Heh. See previous note. Not a good topic from my viewpoint because a ton of questions could easily be thrown at me that I have no clue how to respond to. I am definitely not an expert on network tracing, it is something I highly recommend people to do though. It can quickly cut to the chase and stop the troubleshooting by "guessing and changing things" mechanism which is too rampant in the industry.
The fun thing with what I know is I don't know the things I know that others don't know. I tend to think everyone knows what I know. I don't think otherwise until I see someone ask or say something that proves otherwise. Basically I know what I know but I don't know what others don't know and don't want to bore folks by telling them what they already know, or worse yet, tell them something they know not to be true. :o) Those who know me in person or through the list or newsgroups or wherever know I can talk or type forever on many many topics and actually enjoy doing so. When I was working on the E2K3 chapter for the K3 Cookbook I just went and went on. I wa sprovided with an initial list of some recipes that were wanted. That easy flowing happens when I have a seed to work from. Generally a question of how does something work or how do you do something which gets me started. At work it used to be someone telling me to do something and to me they obviously didn't know what they were asking for or they never would have asked and that gets me going to writing a nice novel on say the topic of why Domain Local Groups can be a very useful thing in a large environment. Overall I have always done better with informal discussions. I tend to get toasted in a formal interview but as things settle down and it gets more informal and turns into a chat I usually really start cooking. Back in 1996 I interviewed with the network services group of Ford Motor Company. The position was for a Netware admin. At that point I had never even seen Netware in real life, just heard of them. I also wasn't familiar with TCP/IP except that I knew it was used by my PC when I occasionally would web browse for programming info. I immediately blew the interview in the first 5 minutes. However the guys sat and chatted with me for another 2 hours and we talked about the "old days" of working on DEC PDP-11's with RSTS/E and MUXes and RS232 connections, etc. At the end of the interview I was told I was second out of the 10 people interviewed. They had one guy who had a ton of Netware experience who interviewed and if he didn't accept the position, it was mine. Fortunately the guy accepted or else my career path would have been very different. The next position I got was strictly on the basis of informal chatting and concepts because I had no clue technically how to support their environment. In fact, at the end of the interview they asked me what position I wanted. My response was that I didn't understand what any of them were about but they had spoken to me for a couple of hours (panel interview with 7 people) and they knew better than I what I would fit into. Within six months I was redesigning their network infrastructure systems stuff. The best times I have had at teaching anything have been at a former job where we took three or fours hours in a day, usually Wednesday and sit in a room with whiteboards on the walls. We would just start talking about things that happened that week or questions that came up in regards to issues we tackled or emails I had sent where I had touched on something that someone wasn't familiar with. These talks could turn to politics of the company or the country or the world or traveling in space or into a talk on how ACLs are layed out and what the different pieces mean or why you can't wildcard search a DN or whatever else. These initially started when trying to prep my manager for meetings he was going to. He had quickly learned he didn't want me at the meetings unless he wanted people jumping on tables because I either get warm or I would get someone else warm. That changed when my manager changed and I got a UNIX guy as a manager. He would come to see me every Wednesday with a stack of dilbert cartoons with Windows questions jotted down on the back that we would tear through through the course of several hours. It would be the hows, whys, what to respond withs, etc. I mostly pushed the why's so it set up a framework for understanding the reasoning behind responses. My manager liked it so much it became an entire team event where everyone would come with questions, usually for me but everything was always up for discussion because there was rarely only one answer and sometimes it took debate to settle on the best answer. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance Joe is just being .... well .... Joe. I don't think it's so much because he can't "think" of what to present as it is deciding on which of the numerous things he CAN present he should present. Something tells me, though, that if you can get Dean over to DEC (and make sure he brings his laptop), Joe will lose all his resistance. Dean with a Laptop full of hidden Windows gems is irresistible. Sincerely, D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gil Kirkpatrick Sent: Wed 2/9/2005 9:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance Sounds like a great DEC topic to me. And joe says he can't think of anything to present ....;) -gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carerros, Charles Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:31 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance I would like to be on this list as well. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Perdue David J Contr InDyne/Enterprise IT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance Sorry to not add anything of import to your thread, Jeff; but I'd love to be on the list for the "Capturing and Interpreting Network Traffic 101". Dave //SIGNED// ------------------------------------------------ David J. Perdue Network Security Engineer, InDyne Inc Comm: (805) 606-4597 DSN: 276-4597 ------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 22:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance Without pointing fingers, or mentioning "short" names, here's my stance on sniffing traffic for diagnosis. It is a GREAT concept IF you know what you are looking for. Merely firing up Netmon/Ethereal and such will not be productive without the necessary capabilities to discern and interpret the traffic. I know, because I was a victim. Took me a 3-hour call and escalations to MS before I could resolve a whacky (OK, unique) problem where Exchange insisted on doing NetBIOS name calls when I expected it to do FQDN during a migration project. RASDIAG saved my life, thanks to the MS dude. So, is there any interest in putting together something along the line of "Capturing and Interpreting Network Traffic 101"? I volunteer to be an active participant in the project. I think this will help many of our audience on this list and beyond. Sincerely, D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Kingslan Sent: Tue 2/8/2005 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance I'd load NetMon or Ethereal on both machines and capture the traffic. Filter on the names / IPs of the two machines involved, just to reduce the noise to just the important bits. I suspect this will most likely uncover the problem much quicker than anything else you could likely do. -rtk ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cothern Jeff D. Team EITC Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Remote Assistance Windows XP SP2 machines I have followed the guidance in kb301527 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301527> The windows Firewall is turned off completely. Both machines are in the same domain. A Domain admin on one XP machine is trying to offer assistance to another XP machine. I put the machine name in and hit connect and it errors out saying connection failed. Cannot find any information in the event log. I am able to connect to \\machinename\C$ <file:///\\machinename\C$> so definitely have admin rights. Anyone have any other ideas not put into the above KB article? 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