howto Stop NT DNS Inverse Queries?

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
Hi, anyone knows how to stop Invers Query iquery on an NT 4.0 DNS server? My vulnarability software was recommending that, but didn't tell how to do that. regards Uso Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first:

Re: Ghost 2002 Suggestions

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
Ghost and Sysprep is the right combination. We have been happily using Altiris Xpress, but so far we did seperate images for seperate platforms and didn't use the sysprep approach. regards Uso Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one

Workstation Naming Standards

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
hi, we will be deploying Win2K from scratch on the user's machines (around 700) replacing NT 4. SO I was reviewing our machine naming convention. Our Offices are located in two cities, one single domain. So far we would use something like CityName-Department-User Real Name (where city name and

Re: Batch file to NT Service

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
If u don't have the resource kit u can use the freeware tool http://www.winwinsoft.com/goodies/RunExeSvc/ or search on the net for another tool called Invoker. regards Uso Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first:

Re: Netshield Dr.Watson: together again!

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
I have that happening all the time. that's why we got rid of McAffe and are now installing Symantec. Time will tell if it's any better. Uso Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/

Re: hfnetchk

2001-09-27 Thread Osama S.
Don't understand why some managers refuse to spend some money and get us the tools that get our work done. Thank good my management buys anything I suggest as long as I have a half way decent justification. Anyway, just wanted to say that I have faced problems with hfnetchk. For example I had

Re: Scanning ports

2001-09-24 Thread Osama S.
Try these, excellent tools and both freeware. http://www.gfi.com/languard/lanscan.htm LANguard Network Scanner is a freeware security scanner to audit your network security. It scans entire networks and provides NETBIOS information for each computer such as hostname, shares, logged on user name.

Re: Virus scanning on file servers

2001-09-24 Thread Osama S.
The Main Vendor are: www.nai.com symantec.com trendmicro.com (in no particular order) I think they more or less do all a decent job. We recently switched from NAI to Symantec. Because NAI keeps crashing a lot and the prices for an update were more expensive than getting new Symantec licenses.