Re: RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users

2011-08-12 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
It's a fair cop. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan ncm...@gmail.com wrote: I surmise that the airspeed velocity of said banana-laden (not to be confused with bin laden) swallow would be greatly reduced, regardless of whether it was African or European. Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE

VSS errors on Win2008 R2; problems running out of space

2011-08-12 Thread Mike Leone
I've started getting errors from VSS on a Win2008 R2 server. We run Networker as our backup program, and it uses VSS to make snapshots, and then backs up from those snapshots (if I'm understanding that process correctly). And the last couple nights, it has been partially failing (partially meaning

RE: RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users

2011-08-12 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Because, as Damien pointed out below, they are not very aerodynamic? From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users I surmise that the airspeed velocity of said

Re: RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users

2011-08-12 Thread Jonathan
Precisely! ...you have to know these things when you're a king, you know. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: Because, as Damien pointed out below, they are not very aerodynamic? ** ** *From:* Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday,

Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread RichardMcClary
Gosh, this looks promising, but how does one actually GET the @#* free downloads? Specifically, I am at the site for Netikus.Net and looking at NT ToolKit. Their create an account looks like it enables one to participate in a forum. Anyway, after creating and activating the account, I still

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread Sam Cayze
Yeah, not to clear. I noticed a lot of software I recognize in there, like GIMAGEX. So just google for it and be brought to the real developers site. http://www.netikus.net/products_downloads.html?SESSION= From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent:

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread RichardMcClary
Which is where I've been the past half-hour before sending them a nastigram... Where is the actual link to download? NOT get product information; NOT get the help file; DOWNLOAD the installer? (Yes, I created and activated an account...) Thanks! -- richard Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread RichardMcClary
Oh... In the totally vague link, Customer Area are the actual links to the installer downloads. Who the @#% develops, tests, and approves such sites? Thanks for your patience! -- richard richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote on 08/12/2011 10:24:16 AM: Which is where I've been the past half-hour

How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread Stefan Jafs
I have 60 CAL’s in my BES and need to add 1 more user, I found 3 users that I could delete, so I did however it’s still showing 60 out of 60 used, how do I refresh the Licenses used? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I found the link on the very page that Sam posted... ( http://www.netikus.net/products_downloads.html?SESSION) Hover over the word *:windows:* in the Download Link(s) area: I didn't have to sign up for anything. Running Chrome 13.x * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread Guyer, Don
This doesn't surprise me at all... I downloaded and installed the Boot program (someone else on this list suggested) and uninstalled it after I saw numerous words misspelled as well as simple punctuation mistakes. That kind of stuff makes me leery.. Don Guyer Windows Systems

RE: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread John Cook
Bounce the service or server??? John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday,

DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Hey list, quick question for ya as my googlefu is not coming up with concrete answers: Can a single DHCP server serve up two separate subnets? How does the DHCP server decide which subnet to place the client (besides reservations)? Does it just auto-magically figure it out based on where the

RE: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Damien Solodow
Yes, it can do multiple subnets. It can automagically figure out which scope the client belongs in. You will likely have to have the router between subnets set to forward the DHCP packets (Cisco calls this an iphelper) DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax)

RE: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
That's very odd, when I remove a user for the web interface on BES 5.0 the license is immediately available, You sure that the users are no longer listed in the BES? If you search for all users they are no longer there? Bouncing the server would work best since BES has quite a few services and

Re: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread Stefan Jafs
Yeah, I ended up re-starting the server, now I have 55 out of 60. Thanks On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Bounce the service or server??? ** ** *John W. Cook* *System Administrator* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st

Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
I remember an MSDos version that would say Format compluted. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: This doesn’t surprise me at all... ** ** I downloaded and installed the “Boot” program (someone else on this list suggested) and uninstalled it after I

RE: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread John Aldrich
I'm no expert, but we did that at a previous job, and I think the secret was the gateway it was coming from. I didn't actually set it up, but that's what I recall being the key. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011

RE: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread John Cook
In the grand scheme of things (at least in my 130 BB user world) the end users rarely know I've even rebooted the server so it's usually first on the list of things to do. YMMV John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office

RE: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread John Cook
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758865(WS.10).aspx if we're talking W2K3 John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4

RE: LTO-5 Throughput

2011-08-12 Thread Paul Hutchings
Usually you'll want to set the block size to 256kb and use multiple streams (not sure if that's what Backup Exec calls them) to pull multiple sets of data from the drives to the tape. Paul From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 August 2011 17:57 To: NT System Admin Issues

SCCM Install/SQL Question

2011-08-12 Thread S Conn.
Hello everyone. I'm about to install SCCM for the first time. I'm confident about my plans so far, but I have questions. Right now I have SCCM planned for one server and a dedicated SQL server, hosting a number of databases for other products. I would like to save money and just have SCCM use

