VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-20 Thread Craig Gauss
The group that configured our VMware infrastructure created vcenter as a virtual machine. It was only sized at 20GB. We are continually running out of space. Anyone know what would be the easiest way to resize the VM? I have resized VMs in the past with no issues but am not sure how to do

RE: iSentryIII

2009-03-20 Thread John Aldrich
Run a linux box with Squid proxy service? You provide the hardware and the O/S is free. I'd be happy to try and find a Linux users' group in your area who would likely be happy to help out for free. A little research and it looks like the closest LUG would be the Mid-Willamette Valley Linux Users

RE: iSentryIII

2009-03-20 Thread gsweers
Jon, Another option is to use OpenDNS, provides limited reporting, no policies for allowing different users access etc, but it filters and meets CIPA. Its also free.. There are some other open source out there, but it requires a bit of unix/linux and support is only available from the open

RE: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
IMO 512MB on an XP box modern web browser is borderline unusable, especially when you consider that most anti-malware packages are resource pigs That is very true. Had installed a D600 with 512 MB for a traveler. After putting McAfee antivirus on there it was unusable, thrashing. Reÿé

RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection

2009-03-20 Thread John Cook
Easy WiFi Radar is sort of directional, check it out. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ From: Gene Giannamore

Re: IE8 Download...

2009-03-20 Thread Len Hammond
This link worked great for me. And at some of the best d/l speeds I get from anywhere. Thanks for the link. Len On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Roger Wright rwri...@evatone.com wrote: www.microsoft.com/ie took me right to it. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc.

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-20 Thread Scott Kaufman at HQ
You need to first allocate more space for the VM, like to 50GB. Then boot the VM with an ISO image that has a disk resizing utility and increase the drive size to use all of the 50GB. You should be to point the Infrastructre client directly to the esx server, logon as root and manipulate the

Re: 2008 TS RemoteApp

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Miller
I plan on using that. I currently use Citrix for many external users, and Citrix has that embedded as part of the product. It's listed in the Terminal Server 2008 Companion, as well. Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com 3/19/2009 3:21 PM Anyone using this:

RE: iSentryIII

2009-03-20 Thread Ralph Smith
Along those lines IPCop with the Dan' Guardian web filter or squidguard. Works well, easy to administer and free. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSentryIII Run a

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-20 Thread Ian Roche
I have done this on VM's using GPart. Allocate more space to the VM then mount the GPart ISO and boot to it ( you will need to access the vm via the console using VI) instructions on how to resize are below http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial152.html ~ Finally, powerful

Re: IE 8 today

2009-03-20 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Firefox Community Edition is what we deploy here. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.comwrote: I like Firefox myself; with the appropriate plugins, it fits my web browsing needs and habits much better than IE. However, it isn’t an enterprise-manageable

Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
Got a weird one ... very small business, one domain controller, W2K3r2, SP2 ... had a power outage a few weeks ago where even UPS ran out so hard power down ... existing machines on the domain continue to login and access previously mapped shares, but unable to add a new XP box to the domain ...

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Cayze
Or just add another virtual drive, if you find the 20GB is actually adequate for a boot partition. I usually do. -Original Message- From: Ian Roche [mailto:iro...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? I

Re: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
I don't either, but XP + 512MB + AV + web browser = thrashing It shouldn't, but it does. The machines are fine with almost any other application load. Carl Houseman wrote: I don't see XP machines with 512MB go thrashing due to AV alone when a decent AV is used. -- Phil Brutsche

Quorum Business Continuity V appliances

2009-03-20 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone have any experience with the above product? I was supposed to view a webinar sponsored by them yesterday, but didn't have a chance to do so. They called me up this morning and sent me a two-sheet FAQ on their product. From the way the rep talked, it's a VMWare type appliance that takes

