RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Luke Brumbaugh
Hummm let's see I logged 4,500 address in the last month. All Machines get hit every 10 - 30 minutes. I have to double and triple check the network every morning to make sure that if any machine got rebuilt that it is protected with service packs and virus protection and all are up to date.

RE: SMTP Address addition on Exchange 5.5

2001-08-24 Thread Luke Brumbaugh
Export the address list from exchange (use header.exe for bork resource kit) pull up in excel. add the seconardy address and reimport. -Original Message-From: Ryan McBride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:18 AMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE:

RE: Exchange 5.5 question

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Newton Jr.
Title: Exchange 5.5 question As you said, GroupShield is blocking those attachments. In Exchange Admin go to Organization - Site - Configuration - Servers - Server - Network Associates GroupShield and select the On-Access tab. You will see an Attachment blocking box. You can modify the

Netbios name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread Niki Blowfield
Title: Message Hi We have an NT4 Domain, with one Exchange 5.5 server on the PDC. I have attempted to install another Exchange server into the site, but the installation fails at the end, with an error asking me to check if the directory service is started. The service is started, so

RE: Netbios name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread Kevin Miller
Title: Message You need to doanload and try to RPCping. That Is what will test of exchange can communicate.. what are you using for name reso;lutoin method? -Original Message- From: Niki Blowfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:57 AM To: NT System

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Kevin Lundy
If you are working smarter, then simply keep the servers off the public network until the system in secured. Burn a CD with the SPs and hotfixes. That is probably faster than downloading them each time for each server. Sure locking off port 80 is an option for any business. If the server is

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Luke Brumbaugh
OK this is getting kinda nasty. So I'll ask, because I'd love to. How does one download all the SP's, hotfixes, security updates, etc. other than going to windowsupdate.microsoft.com? (SP2 I got,I need the rest). By the way, unless you forgot there was a time, you loaded all your programs on

98 Workstation can't see server/Net

2001-08-24 Thread Schreiber, Scott
Here's one I just don't get... I have a client (An elementary school) with an NT server and 30 nodes running Win 98. They just got DSL installed so that all machines can access the Internet. The way the Ameritech guy set them up, all computers(including the server) are getting IP addresses

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Brian Caisse
http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com -Original Message- From: Luke Brumbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Code Red Rant OK this is getting kinda nasty. So I'll ask, because I'd love to. How does one

Terminal Server Printer Control Panel Hang

2001-08-24 Thread Nic Wright
Dear All Can anyone help? Several of the Terminal Servers ( NT4.0 Sp6 Citrix Metaframe 1.8 Sp2) that I am responsible for show disturbing behaviour when I open the Printer Control Panel. Though the machines seem to be printing OK from both manually set up and autocreated printers, when I open the

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread EALES, Jack / RSAIFS - IOM
Title: RE: Code Red Rant In the interests of keeping this nice http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Sorry. ;-) You can download them from here for administrative installation either manually or using something like SMS... Jack -Original Message-

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Luke Brumbaugh
Thank-you, thank -you You have made my day!!! I have looked for this, I don't how many times, and gave up cuz I was in a crunch. Thank-you again. -Original Message- From: Brian Caisse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Søren Albeck
Use http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com It lets you specify what to d/l regardless of what your current machine *needs*. Søren A OK this is getting kinda nasty. So I'll ask, because I'd love to. How does one download all the SP's, hotfixes, security updates, etc. other than

OT: Icelandic Keyboard

2001-08-24 Thread Allen Crawford
Title: OT: Icelandic Keyboard Does anyone know where I can order an Icelandic Keyboard? I guess it is a 102-key international keyboard, ISO 8859-1. I'm in the US by the way, but this is for one of our machines that we are selling. Thanks for any help.

Codered?

