Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding: Isn't that exactly what Workgroup Manager does in Open Directory? There are plenty of settings which can be applied to individual Macs, users, user groups and computer groups. As for Safari settings, you can add the com.apple.Safari plist (located in

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Yes, Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is $300 for 10 clients, $500 for unlimited. But Mac OS X Server is $500 for unlimited clients, no CALs required. The client software is $40/Mac. Compare that with Windows prices. And these are not the costs of an upgrade version. You make that money back on ARD

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Ross
- Original Message - From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:38:07 -0700 Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I find it hard to see the benefit of using Mac's in a corporate

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Ross
How could you trust a non-physical inventory? Was there an allowed loss rate? Anything disappearing from our district here is frowned upon greatly. We are constantly warned of our State Auditor's disapproval, and mishandling of state-funded equipment. 3rd party support tools for Open Directory

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think sdewilliam is saying that there is no modelling capability. GPMC lets you pick a user, a computer and an AD site, and dynamically layers all the policies at all levels that will affect the user, and gives you the resulting effective settings (after group filtering, WMI filtering etc).

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Question: how does one bring a Mac under scope of management of WGM? For AD - the machine has to be joined to the domain. For Macs? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Windows 7 has the best of both worlds, IMO. As an admin, you can gain access to a computer that is locked by logging in as a different user. You can do this without logging the other person off, and without violating their session. As Ken mentions, this maintains non-repudiation. *ASB *(My

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Couldn't you do this in Vista as well? I thought the ability to use fast-user switching with domain joined machines was introduced with Vista... Cheers Ken From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 6:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Maybe. :) I can't remember.I do have one domain-joined Vista machine that I can check, so I'll let you know later today... *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ken Schaefer

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah - I read the post from sdewilliman yesterday and thought wow - that's a unsecure vector large enough to drive a tank through. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Holstrom, Don
I don't... From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Please pardon the semi-hijack. What solution do you use to give the Mac people remote access to their machines? Thanks, RS On Tue,

RE: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Hutchings
The switch? The router NIC? Could be anything in theory, could just be an auto negotiation issue? From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: 08 September 2010 12:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Connection speed A customer has a fiber connection that download at 4.5mb/s if

R: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread HELP_PC
Yes but what is strange that the dl speed is lower but the same for all Pcs in the network, so I am pointing to something in the Zywall Nics GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Inviato: mercoledì 8 settembre 2010 13.33 A: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread Erik Goldoff
If I were you, I would examine the specs on the Zywall firewall, either the NIC configuration, or the actual firewall engine capability. If this model was designed for consumer xDSL and not very current, it may have been designed with 1.5mb/s WAN bandwidth in mind. Erik Goldoff IT

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Typically, a Mac user has no elevated rights. SO, most malware would run as a least rights user and go nowhere. (This too is a unix security feature.) I suggest this is a security posture commonly implemented on UNIX systems by their admins. It is now significantly more common in Windows

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I'm of two minds on this... in some cases it might be useful, but it would obviously have to be logged as a security event. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix

RE: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Um... maybe the firewall? -sc From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 7:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Connection speed A customer has a fiber connection that download at 4.5mb/s if connected straight to the ISP Router When connected to

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Alan Davies
It's just treating the PC as a terminal server. My first thoughts are that this could only be an issue where local resources are not adequately secured or where you don't trust your admins. In either of those scenarios, you have bigger fish to fry! The only place I can see this being a problem

R: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread HELP_PC
I suspect it , as also Erik told. I'll give a look without it GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Inviato: mercoledì 8 settembre 2010 15.02 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Connection speed Um... maybe the firewall? -sc From:

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
This is only one, tiny, aspect of implementing a security model (reading Windows Internals by Russinovich/Solomon is highly recommended). That said, Windows NT has had the same model since the first released version (v3.1 back in 1993) Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
True. but NT was not a user operating system. J John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix This is only one, tiny, aspect of implementing a security

