RE: [ActiveDir] List Archives on CD

2002-04-13 Thread Neil Smith
Great stuff. Any chance of someone acting as a 'distribution point' for Europe?! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: 13 April 2002 20:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] List Archives on CD It looks like there is

Re: [ActiveDir] Development Domain

2002-03-06 Thread Neil Smith
Andy, In the situation you describe your 'evil beasts' could only effect and damage the 'Configuration' partition in AD. Remember - this is the only common partition in AD that is spread across a whole forest. Corruption of a child domain would be limited to it's own objects and policies The cha

Re: [ActiveDir] dcdiag question

2002-01-16 Thread Neil Smith
jcl, First double check to make sure the sysvol and netlogon shares exist. Try doing a NET SHARE from a command box. If they are present then I'd say you have nothing to worry about. DCDIAG does some checking of the eventlog while processing the various tests - should you of cleared down the FRS

Re: [ActiveDir] WINS/DHCP/DNS in Win2k

2002-01-09 Thread Neil Smith
MS produced a utility for migrating scopes between NT4 and W2K. Can't remember the name of it - I'll have a hunt around It was available on their website a few months ago. Trying having a search Best... Neil - Original Message - From: "Flanagan, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[E

[ActiveDir] FRS Convergance

2001-12-13 Thread Neil Smith
Hi all,   I have a small country based domain (1200 users) which spans 18 sites. Each site contains a DC, some sites the DC is also flagged as GC - depending on the number of users / travelling users visiting these sites etc. These sites are connected via varying different WAN circuits - 19.

Re: [ActiveDir] Scripting

2001-12-13 Thread Neil Smith
www.openldap.org   A reasonable source for scripting & mailing list...     - Original Message - From: Rogers, Michael J. To: ActiveDir Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:17 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] Scripting Does anyone know of a good newsgroup or websi

Re: [ActiveDir] Exporting Accounts from a 2k domain to another 2k domain

2001-11-30 Thread Neil Smith
Seyi, Have a look at Q238394 using the 'movetree' utility from the Support Tools kit. This will move most object types between different domains / forests. Neil - Original Message - From: "Seyi Owoeye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:39 AM

Re: [ActiveDir] DNS entries

2001-11-26 Thread Neil Smith
Rob - MS describe this as a feature :-) I believe they are working on a fix for this and the ability to change the DNS TTL setting. You could disable the 'Register this connection's addessses in DNS' setting on the DNS properties page of the heartbeat network card and use a 'hosts' file with an

Re: [ActiveDir] References mentioning DNS requirements

2001-11-14 Thread Neil Smith
Come on, let's stop messing around here! Get a network trace from the client   - Original Message - From: Chris Green To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] References mentioning DNS requirements Read a

Re: [ActiveDir] a small problem.

2001-11-14 Thread Neil Smith
Do you have any other protocol's loaded on the problem client machines? Such as IPX or worse ?! Depending on the binding order (for the protocols) the client will try and emunerate all connections using the first protocol. If IPX is top of the binding order this will have to timeout before trying

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Directory Global Catalogue problem

2001-11-13 Thread Neil Smith
Seyi, Check to make sure the fsmo roles were transferred succesfully to your remaining DC now the other machine has been demoted to a member server. You can use the User and Computer mmc for this - Right Click on the Domain name and select Operations Masters. The existing DC should hold all these

Re: [ActiveDir] Child domain DC

2001-11-13 Thread Neil Smith
I hate to p1ss on everyone's fire here, but 1500 users on one machine strikes me as 'all my eggs in one basket' routine. Yes W2K can handle this number of users yet -   If you have 1 DC in a child domain this is unlikely to be a GC because you haven't split the infrastructure master fsmo ont

Re: [ActiveDir] dcdiag.exe - Help!!!

2001-11-04 Thread Neil Smith
to be master of operations.. -Default first names -Servers -PDC2 NTDS Settings Server PDC2 replicates from PDC -PDC Echange Settings ADS settings NTDS Settings Server Auto generated Replicate from PDC2 Thanks this is driving me crazy, I wish I knew what was done to get it to this point. Thanks all fo

Re: [ActiveDir] dcdiag.exe - Help!!!

