RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-05 Thread Dave Wade
why don't you ask on the Exchange2000 or Exchange2003 Yahoo group.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan DeStefano Sent: Thu 04/05/2006 20:16 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: Subject: [ActiveDir] Optimize

RE: [ActiveDir] which GC answers?

2006-05-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
it is: repadmin /showobjmeta GC: CN=User-ROOT-01,OU=Users,OU=ORG,DC=ADCORP,DC=LAN the output will something like: repadmin running command /showobjmeta against server ed0c6501-28c1-47e9-b3db-5dcf281e9e31._msdcs.ADCORP.LAN 26 entries. Loc.USN Originating DC

RE: [ActiveDir] Query regarding Windows Time Service

2006-05-05 Thread James Carter
thanks joe, that seems like a straightforward command to run.a lot more simpler than the following kb (I'm looking at the external time source)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042/Does anyone know why this would be different?joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would certainly check

RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Oh sorry, yes, I completely understand that advice came from PSS from your previous post, I should have put the "Thanks PSS" on there too. :) Did PSS actually say to check of they were TS Users? I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't. A lot of the help and direction doesn't come with much

RE: [ActiveDir] GPResult incorrectly reporting DC's security groups?

2006-05-05 Thread joe
As Steve mentioned it is for the Trust Selective Authentication stuff. You may have noticed this and Other Organization security principals in your Forest after you did your Windows Server 2003 ForestPrep. If not, go peek at your defined WellKnown Security Principals container in the config...

RE: [ActiveDir] TScmd help

2006-05-05 Thread Jef Kazimer
Joe, I don't remember if they told us to check if they are TS users or not to be honest as this was almost 2 years ago. I do remember that he symptoms were quite odd in that the error message dialog box would throw out an obscure error that could not be found in any online resource. They said

Re: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Tom Kern
How can I take ownership of it? It doesn't have a security tab and xcacls doesn't see the folder.. Thanks On 5/4/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonder if you have a dorked up ACL, what happens if you try to take ownership of it? -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition -

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Joe, Thanks for replying.The critrix server is a member of domain A and the user accounts were having problems resolving are members of domain B. It's hard to explain what we're seeing. Our Citrix admin is trying grant user account access to a 'published application' since the SID doesn't

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread joe
You could try 1. subinacl 2. script 3. search the web for various ACL mod tools plus I seem to recall one tool specifically for taking ownership out on the web somewhere, I believe it was called setowner. If none of those work I see your options as A. If the file is external disksuch as

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Yep, the first thing I would do is use nltest to verify the secure channel back to the Domain A DC from the member, then from the Domain A DC to Domain B. Don't just look at the results of nltest query, actually reset the channel as I have seen times where it says it is fine but can't reset.

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Gil Kirkpatrick
CHKDSK? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 6:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT) How can I take ownership of it? It doesn't have a security tab and xcacls doesn't

Re: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-05 Thread Al Mulnick
ADAM rocks! It's exactly what I look for in a directory of that type - stable, scalable, easy to deploy. What's missing are the tools to easily administer it for the average Joe (note the capitalization and the reference to the average :) which would help it compete against more expensive tools

[ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Parris
I am upgrading an NT4.0 domain to Windows 2003R2 and on the PDC I have added to the HKLM...Netlogon\parameters the key NT4Emulator with a value of 1 and then done the inplace upgrade. I now try to promote in another AD DC and it does not work I get DNS timeout errors (0x05B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT)

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Joe, On some domain controllers we're getting the following: I:\nltest /server:domain naming master dc/sc_query:domainbI_NetLogonControl failed: Status = 1355 0x54b ERROR_NO_SUCH_DOMAIN So I think we are closer Teo On 5/5/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, the first thing I would do is

RE: Re: [ActiveDir] ADAM Management Tool REQs and Desires...... WAS: Internet Authentication Concepts: Pointers?

2006-05-05 Thread joe
So did yours Al... I read it over on OWA... -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al MulnickSent: Friday, May 05, 2006 10:21 AMTo: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.orgSubject: Re: Re:

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread joe
That is name resolution failure, DomainB DC issues,or network issues... You can try this nltest /sc_reset:domainb\dcname If it works, it means that you probably have name res issues. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Brian Desmond
Cacls Xcacls Subinacl Format q c: rm rf / a consultant google set ownership tools perhaps too Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:14 AM To:

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(VERY OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Burns, Clyde R.
Other ways... Dos bootdisk with Fdisk - www.bootdisk.com And theres also this. http://www.semshred.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/680/tp/VE1HUj0xLHRpZD02NzIs Clyde Burns Louisville Ky. The one guy in the office who didn't go the track on Oaks day. From: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Thanks Joe...I think we figured it outthe domain controller having issues has lost it's route to domain bI think we can get this fixed if we can get the citrix server to log on to another DC. Thanks! Teo On 5/5/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is name resolution failure, DomainB

Re: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Tom Kern
Subinacl,Xacls(which I stated I used already, Brian),and Setowner all give the same error- The system cannot find the file specified. Chkdsk with a reboot didn't help at all. Thanks On 5/5/06, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cacls Xcacls Subinacl Format –q c: rm –rf / a consultant

RE: [ActiveDir] which GC answers?

