Re: Service accounts that want local admin

2010-06-09 Thread James Rankin
Doesn't 2008 R2 AD try to handle this with the Managed Service Accounts feature? Having said that, I haven't tried using it yet. We try to apply the principle of least privilege wherever possible. You can use LUA Buglight and process monitor to work out *why *things think they need admin

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread James Rankin
I have about 120 GPOs applying at logon, and it doesn't take anywhere near that long. Keeping them separate and distinct is better when it comes to working out which one is screwing things up, believe me. Are all your DCs local to the problem PCs? Are you getting any other network issues? On 9

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Miller
Be sure to disable computer/use settings on GPOs that have no settings in those sections, so the won't be scanned and time will be saved. As for merging I wouldn't recommend it. I'd just spend the time to recreate so you'll have a fresh GPO. Then delete the older GPOs and allow the system

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread James Kerr
Smooth, real smooth. On 6/8/2010 6:32 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Check out this cool website I found: http://www.upart.biz/ I found it when searching for an error code from one of our HP printers. BTW: Don't ever buy an HP M2727nf. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
The few times I've had to deal with this the problem turned out to be connectivity-related instead of the number of GPOs. Can you ping all of your DCs from the workstations? Has it always been this way, or did something change? Is it all of the workstations all of the time, some of them all of

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Doesn't load now, but I can only assume an open HP printer config page? Time to http://hacknmod.com/hack/hack-a-printer-display/ -sc -Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: http://www.upart.biz/ Doesn't load now, but I can only assume an open HP printer config page? Yup. I think the printer may have crashed due to all the people on this list trying to load the management UI.

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Andrew Levicki
I'm still trying to get a printout of the PCL font list! andrew On 9 June 2010 21:59, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: http://www.upart.biz/ Doesn't load now, but I can only assume an open HP

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Mike Hoffman
Just out of interest we've spent the last week playing with esc codes on a printer. We have a client running a vet practice using a dos based invoicing system. He is now unable to get dot-matrix printers to work so we put in an HP LJ1200, but the page width is too wide. I know that putting the

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Malcolm Reitz
Do you do anything to prevent random people outside your office from connecting to your guest wireless network? -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 21:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Wireless network

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: AD question here: For our computers on our network, especially our XP machines, the Applying Computer Settings portion of the boot process takes a very long time (4 minutes?) which makes the initial login for

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Jonathan Link
Is that app even Y2K compliant? I'm suprised his accountant hasn't moved him to something else. Our fees slide upwards based on the age of the software involved... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: Just out of interest we’ve spent the last week playing with

Re: Applying Computer Settings takes forever...

2010-06-09 Thread Eric Brouwer
Is the load time slow on all of them? I had this happening on one machine in our office. Ended up being a bad DNS setting. Went from minutes to seconds to logon. On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: AD question here: For our computers on our network, especially our XP

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
Access control and routing is done by our core firewall and router for all of our networks. This is the configuration that Phil is referring to. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 10:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Terry Dickson
Well it depends on what you want, I would suggest you set it to Line printer font, at 16.67CPI but then I am running off memory, I could probably find an HP book around here somewhere to look it up for you if you need me to. However what you really need to do is set the Default Font, because

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Terry Dickson
Here is a page that will explain some of it for you. http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/links/hp_pcl_codes.htm From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think Just out

[OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Maglinger, Paul
http://www.wimp.com/hugeidea/ -Paul ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
No. There are some bandwidth restrictions and we monitor the bandwidth utilization on that VLAN but nothing more than that. Our physical location is such that the wireless signal strength drops before it hits any permanent establishments or parking lots not on our premises. Other than

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Blackstone
Does this solution not have any kind of captive portal? No add-ons or anything available? Cisco loves to sell add-ons don’t they? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: Wireless

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Don Guyer
We have a separate Network team here, but I do know that they use Aruba APs, which have policies that tie into AD groups. We have a Guest network, that has limited access, mainly just gets out to the WWW and the applicable server-related apps. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
Have you tried using the NET USE command to capture the LPT output to the installed matrix printer within the DOS session? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net]

RE: Service accounts that want local admin

2010-06-09 Thread Free, Bob
Yes there is that facility in R2. It is a big step forward. No more non-expiring passwords, no password management hassles like in the current solution and no one knows the passwords so they can't bypass other controls and logon interactively with them. There are some limitations, one system

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Mike Hoffman
I wish!! The machine is Dos6 not a session. I was planning on virtualising it at some point, but I've not got round to it. Mike From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 June 2010 15:33 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Mike Hoffman
Terry Thanks for the link - I think I spent Saturday Morning on that page!! It did look like a font issue. Thanks Mike From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: 09 June 2010 14:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I

RE: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
Being the cynic, I can just imagine one or more cases leaking mineral oil all over, first person into server room slips and busts their butt , second person laughs before he/she falls too…. And just remember, eventually all the heat that the mineral oil soaks up has to go somewhere too !

