Ghosts in the machine ?

2008-06-13 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, I have a weird problem on a site which I can't explain, at all. I'm thinking of calling the ghostbusters ! Site A has three printers. All networked, all plugged in to a switch (unmanaged alas) along with about 20 thin clients. These are all connected to SITE B via a VPN where there are

RE: Windows Server 2008 Install issue

2008-06-13 Thread Ames Matthew B
iirc, the 600SC has a 3rd IDE controller. are your disks attached to that? From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2008 00:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Server 2008 Install issue There is nothing there because Dell

RE: software licenses audits

2008-06-13 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
This you Try Lan Sweeper? I've had pretty good luck with it capturing everything. It's for windows though no MAC support, but it should help you tons. You can input your license counts on it. http://lansweeper.com/ -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Trend 8.0 server hang - revisiting

2008-06-13 Thread David Lum
Any update on this? Just kind of curious as to the outcome Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Ghosts in the machine ?

2008-06-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Site A has three printers. All networked, all plugged in to a switch (unmanaged alas) along with about 20 thin clients. ... All of them just drop off the network. ... ... This happens at the same split second for all

Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread EricB
Good morning, I have an XP Pro machine with a small system partition that has run out of space. Ordinarily, I'd just install a larger drive, and reinstall, but this computer has a lot of specialty applications installed with strict licensing requirements. There is also a larger data

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Damien Solodow
Ghost? DriveImageXML, G4L, or similar. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk/partition migration tool Good morning, I have an XP Pro machine with a small system partition that has run out of

RE: How to logon to 2 domains question

2008-06-13 Thread Edwards, David
If the link goes down, each system will have cached the login ID and access rights(SID). This will allow you to login to the system. You can verify this by disconnecting from the WAN. Your SID at that time of WAN interruption still has your access rights for any local resources in the local

Re: Ghosts in the machine ?

2008-06-13 Thread James Rankin
Maybe this is the issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87z6O8dek2k (It is Friday!) :-) 2008/6/13 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Site A has three printers. All networked, all plugged in to a switch (unmanaged

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Partition Manager for desktop or server. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk/partition migration tool Ghost? DriveImageXML, G4L, or similar. From: [EMAIL

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Damien Solodow
Or gtparted which is free. ;) From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk/partition migration tool Partition Manager for desktop or server. From: Damien Solodow

Re: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an XP Pro machine with a small system partition that has run out of space. Ordinarily, I'd just install a larger drive, and reinstall, but this computer has a lot of specialty applications installed with strict licensing

Re: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread RichardMcClary
I ran into a similar situation a few months back. I'd tried all the suggested free tools, and they all failed for one reason or another. Acronis makes a migration tool that does this, and it worked well. Here's the part I don't understand - it has a 30-day trial period. I downloaded and used

Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Shook
Friend of mine just bought a few laptops with Vista Business on them. Do downgrade rights apply to OEM Vista? If yes, where do you get valid XP keys? Shook ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

Re: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread David Baca
EricB I have used the server version of the Acronis product and it works well. I used it on a raid 5 and mirrored raid drive. I had alot of unused room on the other partition. It was as easy as just sliding the bar and telling it how much room i wanted to take from the other partition. The

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Shook
Uhhh...that would be downgrade rights. My b Shook From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista OEM dongrade options Friend of mine just bought a few laptops with Vista

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Carl Houseman
Yes. You can use any XP product key that goes with the media you have on hand. If it won't activate, MS is supposed to approve the activation over the phone once you explain the downgrade situation. All that is pretty much laid out in the downgrade rights pdf file which is easily googled.

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Shook
I'm interested in this Google you speak of.Seriously, thanks for the clarification on OEM Vista. Shook From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

RE: Vista OEM downgrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's kind of the rub, right? You still have to have your own XP media and key unless your computer mfg will provide it. Lenovo has a downgrade program and for something like $10 they will send you the package with a key. I just got the wife and kids a new Dell PC and immediately downgraded

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Roger Wright
FYI - we've run into issues locating XP drivers for newer machines which came loaded with Vista. Make sure you have these available, especially the SATA drivers, when you begin to install XP. You may have to slipstream them into you XP installation media. Roger Wright Network

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Blackstone
Someone has Don on the mind!! From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista OEM dongrade options Uhhh...that would be downgrade rights. My b Shook _ From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Blackstone
Its on the Interwebs From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista OEM dongrade options I'm interested in this Google you speak of...Seriously, thanks for the clarification on OEM Vista. Shook _

RE: Vista OEM downgrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Carl Houseman
They only cry because you won't buy them new games that run on Vista From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista OEM downgrade options That's kind of the rub, right? You still have to have your

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Liu, David
For the lenovo series we changed the HDD detect option to compatibility mode in the BIOS was able to load XP first storage drivers once the OS is up running. From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System

RE: Vista OEM downgrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Blackstone
Probably. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista OEM downgrade options They only cry because you won't buy them new games that run on Vista From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Vista OEM dongrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Kennedy, Jim
My mother in law's computer was a nightmare to downgrade this past Christmas. I finally found some hacked sound card drivers on a Korean website. I still don't know how I found them or what made me think they would work, the whole site was in Korean...but they worked. From: Roger Wright

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Sam Cayze
For cloning disks that have multiple partitions, Ghost and DriveXML don't really cut it... I use 'SelfImage' since it will copy all the partition/tables, and then use a partition sizing tool to expand the partitions into the new free space. Partition magic or gparted...

