Re: USB MEMORY STICK WITH WRITE PROTECT

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > PQI makes them -- U339. > http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?cate1=18&proid=13 I looked for the U339 just last week and didn't have a lot of luck finding available stock. I suspect it's been discontinued. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerfu

Re: Get external IP from command line

It and putty are the #1 and #2 utilities that follow me from workstation to workstation. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > On 24 Jun 2011 at 18:41, Michael B. Smith wrote: > > > While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I bet 99% of > > Windows user

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > Is the 'Linux' way recognized or agreed upon by the parties involved? The "Linux way" is a file copy. Nothing more. The only reason Linux is suggested is that NT refuses to let the system operator copy files that don't have the correct own

Re: Get external IP from command line

On 24 Jun 2011 at 18:41, Michael B. Smith wrote: > While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I bet 99% of > Windows users don't have wget. ;-) There's a Win32 port, pretty lean. I use it all the time. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Bl

Re: USB MEMORY STICK WITH WRITE PROTECT

On 24 Jun 2011 at 12:47, Nigel Parker wrote: > Hi > Trying to find a USB memory key with a write protect small size would do > 2-4-or 8gb > Do they still make them with a write protect feature PQI makes them -- U339. http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?cate1=18&proid=13 Newegg has some others

Re: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Any time we had user account oddities in our environment it was because of the user account token size. Our AD team has spent a lot of time reducing and cleaning up group memberships as a result last year. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ralph Smith wrote: > Nope. > > -Original Message

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

Is the 'Linux' way recognized or agreed upon by the parties involved? If not then repeating it's use over and over isn't actualy something that guaruntees it will be acceptable. Turning over copies of backup tapes in the manner that the company documents it performs archives generally is. On

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

But if in the act of burning them you lose / destroy the original timestamp, you may be worsening your chances to win the lawsuit ( or giving ammo to the other side to claim evidence destruction " ...) The linux boot is the simplest way, just use an Ubuntu live cd and copy them to the external

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

You're right about that. Those utilities did a cross ref to a database which the program used. Not the filesystem. On Jun 24, 2011 5:13 PM, "Ben Scott" wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Rodriguez wrote: >> So, what I am pointing out, is, if you are going to put datafiles on a >> dr

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Rodriguez wrote: > So, what I am pointing out, is, if you are going to put datafiles on a > drive, FAT16 or FAT32, and you think you are limited to just using an 8.3 > format for a filename, the old 255 character limitation allows you some > flexability in y

Re: Get external IP from command line

Probably true... But it is worth getting, especially since the binaries are so easy to obtain for this one. *ASB *(Professional Bio ) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: >

Re: Get external IP from command line

LOL. My original, original script used wget -O - -q until I figured out how to do it completely within powershell. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith > wrote: > > While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I b

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

When DOS 3.31 came out, this is when this was first disovered. Initially, on previos versions of DOS you only could us 8 characters for your directory name. But when DOS 3.31 came out, it allowed for the 8.3 naming convention for your directoy name. I think it was implemented in DOS 3.2. So, what

Re: Get external IP from command line

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I bet 99% of > Windows users don't have wget. ;-) Oh, to be sure. But they should. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Get external IP from command line

While I personally have it, since I'm a heavy user of MinGW, I bet 99% of Windows users don't have wget. ;-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 20

Re: Get external IP from command line

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > If you can get it to work, the beauty of whatismyip.org is that there is > absolutely no extraneous stuff to parse out and get rid of. Indeed. Thanks for that one. Here's another one-liner: wget -q http://whatismyip.org/ -O

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Daniel Rodriguez wrote: > Well, if you are going to that, put it on FAT32, you may want to remember > this; Even though you file names are 8.3 format, this is only partially > true. FAT32 allowws for 255 characters for a file name. The caveat to that, > is, every

RE: Get external IP from command line

There are other websites as well..such as "showmyip.com" which may or may not work better for your purposes. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Nope. -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error Does this user have a roaming/mandatory/hybrid (non-local, rather) profile of

Re: Get external IP from command line

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:02, Richard Stovall wrote: > If you can get it to work, the beauty of whatismyip.org is that there is > absolutely no extraneous stuff to parse out and get rid of.  As you've seen, > whatismyip.com has got all kinds of content that is probably dynamic, and > would be a p

Re: Get external IP from command line

If you can get it to work, the beauty of whatismyip.org is that there is absolutely no extraneous stuff to parse out and get rid of. As you've seen, whatismyip.com has got all kinds of content that is probably dynamic, and would be a pain to deal with. In truth, I used to use checkip.dyndns.org a