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
Wow, then why did the dot-matrix quit working ? That’s weird ! If the LPT ports work for the laser, then driver problems within the software app ? ( sorry, I know, not what you were asking for in your original post ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security

Server won't replicate

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Anderson
Hello, I have a W23 server that we built here and joined the network here and made him a DC. We then powered him off and packed him up and sent him to our Texas facility to be a local DC for logging on to the domain. However once he powered up he will not replicate with the DCs here.

RE: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
It needs fish. Maybe some from the gulf would survive in there... ;-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:50 AM

RE: Server won't replicate

2010-06-09 Thread David Lum
Are DNS records correct for this DC? Can the new DC ping other DC's by FQDN and vice versa? Is this DC a DNS server and pointing to itself? What do event logs show? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original

RE: Server won't replicate

2010-06-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
When did you change the IP address? It seems likely that you didn't do it before you moved it down there, so both local and remote DNS is fubar'ed. On the remote end you'll need to stop netlogon, remove netlogon.dns, and reboot - that should cause the proper records to get registered. The

Re: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org wrote: It needs fish. Maybe some from the gulf would survive in there... ;-) http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html (Yes, I know that's not a fish.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Jonathan Link
That was awful. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgwrote: It needs fish. Maybe some from the gulf would survive in there... ;-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original

OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as Ethernet First Mile. I have a very compelling offer for internet bandwidth from a local provider (Cavalier Telephone) for 5 Mbps with an SLA. It would halve my current charges from Level (3). Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Andy Shook
It sounds to me like a Native LAN or Metro Ethernet type product; Ethernet First Mile, is probably some form of marketing term. Regardless of the terminology, I would make darn sure your segment is sonet (loop-fed\ring topology\whatever) protected and it's a dedicated 5Mbps, not some

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Hartung
Well, I can't attach SATA drives to my servers but here's the test I ran. Server: Dell PowerEdge 2650 with * E: Drive - internal PERC3 SCSI RAID 5 (Ultra320) E: Drive * F: Drive - external SCSI Drive Array attached to PERC4 SCSI RAID 5 (Ultra 320) * G: Drive - Drobo Elite connected via Gigabit

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
I agree about the dedicated bandwidth. However, the technology is an IEEE standard. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_in_the_First_Mile and http://www.ethernetinthefirstmile.com/ Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah, I was just thinking that it sounds like Metro Ethernet. That's what we have and it's great. The charges are less than they were when we had a T1 and we have more bandwidth (full 2 Mbit/sec at this point - can order more, of course! J) John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andy Shook

Re: OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have experience with an internet bandwidth product known as Ethernet First Mile.  I have a very compelling offer for internet bandwidth from a local provider (Cavalier Telephone) for 5 Mbps with an SLA.  It

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Andy Shook
And I thought reading about other 802.3 standards was auctioned packed! :) Thanks MBS (That's why he makes the big bucks, ya'll) Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ethernet First Mile I

RE: Server won't replicate

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Anderson
The server can both ping each other but my DSN logs are throwing 4000 4011 and How would I remove the netlogon.dns Again thanks Bob IT Manager -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm very reasonably priced, thank you very much. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ethernet First Mile And I

Windows SBS 2003 User right

2010-06-09 Thread Cesare' A. Ramos
To all: Have a quick question for you all. We have a new client that is running Windows SBS 2003 with BES on the same server, not our choice and we will be changing this. In the interim though there is one user, the owner nonetheless, that the BlackBerry Administrator user keeps losing the

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Carol Fee
That's great info - thanks. CFee From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ethernet First Mile I agree about the dedicated bandwidth. However, the technology is an IEEE standard. See

Re: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Sean Martin
Nah, we use these to lift Blade Chassis' and large servers into our 51u racks. Makes life so much easier! http://serverlift.com/products/sl500/ - Sean On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Being the cynic, I can just imagine one or more cases leaking mineral

RE: Windows SBS 2003 User right

2010-06-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Google adminCount. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows SBS 2003 User right To all: Have a quick question for

RE: Server won't replicate

2010-06-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311354 Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Bob Anderson [mailto:bander...@kentwatersports.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread David McSpadden
What is a good tool to check that all my DNS settings have been setup correctly? Iptools.com?? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
You’re so lucky/spoiled ! grin Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT -

Re: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, David McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: What is a good tool to check that all my DNS settings have been setup correctly? http://www.zonecheck.fr/ Both free and Free. Run it on their site, or download and run your own. I note that you do not specify what