Re: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread Steve Ens
Ditto. I've got my BES virtualized, so the two minute reboot (so much fast than physical servers) is acceptable. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:54 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: In the grand scheme of things (at least in my 130 BB user world) the end users rarely know I’ve even rebooted

Re: LTO-5 Throughput

2011-08-12 Thread Roger Wright
Unfortunately, Backup Exec doesn't support multiple streams (multiplexing). I've been asking for that since switching from ARCserve but Symantec choose to only include that feature in their Net Backup product. I'll increase the block size and see if it helps. Roger Wright ___ My short term

RE: LTO-5 Throughput

2011-08-12 Thread Paul Hutchings
Try the block size first. If BE doesn't support multiple streams per job you may have to try splitting the job into multiple jobs or something just to get it pulling multiple files in parallell - single threaded read, particularly if Veeam produces lots of little files, is bad news for backup.

Re: same IP printer - two different print servers

2011-08-12 Thread Jack
The only real issue I see is that your helpdesk might get some calls after the old printer server is retired. I have done this type of thing many times for our schools. Not sure how you have the students and staff access the printers, we would put shortcuts into the start menu for them to use

QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Richard Stovall
Anyone using a QNAP device as an iSCSI target in a VMware ESX 4.1 production environment? Any experiences you can share? On a related note, I'm thinking of adding some iSCSI datastores in addition to the ones already presented via FC from my EVA. Any reason that's not a good idea? We have a

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Haven’t used QNAP devices specifically, but we have had better performance mounting iSCSI LUNs for data drives via the MS Windows initiator rather than mounting them in VMware and the creating a VMDK for Windows to use… -sc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread John Cook
I have a small QNAP at home running as an iSCSi target for my ESX4 boxes, works great. I can’t think of any huge differences between 4 and 4.1 that would cause any problems (we have 4.1 at the dayjob) John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place

RE: SCCM Install/SQL Question

2011-08-12 Thread Rod Trent
I'll be going through the details of troubleshooting and hoping I can keep it under an hour. :) No, John's up next month. Then, Rodtober. November is Michael Niehaus with MDT and ConfigMgr 2007, 2012. And, we'll round out the year with Wally Mead again (another ask Wally). In December, we'll

Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Not trickery. Assuming that there's a router in your environment, you need to put a helper address on the router for each subnet for which the DHCP server will be serving addresses. (You can run multiple subnets without a router, but it's really a bad idea.) For instance, on my HP 3400cl core

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Richard Stovall
Noted. Thanks. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Haven’t used QNAP devices specifically, but we have had better performance mounting iSCSI LUNs for data drives via the MS Windows initiator rather than mounting them in VMware and the creating a

Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Thanks all. I tried it, and it worked perfectly... except I can't get it to route beyond the first router. But to my original question, DHCP passes along as prescribed and I can ping between subnets. Thanks for the help. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message -

Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Are you meaning that you need to forward a DHCP request over more than 1 router? That is, requestor is on subnet1, makes a request, router2 forwards it over subnet2 to router2, which then forwards it to the DHCP server on subnet3. I haven't done that, nor heard of anyone who does, but it might be

Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Harry Singh
I think i remember reading a while back that cisco had a function like dhcp-helper on their routers to traverse multiple hops from one remote DHCP server. I could be making that up entirely since it's Friday and all i can think about is the upcoming wknd. =) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM,

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread andy
huh.. just tried something similar to one of my passwords, all lowercase, all letters, of course my real password has a couple of numbers in it. 780 quintillion years 20 character password all lowercase - 97billion years 11character password all lowercase 314 years huh... the password --

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Schorr
Length is more important than complexity, no doubt. While it's good to have mixed case and numbers and symbols the fact that you COULD is enough to force any brute force attack to check for it. And, frankly, any system that will allow 1,000 passwords a second to be thrown at it without locking

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread kz20fl
A good brute force attack doesn't throw passwords out for authentication - just gets the hashed passwords and checks them against hashed values, AFAIK. Therefore account lockouts are not triggered. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Terry Dickson
Now you are all entering you real current Password right? Hmmm..how long until you are hacked because the collected those Passwords? -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Schorr
But doesn't that require them to break into the authentication system? When I go to log into my bank it doesn't present me a hashed password - I give it what I think my password is, it checks against its directory and either lets me in or tells me to try again. Or am I missing something?

