RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question I got it, there is a shared secret ticket key that was set wrong. (bad documentation).   Thanks for everyone’s help   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gasper, Rick Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ActiveDir] krbtgt error when joining OS X client

2004-08-05 Thread Brent Westmoreland
Title: Re: [ActiveDir] krbtgt error when joining OS X client Hmmm, These directions look strangely familiar ; ) Don’t forget to set your timeserver...It is THE most common error. If you have set the Mac to have a Domain Controller as the time server and you still have errors then you sh

RE: [ActiveDir] Unlock user account in mass

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Desmond
Don't you think that there's a bigger issue that needs to be tackled first? What is causing this? I'd make sure auditing is turned on for your domains ecurity policy and start looking at failure records on your DCs. That aside, ADModify.Net can probably do this. --Brian -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Extracting information for Event Logs

2004-08-05 Thread deji
Try eventcombMT.exe, part of secops: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9989D 151-5C55-4BD3-A9D2-B95A15C73E92 Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realiz

[ActiveDir] Extracting information for Event Logs

2004-08-05 Thread Caple, Andrew
Title: Message Good morning everyone,   I've been asked to extract some information from our RAS server to see who has been dialling in over a certain period of time. The RAS server is an NT4 server. When I connect to it and have a look at the "Security" event logs I can see the entry:   Fa

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread deji
What I do here is put up a web interface to a script that does the pre-creation in the background. I have 2 flavors. One is for the Helpdesk Admins. They log into the website, type in a computer name, type in the name of the computer's owner, pick the site/location of the owner (from a drop-down) l

Re: [ActiveDir] How do you determine if information about an object is replicted?

2004-08-05 Thread Steve
Perfect. Exactly what I wanted to know. I'm off to run the adfind tool in my test forest and see the results. Thanks for the information. Cheers On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:41:22 -0400, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw your previous post, just didn't get a chance to hit it yet. > > The answer

RE: [ActiveDir] useraccountflag

2004-08-05 Thread joe
Hey I like to explain it out so people are empowered None of this is rocket science, it all comes down to 1's and 0's.   Changing that from true to false would indeed clear the non-expiring flag However it would clear ALL flags other than the account was a normal user account. So af

RE: [ActiveDir] Checklist for changing IP Address on DC

2004-08-05 Thread joe
The first thing I would do is visually inspect all of the DNS records for the DCs and make sure they are all up to snuff with the new correct Ips and that the DCs are all pointing at the right Ips for the DNS servers. joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [ActiveDir] AD Backup - Sort of

2004-08-05 Thread joe
That much is true. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coleman, Hunter Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Backup - Sort of At least they threw you a bone"Keeping with the Wind

RE: [ActiveDir] How do you determine if information about an object is replicted?

2004-08-05 Thread joe
I saw your previous post, just didn't get a chance to hit it yet. The answer, if I understand the question, is the schema. Whether an attribute replicates or not is controlled by a bit in the systemFlags attribute. Bit 1 to be exact... So if you want to look at your AD and find out all attribut

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread joe
Title: Kerberos question Pre-Authentication is a security measure to prevent a client from calling to the KDC and getting a response back that it can work on cracking to break the encryption. The client has to prove who it is before it gets anything useful basically...   You can disable pre-a

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 upgrade/migration

2004-08-05 Thread james . blair
Laura, We have recently gone through this procedure and it is not as painful as you would expect...The ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) is the way to go if you the target domain is going to be in native mode and if you Google ADMT NT 4.0 - 2003 migration you get all sorts of information, he

[ActiveDir] Extremely weird issue

2004-08-05 Thread Alex Etin
Title: Kerberos question I have encountered a very weird issue at this client.       The situation is as follows (i will do my best to try not to confuse    anyone).       Client has an AD domain. AD domain is 2003 based. Forest level: 2003    native. Domain level - 2003 native.

Re: [ActiveDir] Unlock user account in mass

2004-08-05 Thread James_Day
Hi Robert I have two scripts we used a few weeks ago when we had this problem. They were written based on some of Robbie Allens scripting in his Tuna Book. (See attached file: bulkunlock3.vbs)(See attached file: collect nt usernames.vbs) Create a file on the root of drive C called ntuserlist.tx

[ActiveDir] Unlock user account in mass

2004-08-05 Thread Robert N. Leali
Title: Kerberos question What is the easiest way to unlock multiple user accounts in Active Directory?  Random accounts locked up today and I need a way to unlock them without having to go user by user.  Is there a tool or script already written?   Any help would be appreciated.   Rober

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question I am looking that up now       Rick Gasper Manager, Network Services King's College 133 N. River St Wilkes-Barre PA  18711 PH: 570-208-5845 Fax: 570-208-6072 Cell: 570-760-0335 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Kerberos question This stands out Pre-authentication failed: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gasper, RickSent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:24 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question The program uses apache, I am still wor

