Re: [ActiveDir] Reducing number of Global Catalogs

2005-12-16 Thread Frank Abagnale
What type of experiences have you had with renaming DC names?Mark Parris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have fun, I have had some great experiences reusing DC names.-Original Message-From: "Simpsen, Paul A. \(HSC\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:48:53

[ActiveDir] Failed DC

2005-12-16 Thread Steve Rochford
Had a problem with a DC (2K3; SP1) earlier this week which wouldn't boot - came up with an error message about AD being unable to start and suggesting restart in directory services restore mode. This DC doesn't desperately matter; it holds no FSMO roles; there's no data on it so I can live

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
Is everything configured as mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326480 Cheers, Jorge From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lloyd WilliamsSent: Friday, December 16, 2005 01:58To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password

RE: [ActiveDir] Failed DC

2005-12-16 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
There must be an error code with that error. Can you post it? Cheers, Jorge -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 09:47 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Failed DC Had a

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Steve Rochford
Picking up on point 2 - if you run this via a web interface then you can use the setpassword approach (because it's not the user who's changing the password but the web application and that can be given admin credentials) Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Al Mulnick
Yep, that's exactly how it's done. As for an app that does this via web, there's one included with IIS called IISADMPWD that has all kinds of information available to you. As for having problems with the changing of a password, you might have a look at the error code returned to see if there's

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Lloyd Williams
Thanks for the reply. Yes this is the document that I am using as my guide to do this. The only part I am not sure about is the part that says the "users must have administrator rights in both domains." As far as I can see it is not possible to to add the Domain Admin from one domain to the

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Lloyd Williams
Another possible place where I may be messing up is for my domain I have a domain policy that disables "Network Server Digitally sign communications" and disables "digitally encrypt secure data channels", As I have many different clients on the network, NT Mac 2000 etc and I have seems

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
No. That domain wide authentication thing you mention is called selective authentication. Although the selection you made is OK, that isnot what you need in this case to get admin permissions on the source domain. To read more about selective authentication see:

[ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Za Vue
Anyone have problems with Mac OS 10.4 binding to Windows 2003 AD? Once you bind the damn thing successfully and unbind it you cannot re-bind it again. I have about 10 of these Mac-Crap machines. No problem with OS 10.3 and below. I like to shove all these machines up Apple's azz..or my

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Kevin Gent
upgrade to 10.4.3 - Original Message - From: Za Vue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad Anyone have problems with Mac OS 10.4 binding to Windows 2003 AD? Once you bind the damn thing

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Za Vue
I am running 10.4.3. -Z.V. Kevin Gent wrote: upgrade to 10.4.3 - Original Message - From: Za Vue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Za Vue
This computer is unable to access the domain controller for an unknown reason. Why can we all just get along? -Z.V. Kevin Gent wrote: upgrade to 10.4.3 - Original Message - From: Za Vue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:13 PM

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread John Singler
ZV, When you unbind from the Domain have your tried deleting the computer account then rebinding? We have ~250 10.4.3 machines bound to our domain w/o any problems (thus far). Feel free to take this off list if you want. john Za Vue wrote: Anyone have problems with Mac OS 10.4 binding to

RE: [ActiveDir] password changer

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
but making all users Domain Admins would really simplify your overall management - you would never have to worry about security again and wouldn't have to setup all those useless and complex delegated admin permissions either :-) P.S.: the minimal permission required to set instead of

RE: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Depp, Dennis M.
What benefits do you get from having your OSX machines binding to the domain? Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Singler Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
The account used by the PES does NOT have to have adminstrative credentials in the target domain! It can be a simple domain user from the source domain. The difference with the previous PES version is, that now you don't need to have "Everyone" added to your"Pre-Windows 2000 compatible

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
some minor corrections/comments - if you've created a forest trust (requires that source and target forest running at Win2003 forest functional level), then SIDfiltering is not enabled by default - pls. don't add any SIDs to SIDhistory of target domain admins group to gain rights in the

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
oh, forgot to add - if you are using SID-History, you do have to have admin rights in the source domain (either via membership of your migration user from the target domain in local admin group of source domain, or by entering a souce domain admin's creds when prompted to do so in ADMT).

Re: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Mylo
One other thing beyond what Jorge mentioned if you've Enabled Disable [oxymoron :-)] anonymous SAM enumeration via Group Policy you're also likely to end up with problems accessing resoures. Regards, Mylo Almeida Pinto, Jorge de wrote: No. That domain wide authentication thing you

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread John Singler
Depp, Dennis M. wrote: What benefits do you get from having your OSX machines binding to the domain? a few: Home dirs get mapped automagically. Connecting to network resources does not require additional authentication. No local accts. (besides admin/root). -Original Message-

RE: [ActiveDir] Failed DC

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
you could still use another workaround method to boot the server into normal mode without starting AD and then remove AD. But since it's no longer the preferred method and PSS stopped handing out the information on how to achieve this (now that you have support to forcedemote a DC ... when it's

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Lloyd Williams
I guess some progress now. I get Unable to establish a session with the passport export server. The source passport server and the target passport server do not have the same encryption key Now I run ADMT on the source server to do the migration. I created the key by running Admt key

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Grillenmeier, Guido
nope PES is only required on the source your install procedure sounds correct. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lloyd Williams Sent: Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 21:40 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest

RE: [ActiveDir] Going Native in root domain

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Benway
We don't have anything that authenticates outside of windows. But the root is not empty, the 'home office' uses it. So there are users and computers in that domain. But it sounds like I should see any issues. Thanks,jb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [ActiveDir] Going Native in root domain

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Benway
My biggest concern was issues with other domains in the forest. Because this is the root domain (NOT empty) I wanted to make sure switch to native domain would be ok. We have a few domains that still have NT DC's and then are in mixed mode. Thanks,jb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[ActiveDir] Active Dir web based management

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Yaremchuk
I am currently looking at creating a web page that allows onsite tech admin to create and alter user/group info in Active directory. I want to have delegated control of a OU but I am looking at a web form so I can apply some sort of input masks to ensure data consistency when new users are added.

RE: [ActiveDir] Interforest Password Migration

2005-12-16 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
if you have modified the default security settings and user rights you might wanna have a look at the following to determine what the impact is: MS-KBQ823659_Client, service, and program incompatibilities that may occur when you modify security settings and user rights assignments Cheers,

Re: [ActiveDir] OS 10.4 and W23k Ad

2005-12-16 Thread Jose Medeiros
Hi Dennis, In response to your question as to what benfits there are in binding a MAC to AD. The best list I have seen so far is on: http://www.admitmac.com/admitmac-vs-tiger/index.shtml I like Mac's, but I also really like playing around with Linux. However my true expertise is in

RE: [ActiveDir] Failed DC

2005-12-16 Thread Freddy HARTONO
Can I also have the info pls :) Thank you and have a splendid day! Kind Regards, Freddy Hartono Group Support Engineer InternationalSOS Pte Ltd mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (+65) 6330-9785 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of