The same way you are thinking about with one exception. Instead of the user
name we use the asset tag. Users come and go, PCs get reassigned, etc., but
the asset tag is unlikely to change until the asset is retired. I would go
with cityname-dept-asset tag.
Thanks
The first thing you might try is the registry keys that contain the IP
information. Try granting various ACLs to those, maybe start with FC and see
if it works, then tighten it until it does the absolute minimum required.
Thanks
Here is a basic process that will work, it is what we use for this situation.
It specifies HP since the majority of our printers are HP, but the process is
the same for all other brands too.
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Users with W2K Professional workstations can have trouble mapping to
Here is a quick little vbscript that will accomplish that. We used it to
remove a certain group and add a different group to the local administrators
group on 100+ servers. Edit it and test to meet your needs. It reads a text
file with the server names in it called serverlist.txt, which you can
Sounds like a netbios name resolution issue. At a command prompt when you type
net view \\pcname\print-sharename what happens. You mention a HOSTS file and
the German PC IP being in there. Do you use WINS and if yes is the PC
registered there and are both clients at each end properly setup as
You would need to make it a replication partner. Even if it could pass the
query the holes you would have to open in the firewall make no sense. I guess
I would wonder why a DMZ web server even needs access to WINS period, I would
think you would only need DNS. If you need a netbios query for
Use the resource kit utility called ntrights. Here is the syntax for this
util:
NTRights.Exe
Grants/Revokes NT-Rights to a user/group
usage: -u xxx User/Group
-m \\xxx machine to perform the operation on (default local machine)
-e x Add x to the event log
-r xxx
We choose to make ours slightly different internally. Using your example our
external in widgets.com and our internal root is internal.widgets.com. From
that root placeholder we then built our domestic and international domains
where the users and resources are. So our domestic internal domain
MS does not recommend multihoing the master browser per various technet
articles. I found an article that gave a workaround for NT4. Later I found an
article that stated the PDC and master browser cannot be multihomed. Go
figure. Anyway, I found a number of Q articles that might help you so here
Yes you can use any one of several different methods to read the following
registry key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion -- you are looking for the
reg_sz valuse called CSDVersion, for SP2 it says Service Pack 2 on a W2K box
for example. You could do this from a logon script
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