2006-05-05 Thread adriaoramos
Jorge, thanks a lot, but I don´t know either I am doing something wrong or there´s a problem here. This is the case: I have a user (jjunior - Jose Marcondes Junior) that is a lingering object for sure. I used ldp and found it as I can see here ***Searching... ldap_search_s(ld,

RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Matched DN: (Null)

2006-05-05 Thread joe
You can try to do that by forcing the secure channel to go to another DC. You would use the SC_RESET command and specify the DC you want like I mentioned below. That may not work at all or it may not work long term though so try and see if it gets you running but really try to get your

RE: [ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key

2006-05-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
As the key says, the NT4Emulator key makes a AD DC behave like an NT4 DC. When trying to promote additional DCs or using w2k/wxp/w2k3 clients to manage AD you are not able to connect. The main reason the NT4Emulator key is to prevent ALL w2k/wxp/w2k3 clients and servers swamping down the PDC FSMO

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Tyson Leslie
I've seen this in NT4, but not recently. In our case, the fix was to share out a parent folder, and delete the offending sub-folder from another machine via the share. Tyson. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom KernSent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:24 AMTo:

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Rocky Habeeb
Tough to do if it's at the root. I would try this, have the originating user log on to the originating machine that originally mapped the two drives and disconnect the target's mapped drive, if not already done, then reboot it. Have him log back on, map the target againusing the same drive

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Thomas O'Brien
Is there a trailing space at the end of the folder name?I got bit by this one and didn't really understand why at first because the trailing space was almost unnoticeable. To date I have not been able to remove the folder.I found a number of tools that address deleting files with trailing

Re: [ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key

2006-05-05 Thread Mark Parris
Thanks Jorge. I have not done an inplace before, only migrations. Mark -Original Message- From: Almeida Pinto, Jorge de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 17:52:35 To:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key As the key says, the NT4Emulator key

RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-05 Thread Douglas M. Long
If you get another drive a RAID 01 (or is it 10) would be a better choice in my eyes _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:07 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

RE: [ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key

2006-05-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
You're welcome! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 18:58 To: ActiveDir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] NT4Emulator Reg Key Thanks Jorge. I have not done an inplace before, only migrations. Mark

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-05 Thread Lee, Wook
I wasn't claiming that it would pick the DC for regular replication. We were talking GC promotion and I did throw in the weasel words about PAS replication since my confidence level wasn't sky high. It's been so long since we've done anything but IFM that I forget these little details. I know that

[ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Glenn
First off let me do a small introduction. I come from a Netware background. My university's students have been using eDirectory for several years without any problems. However, we have decided (mostly because of the business model of Novell) to move all of our student logins, storage, and lab

[ActiveDir] Trust for delegation error

2006-05-05 Thread adriaoramos
Hi all, I have a new problem: When I try to enbale this option :Trust Computer for delegationfor a computer account in DSA.msc I recive this error Your security setting do not allow you to Specify whether or not This account is to be trusted for delagation I have already

[ActiveDir] Visio Stencil for AD Forest

2006-05-05 Thread Stewart, Fitz
Title: Visio Stencil for AD Forest Anyone know where I can find a good stencil for this? I just want a cool triangle 3D and all and not a server or a domain, or an OU. -fitz J. Fitzgerald (Fitz) Stewart Systems Architect IRM/OPS/ENM Worldwide Information Network Systems USAID/DoS

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Walton, Randy
Havent tried it, but check out this TID: http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=10023078sliceId=dialogID=2929119stateId=0%200%202927987 Note that the registry entry in Workaround #2 has left out one level of the registry structure. It should be:

Re: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-05 Thread Al Mulnick
yeah, there would be some general disagreement from me. Why? Only because this is SBS box vs. an enterprise Exchange server hosting 5K users. My laptop (crud that it is) could host 20 heavy exchange users with usable/good performance with that amount of memory. I don't think the focus of a

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Welcome. I am not sure if you can set a domain by default for the initial logon. If you could, I would expect it to be to some of the reg entries maintained in the HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon portion of the registry. You could step around that by telling

Re: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Ross Stingley
Back in the days of DOS, you could deletea file that had invalid characters or spaces in the file name byfirst renaming the file substituting a "?" for the invalid characters or spaces to a valid file name, you could then delete the file. HTH - Original Message - From:

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Ah sorry, you mean the initial population, I dropped that piece... That would make sense if it did that because you wouldn't have to worry about promoing a new GC and getting lingering objects passed onto it... I am still not sure it does it that way though as I swear I have talked to folks with

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Glenn
Randy, Not quite sure that will work since I won't have a Novell hive after this semesterPaul On 5/5/06, Walton, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't tried it, but check out this TID:

RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Yeah I might as well pop in a similar feeling that the disk is not optimal for Exchange. Certainly I wouldn't worry about which logical drive the page file was on, it is all the same physicals underneath so it doesn't much matter from a perf standpoint. With Exchange you want as many spindles as

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-05 Thread Lee, Wook
The lingering object problems we've seen have always involved partitions that didn't have a writeable copy in site. In general, we've had more problems with ghosts than with zombies. Wook -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday,

Re: [ActiveDir] Optimize Exchange Pagefile

2006-05-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Word of advice -- put SBS in the subject line and you'll get SBSlady from the get go :-) By design SBS is maxed at 75 users/devices. As you have already stateddo not do a /3GB (let me repeat that again) DO NOT do a /3GB on a SBS box. It's not necessary and doesn't impact a thing.