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Carl Houseman
Did not specify internal or public DNS either... internal checking with the free download would require a Linux machine, would it not? Carl -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread David W. McSpadden
Mired down in meetings. External settings for imcu.org, indianamembersinsurance.com. I would like something that will me all the prefixes that are being used as well. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:09 PM To: NT

Re: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Sean Martin
I agree. We have some old analysts though (my self excluded of course!)...I'm sure the company saw it as cheap insurance against work comp claims. 51u racks are pretty tall! - Sean On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: You’re so lucky/spoiled ! grin *Erik

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Thank you! That information is extremely useful. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:40:55 -0700 Subject: RE: RE:

Re: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Mired down in meetings. I'm busy, too. I suspect we all are. Yet I and others are taking the time to participate here. Please do us all the same courtesy yourself, and take the time to include relevant information in

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread David W. McSpadden
Thanks Ben. Understand about the more information is better. My problem is I don't understand it enough to give information. I asked my ISP to make changes to the mail areas of imcu.org and indianamembersinsurance.com Now I want to go to the Internet and query those two domains and make sure the

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Carol Fee
Try these http://www.zoneedit.com/lookup.html http://www.dnscolos.com/free-dns-report.html http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a CFee -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Ok, here you go. http://network-tools.com/ The DNS Records tool will give you most of what you want. Same place to look at PTR records and whatnot. -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Hey, if you need a wide-carriage printer, I have an older Epson I would be glad to sell you. :) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, then why did the dot-matrix quit working ? That’s weird ! If the LPT ports work for the laser, then driver problems

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Terry Dickson
Also Okidata still sells Dot Matrix printers that work either USB or Parallel. I have some older Okidata Printers still in use in our office. The stock we have to print on can’t be run through a Laser so we have to keep them around. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Tim Evans
Yes, thanks for taking the time to post this ...Tim -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RE: SAN Solution Thank you! That information is extremely useful. --Matt

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Understand that - how do you verify it that it works as designed? On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 06:33, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: Access control and routing is done by our core firewall and router for all of our networks. This is the configuration that Phil is referring to. -Original

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
We have Cisco WAPs and HP switches. We have a Sidewinder (now McAfee) firewall. No captive portal, it's just a dumb network, though I've configured it pretty well for the original design, which, per discussions internally, had no guest network, except for a WAP that's connected to a DSL line in

Re: [OT - sorta, kinda, maybe] Who needs a hot-aisle in their server room?

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
That's really nice! I can't justify one with only 3 racks, but it looks sweet. Kurt On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 09:00, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Nah, we use these to lift Blade Chassis' and large servers into our 51u racks. Makes life so much easier!

Re: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] wrote: My problem is I don't understand it enough to give information. You should probabbly call in a paid consultant/IT services firm, then. Unfortunately I'm not in the Indiana area so I can't recommend one. I'm not getting all your mail on

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Yeah, but I am WANTING to get rid of this Epson. It's that gray case model. Not an MX-80. :) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.uswrote: Also Okidata still sells Dot Matrix printers that work either USB or Parallel. I have some older Okidata Printers still

RE: Windows SBS 2003 User right

2010-06-09 Thread Malcolm Reitz
The owner's account is an administrator on the SBS server, isn't it? That's the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907434 -Malcolm From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 10:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows SBS 2003 User

RE: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Interestingly enough, the numbers Bob posted are about 6.9 MB/s for the Drobo, 7.9 MB/s for the PERC4. Do those numbers seem slow? I mean, if the Drobo is that slow, that's too bad for it. But the PERC4 UltraSCSI 320? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From:

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Doesn't load now, but I can only assume an open HP printer config page? Don't worry, you can find plenty more HP printers on the web, it turns out:

Re: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:  I'm not getting all your mail on this list. I just got it now, several minutes after others replied to it.  There's no tool you can run from a third-party website that will talk your DNS sub-tree automatically That

RE: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-09 Thread Erik Goldoff
Thanks, but no thanks, it’s probably the one I got rid of last year : D Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 2:05 PM To: NT

Re: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Very good data. Single file copied, or multiple files? If multiple files, how many and average size? Robocopy, xcopy or just copy - and what switches? Picky, picky, picky... Kurt On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 08:40, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote: Well, I can't attach SATA drives to my

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread David W. McSpadden
You are not a jerk and I didn't take it that way. Matter o factness is the best way to communicate. You have just told me what I needed to know about the sub domains. And I get what you are saying about the rest. Not so much over my head and a little foggy about the details. These domains are test

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
I wasn't involved in the implementation, so I really couldn't say how it was done here. I know that I can't get to any of our 'protected' network segments but I haven't done any scientific pen testing. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks folks. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote: That’s great info – thanks. *CFee* *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Ethernet First Mile I

Re: OT: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
In this case the equipment is known from a marketing brochure the vendor provided: Hatteras HN4000 at the telco Hatteras HN400-CP at our facility I'll dig further into what the service back to the CO is like, and the vendor has also provided some local customer references. If we move in this

