Delegation of control

Title: RE: issues with login script in SBS It's very easy to delegate specific tasks to groups or users that exist under an OU.   My question is  is it possible to delegate right/permissions to a group instead?   To make the point clear.   Lets say that I use the default user OU contai

RE: hfnetchk question

Read the FAQ (Q305385) very carefully: "When you install the referenced patch, this message does not change because the XML file is missing the data that it needs to properly check the status of the patch." In other words, not only does the XML file not include appropriate info, Microsoft does n

RE: Time Sync to outside NTP server in NT4

w32time.exe is also available free from microsoft and handles NTP sources ... Joe -Original Message- From: Luberti, Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Time Sync to outside NTP server in NT4 You'll need a thi

RE: Exchange 5.5 and folder structure

Also, if you're still short on space you can run the Optimizer program to move the log directories to another drive that has more room to grow. Jeff -Original Message- From: Tim VanDeWalle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: Cisco PIX Firewall Has a Hole 09-28-2001 12:37 PM

sorry it took me so long to get back to you all on this, so as you would have a ulr to back up my post here!!! . had to do a search for a site that I could post to the list. I got my info from one of the "my favorite" hacking site!!! http://www.vnunet.com/News/1125714 Gene C. aka C.E. Gene Conno

RE: Cisco PIX Firewall Has a Hole 09-28-2001 12:37 PM

and from the horse's mouth!! http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/PIXfirewallSMTPfilter-regression-pub.sh tml Gene C. aka C.E. Gene Connor Gene's Custom PC Service since 1989 Serving the U.S., Canada & London,England >From the start of our nation we've stood for no crap, We've handled the toughe

RE: Time Sync to outside NTP server in NT4

W32Time See the following: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=TimeSync.TXT - ASB -Original Message- From: Jesse Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Time Sync to outside NTP server in NT4 I know I can ge

What to backup on W2K?

If I back up the system state data in Windows 2000, do I need to also backup the WINNT directory? Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/

RE: What to backup on W2K?

It depends on what you'd like to be able to recover. - ASB -Original Message- From: Stephen Chiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What to backup on W2K? If I back up the system state data in Windows 2000, do

Re: adding a NIC on Win 2k Server

.. Does this mean the server is multi-homed? Kent --- "L. M. Rappaport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve and Kent, > > The problem stems from the fact that what actually happened is > this: I got a Starband satellite receiver and had to use the > existing, built-in NIC for it. I did th

RE: Network Documentation

I was looking for documentation for my new network too. Did they send you template or URL? Can you forward some them this way? Thanks -Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network

RE: What to backup on W2K?

guess i should have been more specific say, for instance, I have IIS on there and all I want to do is recover the web sites. I think I would backup the Inetpub directory, the LogFiles within System32, and the system state... anything else? Thanks. Stephen -Original Message- From:

Mirroring

Does anyone have a good program for content mirroring for win2k. Kind of a hot backup of data. Michael Brubaker Vice President Tel: (321) 631-8073 Fax: (321) 632-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] IICwww.iictel.co

RE: W2K Pro Install

Title: Message I use the Adaptec drivers for NT 4.0 with the 2940UW.     Greg -Original Message-From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 8:23 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: W2K Pro Install Anyone have problems wit

RE: Mirroring

Title: RE: Mirroring Iomega makes a product called QuickSync 3.  It runs in the background and when you save a file to a directory protected by QuickSync, a copy is automatically kept on a specified device, either fixed or removable media (i.e. Zip disks, CD-RW, Jaz disks, even floppy).  It's

FTP sites in a 2 node cluster

I have some documentation on this, but was curious if anyone has seen a nice step-by-step to setting this up. Don't want to miss anything. Thanks Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/

RE: Network Documentation

Try this, https://www.ecora.com/ecora/ Nelson Aguillon 626.937.6693 -Original Message- From: Ky Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:RE: Network Documentation I was looking for documentation fo

Windows 2000 International version??