RE: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread Carl Houseman
I upgraded a 256MB XP to 512MB a few months ago, running AVG Free. No thrashing for dial-up web browsing with IE6. IE7 could be worse, but you need to let low-RAM machines settle out for 5-10 minutes after booting. Once the unnecessary stuff from startup is purged from the disk cache, the

April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
Folks, Seeing quite a bit of activity with Conflicker, and on April 1st according to the following site. Its going to erupt with a lot of malicious activity ( port 80 outbound, P2p, mass infection, so definitely get your systems patched, and AV, Signatures, HIPS updated) Just dealt with a bout

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
+1 Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
Acually 512MB for the base OS ( without any application is probably a good baseline) I would be looking at 1GB+ or higher with XP, or you are going to get some trashing, due to paging. Look at the Memory Pages/Sec and Process (Individual Process) Page faults/Sec, Working Set, and I/O operatiings

RE: IE 8 today

2009-03-20 Thread Murray Freeman
Well, I've been unhappy for some time with the slowness of IE7 on my 2.8GHtz 2GByte Windows XP machine, so I installed Firefox and was impressed. Well, yesterday I downloaded and installed IE8 and WOW is all I can say. I'm loving IE8, it's even faster than Firefox 3. On the other hand, I've been

RE: Quorum Business Continuity V appliances

2009-03-20 Thread John Aldrich
BTW, my bad.. it's not VMWare, it's Xen. Same idea, though. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quorum Business Continuity V appliances Anyone have any experience

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
MS and the Anti-Virus vendors have really have let us down on this one. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: April 1st Conflicker

RE: Quorum Business Continuity V appliances

2009-03-20 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Take a look @ the platespin forge appliances, work the same way but it's a VMware OS on them. We have one of them in out remote DC and it has worked well for us From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Quorum Business Continuity V appliances

2009-03-20 Thread John Aldrich
Great. not overly fond of Microsoft myself. but it's how I make my living. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Quorum Business Continuity V appliances

R: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread HELP_PC
512 MB is no more sufficient for XP machine and new software (IMO) GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Inviato: venerdì 20 marzo 2009 15.31 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption That's a classic 'Dr.

RE: IE8 vs. IE7 memory consumption

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
:-) Wasn't my choice. I have showed them clearly it was the antivirus causing memory problems. Even some users with 2G are getting into trouble. They want to look at a newer version. Will have to wait and see I guess, but we're linked to McAfee ePO, Antivirus, Firewall, Safeboot. Rÿÿé

Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Steve Kelsay
I am looking for help writing a VBScript to 1. Detect whether a specified mapped drive exists 2. If so, retrieve the target mapping (if the X: drive is not mapped to \\server\share file:///\\server\share , then map it ) I have Googled and found lots of stuff, but nothing that

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
First you get all mappings with wshNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives then check them Trick is index 0,2,4 etc are driveletters Index 1,3,5 etc are the mappings You could do something like this: Option Explicit Dim wshNetwork Dim maps Dim i Set wshNetwork = CreateObject(Wscript.network)

What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

2009-03-20 Thread John
Our current print server has reached end of life and needs to be replaced. Both the new and old servers are running Windows 2003 Standard Edition. I've heard of people having issues when using printmig to migrate printers between W2K3 servers and I'm also under the impression that MS's new

Re: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Miller
www.computerperformance.co.uk - lots of scripts there. There is one for drives already connected Steve Kelsay kels...@sctax.org 3/20/2009 12:19 PM I am looking for help writing a VBScript to 1. Detect whether a specified mapped drive exists 2. If so, retrieve the target mapping

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Carl Houseman
What is done with the mapping that is retrieved? Output to the screen, something else? What you've specified so far doesn't need VBS, can be done in fewer lines of simple .cmd/.bat scripting. if exist x:\ ( net use x:|find /I remote name ) else ( net use x: \\server\share )

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
Somehow the line between for and next was stripped. I checked in my sent items there it was okay. Trying again. In between it should say something like:Wscript.echo maps.item(i) vbTAB maps.item(i+1) Rÿÿé From: René de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@woodward.com] Sent: Friday,

