Re: OT: Happy PI Day!

Remember celebrate Pi Day by being irrational. Jim On 3/14/13 10:54 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm waiting for Tau day: http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto Pi are squared? No, cornbread are square, pie are round... Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Odd Network Problem MAC Booted inWin7

Hi All; We are seeing an odd network problem with some duel boot Mackintoshes. When booted in Win7, but not in OSX, they periodically drop their (wired) network connection. We can either run the network diagnostics, which finds no problems but restores the connection, or unplug the cable

Re: Odd Network Problem MAC Booted inWin7

Wake on LAN is enabled, Low Power is disabled. That right?? Jim On 2/16/12 12:00 PM, John C Owen wrote: Have you checked the Power management for the nic cards ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/

Re: Odd Network Problem MAC Booted inWin7

Organization, then keep it on - we don't use it here -Original Message- From: James Edwards [mailto:jedwa...@mail.sdsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Odd Network Problem MAC Booted inWin7 Wake on LAN is enabled, Low Power is disabled

Re: Odd Network Problem MAC Booted inWin7

Steven; THANKS, but no joy, it's unchecked. Also, usually people notice when they try to go to a Web site of a print job fails. Jim On 2/16/12 2:03 PM, Steven Peck wrote: That won't necessarily do it for you. Go into your Local Area Connection properties. Then under the 'Connect using'

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

Yup, it's a SOPA protest will end at midnight EST. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 13:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Whoa...wkikpedia. Anyone been there today? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell

RE: trade publications - toss or archive?

Actually, the Kindle (and Nook) use e ink which isn't backlit, and reads like paper and ink. Jim Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. Short reads are okay, but I don't think I could make it through The Foundation Trilogy online or on a Kindle. ~ Finally,

RE: IE9 beta

Nope, installed the 64 bit version. No Flash player available for it yet 8~( Jim Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 14:37 To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Excel Dupe macro

Try www.mrexcel.com The Forums. Jim On 6/2/10 9:11 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hey guys, I have a guy who was using some unknown software on his laptop that he no longer has admin right to that bollixed up his contacts in OL. So, he has ~7400 now and prolly only ~500 are valid. The issue

Vista Laptop as PA??

I have an instructor that teaches in a classroom that is slightly too big for her voice, but too small to have a full PA system in it. The room does have speakers in it, so the instructor would plug the speakers and a microphone into her laptop and use it as a PA when she was using WinXP. She

Re: Disappearing program

Phillip Partipilo wrote: Oh its amazing how many people dont hit F1 and use a program's built in help. There are times I don't know the answer and that's all I do after walking to their desk :) Usually gets a funny look on their face. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter,

Disappearing program

I use VNC to control my servers. Today I went to update them. I updated one of them and all went well. Then I updated the next server. When I restarted I went to launch the VNC and the desktop shortcut AND the program in Program Files disappeared. I reinstalled VNC and the same thing happened.

Re: Disappearing program

James Edwards wrote: Any suggestions?? I downloaded the new version of Viewer and it works. Would be interested in what was going on though as I've never seenthis before. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE

Flash Mounts as Folder

Recently, in one of our open Faculty labs, when a user inserts a flash drive and goes to My Computer, the flash mounts as a folder instead of a disk. If the user clicks on it, it either opens a dialog asking what program they would like to use to open it or an access denied dialog. Right

Re: Flash Mounts as Folder

Joe Heaton wrote: Whenever I've had that happen, it just doesn't show up at all under My Computer... Mine shows up under the other drives, but as a folder. Does this happen with other flash drives, or just this one? Could be some weird thing with that manufacturer... This is *any*

Re: Flash Mounts as Folder

Free, Bob wrote: If it's in a lab someone may have set it up that way on purpose??? My users wouldn't know how. Have you looked in diskmgmt.msc? Appears as a normal Healthy disk. Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Passwords stop working

Carl Houseman wrote: Check domain controllers security logs for login failures against this account. Carl It's a stand alone server. Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: NOD32 - VIPRE

Joe Heaton wrote: Anyone here in a government position, that has looked into Vipre? I’ve had some really good product ideas shot down in the past, because the company was not California based, and/or not a certified small business, and/or the product isn’t offered through a reseller who was

Passwords stop working

I have a W2K3 server that had an administrative and a user password stop working I'm typing in the correct password, but the system says can log user in. After a while, the user password started working again. There is no evidence of a worm, virus or hack. Any suggestions? Thanks Jim ~

Log Management Suggestions?