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-05 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
To my knowledge a GC searches for a replication partner it can use to source the partitions from and it does not care if it uses the writable versions or read-only version. Both have the data needed. On the other side, if it did use only writable NCs, that would mean replication could place

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Glenn
On 5/5/06, joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome. I am not sure if you can set a domain by default for the initial logon. If you could, I would expect it to be to some of the reg entries maintained in the HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon portion of the registry. That

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Al Mulnick
Of course, it makes supporting non-windows clients a different challenge :) Paul, what method are you using to join the workstation to the domain? It sounds like the domains are being enumerated at initial logon as if it has no list when it joins. Could be something in the process or something

RE: [ActiveDir] Robocopy(OT)

2006-05-05 Thread Thomas O'Brien
Thanks for the reply. I've tried exactly this approach. Works great for files. Not so well for folders. Executing move source-folder destination-folder yields "The system cannot find the file specified". Thomas From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross

Re: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Glenn
Al, We are accomplishing this by Ghost. We push out a configuration that tells it the domain and OU to join. The rights are associated with the Ghost Console user that gets installed. After the workstations join and reboot it's getting all the AD domains on campus via the DNS server (I'm

[ActiveDir] OT: KVM switches

2006-05-05 Thread Ken Cornetet
Does anyone have any suggestions for cheap KVM switches? We are currently using Belkin 16 port switches. They are cheap enough, but we seem to experience issues with them. I don't need anything fancy. No KVM over IP, no KVM over cat 5, etc. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List

RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion

2006-05-05 Thread Lee, Wook
Title: RE: [ActiveDir] GC Promotion Hi, Jorge, Were talking in the context of an AD replication site. If it were picking writeable anywhere, then yeah, that would not be good for network utilization unless youre a provider and charge by the bit. The point is that in a site, the

[ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Douglas M. Long
Anyone else receiving blank emails? The reply from Al (below Susans email) and a couple of others I have got over the past couple of days have had empty bodies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Kevin Gent
i'm seeing lots of blanks over the past week - Original Message - From: Douglas M. Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists??? Anyone else receiving blank emails? The reply from Al

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Okay dumb questions to folks.. E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS Diva : OWA fix on Microsoft Update: http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/04/28/92884.aspx Are the folks that are sending blank emails .. have you deployed 911829? Kevin Gent wrote: i'm seeing lots of

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Nope, don't have that one installed. The blanks I have been seeing are limited to this list of all of the lists I am on. -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: KVM switches

2006-05-05 Thread Derek Harris
I had issues with Belkin KVMs too, and I found an even cheaper KVM that works great. I have 4, 8, 16-port StarTech KVMs: the 4-port ones use proprietary cables, but the 8 16-port models use standard cables - probably the same as your Belkin (Omniview?). http://startech.com Derek Not

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: KVM switches

2006-05-05 Thread Al Garrett
BlackBoxrock-solid reliable. http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Category.aspx?cid=537 -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 12:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: KVM switches Does anyone have any

RE: [ActiveDir] Trust for delegation error

2006-05-05 Thread Bernard, Aric
It sounds like you are configuring this setting on many directory objects: For what purpose? What functional level is the domain having these problems and is different from the other domains? Aric Sent from my Windows Mobile 5 device. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Al Mulnick
I'm using GMail. Fixes would all be client side and since I see the content in the mail I send, I doubt it's client side. Else it's highly consistent client-side issues. Tony might be the person to contact about some of this, but I think there're also some server side issues possibly at GMAIL,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Blank messages to lists???

2006-05-05 Thread Ken Schaefer
I've seen this happen occasionally on other lists, but I don't know if it's the same underlying cause. The original post is encoded in some way, and then the addition of the list footer means that the post isn't properly encoded anymore. Some email clients then display this as a blank post. If

RE: [ActiveDir] Trust for delegation error

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Try to set the userAccountControl value manually with either LDP or admod (with -exterr) and report back the full LDAP error with DSID. joe -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread joe
I agree with Al that the process to get the trusted domains list could possibly be wiping out the value you are tucking in. If you are trying to get away from "contexts", I think one of the best things you could do is go to UPN logon then, then they don't have to remember their domain for

RE: [ActiveDir] Default Domain

2006-05-05 Thread joe
Oh BTW, are you changing the SIDs on the workstations after you finish the ghost process? -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul GlennSent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:42 PMTo:

Re: [ActiveDir] Trust for delegation error

2006-05-05 Thread steve patrick
Can you expand on this statement? I have already applied an instrution to change local user rights This should be enabled by default in the Domain Controller policy -- Enable computer and user accounts to be trusted for delegation +r Administrators. Make sure the you have the user right