Re: Unable to ping -- why?

2012-04-26 Thread Bill Monicher
* * **www.guardianlife.com* http://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Bill Monicher bmacd5...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:04-26-12 04:15 PM Subject:Unable to ping -- why? -- I have a single laptop

Implications of breaking a trust to a non-existent NT4 domain

2011-11-08 Thread Bill Monicher
Our AD functional level is W2000Native. The DCs for the external trust are not available at the moment, and can't be without some work. No computer accounts or user accounts from NT4 domain exist. This is not a transitive trust, of course, but in Domains and Trusts, it shows that this domain

Re: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-05 Thread Bill Monicher
To make a long story short, we will now be forced to use sysprep, which is what Microsoft has wanted all along, which effectively renders any imaging tool useless. The standard stuff about imaging part way through is only a partial solution, and while it may apply to physical boxes, it will mean

Deny Delete NTFS security setting not working.

2009-11-05 Thread Bill Monicher
I have a file I want to protect. So I set permissions using Explorer's GUI as follows: C:\testfolder\testfile1 Everyone:(DENY)(special access:) DELETE BUILTIN\Administrators:F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F

NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer name on network.

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Monicher
I get eventID 4319 from NetBT logged occasionally on a production server. The next is: A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP address of the machine that sent the message is in the data. Use nbtstat -n in a command window to see which name is in the Conflict state. The IP

A better dumpel?

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Monicher
I have always used the dumpel tool from the reskit to dump event logs for external examination. However dumpel does not dump the data of a record when it exists. I have a problem where a crucial piece of information is contained in the data (see NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer

Re: NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer name on network.

2009-10-27 Thread Bill Monicher
-homed on the same subnet? Do you need name resolution on both ips? Just a coupla quick thoughts... On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Bill Monicher bmacd5...@gmail.com wrote: I get eventID 4319 from NetBT logged occasionally on a production server. The next is: A duplicate name has been

Searches being hijacked to show results from search.pro

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Monicher
Has anyone seen this before? When I do a search using Google or Yahoo, I'm presented with the usual list of links matching the search terms. When I click on one, I am very briefly presented with a page with a beige rectangle in the centre and an arrow. The legends says Skip this page and Your

Strange patch released yesterday

2009-06-24 Thread Bill Monicher
I checked my WSUS server this morning, and found a new patch had been received since yesterday, yet I had no bulletin about it. It is marked critical. Description: The update to .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 for the .NET Framework Assistant 1.0 for Firefox addresses several compatibility

Re: Mapping drive to a computer outside of its domain

2009-05-17 Thread Bill Monicher
...@adopenstatic.com wrote: net helpmsg 1326 = Logon Failure: unknown username or password Are you sure that laptop\username actually exists? Or do you have a domain account? Is the laptop local account permitted the correct logon types etc. Cheers Ken From: Bill

Mapping drive to a computer outside of its domain

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Monicher
G'day all, We have a workgroup that we keep isolated from our domain. If I connect my laptop to that network, I can access any of the machines' local drives using: net use \\machinename /user:machinename\username If the username in the above matches my domain user name (and it does), and If the

Re: Haw-haw: New Mac OS X email worm discovered

2009-05-14 Thread Bill Monicher
Gavin, Grab a dictionary. In the olden days, they were books that listed words. Lots of 'em -- along with their plurals etc. Nowadays, try http://www.onelook.com/?w=virusls=a Although your meaning was clear, Ben is correct. His (and my) pedantry aside, using cutesy variations for common words

Anybody else having patch deployment issues?

2009-04-15 Thread Bill Monicher
I'm deploying today's crop of MS patches to my first wave test set, and I've had 3 of 'em hang during installation so for. Might be caused by (or the cause of?) my update server having network problems. Lots of other things happening on machines being patched, such as 20-30 second periods of

Re: Scripting: How to tell if login was cached or domain?