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread De Williman, Shih
I believe WGM _can_ manage unbound machines, provided that you first import them into WGM (Matt can correct if this is misinfo since we modified AD schema leverage AD/WGM to manage users). Even then, that in itself, whether you do it in an strictly OD environment or Magic Triangle, is a pain

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread De Williman, Shih
Yes, and if you are the sole sysadmin that makes changes to WGM/policies are diligent about tracking your changes, super. In an enterprise environment there's no central reporting feature with WGM . One can utilize mcxquery to find out what policies are applied to the client but that wd have

Re: R: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread Don Kuhlman
Agreed - I think the easiest thing to do is bypass the firewall and see how things change from there. From: HELP_PC g...@enter.it To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 9:05:58 AM Subject: R: Connection

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan Link
Yes, it was NT Workstation and NT Server were separate products. I deployed NT Workstation 3.51 and NT Workstation 4.0 many times. Was it missing some stuff? USB support was the biggest around the NT 4.0 time frame. But it was a solid OS and had vastly superiour stability to Win3.1 compared to

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
Huh? What is a user operating system? Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 10:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix True... but NT was not a user operating system. :) From: Ken Schaefer

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
NT was never adopted as an end-user operating system, at least not by anyone I know. It was primarily used as a server O/S except for a few specialized situations. Granted, in my previous career, I did use an NT-based video editing workstation, but most people I know used Win9x and it's successors

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread James Rankin
We supported 375,000 NT4 workstations and 10,000 NT Servers - I loved mine. Except for no USB. On 8 September 2010 16:05, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: NT was never adopted as an end-user operating system, at least not by anyone I know. It was primarily used as a server O/S

Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone here using Google for their corporate email? I've got a Google rep trying to sell me on using their service instead of bringing email in-house. I don't see the benefit, myself. Sure they have 99.999% uptime, but other than that, what's the benefit? She says they can integrate with Active

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan Link
Also the US Military standardized on NT workstation back in the mid 90's, IIRC. I joined this list, mainly because I was using and deploying NT as a workstation back in '97. Just because it wasn't done by someone you know doesn't mean it wasn't done at all. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 AM, John

Re: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread RichardMcClary
A wee bit OT but related... We are a Notes shop. We are strongly considering going to a hosed -er- hosted Exchange service (once we find someone who can import our current Domino set-up and provide the proper guarantees). Lots of arguments in favor of the hosted service. Are you aware that

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
channeling Monty Python Five-nines my buttocks. /channeling Monty Python Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Hutchings
The first thing I'd do before even looking at the technical stuff is read their terms of service. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 September 2010 16:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Google email for corporate use Anyone here using Google for their

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
How aggressive do you have Postini configured? That can have a WORLD of impact. (I used to resell Postini, but I no longer do.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent:

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Ross
I am unsure if you can make it work with a modified AD schema alone. (I haven't dared try.) But yes, you join a Mac client to Open Directory just as you would join a Windows computer to a windows Domain. It can be an Anonymous Bind, where the mac is not added to the client list (and is only

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
Hmm. maybe worth considering getting our own spam/virus filtering appliance then. currently our email is filtered by our ISP's RedCondor and it does a good job of filtering. Very little junk gets through. Heck, it's at least as good as SpamCop, which I use for my personal email. J Any other

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Ziots, Edward
Even before that I would be working on a Security SLA for the contract with the provider accordingly. And be prepared to audit that provider a lot to ensure they are sticking to the SLA. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread James Kerr
I was under the impression that NT4 workstation was for users, business users and 9x was for home, and small peer to peer networks. The company I worked for at the time didn't have any 9x machines but maybe that was because they are an engineering firm. James - Original Message -

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Erik Goldoff
Make sure your storage appliance drive connection method is approved for your version of exchange. Used to be most NAS was not usable for exchange, it would have to be DASD or SAN ( FC or iSCSI ). Just mapping as a network attached drive is unsupported. ( I think NetApp had a MS widget that

