RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Virtual Server 2005

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
The problem you may encounter (and I'm not by any means an IP routing expert) is that unless you do run NAT on the interface connected to the physical production NIC (as opposed to using straight RRAS), other routers on the network won't know how to get to your test subnet. Unless of course you

[ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
All, Sorry to hijack this thread, however in the same vein, is anyone aware of a (preferably) freeware application that does a similar function to rsync on Linux ? We are looking at synchronising large amounts of data each night, including some 200+gb databases. Rsync seems to handle this

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

2004-12-01 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
* When logging on with cached credentials when no DC is available you won't get any kerberos tickets either and you most likely won't have access to resources. * When logging on while a DC is available you can get kerberos tickets to access resources. If after a while no DC is available because

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

2004-12-01 Thread Lucia Washaya
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RE: [ActiveDir] Offline Files

2004-12-01 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Hi, Check out the following: Q811525 Q811660 Thesolutionthat'sprovidedinthehotfixconcerningthemultiplestillsucks.Inmyopinionthe thought of using OfflineFilesisgreat,buttheimplementionisalittlebitcrappy. Be carefull when you have resources on 1 server that are only available online and

RE: [ActiveDir] Offline Files

2004-12-01 Thread Lucia Washaya
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RE: [ActiveDir] Offline Files

2004-12-01 Thread Robert Rutherford
Hi Lucia, Any chance you can turn off your receipts for this group? Thanks, Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucia Washaya Sent: 01 December 2004 10:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Offline Files Return Receipt

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
Can't the user connect using NTLM authentication (unless that's been turned off)? Cheers Ken : -Original Message- : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge de Almeida Pinto : Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2004 8:31 PM : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

2004-12-01 Thread Jorge de Almeida Pinto
I think the following is true: When a computer (client or server with resources) discovers W2Kx DCs it will only talk kerberos and it forgets NTLM for AD domain accounts. NTLM will only work if you connect using local credentials on the member server that hosts the resources . NTLM with AD domain

RE: [ActiveDir] Accessing resources when a domain controller is u navailable (sightly OT)

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RE: [ActiveDir] IT PrOlympics Challenge on WindowsITPro

2004-12-01 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
In hockey they do North America verses the World. Hehe Todd -Original Message- From: Daniel Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] IT PrOlympics Challenge on WindowsITPro Might need to be the Americans

[ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Dennis Depp
What is everyon using to monitor replication between domain controllers? I ran into a problem yesterday with replication. We are running a Bind DNS with the underscore domains delegated to Active Directory integrated DNS. I rebuilt a domain controller last Wednesday and everything did not get

Re: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Tomasz Onyszko
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:33:31 -0500, Dennis Depp wrote What is everyon using to monitor replication between domain controllers? (...) few warnings and nothing that particularly alarmed me. Thanks in advance for your input. We are using Quest spotlight for AD as one of Rep monitoring tool

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Geary, Simon (Computer People)
Microsoft have several free tools that can be used to monitor FRS, such as Ultrasound. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/fileandprint/file/dfs/tshootfrs.mspx Or if you want a more fully featured product you can try MOM 2005 although this is not free. -Original

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT)
Depends on the size of your forest and how many domains; I am partial to Directory Analyzer for monitoring and alerting for forest with multiple domains. They have a stand alone monitor that is web enabled, or they can integrate with MOM and HP Openview. HP Openview has a set of AD tools. You

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Brett Shirley
repadmin /replsum * /bysrc /bydst Requires WinXP or later running Win2k3 repadmin or later. Caveat: It's not actual monitoring, it's like quick dirty checkup. -B Insert all the msft jazz about AS IS, caveat emptor, etc On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Myrick, Todd (NIH/CIT) wrote: Depends on the size

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread travis.abrams
There is a book Active Directory Notes from the field. On the companion cd there is source code for a website. I use it for looking at replication, OU's etc. Those that have support contracts with MS should ask about their Active Directory Health Check. We had one done and they gave me all the

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Cornetet
Would a Perl Rsync implementation be better? http://search.cpan.org/~cbarratt/File-RsyncP-0.52/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Slightly

RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Cornetet
That's pretty cool, but what does the information mean? What is largest delta? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