2001-08-24 Thread Niki Blowfield
Title: Message Hi I installed a Win2k Advanced server in a kind of test environment on a public IP address last thing yesterday, and it appeared to pick up the codered worm overnight. i got an email from one admin, and an automated message from a website i re-installed 2k serv and

RE: Code Red Rant

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Baker
1. http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com 2. Your machine does not need to accept traffic to port 80, in order to access the internet. - ASB -Original Message- From: Luke Brumbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Can't Create User

2001-08-24 Thread Peter Pearson
You could check with the network admin (if you're using domain auth.) to see if they put it on the DC, otherwise it is part of the resource kit so I would guess if you browse under that directory you would see it. If you're using local authentication and you've rebuilt the box yourself then I

Re: Netbios name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread xylog
Title: Message Do you have reverse DNS zones setup? What this looks like is the following: DNS/Wins is resoving the servername to an IP address then the ping command is doing a reverse DNS lookup and finding the FQHN and displaying that. xylog - Original Message - From:

RE: 98 Workstation can't see server/Net

2001-08-24 Thread Mark Pilbeam
Just a long shot, but what's the length of cable like? Mark -Original Message- From: Schreiber, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 98 Workstation can't see server/Net Here's one I just don't get... I have a client

RE: Icelandic Keyboard

2001-08-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Title: Message Iceland? -Original Message-From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:54 AMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: OT: Icelandic Keyboard Does anyone know where I can order an Icelandic Keyboard? I guess it is a 102-key

RE: Codered?

2001-08-24 Thread Luke Brumbaugh
Title: Message Same here. If you use that coroporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com you can drag to cd or spare drive on Computer, unplug from net and load OS. I did this and now I am fine. Read "Code Red Rant" message thread. -Original Message-From: Niki Blowfield

RE: NetBIOS name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread Jeff Wilcox
On the server you setup, did you config dns as your firewall's ip address? If so, take it out and just use WINS. Reboot the system so its registered in the WINS database. -Original Message- From: Niki Blowfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 10:11 AM To: NT

RE: SMTP Address addition on Exchange 5.5

2001-08-24 Thread Brandon Bristow
Im afraid each person will require a different version of the smtp address based on their user ID -Original Message- From: Ryan McBride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMTP Address addition on Exchange

RE: 98 Workstation can't see server/Net

2001-08-24 Thread Schreiber, Scott
Just a long shot, but what's the length of cable like? It's pretty short... Scott http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm

RE: Codered?

2001-08-24 Thread Martin Blackstone
Title: Message Here is what I do. Install w2k with the machine on the network. add to domain, etc Shut down. Remove network cable Boot Disable all IIS services plug cable back in reboot apply SPs and patches reboot enable IIS -Original Message-From: Luke Brumbaugh

RE: NetBIOS name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread RZorz
Title: RE: NetBIOS name resolves to domain name That's how my setup was, and when my internet connection failed I'd have problems. So now I have DNS set up internally too, even if it's only the 3rd option. -Original Message- From: Niki Blowfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: 98 Workstation can't see server/Net

2001-08-24 Thread Schreiber, Scott
On a machine that does not exhibit any problem go to a command prompt and run ipconfig /all |more to see the full IP configuration. Ok. I did run netstat on the bad one it returns absolutely nothing. The ability to see your LAN and not see the Internet might indicate an incorrect gateway

NTW system rights

2001-08-24 Thread Steve Roberts
At the moment I have to manually add the system rights so a domain user can change the time via the login script. Is there any way to script this or do it via the command line with a batch file etc... Thanks in advance Steve This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

RE: congressional hearing on computer security (worms/virus's) [s pam of sorts]

2001-08-24 Thread Lefkovics, William
That's easy! Wash your hands more often! -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: congressional hearing on computer security (worms/virus's) [spam of sorts] Nah just the easy

SMS question

2001-08-24 Thread Eldridge, Dave
I want to remove my sms server because of various reasons. If I remove the sms server what will happen to the clients? Can I just shut this off and the clients will stop trying to communicate to sms? Thanks in advance for any help. dave