I'm on a committee looking into log management systems, and looking for any suggestions from those using one now. Ideally it should be xplatform (Win, OSX, Linux, Solaris). Able to notify Admins vis e-mail, text message, pager or console, and have customizable filters. Time to go home for

VNC Problem

I'm using Real VNC Enterprise to manage my servers remotely and give a user access. On one of the servers randomly my user can't connect. She starts VNC and the window to select the server appears, she selects the server and the selection window disappears but the password window never

Minimum specifications?

If you were specifying computers for a general user today, what would the minimums be as far as speed, ram, disks video etc.? Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: VIPRE press release

Jason Morris wrote: I saw this the other day and it looks promising. Has anybody actually used it and can provide a review on how well it works? Maybe a comparison to Kaspersky? Thanks! *From:* Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:34 PM *To:* NT

Re: OT: California Budget stuff

Joe Heaton wrote: Sorry guys, I seem to have gotten wy off topic, but this issue is really steaming me at the moment, but I have made it OT, so it won’t lure anyone into a legitimate discussion by mistake. My apologies to anyone I’ve upset. One other note that makes this whole

Printing cost?

Does any one have a ball park cost for printing a sheet through a laser printer? If you need a specific printer, an HP 2420dn. Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

Re: Printing cost?

N Parr wrote: It depends on your average coverage and what you paid for the cartridge. Only way to really tell is to pay attention to the number of pages a cartridge lasted. Or just assume 50-75% of what the manufacturer says the cartridge will do. With 5% coverage on my 4250 I'm getting in

Re: Free antivirus for Mac?

Salvador Manzo wrote: ...Insert joke about how they still have to get documents from PCs here... To OP, ClamX AV is the only free Mac AV program I know of, but it is NOT On Access. You’re going to have to pay for Mac AV if you don’t want to rely on the end user running it regularly. Or you

Re: Opening Ports via GPO Part 2

As a thought could this be corrupted? \\My-Domain.sdsu.edu\sysvol\My-Domain.sdsu.edu\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\gpt.ini. And could deleting it, and re entering the exceptions recreate the (non corrupted) entry? Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with

Re: Opening Ports via GPO Part 2

I'm looking to open ports in the firewall. I had originally did this and it worked, but I had to revert to default GPO settings to troubleshoot a replication problem. This time when I tried to open the ports the same way, it didn't work. I put the entries in as: 18080:TCP:*:enabled:Counter

Re: Opening Ports via GPO

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

Opening Ports via GPO

I'm opening ports using GPO's. In the Allow Printer and File Sharing you can specify which subnets to allow contact from. The example shows 10.3.2.0/24 to allow connections from 10.3.2.X. My question is what would be the proper notation to allow connections from 10.3.x.x. Would it be

The Amazing Disappearing IP Addresses

I've got a Windows XPSP2 box I'm trying to add to my domain. When I go into the IP properties in Network and change the DNS srever addresses and close the dialog the addresses revert to the original addresses. For example let's say the original addresses are 100.200.300.400 and 100.200.500.600

Re: The Amazing Disappearing IP Addresses

Andy Shook wrote: Are you hitting the 'apply' button? There is no Apply button, only OK and Cancel. I've done this hundreds of times and this is the first time I've seen this. Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

Re: Still can't replicate (was Hosed DNS??)SOLVED sort of

KenM wrote: If there is a 13509 warning following the 13508 it can be safly ignored. I turned off the Windows Firewall on both servers (They're both behind a hardware firewall) and the errors went away. Some setting in the firewall appears to have become corrupted. Now I can determine what's

Re: Still can't replicate (was Hosed DNS??)

Terry Fryrear wrote: I would check my sites and services to see how you are replicating. Then try replmon I've been running replmon on both servers. The PDC (Dad) is showing failure errors, the second DC (Mom) is showing success. seems to be a one way error effecting Dad. When I try to

Re: Still can't replicate (was Hosed DNS??)

Ken Schaefer wrote: You need to start providing more information. I looked through the previous thread and you said: so I decided to look at some other logs. In one I discovered that the DC's hadn't replicated in a month a) What log did you look in? Event Viewer-File Replication. b)

Re: Still can't replicate (was Hosed DNS??)

KenM wrote: Have you seen this KB article. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839880 Yes, I ran the diagnostics (except dcdiag, it says it can't find a dll, I need to reinstall it) mentioned in my earlier post, but it doesn't give any fixes. Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation

Still can't replicate (was Hosed DNS??)