Re: [ActiveDir] Monitoring Replication

2004-12-01 Thread Dennis Depp
Thanks forthe link. I will check it out. I am looking at MOM, but I wanted to get some feed back on other tools. I hope to use this problem to highten managements awareness of our lack of monitoring tools and processes. Dennis On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:53:08 -, Geary, Simon (Computer People)

[ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
Anyone had good experiences with snort and can you recommend it as a IDS and intrusion prevention? I'm really getting hit hard with bots like W32.spybot.worm and W32.Randex.BTB. I get these worms even being fully patched and my Symantec defs are up to date. I'm looking for something cheap(read:

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Renouf, Phil
Would Volume Shadow Copy be something you could look at to do this? Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Cornetet Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Douglas M. Long
No real experience with snort, but on the topic of getting the worms even if they are patched, it is most likely that they got the worm before the machine was patched, and system restore is turned on. Although system restore seems to be helpful to some people, I have never had it successfully

Re: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Jordan Arendt
I played around with SNORT a couple of years ago and it was a very good product. Unless it has changed, it is only an IDS, meaning it only detects and logs intrusions. It doesn't stop them. I'm not sure about it tying into your firewall. I know Realsecure does, but it costs $. Jordan On

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Robert Rutherford
IDS isnt going to protect you from these worms lets initially focus on that:- Im just going to ramble and we can then home in on a solution Its hard to believe patched machines are being re-infected.. but it does happen. I suspect you have a rogue machine which isnt managed in your

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
System restore is always off on our machines win2k machines get infected too and i can say without a doubt they are all patched. we use SUS and patch all our boxes whenever a new one come out. All defs are up to date via Symantec though sometimes in safe mode, Symantec full scan will NOT find

[ActiveDir] Cross Domain Groups

2004-12-01 Thread Steve Shaff
Group, Have you ever added a domain admins group from another forest into the built in administrators groups on your local workstation. We have our forest of nt40 and the parent company has a forest named abc. They both have a two way trust. I started this project by creating a universal group

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Robert Rutherford
If you watch your firewall logs. You will more than likely see the offender, i.e. you will see it trying to talk on specific ports and likely to be scanning up class C reserved ranges. I just tend to filter the firewall logs and setup alerts for suspicious activity. I think Watchguard

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
I see the offender. What I want to know is where the offender got it from. I know its not from the internet because we block all those ports incoming. We have a sister corp that has ther own independent IT staff and is connected to use via frame relay. We are all in the same forest. We

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Robert Rutherford
Id block the non-critical ports over the frame. You can also watch the routers to see whats hitting them or put a sniffer in the gap between the frame router and LAN to hunt the offender. Rob From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: 01

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death

2004-12-01 Thread Jacqui Hurst
I've seen an attempt to migrate data using Robocopy which took far too long and had to be stopped. The cause of this was put down to files in use (pst files left open). If you go down this route be careful of the switches you use. Jacqui -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death

2004-12-01 Thread Thommes, Michael M.
I should comment that as part of our pre-conditioning for the robocopy step, we disconnect any users that might be using the source files (net session /delete) and also stop the server service. Michael M. Thommes Argonne National Laboratory -Original Message- From: Jacqui Hurst

Re: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death

2004-12-01 Thread Sean Johnson
Might not be the best solution, but you could always write a custom script in something like perl that does customized data integrity checking for you and what not. The ActiveState perl for windows works exceptionally well in my experience. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread travis.abrams
I have Snort deployed in 28 offices, logging to a MS SQL server and we view alerts using BASE. I have a lot of custom virus signatures and would be willing to share of you want them. It works good to quickly identify who is spreading the worms. As far a fully patched machines getting infected

[ActiveDir] Domain migration to a new forest

2004-12-01 Thread Calders Stijn
Hi! In my current network I have a placeholder domain domain.local, with two child domains a.domain.local and b.domain.local. I want to migrate a.domain.local to a.local and b.domain.local to b.local (two new forests) for security reasons. I already tried to migrate the child domain to a new

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
I get numerous logon hits on my DC's. Some accounts are Admins,some are just regular users who get locked out. None of the attempts succed. I ran the exe on a clean patched up to date box while running filemon and regmon. The exe is wupdmngr.exe which creates a process called faxze.exe. It tries

[ActiveDir] Sean Camilleri is out of the office.