2009-02-09 Thread Bill Monicher
If its cached the LogonServer environment variable is the local machine name. If logged on via a DC, the LogonServer environment variable is the server name. --BM On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Stephen Wimberly riverside...@gmail.com wrote: I have a script that I want to run, but only when the

Re: Preventing user from changing login name

2009-02-09 Thread Bill Monicher
Yeah, except this behaviour is typical of CEOs and the like. eg: CEO: I'm the boss of bosses and you cannot refuse me, so give my your password Minion: I'm not supposed to. CEO: I hate to repeat myself, so just add or you're fired to my previous statement. Minion: Well, I suppose its OK if

Re: Weird DNS issue which I think is really a DHCP issue

2009-02-09 Thread Bill Monicher
Does this apply in your situation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787034.aspx it fixed my similar problem --BM On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sauvigne, Craig M sauvig...@winthrop.edu wrote: Here is an update to my DNS issue. I was focusing on one of our two domains since that is

Access share on W2K server from W95 box

2009-01-20 Thread Bill Monicher
Hi, To anticipate the objection, yes it must be W95. The reason is complex, but the machine is doing machine control work using Arcnet. There are no Arcnet drivers for later OSs. Currently, the machine is in a workgroup that has the same name as an NT 4 domain. They are the last two machines

Re: Access share on W2K server from W95 box

2009-01-20 Thread Bill Monicher
there. But, it's really time to tell the owners of the business to move on - something in the hardware chain is going to die soon, and then they'll really be stuck. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Bill Monicher bmacd5...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, To anticipate the objection, yes it must be W95

Re: OT: You may well have seen this before, but it gets truer by the day

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Monicher
Anyone reading this is doing so only because they survived -- or lived in a more sensible era. If anyone reading this DID grow up in that era, they know of kids who died in bicycle accidents, just as one example. Reye's syndrome -- a side effect of aspirin in children -- is rare, but knowing that

NTBackup Restore question

2008-12-30 Thread Bill Monicher
I'm planning to do a test install of some software on a W2K3 R2 server If I use NTBackup to back up the system drive, then restore it when I'm done, will I be left with orphaned files? --BM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: File share

2008-12-23 Thread Bill Monicher
I don't know what VPN system you are using, or have looked at, but we are using a Cisco VPN. Only domain members can connect using it. If you try to install the client on your home PC, then is tries to authenticate the computer agains the domain, which fails. The national network people set up

Re: polices

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Monicher
There was a means of setting policies in NT 4 Problem with that is that once set, they stay set, so there may be artifacts lurking. command line tool gpresult is good because you can script it. If you really wanted to be thorough, you could also write a script that dumped the relevant registry

Print to html?

2008-12-09 Thread Bill Monicher
I have some documents that I would like to convert to html. They are currently in Excel, but if I export them as html, the headers and footers disappear -- among other changes. Also, rather then appear as a single scrollable document, there is an imitation of the worksheet tabs at the bottom. All

Re: Print to html?

2008-12-09 Thread Bill Monicher
know about as much of these things as I. Have you actually used this? Is it worth the 100 or so bucks? Thanks, --BM On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Dec 2008 at 10:18, Bill Monicher wrote: I have some documents that I would like to convert

Re: Run a batch file to send emails

2008-12-01 Thread Bill Monicher
Use blat Blat is a command line utility that we use a lot for sending alerts from processes governed by vbscripts. I've been using it for over 10 years now. Delightful. Open source too -- ie free. If you need mapi I can't help you. In our environment, the only wrinkle with blat is that if I

My administrator account won't administer

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Monicher
I have 3 accounts in our active directory (W2K) domain. Acct1 is a domain admin Acct2 is a local admin on all machines in our OU, and has rights to modify AD on our OU Acct3 has no special admin rights or privileges. Acct2 no longer can administer machines. A GPO forbids non-admins access to such

Re: Errors I have never seen before!!

2008-11-13 Thread Bill Monicher
I just went through this myelf. Have you changed or altered DHCP server lately? In our case, this went on for perhaps years with no one noticing, since the workstations all function properly. You just can't see them using DNS. See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787034.aspx It is