2001-11-01 Thread Neil Smith
Bryan, Ok, so the KCC is unable to create a rep. link between the two machines - underlying problem is that PDC is unable to contact PDC2 using RPC. Have you checked the dns setup on both machines? By this I mean, does the dns server that your PDC machine is registering with contain the correct r

Re: [ActiveDir] Additional Information

2001-10-31 Thread Neil Smith
If your client (172.16.1.24) is a workstation check it's machine account in the domain and possibly reset this via the Users and Computers MMC. Find the computer object, right click, Reset Account. Should the above (172.16.1.24) be another DC check it's trust relationship with the domain (both wa

Re: [ActiveDir] dcpromo via WAN

2001-10-25 Thread Neil Smith
All sounds like name resolution to me... Get hold of the latest version of dcdiag from the MS Support site (Dated 6/9/2000). The updated version has a DCPROMO option which will test for connectiveity - dns records -> ldap, kerberos, and other records etc. This should help you find the root cause o

Re: [ActiveDir] Account Lockouts in mixed mode

2001-10-17 Thread Neil Smith
Read MS Article Q263821 for the fix - Original Message - From: "Bjelke John A Contr AFRL/VSIO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:19 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Account Lockouts in mixed mode Actually, we have seen similar issues in our mixed

[ActiveDir] Listing of W2K Event Ids

2001-10-09 Thread Neil Smith
  Does anyone have the url for a complete listing of W2K event ids?   MS use to produce a spreadsheet with this information but I'm unable to find the file / link anymore   Thx in advance

[ActiveDir] Fw: Group Policy eBook Chapter 6 Available!

2001-08-30 Thread Neil Smith
- Original Message - From: "FullArmor eBook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:36 PM Subject: Group Policy eBook Chapter 6 Available! As a registered subscriber to the free eBook "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 Group Policy", we want to

Re: [ActiveDir] Have to reinstall Win2k Pro after 2K server rollout....why ??

2001-06-01 Thread Neil Smith
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] Have to reinstall Win2k Pro after 2K server rolloutwhy ?? All sounds like drastic action to me! This could be related to the old problem of W2KP switching itself into NTLM mode (While your still using NT on the backend) and not switching to using Kerberos when W2K s

[ActiveDir] FullArmour eBook: Chapter 2: Group Policy Structure and Interaction with AD is now available for download

2001-04-19 Thread Neil Smith
  As a registered subscriber to the free eBook "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 Group Policy", we want to inform you that Chapter 2: Group Policy Structure and Interaction with AD is now available for download!Please login at http://www.fullarmor.com/ebook/read/read.cfm to access the Ch

[ActiveDir] Interesting paper on Microsoft's Internal IT Active Directory design.

2001-03-08 Thread Neil Smith
Are Interesting paper on Microsoft's Internal IT Active Directory design. you putting off that upgrade to Windows 2000 because you dread having to design an Active Directory structure to be migrated to from your far-flung NT 4 domain structure? Suppose you had an IT organization of 2,500 people

Re: [ActiveDir] Question about Windows 2000 Clients

2001-03-08 Thread Neil Smith
Jennifer, Whoever mentioned about installing W2KP clients and authenticating them to AD, then you have a situation where you need this type of client to talk downlevel - NT4 Domain / NTLM was right that you will get problems. To save everyones Inbox I posed a similar question the other week ( Ch

Re: [ActiveDir] W2KP NTLM / Kerberos problem

2001-03-02 Thread Neil Smith
om the Windows 2000 Support Tools to do this via the command line. Haven't tried this myself. Tony -Original Message- From: Neil Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2001 14:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] W2KP NTLM / Kerberos problem Basica

Re: [ActiveDir] Active Directory - Visions from the field

2001-03-01 Thread Neil Smith
Pete, Welcome! I agree with your observations - Especially that planning is way down the priority list of a W2K project. It seems this is a hangover from the NT4 days with the existing skills out there thinking AD is a domain on steriods Nice thought although the reality is quite different.

[ActiveDir] W2KP NTLM / Kerberos problem

2001-02-28 Thread Neil Smith
Basically, here is the problem and the situation where you can meet this! Imagine that you have a NT 4.0 Domain with all workstations running W2KPRO. Let's say that's a scenario where you upgraded the clients before the infrastructure. No problem. Everything is fine, W2KPRO tries to authenticate

[ActiveDir] NT 4.0 DS Client RTWs

2001-02-28 Thread Neil Smith
The wait is over! Microsoft release Active Directory Client Extension for NT4.0 (aka NT4.0 DS Client) to the web. It may take a few more days to prop to microsoft.com live servers. The the download link can be found on http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/adclients (again, you may have to wait co

[ActiveDir] BOOK REVIEW: IMPLEMENTING DIRECTORY SERVICES

2001-02-28 Thread Neil Smith
IMPLEMENTING DIRECTORY SERVICES By Archie Reed $55.00 711 pages Published by McGraw-Hill, October 1999 ISBN 0-07-134408X Many technical reference books focus very well on the technical elements of their subject, but they don't cover the "softer" issues surrounding a technology's implementation, w