RE: The Death of Windows 3.x

2008-11-17 Thread Kelsey, John
A 'trash 80' ? I still have mine! *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -Original Message- From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15,

Re: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel??

2008-11-17 Thread James Kerr
Punch down a keystone or punch down at the back of the panel. Is it really THAT much easier? Besides punching down cables is great exercise for your forearms. Also, I find that wiring headaches are best avoided by labeling everything, I learned the hard way working weekends tracking down cable

Re: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel??

2008-11-17 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I would suggest that punching down CAT is difficult for a reason - its an industry standard for making a secure and stationary connection that will last. Anything less imo is asking for trouble over time. -- ME2 On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen

RE: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread David L Herrick
+1 From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What could cause this VPN issue? Is his router using the same IP address scheme as your office? I found that could be cause of issues...My network uses

RE: Antivirus Pro 2009 How can we get rid of it and prevent it from coming back

2008-11-17 Thread David L Herrick
I have used a combo of Malware Vipre on 2 boxes so far so good From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Pro 2009 How can we get rid of it and prevent it from coming back I think Malwarebytes

RE: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Martin Blackstone
Aye. Have seen this too many times to count. From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What could cause this VPN issue? +1 From: Sean Rector [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14,

RE: The Death of Windows 3.x

2008-11-17 Thread Don Guyer
My first computer was a Commodore 64. Apparently they're still used (or were ~12 years ago when I sold it) for HAM radio operators. I remember loading the cassettes into the tape drive and having enough time to eat dinner before it was completed. :^) My first gig was working with WFW 3.11.

RE: Problems using alias for server?

2008-11-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
One other question on this... If I create a DFS target pointing to the existing share and then reconfigure group policies and profiles to point to the DFS path instead of \\server\share, that should be totally transparent to users and their computers, right? At least theoretically?

RE: The Death of Windows 3.x

2008-11-17 Thread Terry Dickson
The original without the expansion interface? Yes I remember the fun days of programming in TRS-80 Basic with 4K of memory, storing programs on Cassette tape. Those were the good ole days. Compared to the PDF I just had to open that during the open portion I saw Adobe use up to 1.6GB of Ram

RE: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel??

2008-11-17 Thread René de Haas
Hmm... Just because something is difficult to make doesn't automatically make it more durable. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel?? I would

Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Carroll
I have a single user here that converts a lot of documents into PDF files. Everything was running smoothly until we installed Service Pack 3 on his XP system. Now every time a Microsoft update is run he is unable to convert files to PDF using Adobe Acrobat - it just hangs in the creation

RE: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel??

2008-11-17 Thread Dallas Burnworth
I agree, and in most cases patch cables are cheaper than man-hours + bulk cable. You'll spend less time doing grunt work and more time using your brain and doing the fun stuff. Dallas -Original Message- From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008

Re: SBS 2008 taskbar

2008-11-17 Thread Steve Ens
THat's one of the new features...jk. I installed it in Hyper V and it worked well...that was one of the RC's though, not the final release. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Phillip Partipilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dont suppose any of you have been trying out the trial of SBS 2008? I've

RE: Punchless Cat5/6 patch panel??

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Ross
Look at Panduit's keystone punchless panel system. Yeah I used to work for them, but their products are top notch and are wonderful for this type of thing. I've used them for years, without issue, and it makes changing around your punch panels much easier, should the need arise. -Original

Re: Problems using alias for server?

2008-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other question on this... If I create a DFS target pointing to the existing share and then reconfigure group policies and profiles to point to the DFS path instead of \\server\share, that should be totally

Re: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Alex Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a single user here that converts a lot of documents into PDF files. Try an uninstall and reinstall of Adobe Acrobat. That seems to be Adobe's fix for everything. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Carroll
Already tried that. Twice. Alex Carroll Software Support Crabtree Companies, Inc. 651-688-2727 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS

RE: Problems using alias for server?