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Mayo, Bill
I agree that NT was a user operating system. However, the real point is that, at least as of Windows XP, a whole lot of user programs just plain didn't work if you logged on as a regular user. Therefore, people were trained to run with higher permissions to be able to get anything done. I can't

what is the rss feed url here

2010-09-08 Thread Steph Balog
I would like to add it to the ipad feedler. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
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re: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Steph Balog
Read the very small print. Google owns everything on their server. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ken Schaefer
User vs Administrator privileges are only one small part of a security model. In fact, Windows has many individual security rights, so user versus administrator is a somewhat pointless comparison. How do you ACL files, ports, threads, memory? How do processes protect themselves from other

Re: what is the rss feed url here

2010-09-08 Thread James Winzenz
From Sunbelt's website: All newsletters are available through an RSS reader. However lists currently have RSS disabled as we await a software upgrade. http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Communities/ James -- From: Steph Balog

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Mayo, Bill
I don't disagree with anything you said. The OP said that not making the user run with elevated permissions has been a historical advantage of *nix over Windows, and you countered that Windows had the same model as of NT. I am simply saying that I don't believe that is an accurate comparison.

To be diverse...or not

2010-09-08 Thread David Lum
Scenario: Full time Systems Engineer by day, IT consultant by night (4 clients 5 servers ~100 workstations). Does it make sense to have any diversity in products (AV, patch management, etc) or is it better to leverage knowledge? I ask because I would think it makes more sense to stick with one

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
And we need to define what he means by userspace... as that infers that his statement means he believes admin-owned processes run in... kernel space? If so, that's an incorrect understanding. -sc From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010

RE: To be diverse...or not

2010-09-08 Thread Charlie Kaiser
You could go either way. I think that being able to provide diverse solutions is much better for the client; many clients will balk at using %vendor% and being able to provide them with an alternative is advantageous. At the same time, being able to efficiently install and configure a product

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Funny, it was my user OS since pre-beta. Are you speaking of the NT family, or strictly the versions of the same codebase named NT? -sc From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and

RE: Google email for corporate use

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Hartung
We're using Kerio Connect and there's no restrictions on where you store data. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _ From: John Aldrich

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
+1 And user rights assignments. And granularity for ACL's. The NT executive kernel supports a superset of the primitives needed by either the Win32 protected mode subsystem, or UNIX. This is why you can(could) run UNIX or Win32 processes atop the same underlying kernel. (And OS/2 as well,

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Don Ely
You date yourself?!?!? Interesting place to come out... On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: +1 And user rights assignments. And granularity for ACL’s. The NT executive kernel supports a superset of the primitives needed by either the Win32

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
I think you're trying to overcomplicate things. All I meant is that the end-user normally runs as a non-privileged user and so any application they run is going to run as a non-privileged user. Windows has had that ability since the NT days, but has it really been usable? IME, no. Most

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
I was wondering who pays for dinner myself... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Don Ely

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread John Aldrich
Strictly NT. Windows 2000 was much more user friendly but was, IMO, more of a server O/S, even W2K Workstation. John-AldrichPerception_2 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Don Ely
LUA has been around for ages. A lot of places had to find a way to work within the framework of LUA. I think the last time I worked somewhere that users had admin access to their PC's was 1999 or so... On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I think

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
C'mon... everybody does it. I just buy myself a nice dinner first. -sc From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix You date yourself?!?!? Interesting place to come out... On

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan Link
Your understanding is flawed. None of my users ran as administrators in the school I had on NT. The applications might've wanted to run as admin, but I was able to get around it in every case. It's the sysadmin's job, after all. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM, John Aldrich

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Don Ely
U... really?!?! Both NT4 and 2k were written off of the same code base... 2k3 and XP as well... On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:34 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Strictly NT. Windows 2000 was much more “user friendly” but was, IMO, more of a “server” O/S, even W2K

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven Peck
There were differences between the Workstation model and the Server model. Microsoft put them there. NT3.51/NT4/w2k all of these were viable and useful workstations (not servers). Steven On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: U... really?!?! Both NT4 and 2k

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Don Ely
Subtle differences, but I agree with you... On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: There were differences between the Workstation model and the Server model. Microsoft put them there. NT3.51/NT4/w2k all of these were viable and useful workstations (not servers).

[IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Tristan
http://uploads.cleargraphix.com/peer.png I don't know what version my customer is running of IIS or Server but, I think this is probably a general DNS issue. The page is suppose to pull in an iframe that has a search box in it. External of the network it works fine. However, internally on their

Re: [IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Eric Wittersheim
Looks like a problem with ISA. Can you bypass the proxy for that address? On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: http://uploads.cleargraphix.com/peer.png I don't know what version my customer is running of IIS or Server but, I think this is probably a general

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Shook
And I hear you're a really cheap date. Shook From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix +1 And user rights assignments. And granularity for ACL's. The NT executive kernel

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
You have NO idea. What I once did for a ketchup packet I won't mention here. -sc From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix And I hear you're a really cheap date.

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Shook
Naw. I ain't driving that far... Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix You would know. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Shook
I thought your thing was pudding like that old lady in the retirement village on Night Court. I'm now officially scared that that was the first thing that popped into my head. Shook From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
And I can proudly say I have _NO_ idea what you are talking about. Freak. -sc From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I thought your thing was pudding like that old lady

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Shook
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660573/quotes Shook From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix And I can proudly say I have _NO_ idea what you are talking about. Freak. -sc From:

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Wow: Mrs. Smith: [about her prostitution] Sometimes I do it for pudding. Andy Shook: Sometimes I do it *in* pudding. Mrs. Smith: Sometimes I do it for green stamps. And sometimes I do it just for kicks. Bull Shannon: [to Roz] Can you imagine degrading yourself for green stamps? Andy

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Ahhh. SH Green Stamps. Those were the days. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Wow: Mrs. Smith: [about her prostitution] Sometimes I do it for pudding. Andy Shook:

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Maglinger, Paul
And remember to be coy with yourself. And bring home flowers. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix C'mon... everybody does it. I just buy myself a nice dinner

Re: [IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Tristan
They can use something like proxify.com and get to the page with no errors if that is what you mean. Not sure how they have it setup but definitely and internal config issue I assume? thanks, t On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like a

Re: To be diverse...or not

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It depends where the diversity and specialty are going to be. Specializing in relational database platforms, CRM, ERP or enterprise messaging makes a lot of sense. Specializing in AV or patch management or office productivity suites is less useful. Specializing in OS platforms is a mixed bag --

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Then who was using it? Robots? I've been running NT since v3.5 (I played with a 3.1 installation for a while, but it was mainly on our servers). *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, John

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
***NT was never adopted as an end-user operating system, at least not by anyone I know* You need a larger circle of friends. *** I’m just happy that Microsoft finally got with the program and stopped letting users run as the local admin by default.* Your frame of reference needs recalibrating.

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yep same, MCSE in 4.0 MCSA 2000, nothing for 2k3, prolly nadda for Win2k8. But I have to say I am liking SQL 2005/SQL 2008, maybe enough to study for the MCITP in SQL 2005/2008 accordingly. Also quick question about IIS 7.0. I am reading the IIS 7 Implementation and Administration

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How does the way applications have been written, but developers who insist on developing code with full rights, prevent you from comparing the security models of *nix and Windows? A model is a model is a model, and the wrong permissions will break an app not prepared to deal with the wrong

Re: [IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Eric Wittersheim
Try setting that address in Tools, Internet Options, connections, LAN Settings, Advanced, Do not use proxy for these addresses. You can set that in a GPO if you like too. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: They can use something like proxify.com and get to the