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Kurt Buff
I don't know where you got the idea that *nix passwords are still only 8 characters. I think that Linux allows longer passwords, and I *know* that BSDs allow longer passwords. I regularly use passwords in excess of 20 characters on my FreeBSD boxen. Kurt On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:00, andy

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Richard Stovall
Cool. Thanks. Any thoughts about a mixed FC + iSCSI datastore environment like I'm thinking about? I'm sure people do it all the time, but we've been 100% FC up to now. The potential cost savings of adding a '2nd tier' iSCSI SAN over expanding the EVA are very compelling. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
A trick we used to use (many years ago) was that after 3 bad tries NO password would work, even the right one. No additional error message, it just let you keep on trying. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Ben Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote: Length is more important than complexity, no

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread John Cook
We have it at the Dayjob, we started with an Equalogic AX150 FC and have added a Dell MD3200i. All of our ESX hosts use both as storage. The FC SAN will be going away soon, it’s 5 yrs + old and needs to retire. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Schorr
Nice. I'd probably have set the threshold at 10 just to reduce the odds of a real user getting locked out, but I like the idea. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com http://www.rolandschorr.com/

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Richard Stovall
Awesome. Thanks, John. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: We have it at the Dayjob, we started with an Equalogic AX150 FC and have added a Dell MD3200i. All of our ESX hosts use both as storage. The FC SAN will be going away soon, it’s 5 yrs + old and needs

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM, andy afo...@psu.edu wrote: Are unix systems still only 8 characters. I don't think that's been an issue in most/all Unix systems for a few decades. :) Certainly the *nix systems they had at the university back in 1995 had no such limitations. :) -- Ben ~

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:50 PM, G.Waleed Kavalec kava...@gmail.com wrote: A trick we used to use (many years ago) was that after 3 bad tries NO password would work, even the right one. No additional error message, it just let you keep on trying. That's a common technique. It's available

RE: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Steven M. Caesare
We have a mix of FC and iSCSI LUN’s, with no problems… as long as our storage switches decide to stay up. But VMWare is happy with either/and. -sc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: QNAP iSCSI

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Sam Cayze
You know what is neat? If you type your password in this forum, it automatically is changed to asterisks! Cool, try it. See, here is mine: *** Now you try! -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:24

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Schorr
Except Windows Lockout tells you when you've been locked out, doesn't it? Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August

Re: RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Jonathan
Hahahahahahahaha Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings. On Aug 12, 2011 4:54 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: You know what is neat? If you type your password in this

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Andrew S. Baker
We're very pleased with the performance of our iSCSI solutions relative to the older FC solutions -- especially based on the cost savings. * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Richard

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Ben Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote: Except Windows Lockout tells you when you've been locked out, doesn't it? Hmmm. I thought it only told you that if you entered the *correct* password? It's been awhile since I've needed to deal with it; I may be

Re: RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Steven Peck
I talked to a guy who got into a dispute over password lock outs. The guy kept accussing him of messing with it every month so he hard set it to : Iamastupidswearwordshere and said here's your password. He said it was worth the meeting with HR. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Schorr
I haven't been locked out in a while - but I thought the user got an error message informing them that the account was locked and they needed to contact their admin. Maybe I'm mistaken. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread kz20fl
The stored password must be hashed (and preferably salted too) otherwise I would change banks. When you enter your password, that is hashed and compared to the stored hash. If it matches, then you are allowed in. But yes, they need to capture the hashes somehow, in that situation, either by

Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:36 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: But yes, they need to capture the hashes somehow, in that situation, either by sniffing or getting access to the database. But once that compromise is done, its usually only a matter of time. Typically if one can sniff the

Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets

2011-08-12 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Or do you mean that you have other routing issues? I have other routing issues. More detail for the interested: I have a ProCurve 5308xl standing as the core swtich in our district. All of the schools connect to it over gigabit fiber, save one 100mbit school. I am trying to get a guest vlan

Re: VSS errors on Win2008 R2; problems running out of space

2011-08-12 Thread Jon Harris
I used to keep all my VSS snaps on a separate drive from the data and only used that drive for VSS with no restrictions. Ended up solving a lot of those kind of problems. Jon On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I've started getting errors from VSS on a

Re: same IP printer - two different print servers

2011-08-12 Thread Rene de Haas
We set up a second server with the same printernames. Then we used a vbscript in the loginscript to remap the old printers to the new ones for everyone. Then you wait a while so most people get changed automatically before retiring the old printserver. We didn't change the printernames to keep

Re: same IP printer - two different print servers

2011-08-12 Thread Vicky Spelshaus
Thanks again everyone... turns out I'm going to have to set them up sooner than later after all. The former print server finally died of old age this morning. The good news though is that it also means I can finally retire the 4 external modems that provided dial up. Yes - I seriously had

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'd be interested in seeing that if you can figure out which version that was. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools I remember an MSDos version that would say Format

Re: QNAP iSCSI target for ESX 4.1

2011-08-12 Thread Sean Martin
Should be no issue. We're mostly FC with our CX700s and CX4 (except for an aging Celerra gateway providing iSCSI for some dev systems). We're in the process of a storage uplift and regardless of the platform, we'll be introducing iSCSI to slowly phase out FC. - Sean On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:46