread Mike Baudino
AD list mode is interesting enough that we're going to look into it as well. We're also looking into the link below as a way to accomplish this. At this point we haven't tested either so I don't really know yet whether they fill your need (or ours, for that matter). Mike

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
Joe are you really still bitter about the care blanche thing? *sigh* ;) ~Eric From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter Well pardon my poor

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Joe, Yeah they are planning to "ADD" features to the namespace, depending on the way you look at it, its things that where left out and should have been there in any event. There are other NDA things that are very interesting (just ping me offline if you want to know since you have been

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Carlos Magalhaes
Darren, I have some code to handle those puked COM exceptions alot of invoking but hey it does the trick, if you want just ping me offline. I wont be on email for a day or two I am on my way to Dubai (from South Africa) and man I hate flying :( Carlos From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Steve Lithgow
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter Joe- My understanding is that they are indeed correcting the er..challenges

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAPS to DCs

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Fleischman
Duh, had a moment. The requirement is not that they are on a DC, it is that they are on a domain-joined machine. Member servers are ok. I'm no cert guy. :) Thanks for keeping me in line. ~Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP filter

2004-05-20 Thread Steve Schofield
i try to use .NET exclusively and have no issues using COM-Interop. Its not the most efficient but it beling slow is a myth in my experience. Steve Schofield Note: I think Joe and company should start a reality show with the comedy. "Guess the geeks line" or "Geeks are funny and are