2004-12-01 Thread scamille
I will be out of the office starting 25/11/2004 and will not return until 06/12/2004. I will respond to your message when I return. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive:

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread travis.abrams
1)I get numerous logon hits on my DC's. Some accounts are Admins,some are just regular users who get locked out. None of the attempts succeed. Check the Event Logs on the clients that got infected. If it is trying to get into the systems using passwords it is going after the local Administrator

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Phil, Not in the first instance. We are currently replicating portions of from about 10 odd machines into a single DR server, and the majority of source machines are Win2k, not 2k3. Eventually, we want to be able to do full replication between the primary server to its DR pair, at which point

RE: [ActiveDir] Slightly OT: File Copy of Death - additional question in the same vein

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Ken, ErrrPerl Had a quick look at this, it seems to be a perl-based client to talk to a remote rsync daemon (presumably running on a Linux box). I'll keep looking though. File::RsyncP does not yet implement server functionality (acting like the remote end of a connection or a daemon).

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
The passwords are srong which is why its not getting anywhere and the users who are local admins are getting locked out from bad logon attempts. Renaming the admin accounts is not going to stop the worm from going out on those ports and flood my network and bring everything to a crawl. I need

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross Domain Groups

2004-12-01 Thread Glenn Corbett
Can't you use the Restricted Groups policy setting to set your local Admin membership on your workstations ? We do this routinely for about 2500 workstations and 300+ servers with no problems. MS Article on it (not a huge amount of help though)

[ActiveDir] DNS root

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
If I had a multi domain Win2k forest and my child domains were delgated control of their respective zones but did not have a secondary copy of the root zone OR were forwarding to the root, would that cut them off from the forest? This is a really basic AD question,but I just wanted to know for

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross Domain Groups

2004-12-01 Thread joe
You should be able to directly add the trusted domain's domain admins group to any workstations you want. As long as the trust lines are there the global groups will nest fine in the workstations builtin administrators group. Ex: G:\TEMP\schemalg administrators LG V01.01.00cpp Joe Richards

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS root

2004-12-01 Thread Mulnick, Al
Child domains MUST be able to resolve root resources. How you accomplish that is open but a forwarder doesn't come to mind. Failure to resolve those names would result in broken replication and other issues. DNS is not required to be on Windows servers, but it must be on RFC 2052 and RFC 2136

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS root

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
how can you just transfer the _msdc zone in a Win2k forest. No the whole root domain.com zone,just the _msdc zone from the root? I don't think thats possible. thanks -Original Message- From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:55 PM To: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Counting CALs....

2004-12-01 Thread Mike Parent
If I have 60 CALs is there a way to determine how many of them are currently being used? Mike List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ: http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS root

2004-12-01 Thread Mulnick, Al
Why? What good would that do for you? I understand what you're saying though. No, you wouldn't be able to define just ._msdc as your transfer target. You'd have to define the entire zone that ._msdc belongs to. It's not a zone in itself (which is what you were asking earlier right? It's just

RE: [ActiveDir] DNS root

2004-12-01 Thread Kern, Tom
yes, you answered everything. Thanks well,except 2 questions 1. you say you wouldn't use a forwarder for root name resolution. so the only 2 choices are- house all the zones in the root and point all clients there or have each shild domain have a secondary copy of the root. true? 2.What was

[ActiveDir] Windows XP Automated System Recovery Disk

2004-12-01 Thread Caple, Andrew
Title: Message Good morning everyone, (What a great way to start the day) One of our "important" PC has died over night (the computer turns on and goes to the Windows Screen and then reboots - this happen over and over again) and I now need to do a recovery on it, quick question in regards

RE: [ActiveDir] Windows XP Automated System Recovery Disk

2004-12-01 Thread Perdue David J Contr InDyne/Enterprise IT
Title: Message If all you have to do is grab the data off of the box as fast as possible, I would recomend doing a parallel install of XP, snagging the data, then dumping the box or fighting through the problem. //SIGNED// David J.

RE: [ActiveDir] Cross Domain Groups

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Desmond
I do this on all my machines with a group from a trusted domain. Check out the restricted groups feature in group policy. --Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Payton on the web! www.wpcp.org v - 773.534.0034 x135 f - 773.534.8101 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

RE: [ActiveDir] Snort

2004-12-01 Thread Douglas M. Long
This would be an odd approach, but it may just work. Mcafee Stinger seems to always remove the virus/worms that I cant get rid of with SAV 9.0 (although it does only look for recent or most notable virus, but usually the ones you have problems with). Would it work to autodownload Stinger