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

On 6/24/2011 12:16 PM, Daniel Rodriguez wrote: > Well, if you are going to that, put it on FAT32, you may want to > remember this; Even though you file names are 8.3 format, this is only > partially true. FAT32 allowws for 255 characters for a file name. The > caveat to that, is, every 9th characte

Re: Get external IP from command line

More interesting. http://whatismyip.com yields a web page that actually does show my external IP address, along with a bunch of other stuff, but I get an error when using that in the script. I will play around with this some more. Kurt On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 07:38, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Ac

Re: Get external IP from command line

H Neither your variant nor Richard's original give me my external IP address - instead, it give the address of my wireless interface (which is how I'm connected to my network.) But, I just checked, and when I visit that site, that is indeed what is returned - the address on my NIC. That's

Re: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Does this user have a roaming/mandatory/hybrid (non-local, rather) profile of any sort? Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: "Ralph Smith" Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:22:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Reply-To: "NT Sys

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Had this issue with one user on my home test domain whilst testing win 7 rollout/ I never got to the bottom of it. As I recall the account behaved fine if I granted admin rights. Ended up creating new user account and blowing away the profile on the machine. Never saw the issue again -

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Account corruptions are very rare. This should be generating event log errors on both the client machine and on the authenticating domain controller indicating, in more detail, what the issues are. Have you checked those out? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEss

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Well, I'm no expert by any stretch of anyone's imagination, but it sounds to me like her account has gotten corrupted somehow. Have you checked her A/D account? -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 11:22 AM To: NT System Ad

Re: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...

On 6/23/2011 2:41 PM, Bill Humphries wrote: > or simply download ubuntu live cd. We took the easy way out - we're going to burn all the files to a tape, and let them deal with it. :-) That is what we're paying them for - to coordinate all the requests from all the investigations and lawsuits. A

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

I could do that but it's a bit of a hassle between migrating her profile on each of the computers she uses as well as her Exchange mailbox and blackberry account. It might resolve the immediate problem, but I wouldn't be any closer to knowing what is wrong. The thing is, I really want to unders

Re: Get external IP from command line

Thanks. I came up with the idea, but my old buddy Google helped me make it work. (He's really smart, that Google guy.) On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Actually, I think your solution is really good. I can think of a couple > of places where I’ll use my modification

RE: Get external IP from command line

Actually, I think your solution is really good. I can think of a couple of places where I’ll use my modification of your solution. After all, you came up with the idea. That’s well over half the job. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Ri

Re: Get external IP from command line

I never said that I know what I'm doing with Powershell... :) PS Why do my eyes hurt all of a sudden? On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Ah heck, you can do that in one (long) line of PowerShell, even with > spaces added for readability. J J > > ** ** > > ( ( [tex

RE: Get external IP from command line

Good point. :D The OP did NOT specify that they needed to be able to do anything with it, although they probably will do something with it... I was mainly curious what *your* reasoning was for it... I figured most people would want to do something like I do and access a machine on a dynamic IP.

RE: Get external IP from command line

Ah heck, you can do that in one (long) line of PowerShell, even with spaces added for readability. ☺ ☺ ( ( [text.encoding]::ASCII.GetString( (new-object net.webclient).DownloadData( "http://whatismyip.org"; ) ) ) + ", " + (get-date).ToShortDateString() + ", " + (get-date).ToShortTimeString() )

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Sorry. Misunderstanding on my part. >>> "Ralph Smith" 6/24/2011 10:00 AM >>> I thought of that, but this seems to be affecting a specific user account on multiple computers, some of which are new and I know don’t have duplicate names. It doesn’t seem reasonable t have to change the name on eve

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Have you tried deleting the user and recreating her? Since, as you stated, other people can log on without problems, it would appear to be primarily the user's A/D account. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subj

Re: Get external IP from command line

Well, what to do with the information is a different question from what the OP asked. I was just offering another method of accomplishing the task at hand. When I used to use that script I was only interested in having an ongoing record of when my ip changed. Nothing more than that. I didn't ev

RE: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

I thought of that, but this seems to be affecting a specific user account on multiple computers, some of which are new and I know don't have duplicate names. It doesn't seem reasonable t have to change the name on every win 7 computer in the domain. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]

Re: Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

This sounds familiar. I had an issue with a PC and it was something like this. Turned out it was a duplicate name. Try changing the name and see what happens. We just changed the problem PC from something like 4097 to 4097A and that did it. >>> "Ralph Smith" 6/24/2011 9:34 AM >>> Has anyo

