Click on the top left part of the cmd shell window, select properties, click on the colors tab, select the colors you want to use for screen text and screen background. When you click ok, specify to save for all windows with that name.
joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC May I ask, how do you set the color? Thanks, > > From: David Cliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/02/25 Fri AM 11:32:40 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC > > That's funny...I do the *exact* same thing with my command shell > windows > :-) > > -DaveC > Reuters Infrastructure > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC > > Try this > > runas /netonly /user:domain\user cmd > Then enter password > > At the command prompt that is opened type dsa.msc > > > FYI. This is how I do all of my admin work. I fire up various command > prompts in the various security contexts I need and color code them all. > The more power the specific ID has the brighter more obnoxious the > color of the window. I want there to be no clue when I am typing a > command, what security context it is running under. > > > Note that the DNS has to be right for this to work. If the machine > that isn't trusted can't resolve the AD domain, you aren't going to be > able to use MMC. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, > Justin A. > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:55 AM > To: Jorge de Almeida Pinto; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC > > When I ran this runas command we get an error called MMC unable to open. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorge de Almeida Pinto > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:06 PM > To: Salandra, Justin A.; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; > '[email protected] ' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC > > Hi, > > You're connecting to share with user account from the domain in > location 2, BUT you're logged with the user account from the domain in > location 1 > (NT4) > and thus the MMC is started in the context of the NT4 user account > > I don't think RUNAS will work as you don't have a trust between the > domains. > Try RUNAS /NETONLY /USER:<DOMAIN>\<USER> "MMC.EXE DSA.MSC" > DSA.MSC is the "Active Directory Users and Computers MMC" replace this > with the MMC of your choice > > Regards, > Jorge > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Sent: 2/24/2005 10:43 PM > Subject: [ActiveDir] Custom MMC > > Environment > > Windows NT 4 Domain Location 1 > Windows 2000 Native Domain/Forest Location 2 No Trust relationship > Custom MMC Resides on share on server in location 2 User has account > in Location 2 domain User logged into Computer in Location 1 Users > Computer is a member of Location 1 > > I have a user who is in a Windows NT 4 domain, running Windows 2000 > Professional that I want to grant access for their Location 2 user > account to reset passwords on their specific organizational unit. I > setup a Custom MMC and saved it on a server share. The user has > accessed the server share and when prompted to provide login > credentials entered in his user account from Location 2. Double > clicks on the MMC console and gets the following error > > Naming Information Cannot Be Located: > The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted. > > When I login as the user form Location 2 on a computer form location 2 > the MMC console works. > > DNS is working perfectly, he is using my DNS Server to do all > resolutions. > > What could be the problem? > > Justin A. 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