Re: NTW system rights

2001-08-24 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Use the resource kit utility called ntrights. Here is the syntax for this util: NTRights.Exe Grants/Revokes NT-Rights to a user/group usage: -u xxx User/Group -m \\xxx machine to perform the operation on (default local machine) -e x Add x to the event log -r xxx

RE: Terminal Server Printer Control Panel Hang

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
Try stopping and restarting the spooler service. Regards, Sean Martin, MCSE Network Administrator Ribelin Lowell Company Insurance Brokers, Inc. 3111 C Street, Suite 300 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Ph: (907) 561-1250 Fax: (907) 561-4315 Cell: (907) 229-0885 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

RE: congressional hearing on computer security (worms/virus's) [s pam of sorts]

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
C'mon Marcsetup a webcast for those of us that can't make it to Cali. Regards, Sean Martin, MCSE Network Administrator Ribelin Lowell Company Insurance Brokers, Inc. 3111 C Street, Suite 300 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Ph: (907) 561-1250 Fax: (907) 561-4315 Cell: (907) 229-0885 Email: [EMAIL

RE: Terminal Server Printer Control Panel Hang

2001-08-24 Thread Jeff Wilcox
Also, you might need to check your settings for Virtual memory and Registry size. -Original Message- From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Server Printer Control Panel Hang Try stopping and

RE: Compaq Array Controllers and Windows NT4 Security Roll-Up - Q299 444

2001-08-24 Thread Jay Woody
Kind of, I have posted this one a bunch, but again, the issue is 99% of the time the SCSIPORT.SYS. I have always fixed it from the BSoD and haven't tried the Compaq fix yet, but maybe this will help anyway. You need to boot off of your ERD Pro diskettes or some other software that allows you

OT: Netscape messenger smtp authentication configuration

2001-08-24 Thread Bunting, Jeff
Anyone know if it is possible to configure SMTP authentication in Netscape messenger? Looking at the settings, all I can see is SSL or TLS settings. This is version 4.78. thanks, Jeff http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm

Re: Changing NT print servers...

2001-08-24 Thread RE Young
Try PrintMig.exe from the NT resource kit. . - Original Message - From: William Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:37 PM Subject: Changing NT print servers... We are switching print servers from an old NT 4.0 box to

RE: SMS question

2001-08-24 Thread Don Ely
Find clicore.exe on the SMS server and all will be well. It will remove all instances of the client from whatever machine you desire. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SMS

drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread RE Young
Anyone have experience (and are willing to share it) with setting up a drive mirror with W2k, it is quite different than NT. Environment is : 1.2 GHz W2K Srv PDC, (2) WD 40GB drives, ATA-100 support is built into the MB(Soyo). White papers, How-tos are what I am looking for, what I have found

RE: Changing NT print servers...

2001-08-24 Thread Malcolm Reitz
PrintMig only moves the printer shares and drivers from one server to another. It doesn't affect the clients in any way. Malcolm Reitz IT Program Management KBR Americas Region -Original Message- From: RE Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:36 PM To: NT

Creating Shortcut With WSH

2001-08-24 Thread T. Bradley Dean
I'm assuming I need to change some permissions, but I'm not sure what or how. I get this error message: --- Script: \\UNISAT-PDC\NETLOGON\Quicksat.vbs Line: 9 Char: 1 Error: Unable to save shortcut C:\WINNT\Profiles\All Users\Desktop\Quicksat.lnk Code: 80004005

Changing Display Properties in W2K Prof

2001-08-24 Thread Alston, Steve
I just upgraded a W98 laptop to W2K professional and am unable to change the display settings or for that matter gain access to the Control Panel. I get an error message saying Your System Administrator disabled the Display Control Panel. I have access when I log in using the my local account,

Re: Changing Display Properties in W2K Prof

2001-08-24 Thread Dan_Rembolt
Sure sounds like a profile is being applied to your domain user account Alston, Steve