RE: Other maillists, particularly for Office progs like Access

There are a bunch of Microsoft forums (forums.microsoft.com) and there are a bunch of Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Don Holstrom [mailto:d...@holstrom.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 9:40 AM To: NT S

OT: Other maillists, particularly for Office progs like Access

I am having no luck looking these up. Must be an error on my part. But I am looking for other mail lists, like this one, that pertain to Office progs, particularly Access. Where can I go to look for these. I have searched on Google, but may be putting in wrong terms. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: Get external IP from command line

Yep. DYNDNS.ORG is great. You can also use ZoneEdit and others. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Get external IP from command line I just use a dynamic DNS service which always resolves me to a hostnam

Win 7 login problem with trust relationship error

Has anyone seen a problem like this and found an explanation / solution? Windows 2008 domain and all Windows XP clients except for five Windows 7 machines. Single forest, single domain - no trusts or child domains. One machine is a laptop we just upgraded to Win 7, and when we went to have the us

Re: Get external IP from command line

I just use a dynamic DNS service which always resolves me to a hostname. Bad-a-bing, never any problems accessing my home machine on a dynamic IP. No delays either (not that I've noticed anyway) On 24 June 2011 14:31, John Aldrich wrote: > Yes, but what do you *do* with that info? I'm in a simil

RE: Get external IP from command line

Yes, but what do you *do* with that info? I'm in a similar situation where I access my machine at home. I'm on a dynamic IP as well, but I run an application to update my dynamic DNS entry based on similar information to whatismyip.com. Thus, I only have to wait about 15 or 20 minutes after the

Re: Get external IP from command line

Here's a little Powershell script to accomplish the same thing and write the result out to a history file. I've used this via a scheduled task on my home machine to track when my FIOS ip changes. $url = "http://whatismyip.org/"; $wc = new-object system.net.webclient $data = $wc.DownloadData($url)

RE: Another BGINFO question

We run BGINFO via a batch file that first runs a VBscript program that collects various information about the server and puts it in the registry. We configure BGINFO to read and display these registry entries. Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: James Rankin [mailt

Re: Windows 7 Mouse over and double click

That can be done by enabling it for a user and exporting some Registry keys, then importing them back in at login, either using regedit or reg.exe or various other scripted methods You may need to use procmon, but I think the keys you are after are these * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W

Re: How nice of Google

Thanks for the information. We already have a few staff who managed to get it installed, and they are not administrators. The issue for us is more a compatability issue: our clinical web application works only with Internet Explorer. Those users called and it wouldn't work on Chrome. We te

RE: USB MEMORY STICK WITH WRITE PROTECT

A ok googled it and found this " Perfect tool for IT professionals. You can lock the unit before plugging it on any system to prevent USB stick infections (infamous Conficker virus and others around). Hardware lock is unbreakable, in contrast to software locks (programs installed on the drive

Re: USB MEMORY STICK WITH WRITE PROTECT

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Nigel Parker wrote: > Hi > Trying to find a USB memory key with a write protect small size would do > 2-4-or 8gb > Do they still make them with a write protect feature I just ordered some Kanguru Flashblu II ALK-8G for this purpose. Haven't got or tried them yet

USB MEMORY STICK WITH WRITE PROTECT

Hi Trying to find a USB memory key with a write protect small size would do 2-4-or 8gb Do they still make them with a write protect feature Thanks Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: Email:

RE: No traffic since Wednesday?

OK so I'm receiving the out-of-office messages so my mail must be going to the list, but I'm not seeing a thing coming in. We run our own mail so anything/everything that hits us would be logged even if we were rejecting it - I'm seeing nothing. Not sure if any of the list admins are reading th

Re: Another BGINFO question

You can use WMI queries in bginfo, IIRC Might need a lot of customisation, but this should give you some pointers http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/57330-bginfo-dispaying-text-custom-query.html On 24 June 2011 08:14, Gavin Wilby wrote: > This should be an easy one to someone that knows, ho

Re: Get external IP from command line

Stolen from another website, but this seems to work OK: Create a file named ip.vbs and copy the following into it: Option Explicit Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" ) http.Open "GET", "http://whatismyip.org";, False http.Send Wscript.Echo http.responseText 'or do whate

Another BGINFO question

This should be an easy one to someone that knows, how can I insert the AD computer description into a servers BGINFO screen? I have to remote into a lot of servers on some sites and it would be useful to have the description available on the screen as a lot of them dont have clear computer hostnam