I was reading somewhere that there is a version of Windows 2000 that can be used in multiple languages so that you can use the same service packs and hot fixes no matter what language you are using. What I would like is a Windows 2000 server version that I can install on as a DC to send to my o

RE: Web filtering software advice

We are running Smart filter and it is ok but they just raised the price big time. We are evaluating Surf Control. Has anyone Used either? Which one is better? I think I like SurfControl better but it has only been 4 days.       ___Tim Cr

Index server question...

Hello! yes, I was nit by the nimda virus. It is a IIS 4.0 server on NT 4.0. I cleaned everything, and my website and intranet work almost perfectly. The only problem I encounter, is when users try searching the intranet. The following error message is returned: Microsoft Index Server error '

RE: Workstation Naming Standards

no one moves? you're truly lucky. -Original Message- From: Melanie Rutberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: RE: Workstation Naming Standards Hello, My firm uses the following naming convention: Every cubicle and office has a 4 digit location number associated with it's location.

Re: Index server question...

Did you rebuild the catalogs as well? Have you checked that line of code within Searchresults.asp? - Original Message - From: "Eric Brouwer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:54 PM Subject: Index server question... H

RE: Index server question...

How do you rebuild the catalogues? I checked that line, but it is the same as it was before the virus. (We had the intranet built by an outside company and I still have copies of all the original files, and I checked them.) This worked fine up until last week. -Original Message- From:

RE: W2K Pro Install

Title: Message I once spent many “happy” hours with a similar problem only to find eventually that it was a memory problem – a devious dimm!   At least it’s an easy one to swap and test.   Good Luck!   Steve Hollingworth     -Original Message- From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAI

RE: Workstation Naming Standards

Wow, never thought of that. Yeah, that seems pretty obvious. ;) Upside, we could lock the ports down where a certain workstation only worked at a certain port, so "midnight moves" stopped. Also, finding a workstation name meant we had it's location also. Downside, more admin time, but it pr

RE: File services hangs

We took a closer look at our logs and noticed that just before the server hangs it quits putting entries in the log form print jobs even though printers are still working. Then printing and file access just stops responding. No error events get recorded because nothing is being written to the lo

RE: Time Sync to outside NTP server in NT4

We use W32Time on all servers making our Domain Controllers primary and our servers secondaries only the clients use net time. The PDC gets its time from an NTP source. Steve Sauer, Technical Lead - Systems Operations NCI Information Systems WIPP Site, Carlsbad, NM www.wipp.ws -Original Me

RE: Workstation Naming Standards

I went back and read the initial post and here's my input... I use a utility called winbios on our compaq, dell, hp, and ibm pc's to grab the serial number and place it in the pc name. I have done this in two ways. On Win9x I have a batch file that checks the serial number and checks the curr

InoculateIT opinions

My company is looking for a workgroup AV and I was curious what the opinions were of Inoculate. From past threads, the consensus seems to be that Norton is better than Mcafee but I don't remember seeing Inoculate discussed. Any input is appreciated. Steve Frenzl Systems Administrator Farmer Auto

RE: InoculateIT opinions

This is an InoculateIT-free zone!! EjaculateIT as we call it, is a viable Windows workstation choice for real-time anti-virus monitoring, unless you want expedient updates, reasonable tech support and be able to use all your network applications smoothly. I recommend almost anything else over th

RE: InoculateIT opinions

Title: RE: InoculateIT opinions I could swear Roger of Peregrine did an analysis of what was out there.  Care to share?  Sophos, for example, doesn't get much ink either. -Original Message- From: Steve Frenzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:51 AM To: NT

RE: InoculateIT opinions

http://www.antivirus.com You can't go wrong... -Original Message- From: Steve Frenzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: InoculateIT opinions My company is looking for a workgroup AV and I was curious what the opini

RE: Windows 2000 International version??

is this what you are looking for?? if not let me know and I'll search when time permits me to more!! http://www.gov.beyond.com/PKLC101631/prod.htm Gene C. aka C.E. Gene Connor Gene's Custom PC Service since 1989 Serving the U.S., Canada & London,England >From the start of our nation we've stood

securing older machines

Does Microsoft also supply patches for win9x and ME machines?  I have a few of these machines on my network and I need to know what to do to keep them secure.  Well as secure as can be with Win9x that is.  I use the hfnetchk for patches on my 2k and nt machines, but this does not seem to

network share permissions

Is there a utility that will allow me to show all the permissions on Network shares for NT4 server so I can print them out, or save them to a text file? Thanks > Troy Rambo Systems Specialist CERAC Inc. 414-212-0278 Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a