RE: Changing Display Properties in W2K Prof

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
Sounds like a policy setting is preventing your account from making the change. Regards, Sean Martin, MCSE Network Administrator Ribelin Lowell Company Insurance Brokers, Inc. 3111 C Street, Suite 300 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Ph: (907) 561-1250 Fax: (907) 561-4315 Cell: (907) 229-0885 Email:

RE: Can't Create User

2001-08-24 Thread Miller Bonnie L.
You mentioned this is an AD box-I'm assuming you mean it's a domain controller? If so, try also checking the default domain controllers policy for the same password restrictions. -Bonnie Hey All, In a test lab we just setup an AD box with ISA installed, we are trying to create a user and it

RE: drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread Joe Casale
I totally agree w/ you Don, HW Raid is way better, but I have used a sw mirror w/ no trouble, ya there is an issue to make it bootable if need be, but what other probs have you had? jlc -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:03 PM

RE: Changing Display Properties in W2K Prof

2001-08-24 Thread Malcolm Reitz
Run REGEDT32. Find the key called HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\System. Look for values like NoDispCPL and NoDispSettingsPage. If they exist, they are probably set to 0. Change to 1 and reboot. Of course, if thes settings are coming from a policy, they

Re: congressional hearing on computer security (worms/virus's) [s pam of sorts]

2001-08-24 Thread Kelly Borndale
Eww. I had to read this right after eating Chinese food, too. Figures. You should post photos -last time I saw one, I thought you had blue hair ;) K.Borndale [EMAIL PROTECTED] -home email - Original Message - From:

Re: drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread Kent Spencer
. Was this a build from scratch or upgrade? Here's some info but you'll need to get to dynamic on both to have them both bootable IIRC in W2K. Kent http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/7/61.ASP?LN=EN-USSD=gnFR=0qry=mirror%20diskrnk=7src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCHSPR=WIN2000 --- RE

RE: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Don Ely
W2K Resource Kit. -Original Message- From: Troy Rambo /278 Systems Specialist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Best IIS 5 book Sorry for the OT ?, but can someone recommend a good book on how to setup and

RE: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Joe Casale
I haven't seen a simpler set of docs then the reskit. Setting up a secure, well performing website, and or Win2k network is not something you should do if you require one of those ... for idiots books. Pick it up, you'll be amazed at how well written, ands easy to understand the reskit is... jlc

RE: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Ian Kelly
I've used the 'Administering IIS' books published by McGraw Hill when starting out and I've just found the one for IIS 5 with 75% off in Chapters bookstores up here in Ottawa...cost me a whole $20 Canadian! Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Total

RE: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Troy Rambo /278 Systems Specialist
I've got it from Technet, I'll install it, I'm sure it's what I've been looking for. Thanks to all for the advice. -Original Message- From: Joe Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best IIS 5 book I haven't

testing

2001-08-24 Thread Carl Dionne
Test of submission to list, with no attachment. Please disregard. -Original Message- From: Joe Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best IIS 5 book I haven't seen a simpler set of docs then the reskit. Setting

RE: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Lefkovics, William
Lots of good online resources, too, of course. Such as... http://www.iisanswers.com/ William -Original Message- From: Troy Rambo /278 Systems Specialist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best IIS 5 book I've got

RE: drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread Jeff Wilcox
Go to technet or microsoft support and search for Q298155, this will give alot of info on Setting up Fault taulerant on Win2k. Kent's link is on this page too. -Original Message- From: Kent Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:02 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Netbios name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread Shawn H. Mesiatowsky
Title: Message When you ping a hostname on NT 4, it defaults to checking via WINS, then LMHOSTS, then if it cannot find the host it will resort to DNS. It uses whatever default DNS domain you have setup in your IP settings. It seems that you must have co.uk setup as your default domain