Still looking for the cause. When I do a DCDIAG on the one that hasn't been replicated from everything except frsevent passes. On the DC that hasn't received the replication I get the error that replication hasn't occurred for a month with the errors 1753 and 1256 also the frsevent fails. A

Enumerate Group Policies?

We have an audit coming up and as part of it they want us to enumerate our Group Policies. Does any one know of a free tool that will list the Group Policies in a CSV file? I know about admX, but it requires Net Framework 1.0 and (except for a Korean version) the lowest version I can find is

Re: Enumerate Group Policies?

Martin Blackstone wrote: I think GPMC can do this for the most part. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx Exactly what I needed!!! THANKS!!! Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

Replication Woes

I have a Domain with 2 DC's Dad and Mom. Dad has put up a lot of replication failures in the event log. Running Dcdiag on Dad returns a lot of messages in the Replications section , mostly 1753 errors with a 1256 thrown in for good measure. The diag says something about Mom starting up,

Re: Hosed DNS??

mck1012 wrote: Make sure the DC is pointing to either itself or another AD int. DNS server. Next restart the netlogon service and then from the cmd prompt ipconfig /registrerdns. Make sure all clients point to the server for dns. How many DC's do you have? I have 1 1/2 DC's (the 1/2 DC

Hosed DNS??

Recently I attempted to push install an application (Counter Spy) to a computer in my Domain and got an error message about not being able to authenticate. Later, I attempted to join a computer to the Domain and and got an error message about no Domain Controller and the computer couldn't find

Re: Hosed DNS??

Kennedy, Jim wrote: First hit the DC's with a command prompt and use ipconfig /registerdns Am I going to get lucky and it's that simple to rebuild the _ldap_tcp.dc_msdcs.my.domain entry?? I guess I'll know in about 15 minutes. THANKS ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with

Re: Hosed DNS??

James Edwards wrote: Kennedy, Jim wrote: First hit the DC's with a command prompt and use ipconfig /registerdns Am I going to get lucky and it's that simple to rebuild the _ldap_tcp.dc_msdcs.my.domain entry?? I guess I'll know in about 15 minutes. THANKS Guess I didn't get that lucky

User Joining computers to Domain

I'm getting old and senile. I used to know how to do this. There is some where that you can change a user's permissions so they can join an unlimited number (more than the default 10) of workstations to a Domain. I need this so I can give someone this and only this administrator right.

Vista password re-set?

I have a user that has forgotten his Administrator password. Anyone know a way to reset it without a wipe and reinstall? THANKS!! Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

Re: Quick n Dirty mass emailing (not spam)

Phillip Partipilo wrote: What do you folks all use for bulk correspondence? Copy a text file with the addresses separated by a comma (or what ever your e-mail client uses) and paste into the BCC leaving the To blank. Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!

Alias opens wrong program in XP

We have several computers with two copies of a program (PowerPoint), one modified installed. This works OK except on one computer the alias that is supposed to open the modified copy randomly opens the non-modified copy. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this? I've searched Technet

Re: DDNS and Mac OS X

Miguel Gonzalez wrote: Is there any way to make Dynamic DNS updates from Mac machines? You need a client or Applescript. There is a discussion here: http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=315 -- Jim Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe

Re: Information Security Documentation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have / seen any good Information Security Policy documents or templates? Basically I am looking for a comprehensive, internal document (or set of documents) that would be used to describe things such as: -Security Organization and

Configuring Updates Endless Loop

Hello All; Yesterday my computer (Vista Ultimate) downloaded a 4 Meg update from the Windows Update site. Of course, the Vista Windows Update site doesn't tell you what the update is, so I'm not sure what they gave me. Now the computer starts goes into a window that says Configuring Updates

Re: Configuring Updates Endless Loop

Christopher J. Bosak wrote: How long have you let it sit at that window? A couple of hours -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo

Re: Configuring Updates Endless Loop

Christopher J. Bosak wrote: Way too long... did you attempt a system restore from the CD/DVD? Not yet, I was hoping... -- = Jim === Computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. --Popular Mechanics, 1949 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation

Re: Smart Phone

Joseph L. Casale wrote: Anything new in the smartphone with Activesync arena? Salesman needs a new gadget and I haven’t followed the scene in ages. What are you guys using with Mobile OS 6 that’s stable and workin well? If your carrier is ATT check out the Tilt it's made for them by HTC.

Re: [ARRGHHHH] Macs and VPNs on 2003

Sherry Abercrombie wrote: Never say never when it comes to viruses. A number of years ago, I was taking a class at the local community college online. At the intro meeting one of the students asked about getting a virus or something like that, and the instructor stated that we would be