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Tony Patton
Another solution On Error Resume Next strComputer = . Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _ {impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(Select * from Win32_MappedLogicalDisk) For Each objItem in colItems WScript.Echo

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
In fact, call me lazy, but I just short-cut this process, this way: Net use x: /del 2nul nul Net use x: \\server\share From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scrip Help please? What is done with

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
You could use this : Set wshNetwork = CreateObject(Wscript.network) Set maps=wshNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives Call ChangeMapping(x:, \\server\path file:///\\server\path ) sub ChangeMapping ( Letter, Path ) DriveLetterMapped = false i = 0

RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

2009-03-20 Thread Brian Desmond
Printmig should do the job for 20032003 - you can grab it off download.microsoft.com Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian -Original

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Carl Houseman
Doesn't meet the requirements as stated. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scrip Help please? In fact, call me lazy, but I just short-cut this process, this way: Net use x:

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
I do not know the answer to this, but based on what I've read about the infection vector, as long as you don't run as admin I suspect you'll be ok. At least on Vista and above. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:52

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Steven Peck
knock on wood but we haven't been infected with this yet. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: MS and the Anti-Virus vendors have really have let us down on this one. -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
Weird part is I was patched for MS08-67 on these servers reported infected and still the AV is showing infection results. Shouldn't be vulnerable if you have already applied MS08-067, weirdness. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Cayze
Yeah, I just searched around for a while on ways to reduce attack surface related to this, and all I could find was restrict user account, disable auto-run, and install the 067 patch... Oh, and possibly block sites that it talks home to/propagates from via DNS. -Original Message- From:

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
FWIW I have not seen any AV that will 100 percent remove it. Most/All of them blow the virus up enough that it isn't running or attacking other machines/user accounts but enough traces are left behind that it will still trigger a positive on the next AV scan. Over on the Vipre list one of

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-20 Thread Cameron Cooper
Don't think that this was mentioned in regards to IE8... but if you have Windows 7 Beta you won't be able to download and install the IE8 final. _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
no one ??? bueller bueller bueller ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network path not found, error 53 Got a

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Glen Johnson
I can definitely confirm that a patched machine can get infected from an infected flash drive. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Good point. I should have brought that up. I have been able to do that consistently almost every time. That's part of how we have been testing AV software. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin

Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Nordlander
This update just kills me. It failed often or just takes forever(hours) to install. Mostly an issue on my Server 2008 servers. Anyone else having issues with this ? -BenN ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
What the heck is going on with lyris this week? This pretty much HAS to be DNS or WINS. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network path not found, error 53 Got a weird one ... very small business,

RE: IE8 Download...

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Lambert
I dunno what's going on heretried with several pc's and a server and it just won't download. Can download anything else just fine. Must be something network/firewall related but it's driving me crazy! Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Cameron Cooper

R: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread HELP_PC
That is the reason of MS KB 967715 so urgently deployed ? GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Inviato: venerdì 20 marzo 2009 18.35 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt I can definitely confirm

RE: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Martin Blackstone
Isn't that the one that's about 250 MB? From: Ben Nordlander [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1 This update just kills me. It failed often or just takes forever(hours) to

R: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread HELP_PC
May worth to rebuild DHCP as well GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Inviato: venerdì 20 marzo 2009 18.54 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Network path not found, error 53 What the heck is going on with lyris this week?