Re: drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread RE Young
Appreciate your response Kent, The second drive has no trouble becoming dynamic, The first drive (where MBR etc are located), fail to boot after I convert it to dynamic. How can the the drive be dynamic w/o first installing the OS. BTW - (Hardware raid is not in the pocketbook for the rest

RE: tool to edit ntuser.dat

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
This is a job for... Policy Editor? You could also try MultiRemote: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=RegEdit.TXT == ASB - http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=~MoreInfo.TXT

Re: Best IIS 5 book

2001-08-24 Thread Jay Kulsh
IIS 5 is very similar to IIS 4, except for SMTP server, which has more conifguration settings. Buy a book for IIS4 and there are plenty of those. Teach yourself IIS4 server in 14 days by SAMS publisher is good except for the silly title. Jay ___ Jay Kulsh - Original Message -

Re: Changing NT print servers...

2001-08-24 Thread RE Young
In over a 10 Server migrations to date (200 to go), we have not required any changes to the users workstations after using printmig to move the queues from one PDC to another, however if it doesn't work for you, I haven't a clue. Good luck, RE Young MCSE Dallas, TX - Original Message -

RE: Win 2000 offline folders question

2001-08-24 Thread Nail, Larry
No, you can do so... The client in this situation becomes the sole negotiator for replication conflicts when you synchronize. I've been using off line folder since W2K Beta1 on my laptop with NO problems. -Original Message- From: Mohamed A. Karimullah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Memory problems

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
Hey folks, 2-3 times a week, I'll get a message on my Citrix Server that it's out of virtual memory. I can't narrow down any applications that may be causing a memory leak. There are a couple of DOS programs on the server which are checked to run in their own memory space. This is a

RE: Win 2000 offline folders question

2001-08-24 Thread Mohamed A. Karimullah
I'm curious to know why the sharing button on the NT 4 server does not present caching as an option. I know it shouldn't as that functionality didn't exist then (or maybe MS provided an add-on). On a Win 2000 server when I map to the NT 4 share in question I don't get the caching functionality as

RE: Defrag: is it necessary for NTFS?

2001-08-24 Thread Ivan von Winlamerberg
--- Andrew S. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would journaling have to do with Fragmentation? Thank you for correcting me. The question was incorrect. So, why do we worry about all those de-fraggers? I saw all those post about scheduling the defrag... it's not that I know in depth about

RE: Win 2000 offline folders question

2001-08-24 Thread Kent Spencer
.. What SP is NT running. Remember, you have to be at SP4 to be compatible with 2000. Kent --- Mohamed A. Karimullah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious to know why the sharing button on the NT 4 server does not present caching as an option. I know it shouldn't as that functionality

Re: drive mirror configuration with W2k

2001-08-24 Thread Kent Spencer
.. that's why the question upgrade or fresh install. You have to start with a clean disk and convert to dynamic immediately after install. If there is an OEM partition I believe this will cause problems. Kent --- RE Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Appreciate your response Kent, The

RE: Win 2000 offline folders question

2001-08-24 Thread Mohamed A. Karimullah
SP 5 -Original Message- From: Kent Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 2000 offline folders question .. What SP is NT running. Remember, you have to be at SP4 to be compatible with 2000. Kent

RE: Memory problems

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
My bad, I misread the questionthe usageis humming around2334000k. Regards, Sean Martin, MCSENetwork AdministratorRibelin Lowell CompanyInsurance Brokers, Inc.3111 C Street, Suite 300Anchorage, Alaska 99503Ph: (907) 561-1250Fax: (907) 561-4315Cell: (907) 229-0885Email: [EMAIL

RE: Memory problems

2001-08-24 Thread Sean Martin
Well right now I'm showing a total of approx. 916000k Physical and approx. 66k available with a file cache of approx. 32000k. I'll gather this information the next time I see the error message. Regards, Sean Martin, MCSENetwork AdministratorRibelin Lowell CompanyInsurance Brokers,