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt

2004-08-05 Thread Ayers, Diane
Thanks for checking. Diane -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt Unfortunately

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question The program uses apache, I am still working with the vendor on this. This is the error from the DC:   Event Type:  Failure Audit Event Source:   Security Event Category:    Account Logon Event ID:  675 Date:    8/5/2004 Time:

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Kerberos question There are tools to monitor kerberos conversations (capture), but I think you're likely better off using success/failure audit logging to see what's going on, what's being attempted and where authentication is failing.    I think the following is most likely to be help

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question Question,: is there a utility that would use Kerberos to login (Kind of like a test login utility)?   We are not experiencing any problem with logins anywhere  (except as mentioned).. This is the first non windows application we are deploying that uses Kerberos (o

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Kerberos question So that leads to the next question then: do you have a problem going on?  If so, can you give some details?   Al From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gasper, RickSent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:26 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [Ac

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Cornetet
Title: Message Your local liquor store is a good place to start, followed by the drug store for a few gallons of Maalox.   Kerberos interoperability is a pain. It is possible, but you will have to do LOTS of research. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Cornetet
Unfortunately, I don't know, and the SAP guy who installed it doesn't remember either. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayers, Diane Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: default containers Thanks all for the responses – We’re 2000 presently, so I’ll look at the scripted or pre-create options. Thanks again   From: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] defa

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread Bernard, Aric
Title: default containers Of course if you have a Windows 2003 Domain Mode domain you could use the redircmp hack.  Note that Exchange 2000 domainprep (and who knows what else) expect some objects to be created in the “native” default locations (I think groups in the case of E2K).  Most of

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread joe
Title: default containers Yep, this can fairly easily be configured to be handled with say a web page so you can proxy the process so people don't have to have rights to create machine accounts or do any join they want to. This also allows you to have business logic rules behind it so you can

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread James Borris
Title: default containers Create the machine accounts in the destination container(s) prior to joining the domain.   There is another method with scripted unattended installs that would allow you to specify the container.   James Borris [EMAIL PROTECTED]     From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread John Singler
with w2k3 Domain: "Redirecting the users and computers containers in Windows Server 2003 domains" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324949 Creamer, Mark wrote: Is there a way to change the default location for a computer when it gets added to the domain to be a specific OU,

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: default containers In a FFL 2003 Active Directory you can modify the default path. RedirCMP is the CMD (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324949).  Otherwise, you'd want a process or a script to do it for you.  Netdom is one such tool that can put it in particular

RE: [ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread Bernard, Aric
Title: default containers I don’t think there is anyway to change the default location when adding a computer through the joining computers GUI.  If you are using a tool, most of them offer the ability to specify an alternate location.  You could of course pre-create machine accounts in the

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Alicia Szerenyi
ok, great... thanks -Mensaje original- De: joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 05 de agosto de 2004 12:18 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed This is why I indicated you should promote it and demote it and then you are back at square one and

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Yep. Problem is, especially in small environments, there are times when a DC is also the file server or it runs other services. Getting a small business to pay for an additional server is sometimes problematic. The high eggs-to-basket ratio is often accepted in relation to the costs. Thus the need

Re: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT Possible AD - Exchange issue

2004-08-05 Thread Tony Murray
No real clue, but perhaps some tips for further investigation: Does the problem occur with all versions of the 5.5 Admin program? Use SP4 version if in doubt. Is there any difference if you run the 5.5. Admin program on NT platform compared to W2K? If the accounts are already in AD, how many

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Alicia Szerenyi
i already recovered the DC, but since i demoted it by changing the registry property, i can't access AD...i want to eliminate any trash that might be left...or reinstall AD over it to start again from the begining...and then maybe uninstall properly... -Mensaje original- De: Carr, Jonath

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question Joe, I was pretty sure that was the case, but I wanted to make sure.   Thanks, Rick Gasper Manager, Network Services King's College 133 N. River St Wilkes-Barre PA  18711 PH: 570-208-5845 Fax: 570-208-6072 Cell: 570-760-0335 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question The application is called WebCT. www.webct.com. It is a distance learning app that runs off a web server. Their documentation is some what lacking, and their support is not really that good.   I do have everything set up as they request, so I was thinking that my

RE: [ActiveDir] Exceeding the LDAP Look Through Limit

2004-08-05 Thread joe
Ah yeah, I "duh"ed there for a second. Of course ffl. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric FleischmanSent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:55 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exceeding the LDAP Look Through Limit Change “domain functional mode”

[ActiveDir] default containers

2004-08-05 Thread Creamer, Mark
Title: default containers Is there a way to change the default location for a computer when it gets added to the domain to be a specific OU, rather than the Computers container? Or would this have to be done by scripting the add computer process? Mark Creamer

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread joe
This is why I indicated you should promote it and demote it and then you are back at square one and can start the promo back into a useable domain. There are all sorts of things in the file system and registry handled when you do a proper demotion. jeo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Carr, Jonathan \(OFT\)
Another note is that a DC is only a DC it should not under any circumstances have any DATA that is critical on it.. If you need to recover the server you need to follow the kb at MS about recovery of a failed DC. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

[ActiveDir] OT? - "showacls" usage?