Re: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
The use of DnD in explorer definitely explains some of the slowness. Good stuff! Kurt On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:59, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote: I copied a directory that had 6,980 files and 644 folders; largest file 200 MB, avg file size .3 MB. I just did a plain jane drag and

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Cool. Thanks. I think I'll see if I can engage a local firm to help out. Kurt On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:04, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: I wasn't involved in the implementation, so I really couldn't say how it was done here. I know that I can't get to any of our 'protected' network

Re: Internal routing

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Stovall
Can you post the output from route print? On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM, mqcarp mqcarpen...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your help. Here are the current results: http://fqdn TIMES OUT https://fqdn SUCCESS https://dmz-ip SUCCESS http://dmz-ip SUCCESS tracert -d www.domain.com RESOLVES

Re: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Bob Hartung
I copied a directory that had 6,980 files and 644 folders; largest file 200 MB, avg file size .3 MB. I just did a plain jane drag and drop copy in Windows Explorer. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608)

Re: RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Regan
RS8-IP4 with 8x 500gb ES.2 SATA disks 3410 IOPS 50%read 50%write with IO Meter On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: The use of DnD in explorer definitely explains some of the slowness. Good stuff! Kurt On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:59, Bob Hartung

Time to verify your IIS setup

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
about 111,000 sites infected http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8935 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: DNS settings tool

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: Not so much over my head and a little foggy about the details. If you're going to be doing anything serious with DNS (and it sounds like you are), I highly recommend the book /DNS and BIND/ from O'Reilly. While the

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Jason Gauthier
You use NMAP to do network scans to determine what is accessible and what isn't. -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration I wasn't involved in the

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
Or use Wireshark to make sure you don't see traffic you shouldn't. On 6/9/2010 3:41 PM, Jason Gauthier wrote: You use NMAP to do network scans to determine what is accessible and what isn't. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
You'll need more than that... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:41, Jason Gauthier jgauth...@lastar.com wrote: You use NMAP to do network scans to determine what is accessible and what isn't. -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
And more than that will be needed, as well. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:44, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Or use Wireshark to make sure you don't see traffic you shouldn't. On 6/9/2010 3:41 PM, Jason Gauthier wrote: You use NMAP to do network scans to determine what is accessible

RE: Time to verify your IIS setup

2010-06-09 Thread Ziots, Edward
On the phone with their abuse center right now, talking with a rep about the situation, so see if they have calls on it. Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

RE: Time to verify your IIS setup

2010-06-09 Thread Ziots, Edward
They got an abuse ticket on those IPs and are working to take it down accordingly. Funny how SQL injection is still at the top of the latest OWASP Top 10, because it works soo well, when you don’t use input validation Poor development is the culprit... Z Edward Ziots

Re: Time to verify your IIS setup

2010-06-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Wee!!! -- ME2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: about 111,000 sites infected http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=8935 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Thats not necessarily true with dealing with directional antennas; while it may appear to be true with omnidirectional ones. -- ME2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: No. There are some bandwidth restrictions and we monitor the bandwidth utilization on that

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Jason Gauthier
You should provide specifics, instead of ambiguity. Ambiguity helps no one, last I checked. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration And more than

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Kurt Buff
AFAIK, nmap and wireshark won't tell you as much as you need to know about arp flooding, vlan hopping and suchlike. Well, wireshark might, but you'll need to monitor it pretty much continuously, and that's probably a full time job. For assurance, initially you'll need a pen-test and/or an full

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
In other words, this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_white_paper09186a008013159f.shtml On 6/9/2010 5:12 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: AFAIK, nmap and wireshark won't tell you as much as you need to know about arp flooding, vlan hopping and suchlike. Well, wireshark

Re: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-09 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 -- ME2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: It sounds to me like a Native LAN or Metro Ethernet type product; Ethernet First Mile, is probably some form of marketing term. Regardless of the terminology, I would make darn sure your segment is sonet

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Jon Harris
I don't pretend to have experience with anything in the previous sentence, and the better the physical separation I can achieve, the safer I feel - at least until I get a bunch more education/experience under my belt If that is the case purchase some cheap home routers and create a seperate VLAN

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Regan
We use Cisco AP here. Two SSID, one for guest one for staff. SSID Guest is on a VLAN and it's using the integrated Cisco captive portal on our WLC controller, users are authenticated by IAS radius server using their AD-account. Only member of the Guest-Internet group have access. That VLAN only

Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Jon Harris
Before you ask the only way I knew there was an infection on one of the guest machines was the DSL circuit was a solid constant light. Reset the router and the boss could connect his Mac which could not connect. Once he was connected he kept timing out trying to access the web, but only after