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread lists
Have you run DCDIAG and NETDIAG with no problems? Cheers. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53 no one ??? bueller bueller bueller ... Erik

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread RichardMcClary
Let's see... I forgot what I was needing to install, so I ran this @#* on a workstation. I believe it's like 350 Mb in size and does take a long time to run. Unfortunately, the thing I was trying to install STILL said it needed .NET Framework. Turns out this elephant dropping does not

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Steve Kelsay
Thanks. If you sent an attachment and did not rename it, it will not get to me, since the email filters strip out all executable suffixes. Could I impose on you to rename it .vvv or something? From: René de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@woodward.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 14:10 PM To: NT

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
didn't have WINS, I added it, no joy Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
huh ? What's your reasoning for this ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Network path not found, error 53 May worth to rebuild DHCP as

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Peter van Houten
It contains the original 3.5 release plus SP1 which makes it standalone (i.e. you don't need the original 200MB 3.5 install) Immediately after installing, an update becomes available :-) Never had any problems installing it on clients and servers (albeit non-2008 platforms). -- Peter van

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Peter van Houten
Addendum: It also contains all of 2.0 and 3.0 It contains the original 3.5 release plus SP1 which makes it standalone (i.e. you don't need the original 200MB 3.5 install) Immediately after installing, an update becomes available :-) Never

R: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread HELP_PC
May be it doesn't accept new entries because got corrupted by the sudden shutdown GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Inviato: venerdì 20 marzo 2009 19.16 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Network path not found, error 53 huh ? What's your

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
So? What's the IP address of the existing DC? Does it expose DNS on all IP addresses? What are the IP addresses of the DNS servers and WINS servers on the client workstation? If you ping the DC by name on the workstation do you get the proper IP address? From: Erik Goldoff

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Nordlander
Yeah it is a huge file to download. When it does fail. i reboot the server, have it install again (sometimes takes a long time as well), and usually it gets pushed through. Fortunately, I don't have any issues with my servers once it is installed; and i have a slew of different .NET websites

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Carl Houseman
You just outlined the unspoken requirement that I had asked about. if exist x:\ ( net use x:|find /i \\server\share file:///\\server\share if errorlevel 1 ( net use x: /d /y nul 21 net use x: \\server\share file:///\\server\share ) ) else ( net use x: \\server\share )

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
It wasn't attached. It's in the text at the bottom. Should do exactly what you want. (it's doing it for us) René From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scrip Help please? Thanks. If you sent an

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
By everyone, I didn't mean the 'everyone' group but certainly easy to read it that way. I took it away from everyone, most pointedly 'system' per MS's doc's on how to slow this thing down. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, March 20,

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread René de Haas
Sent a subroutine for a script to you directly since my scripts end up garbled here. Michaels script does more or less what you want though the end result is the same even if sometimes the remapping may not be necessary. Reÿé From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Friday,

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
oh, ok ... but nope, dhcp issued a valid IP, gateway, dns, and wins Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R: Network path not found, error 53

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Nordlander
On my most recent issue on a server. i had already done iisreset /stop and it still took about 2 hours. Maybe during this update it starts inetinfo again and then needs to kill it again where it hangs? -BenN On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jim Dandy jda...@asmail.ucdavis.eduwrote: Someone

ESX3i Guest OS install question

2009-03-20 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Has anyone had an issue installing Windows 2003 in a VM that only has SATA hard drives? I can get the setup to run. Just see the message that setup is inspecting the system. Then a blank screen. Todd Lemmiksoo Network Administrator All-Mode Communications, Inc. 1725 Dryden Road Freeville, New

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
nope, cannot map 'do not have permission' 'network path not found' errors Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
I wouldn't be too quick to blame solely MS and the AV vendors, there's a lot of blame to go around. Conficker has multiple infection vectors. So far I've heard of: a) Exploiting MS08-067 b) Brute-forcing the SAM and ADMIN$ share on remote machines c) and now apparently Autorun Apparently not

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Phil Brutsche
Something is seriously wrong with your environment if your end users have write access to the svchost key. Kennedy, Jim wrote: At this point the only thing keeping us alive is the svchost key with only read rights for everyone, including system. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~

Re: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Regular users on fully patched XP and you are screwed. H. Worrying. I just went and double-checked the various threat evaluations for Conficker. Everyone seems to be reporting about the same thing. In

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
very simple domain, half dozen users four servers total ( including the 1 DC ) and nothing complicated as far as different permissions for different users ... probably gonna just nuke the box and rebuild from scratch ... even used a TechNet support incident, two levels of techs using easyassist

RE: Scrip Help please?