2008-11-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
The roaming profile is easy to change on a per-user basis, but the folder redirection path is set in GPO and is a little trickier to test on a small scale. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
Use nslookup with the d2 switch to see debugging information. This will tell you exactly what is being sent under the covers. Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + -Original

RE: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Heaton
Not your covers ME... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What could cause this VPN issue? boinnng... -- ME2 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Re: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
:( -- ME2 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not your covers ME... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: What could cause this VPN issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
boinnng... -- ME2 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use nslookup with the d2 switch to see debugging information. This will tell you exactly what is being sent under the covers. Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL

Bulk AD Group Rename

2008-11-17 Thread CBlair
I need to rename all of our AD groups be adding a site code to the the beginning. I have been Googling this morning for a tool or script to do so, but so far I have found nothing. Does anyone have any experience with doing this and would like to recommend a tool? Thank You, Chris * NEW

RE: Bulk AD Group Rename

2008-11-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
I personally would use PowerShell, but you can do it in pretty much anything, including: 1] PowerShell 2] VBScript 3] adfind/admod 4] dsquery/dsmod 5] C# / C++ 6] Perl / PHP / Ruby In the Active Directory Cookbook 2nd edition, you'll find recipes for renaming groups with

My administrator account won't administer

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Monicher
I have 3 accounts in our active directory (W2K) domain. Acct1 is a domain admin Acct2 is a local admin on all machines in our OU, and has rights to modify AD on our OU Acct3 has no special admin rights or privileges. Acct2 no longer can administer machines. A GPO forbids non-admins access to such

RE: SBS 2008 taskbar

2008-11-17 Thread Art DeKneef
I have the Taskbar and a Start button/menu on the RTM install I have. Are you sure that the Taskbar isn't below the bottom of the screen? I have seen that happen a few times on other systems where it doesn't appear and you have to drag the top up so it can be seen. -Original Message-

RE: SBS 2008 taskbar

2008-11-17 Thread Don Guyer
Or, silly as this sounds, maybe the monitor needs vertical adjusting. :^) Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Any of you work with subversion? More specifically, do any of you have it authenticating against AD? If you do, I'd appreciate any tips you might have. We're trying to move away from an expensive commercial product for which we aren't going to pay any more, and I'm running into roadblocks with it

RE: Bulk AD Group Rename

2008-11-17 Thread CBlair
Thanks Michael. I am placing my order for the book right now. Thank You, Chris Blair IT - Network Operations HID Global (MIN) Office: 952.946.6335 Cell:952.465.9942 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Andy Shook
Speed\duplex mismatch or auto-negotiate dorking-up on you? Shook From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Still having login issues I have users that get their home directory through a mapping, which was setup under

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
If you look at the event logs on the desktop after a mapping failed, are there any warnings or errors? What about the login DC? (set l from a cmd.exe session to find that out) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog:

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Heaton
Is that a lower case L, or an upper case I (eye)? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Still having login issues If you look at the event logs on the

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Heaton
I believe everything is set to auto, on client and switch. Are you recommending forcing 100? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Still having login issues

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Heaton
Don't answer that Michael, I figured it out. The client I looked at, with the issue, is hitting my secondary DC for auth. Possibly an issue with the two DCs talking? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:45 AM

Re: Fri OT

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Driving by the auto-mail this morning, the large tele-prompter off the freeway had a C:\ prompt displayed. Wish I had my camera.. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in

Re: Fri OT

2008-11-17 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
You mean your cell phone doesn't have a camera? On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Driving by the auto-mail this morning, the large tele-prompter off the freeway had a C:\ prompt displayed. Wish I had my camera.. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ben

Re: Fri OT

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Well, OK, sure. It didn't until recently (unemployed IT worker = free phone). Now I need to upgrade my data plan so I can email them, currently my phone camera pictures are no more than just backgrounds. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You mean

Desktop security app

2008-11-17 Thread David Lum
I'm looking to move away from WSUS for patching our desktops because we have too many non MS applications to keep patched. The latest Adobe Reader update I was able to push via SMS, but it's too cumbersome to try to keep everything patched that way. Additionally, Secunia and GFI have tools

RE: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Sam Cayze
Mine does this everytime I start Acrobat Standard on new XP install. Can't get rid of it :( From: Alex Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF

Re: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Wittersheim
Interesting. I have one user that this is happening to as well. All of her other mapped drives are mapped correctly. Did you find a solution? On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have users that get their home directory through a mapping, which was setup

RE: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Looks doable... http://aligature.org/2006/01/subversion_authentication_agai.html -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi OT: Subversion integration Any of you work with subversion?