2004-08-05 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
Hi,     In trying to diagnose an issue that came up yesterday, I am trying to use the showacls.exe from the 2003 server reskit.  It seems that it will only produce output for directories, not individual files.  Has anyone else experienced this behavior?  (Any other recommended tools to captu

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread joe
Title: Kerberos question I would contact the vendor. They should know. There should be nothing extra you have to do to support kerberos on your dc as the support is already there, that is the primary authentication mechanism now.     joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Carr, Jonathan \(OFT\)
I find if I went though a Dcpromo demote. The server was trash anyway and I rebuild from scratch. NICER and NEATER. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alicia Szerenyi Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Alicia Szerenyi
what happens if i reinstall AD over the previous files? will they be overwritten? or will that cause more errors? -Mensaje original- De: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 05 de agosto de 2004 11:59 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help need

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Personally, on this machine, after all this trouble, I'd back up the critical data that I wanted to keep, verify that the backup of that data could be restored to another location, wipe the machine and reinstall from scratch. Faster, easier, and more dependable than trying to clean up the wreckage.

[ActiveDir] Slightly OT Possible AD - Exchange issue

2004-08-05 Thread james . blair
All,   After migrating to Windows 2003 from NT4 we are now migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 however we are having a couple of  "strange" issues which did not occur in the lab...After scavenging the web and finding nothing will try here as it could be AD related. When I click o

RE: [ActiveDir] OT? - "showacls" usage?

2004-08-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm also pretty pleased with the new xcacls.vbs.   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ad33a24-0616-473c-b103-c35bc2820bda&DisplayLang=en From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of René de HaasSent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 8:42 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 upgrade/migration

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/default.mspx is a pretty good place to start. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura E. Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] OT:

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Mulnick, Al
Title: Kerberos question Sorry Rick.  Thread overlap. :)   Whether or not you need to make a change depends on the application.  For example, if they use the operating system to handle the authentication calls, then it should work fine, right? If they do something else, they should have docum

RE: [ActiveDir] urgent help needed

2004-08-05 Thread Alicia Szerenyi
After i forced demotion of the DC changing the property from LanmanNT to ServerNT, i can't access AD (obviously)...but i have left a lot of files and stuff from the previous install of AD...how do i get rid of all that junk? can i just delete everything? i don't think i can...i have files in the

[ActiveDir] How do you determine if information about an object is replicted?

2004-08-05 Thread Steve
(Resend as I did not see this hit the list yesterday) This is a learning question. Nothing is broken but I would like to know where some information is located. How can I tell and where do I go to find out what information is replicated in Active Directory at the DNS zone level itself. For exam

RE: [ActiveDir] krbtgt error when joining OS X client

2004-08-05 Thread kevingent
See if any of this helps as far as getting an AD computer account:   3. Join the Machine to Active Directory Open the finder and browse to /Applications/Utilities and open Directory Access. If the lock in the lower left corner is in the locked position, click on it and

[ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 upgrade/migration

2004-08-05 Thread Hunter, Laura E.
So I may be inheriting a new network that needs to do the "5.5 on NT4 to 2003 on 2003" shuffle. Your basic Google search returns any number of resources, obviously; but what does my favourite group of smart people have to say? Recommended Books/FAQs/Blogs/Sites that will make me not want to kill

RE: [ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question I think we have a miscom here: I have no 5.5 server-- I assume that you mean exchange 5.5 (we are all ex2k3).   More details:   I have an app that runs on a win2k3 that uses either LDAP or Kerberos to authenticate it’s users against our 2003 active directory. Th

[ActiveDir] Kerberos question

2004-08-05 Thread Gasper, Rick
Title: Kerberos question Quick question: I have a remote system that needs to authenticate to our 2003 dcs, I have the choices of Kerberos and ldap. I would perfer to use Kerberos for security reasons, but I do not know if I need to do anything on the DC server in order to make this work.

RE: [ActiveDir] Fileserver and Self-Executing Programs

2004-08-05 Thread Edwin
Thanks Hunter for that information, unfortunately however, the workstations within the domain are Win2K Pro and software policies and from what I understand software policies will not work unless with WinXP or Win2K3.     I think I am just going to have to bust some heads around here and

RE: [ActiveDir] Schema Gurus needed - SAP has buggered my 2003 up grade attempt

2004-08-05 Thread Vermeire Bart
Hi SAP last year has published a reviewed version of their schema extension. They renamed uid to SAP-uid. That schema version is "SAP Active Directory Schema Extension Script for EP 5.0" rev 3.6.7/94301. We run it in production without any problems. Mail me directly if you need a copy. Bart