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
And what, exactly, made Windows 2000 Workstation more of a server O/S? *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Strictly NT. Windows 2000 was

Re: [IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Tristan
Thanks for the help. Hopefully that should work. Thanks again, T On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: Try setting that address in Tools, Internet Options, connections, LAN Settings, Advanced, Do not use proxy for these addresses. You can set

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I'm hard to get with myself. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix And remember to be coy with yourself. And bring home flowers. From: Steven M. Caesare

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Maglinger, Paul
And never accept money from yourself. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I'm hard to get with myself. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Hanna
Awww I'm out of popcorn already... -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix If you accept/trust the advice on this list, why do you cling to

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Anything??? I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I can do quite a lot with MS Office, Open Office, Visio, IE, Google Chrome, Thunderbird, Adobe, and a number of other apps quite efficiently on 2000 or XP with no admin privvies... Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
+10 Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE Thumb-typed from my HTC Incredible (and yes, it really is) Droid. Please excuse brevity any misspellings. - Reply message - From: Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 3:05 pm Subject: Mac and Windows mix To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Connection speed

2010-09-08 Thread Lists - Level 5
I just went through this and turned out to be the MTU. Our Sonicwall MTU was 1500, our fiber provider was 9000, but we had to lower it to 1404 to get any consistency. From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: R:

0 Day Adobe Reader

2010-09-08 Thread Ziots, Edward
http://secunia.com/advisories/41340/ Heads up, more fun from Adobe Land! Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: what is the rss feed url here

2010-09-08 Thread pdw1914
I wasn't aware that there was one. I wish there was and I wish Sunbelt would set their forums up for RSS. Cisco finally got around to it and it's great. (Much better than getting 200+ emails per day just from their forums.) From: validemai...@gmail.com To:

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I leave it on the nightstand where I'll find it later. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix And never accept money from yourself. From: Steven M. Caesare

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread John Cook
Do you ever feel short changed? From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I leave it on the nightstand where I'll find it later. -sc From: Maglinger, Paul

RE: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andy Shook
Keep saving, you'll get to 40 quarters eventually. Shook From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I leave it on the nightstand where I'll find it later. -sc From: Maglinger,

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Anders Blomgren
You either extend the schema with the needed attributes or bind (in addition to AD) to an OpenDirectory server (an OSX Server running Open Directory). If said OpenDirectory server is also bound to AD then you can create objects on it that just augment an existing AD objects for mac (Management

Re: [IIS] - Network blocking access to iframes...

2010-09-08 Thread Tristan
Just to note anyone having the same issue I was. the iframe was referencing domain.com instead of www.domain.com and that fixed the problem. Thanks, T On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help. Hopefully that should work. Thanks again, T

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Or, without editing the plist you can walk up to any Macs with password protected screensaver on, enter the admin pswd boom there's the user's desktop at your disposal. I wish Windows had that option. Windows 7 has

google instant

2010-09-08 Thread Lists - Level 5
Not sure anyone mentioned this or not.. Looks pretty neat, they have some you tube videos on it. http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launch http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_campaign=launchutm_medium=vanutm_sourc e=instant utm_medium=vanutm_source=instant I don't know if it

Re: Mac and Windows mix

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
***The fact that it was darn difficult to do much of anything without admin privileges?** * You know, considering that this is a technical list, I generally expect precise, technical answers to specific questions. Things were hard... fails to approach the level of expected precision. Many people

Re: Non-Repudiation (was: Mac and Windows mix)

2010-09-08 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Nope, I really wouldn't even want this as an option. I hear what you're saying, but that feature would be way too easy to abuse. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Ben Scott

RE: Non-Repudiation (was: Mac and Windows mix)

2010-09-08 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Agreed. While off the cuff it sounds like a great idea, I also see WAY too much opportunity for abuse. Many of us already don't have time to audit logs the way we should as it is, and I don't see that getting any better any time soon. Just because it is auditable, does not mean that anyone is

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