RE: network share permissions

Dumpsec, free from www.somarsoft.com -BM -Original Message- From: Troy Rambo /278 Systems Specialist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: network share permissions Is there a utility that will allow me to show all the p

RE: InoculateIT opinions

We use InocIT because the tech people aren't making enough of the buying decisions around here. I would choose anything but InocIT. Actually I would stay away from any CA product... Mike Niccum -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001

RE: Time Server

I can see these time servers. I went and got the About Time utility but I can't seem to get it to go through my proxy to actually grab the current time and set a machine. Do I need to open a port or something? I read about an NTP protocol. Do I need it? What is it? where do I get it? and how d

RE: network share permissions

Here's another: http://www.tntsoftware.com/products/free_sfp.asp Mike Niccum -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: network share permissions Dumpsec, free from www.somarsoft

W2K wireless NIC problem

I'm having the following problem with a DLink wireless NIC in an IBM ThinkPad running W2K Professional. The NIC is not "usable" unless the User is promoted to the Admin group (obviously not a good thing). The NIC does appear in Device Manager (which claims the NIC is installed and working pro

RE: Time Server

www.ntp.org -Original Message- From: Len Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Time Server I can see these time servers. I went and got the About Time utility but I can't seem to get it to go through my prox

Re: adding a NIC on Win 2k Server

No. It means that the server is connected to an outside modem to provide internet services. The server is assigned 192.168.0.1 on one port and the other is configured to use DHCP to receive ip, dns, and gateway from a Starband 360 (satellite) modem. I will use WinProxy as soon as I can get the

RE: Time Server

Depending on the protocol you are using with Abouttime, you need to enable udp port 123 or port 37 If you look on the options tab for abouttime it has the protocol and port numbers associated with whichever selections you want to use. YOu need to enable it on your firewall outbound and incoming.

RE: network share permissions

Thanks, that works great. -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: network share permissions Dumpsec, free from www.somarsoft.com -BM -Original Message- From: Troy Ramb

Router connection issue

Hi Everyone, I've been a lurker for quite a while (learning bunches), but now I have a problem that totally confounds me. There are two companies in the building where I work. Each company has a separate network connected through a separate Cisco router to a T-1. For financial reasons, the tw

RE: Windows 2000 International version??

Yes, that is what I am looking for, but I am not government. I also used your link to look in google since now I knew what the name of it really is. I found out it is basically an add-on pack to the regular Win2K English version. Can only buy it though your Volume Licensing Distributor and is i

RE: InoculateIT opinions

Title: RE: InoculateIT opinions Steve,     As much as it's been bashed here on the list, we've been running it for almost 4 years without an issue (knock on wood). It's configured to auto-download new signatures to the server, then auto-update the clients as well. Don Guyer Information

RE: Router connection issue

Where is the csu/dsu in your layout? You need one of them to talk from the t1 to the router. All of my routers were purchased with the WICT1-DSU built in so I just terminate there. If you have an external csu like from Adtran you need the cable going from the csu to the router, depending on the

Re: InoculateIT opinions

Title: RE: InoculateIT opinions Used it for years at my previous employer, worked well, had an issue once with excel files, but they resolved it with an update... - Original Message - From: Don Guyer To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:45

Network Traffic

Heyas! Can anyone suggest a good tool for network traffic monitoring? We have all HP Procurve Switches and use TopTools, but it doesn't seem that good (unless im just missing some config options). For example we wanted to track down a user that was pegging our T @ 97% utilization (he had 15 "fami

RUNAS Command

Hey All   Does anyone know if the RUNAS command can be run from a script or batch file.  I want to be able to deploy software to W2K workstations using a login script.  I have successfully accomplished this using the SU utility in NT4.   TIA   Ron Want to unsub? Do that here:

RE: Network Traffic

If you're willing to spend the $$$ take a look at Packeteer PacketShaper -Original Message- From: Carlos Garcia-Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network Traffic Heyas! Can anyone suggest a good tool for netwo

Re: Network Traffic

Solar Winds.  Wonderful product. K.Borndale   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -home email - Original Message - From: Carlos Garcia-Moran To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:50 PM Subject: Network

RE: Network Traffic

Well, My boss doesn't mind spending the cash (unless we talking about 20K or more, then It's paperwork HELL!) as long as I can prove the tool has some worth. He is big into monitoring :) -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 200

RE: adding a NIC on Win 2k Server

Larry, I think I know the answer, but to be sure, I have a some of questions for you. 1) Does this server run DNS, and if so, are the zones AD integrated? 2) Are you using Native Mode AD or Legacy Mode? 3) I am assuming that the 192.168.0.1 is for your internal lan. Do you use static IP addre

RE: Router connection issue

Title: RE: Router connection issue I don't know what a white Russian is but it sounds good for a Friday.  Don't start a whole discussion on it - enough noise already. 1) the T-1 is a digital line that connects to a CSU/DSU (serial connection) on your router.  As Jason points out, CSU's can be

RE: Network Traffic

Then check it out. This thing is wonderful and great for throttling bandwidth to specific apps or users. It is just incredible. Check out their site, call a VAR and get a 30 day demo. I promise you at the end of 30 days you will keep it. Less than 10K -Original Message- From: Carlos Garci

RE: Mirroring

Title: Message You could also use robocopy from the Resource Kit and the task scheduler.     Greg -Original Message-From: Dee Abson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:42 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Mirroring Iomega makes a produc

RE: InoculateIT opinions

We use InocIT across our organization. We have a corporate agreement with CA to use their products, so we use it by association. Personally, I hate it, but it's not that bad. It's just (IMHO) not as good as any other product out there. I know freeware virus scanners that do a better job than I

RE: network share permissions

RMTSHARE or Security Explorer http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=Perms.TXT - ASB -Original Message- From: Troy Rambo /278 Systems Specialist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: network share permissions Is th

RE: InoculateIT opinions

I've also used EjaculateIT since well into the previous millenium. It is a viable workstation option. But try it on your mission critical Exchange Server. William -Original Message- From: Luberti, Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:13 PM To: NT System

Folder/Location List

In OUTLOOK (or any other program) when you want to open a file/add an attachment, the program opens a "open dialog" window, with the current directory in the main part, the pull-down menu up top, and a selection of folders on the left side (History, My Documents, Desktop, Favorites and My N

RE: Backup - recommendation please?

Doesn't Live Vault backup the file only after it is closed? It appears as if some files never get closed. But Live Vault is a solid choice. Greg -Original Message- From: Dempster, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: network share permissions

Thanks Andrew -Original Message- From: Andrew Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: network share permissions RMTSHARE or Security Explorer http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=Perms.TXT - ASB -Ori

RE: Dell 760N for sale

Title: Dell 760N for sale like your sig, Russell.   Dan     Electronic Knight ErrantDragons Slain (2 cave minimum) -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:05 PMTo: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Dell 76

RE: File services hangs

can you simulate a load over the weekend. Pausing printers, print then delete in a script multiple runas sessions copying files. have you run perf mon logging everything 60 seconds aught to give you some data to look at. might show what resources are being used. Dan -Original Message-

RE: Ports on a W2K print server: TCP/IP or LPR?

I use LPR for all printers. (about 200 print queues on 120 printers) pretty stable till someone prints the 2000 page color pdf file... The spool disk doesn't like that. also it allows you to remove protocols from the printers. hp printers include dlc, appltalk, ip, and ipx. removing 3 to jus

RE: File services hangs

Stimulate your own load, you lazy Oh. Sorry. Good idea. -Original Message- From: Miley, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: File services hangs can you simulate a load over the weekend. Pausing printers,

RE: InoculateIT opinions

Many thanks for all your input. Next time try not to hold back so much; tell me how ya really feel :) Steve Frenzl Systems Administrator Farmer Automotive Group Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-ll

RE: Network Traffic

Title: RE: Network Traffic Our host, Sunbelt, has Netboy.  -Original Message- From: Carlos Garcia-Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network Traffic Well, My boss doesn't mind spending the cash (unless

RE: Network Traffic

There is a freeware tool that is more than adequate for a lot of network monitoring tasks, its worth a look: http://www.ethereal.com And you cant beat the price. xylog -Original Message- From: Carlos Garcia-Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:50 PM To:

RE: Backup - recommendation please?

Title: RE: Backup - recommendation please? Unless I got my demos crossed, I thought it could handle open files. You should be able to retrieve a deleted e-mail immediately if I'm not mistaken (I know, bad example) -Original Message- From: Greg Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri

RE: Router connection issue

Basically, we have two fully functional networks, both with Cisco 1720 routers. We want to keep the networks separate and only want to be able to use a single T-1 instead of separate T-1s. Both routers and T-1 connections are in the same wiring closet. What I would like to do is use some sort

RE: securing older machines

Title: Message Format. Unless you install third party apps (Zone Alarm, Tiny Personal Firewall etc), there's nothing I've found from MS that will help secure 9x. -Original Message-From: Don Collier (Intermap Denver) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 200

Re: RUNAS Command

Hi You can use Runas on the command line: C:\WINNT\system32\runas.exe /user:domain_name\administrator c:\path\app.EXE You will be prompted for the password -- Best regards, Gareth, MCP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Friday, September 28, 2001, 9:50:56 PM, you wrote:

Re: InoculateIT opinions

Steve, Seriously take a look at TrendMicro's virus scan offering - OfficeScan Corporate Edition. I've used Symantec's Norton Antivirus, CA's InoculateIT, McAfee's VirusScan and countless others.. TrendMicro does workgroup AV right! From a centralized managemnet console (web based) to deploy to n

RE: InoculateIT opinions

And yet Boeing chose Panda for their huge deployment. -Original Message- From: David Hekimian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: InoculateIT opinions Steve, Seriously take a look at TrendMicro's virus scan offeri

Re: securing older machines

Title: Message While they may not be the highest in security, there are things that can be done.  I know that if you use the Windows update, there are security updates for both OSes.  Also, there are updates for IE that are security updates as well.  You should also probably disable the file

RE: InoculateIT opinions

Title: RE: InoculateIT opinions As a Panda user, I can only ask 'why?' -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: InoculateIT opinions And yet Boeing chose Panda for their

RE: InoculateIT opinions

Hey, if Pandas can do AV, more power to em. In all seriousness, I am with David on this. Trend it THE solution. We had virus issues here when I started, they were using NAI. Once I got the CIO to look at it (he had never heard of Trend), we were sold and never looked back. -Original Message-

RE: W2K: Probably missing the obvious...

Hi Pavel,   I appreciate the help, but this doesn’t seem to do the trick either.  I pointed to the outlook.pst file and for some reason Outlook doesn’t read it.  I’m currently checking the permissions on the file and host directory.   Thanks again.   Jesse E. Gardner, MCP P.O. Box 1

RE: Probably missing the obvious...

Hi Chris,   I appreciate the help, but for some reason the profiles setup everything but the Outlook access.  When Outlook is activated, a new version is initiated.  I’ve pointed to the .pst file, that doesn’t work either.  Unlike 95 or 98, you can’t configure Outlook 2K in Control Panel

Exams

Hi Guys Has anyone recently upgraded their NT4 MCSE exams to W2K ? I would like to hear from them about the upgrade exams and which they took , thanks Best Regards / Meilleures salutations Ali Hadi Compaq EUS Technicien/France Incident Mgr Lucent Technologies 16 Avenue Descartes 9235

Re: Files keep disappearing from the winnt dir

Title: Message I have been told ( it could be a rumor ), that there is a virus, which is "hungry" for .dll's! Maybe this is true! - Original Message - From: Mark Pilbeam To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:22 AM Subject: RE: Files keep

List or BBS

These lists are a PITA - but not worth giving up. Have you (Sunbelt) or this forums' correspondents considered using a Bulletin Board System - such as that by Infopop - Ultimate BBS.   A couple of years ago in the (Y)UK The Professional Contractors Group (anti-IR35) set their 'forums' up this

RE: W2K Pro Install

Try copying the contents of the CD onto the HDD, and running the install from there. This resolved a similar problem a machine gave me on Win95 once.   matt -Original Message-From: Network Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 27 September 2001 20:18To: NT System Admin Issue

RE: Workstation Naming Standards

the way we change it to recently, was we put a label on every workstation with a unique 3 digit number on it, when we renamed the machines, i prefixed the number with TRV. the main reason for this so that it looks nice and tidy in network neighbourhood. with the servers, i have just named them as

RE: Workstation Naming Standards

Title: RE: Workstation Naming Standards If you're going AD you can really use it to your own preference.   For example our AD is split Users are grouped in OU's based on company structure i.e. Function -> Department etc.   In another section we have Machines by Geographic position i.e. Nott

Backup - recommendation please?

Hi, I'm looking for a backup solution for a new customer. We normally use unenhanced versions of Backup Exec or Arcserve, & back the system up out of hours. Unfortunately this customer needs to work 24/7. The software my company produces uses a well-known accounting package at its core, whic

Re: Exams

Hello I am in the process of doing that upgrading from NT4 to W2K. Right now I am preparing for Accelerated Exam 240. There is not much information on it yet. And it has been to be tough one. There are few sites you might wanna check it out. ex.. www.examsonline.com, http://www.transcender.co

RE: Power User Rights

Thanks Jason, very useful. Lee -Original Message- From: Kopacko, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 September 2001 17:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Power User Rights Lee, I would be happy to. There are several templates that were included with 2000. They range from

Disappearing User profile

Title: Disappearing User profile Hope someone can help on this one. We have a user (My boss) who's profile "disappears" every time he logs off. When he subsequently logs back on, he gets a vanilla profile again... Office 2000 tries to reconfigure itself etc. and if I log him off and login

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message What are your group memberships and what are his? List both the local and domain?   Thank You,   Jason Kopacko Network Engineer Gold Strike Casino, Tunica, Mississippi (662) 357-1305 - Direct Number (662) 357- - Property Number (877) 401-2413 - Pager Numer -Ori

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message no local groups... for either of us... he is a standard user - so domain users, users, domain guests & guests... along with a bunch of application access specific groups. I'm in administrators, domain admins etc.   I'm a little confused as to why this should matter - none of t

Re: Netshield & Dr.Watson: together again!

Title: Out of Buffer Error Yes I have had that problem.  In my case it was related to the particular version of McAfee running and the Version of Dats.  I finally found and downloaded the latest Service Pack from McAfee for the Corporate Version 4.5 it is actually Service Pack 2.  This resolv

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message It really shouldnt matter but I just wanted to be sure. You said he is a member of the guest group? Why? Also, have you tried deleting and recreating his domain account, thus creating a new SID?   Thank You,   Jason Kopacko Network Engineer Gold Strike Casino, Tunica, Mississi

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message New sid is next on my list - am in the process of pulling the machine off the domain and back on to see if that helps - not sure on the guest group ... everyone is. one of many hangovers from a terrible migration from Novell :-{ -Original Message-From: Kopac

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message Well as long as the guest group is not implicitly denied access to anything then you should be ok. But I would make it a point to get that resovled. Is he able to logon to other machines and have his profile stay?   Thank You,   Jason Kopacko Network Engineer Gold Strike Casin

RE: Disappearing User profile

Title: Message just tested that.. same issue.. nothing is denied implicitly. I'll let you know how I get on with the SID's -Original Message-From: Kopacko, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 28 September 2001 12:18To: NT System Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Disappeari

Re: Disappearing User profile

.. If this happens on multiple PC's there is something wrong in his account setup. When he logs on, go see what type of profile is created. Look at his account setup. Do you have anything in the profile path? If he doesn't have permissions to save his profile to that path you'll see th

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