RE: Desktop security app

2008-11-17 Thread Sean Rector
Shavlik Sean Rector, MCSE From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Desktop security app I'm looking to move away from WSUS for patching our desktops because we have too many non MS applications to keep

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Unlikely, unless you have other replication issues (in your system event log). I'd be more concerned about some type of security failure in the security event log during the auth process or a userenv issue. Both of those should be logged. Regards, Michael B. Smith,

Re: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
Temporary workaround: install a Print-to-PDF virtual printer like PDFcreator from http://pdfforge.org/ -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Desktop security app

2008-11-17 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
We've been very pleased with GFI Languard. We only use it for our servers, but it works well for our needs. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sean Rector [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Shavlik Sean Rector, MCSE *From:* David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2008

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Yeah, but that requires apache - something the devs don't want. We may be forced to it though - they're not having much luck with svnserve by itself. Kurt On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks doable...

RE: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Sam Cayze
Not really a virtual printer problem... I need Acrobat Standard for actual PDF editing, commenting, manipulation, merging, etc. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

Re: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Phil Brutsche
I haven't seen it with Acrobat 7. The single biggest problem I've had with XP SP3 is the disappearance of the IE icon off the desktop. Dallas Burnworth wrote: I wonder if anyone has those problems with Acrobat versions 8 or 9. If not, maybe that is an indicator that the old technology will

RE: Still having login issues

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Heaton
Michael, The security event log on the client, or DC? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Still having login issues Unlikely, unless you have other

HP SIM and SQl 2005 Express

2008-11-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know how to set this up if express is already installed? The app doesn't give you the option to instantiate a new db? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Steven Peck
Have you looked at this? http://www.svniis.org/ On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but that requires apache - something the devs don't want. We may be forced to it though - they're not having much luck with svnserve by itself. Kurt On Mon, Nov 17,

RE: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Adam Meixler
we've been a fan of the free http://www.visualsvn.com/server/ dead simple setup (with AD integration) and repository management -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi OT:

Remote registry access

2008-11-17 Thread David Lum
Where can I go to view who has what access to remote registry? Isn't there a way to set this in a GPO? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Steven Peck
Ok, that's neat. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Adam Meixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we've been a fan of the free http://www.visualsvn.com/server/ dead simple setup (with AD integration) and repository management -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Adobe Acrobat won't convert files to PDF after MS Update

2008-11-17 Thread Robert Cato
Look at the MSI cleanup from MS. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 Robert On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine does this everytime I start Acrobat Standard on new XP install. Can't get rid of it :( -- *From:* Alex

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
That's a new one for me. I'll have to look at it. The engineers are going to scream, as they are all linux-heads. I might just do it to spite them. Heh. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Adam Meixler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we've been a fan of the free http://www.visualsvn.com/server/ dead

RE: OSX machines suddenly can't connect to Win2003 PDC

2008-11-17 Thread Mike Gill
To close this, I had two issues causing these symptoms. Primarily for the Mac's, on the server NetBIOS over TCP/IP was set to disabled. I have no freaking idea how that got that way. Once this was enabled, the Mac's could browse shares again. I un-joined one Mac from the domain early on and

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Fox
Kurt, If your engineer's are all linux-heads, then what is the aversion to apache? I understand that there are other http servers for Linux, but apache is pretty much the defacto standard. I'm just curious. Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308

Re: Semi OT: Subversion integration

2008-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration - they're not *all* linux-heads, but the ones implementing it are,and are pretty vocal in their stance. It's an aversion to integration of the web server, not to apache as such, AFIACT. They've gotten stuck on the idea that it can all be done through Cyrus