Re: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Kurt Buff
I just used the live gparted disk on a couple of machines, linux and windows. Works like a champ, and is free. Between that and Clonezilla, I'm giving Ghost the boot. I'm sure there are other products that do more, and work better in large environments, but for me these two do all that I want.

Re: Opening Ports via GPO

2008-06-13 Thread James Edwards
Klint Price - ArizonaITPro wrote: no, the /24 means the last 255 digits in the last octet if you want to allow everything in the last two octets, it would be 10.3.0.0/16 Thanks, that worked. But, the Group Policies are only partially applying. I put in some port exceptions for the

RE: Vista OEM downgrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Phillip Partipilo
A coworkers here just ordered an HP workstation laptop and requested XP. They put a Vista Business COA sticker on the bottom, shipped it with XP Pro, and gave him both Vista 32, Vista 64, and XP media, along with the applications disc. Really nice. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc.

Re: Vista OEM downgrade options

2008-06-13 Thread Steve Ens
Yes all HP stations coming in have at least three options, 64 and 32 bit Vista and XP (some also have 64bit XP). On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A coworkers here just ordered an HP workstation laptop and requested XP. They put a Vista Business COA

need bounces

2008-06-13 Thread wjh
Sorry about the cross pollination for those on the exchange list, but everyone is quiet on that list regarding this. Thought I'd give it a shot around this neck of the woods to see what would happen... Anyone know an easy way to re-enable bounce messages for disabled accounts. We just did a

Re: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Tom Kluegel
You might consider looking into the utilities provided by the manufacturers of the disks. If the new disk is of the same manufacturer as the old, I think that your chances are good that they provide software that could help you in your effort. -- Tom Kluegel - Original Message -

Vista CAL Licensing - revisited

2008-06-13 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I just had a rather lengthy discussion with my MS licensing rep and some interesting things came out that I had never heard before. Anyone else hearing this? 1) You can't virtualize a volume Vista license unless you have software assurance, but if you do have SA, you can have 4 VMs plus the host

RE: Vista CAL Licensing - revisited

2008-06-13 Thread Jacob
I bet if you talked to a different MS licensing rep, you will get a different response. ;-) Talk to a third rep... get a complete different response from the first two. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System

Cisco 3560 config question

2008-06-13 Thread Joe Heaton
Is it possible to configure multiple interfaces at the same time? I'd like to assign a block of interfaces to the same VLAN, but don't want to type the same 3-4 lines for each one. Also, is there a way to make the CLI recognize partial commands and have it fill out the full command? For

RE: Cisco 3560 config question

2008-06-13 Thread Chyka, Robert
You can do g0/1 f0/5 etc. Use the range command from cli or download cisco network assistant and you can config multiple ports at once.Either way works great. I prefer the cli.. Most cisco ios commands can be appreviated... -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cisco 3560 config question

2008-06-13 Thread Chyka, Robert
That is abbreviated.. sorry -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: 6/13/08 6:25 PM Subject: Cisco 3560 config question Is it possible to configure multiple interfaces at the same time? I'd like to

RE: Cisco 3560 config question

2008-06-13 Thread Joe Heaton
Thanks Robert, I'll look into the range command. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cisco 3560 config question You can do g0/1 f0/5 etc. Use the range command from

Re: Cisco 3560 config question

2008-06-13 Thread Andrew Laya
Not a Cisco guru myself, but a guy I used to work with used to get his configs done up in notepad beforehand. He could then copy and paste to his hearts content, and modify, edit and correct things he found along the way. When he had the config as he wanted, he would telnet into the switch /

RE: Vista CAL Licensing - revisited

2008-06-13 Thread Malcolm Reitz
2) is correct. See http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2/3/d23b9533-169d-4996-b198-7b9 d3fe15611/downgrade_chart.doc. FPP is the retail product. Malcolm -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 June, 2008 16:46 To: NT System Admin Issues

OT Friday: Bruce Schneier and the King of the Crabs

2008-06-13 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
Amusing ... Bruce Schneier and the King of the Crabs ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL BRONKOWSKI AT HIS HOME IN TUCSON RESERVATION, BY GALEN PARR 5.1, DATED JUNE 17, 2078 http://www.vivtek.com/fiction/singularity_tales/tale_crab.html ~ Upgrade to Next Generation

RE: Vista CAL Licensing - revisited

2008-06-13 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, I have just received a response from Bill Staples (who is the group PM for IIS) and says that the current situation is pretty ambiguous (lots of potential scenarios), and this is an issue that the PG is trying to get sorted out. However the general thrust is that (except for products that