2009-03-20 Thread Steve Kelsay
Perfect! Thanks so much for all who have helped. I really appreciate your assistance. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Free, Bob
Can you map to it if you use fqdn or ip? Net use \\10.1.10.101\ipc$ file:///\\10.1.10.101\ipc$ should at a minimum pop you for creds if you are resolving. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
nope, already disabled all firewalls Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53 Got

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
it does pop for credentials ( have to use the /user: parameter ) but results in network path not found error Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: ESX3i Guest OS install question

2009-03-20 Thread Kurt Buff
No problems for me - that's exactly what I have running for my esxi machine. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:45, Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@all-mode.com wrote: Has anyone had an issue installing Windows 2003 in a VM that only has SATA hard drives? I can get the setup to run. Just see the message

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
It wasn't an autorun. One that I have solid details on was a teachers machine. She had it on her machine and the tech forgot to check her flash drives when he imaged her machine. An hour later her machine is back on my radar for locking out a hundred user accounts. So I called her room and

Blocking AUTORUN (was: Conflicker)

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: That is the reason of MS KB 967715 so urgently deployed ? I still say the registry INI redirection trick[1] is a better defense. It worked years before Microsoft got their head out of their butt on this one. [1]

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Sam Cayze
Those sound like honeypots! I'm surprise conflicker is all they got :) -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt These were open lab machines

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Michael B. Smith
So, sitting at the workstation, can you telnet DC-name 139 (you should get a blank screen) and telnet DC_name 445 ?? From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network path not found, error 53 nope, already

RE: Network path not found, error 53

2009-03-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
actually, never thought the telnet test duh stupid as I use it all the time for other non-telnet port issues Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:43 PM To: NT

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
Has anyone seen a failure with the DHCP Client giving an access denied after conflicker has been detected cleaned? I did Run the Symantec tools and the Microsoft tools for scanning and infection but no luck. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA,

RichCopy

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this utility. Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft. The article gives some background to RichCopy. It is a multi-threaded GUI file copying utility. I thought some of you all might find it useful, if you haven't seen it

Re: RichCopy

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Nordlander
sweet thanks! -BenN On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Rob Bonfiglio robbonfig...@gmail.comwrote: We just got an e-mail from our Microsoft Rep which linked us to this utility. Apparently it's used a lot w/in Microsoft. The article gives some background to RichCopy. It is a multi-threaded

RE: Blocking AUTORUN (was: Conflicker)

2009-03-20 Thread N Parr
So disabling autorun for all drives through GP does no good? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blocking AUTORUN (was: Conflicker) On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, HELP_PC

Re: Blocking AUTORUN (was: Conflicker)

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonwelding.com wrote: So disabling autorun for all drives through GP does no good? Well, it depends. Microsoft's released *two* patch sets so far to fix problems with it. The latest was MSKB 967715, released 24 Feb 2009. According to

Re: Issues with windows update .NET 3.5 SP1

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ben Nordlander bennordlan...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else having issues with this ? There were quite a few people discussing problems with it on the patchmanagement.org mailing list. I don't think you're alone. Might want to check the archives. We haven't

RE: April 1st Conflicker Version C to erupt

2009-03-20 Thread Ziots, Edward
Just as a followup the following KB article fixed that issue, what I am still concerned about even though these systems where patched about 2-3 months ago with MS08-067 they still got somewhat infected... KB895149 Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA,

Re: RE: What's the easiest way to migrate printer from one server to another?

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Nordlander
Yea print migration tool works great On Mar 20, 2009 9:41 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Printmig should do the job for 20032003 - you can grab it off download.microsoft.com Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed -