FYI if you install any Linux servers you will see exactly the same thing. Nothing running until you install it. As for your issue with connectivity have you double checked to make sure the 2008 firewall is DISABLED? Even with it disabled look at your Vista client and verify that it will allow you to connect to less secure clients i.e. your 2000 boxes. There is a setting in Vista that will prevent you connecting to less secure clients and will also only let you connect to less secure clients. Have you verified that under Remote access, you will find this on the System Window under Advanced Settings, you have the machine set to allow remote access and told it who may access the server via RDP? XP on requres you to manually, or by GPO, set up who is allowed to RDP to any machine and if Remote Access is even allowed. Sorry if some of this has already been looked at but since you appear to be running a 2000 domain and no mention was made if you could RDP into a 2003 or XP system. Microsoft has been tightening up the security with each OS change. More is getting turned off and more needs to be done to do things we do all the time.
On the Print server have you verified that you have IIS 7 installed and I mean EVERYTHING under IIS 7? I believe you will need the IIS 6 stuff as well. I can't remember if it was just the SMTP or both the print server and SMTP that required some of the IIS 6 stuff. At the moment I don't trust my memory and I am way too coffee deprived to want to go into my notes. Ken Schaefer has a very good book on IIS7 if my memory is still useful at this point, but I do know he the the man to ask for IIS information on this list anyway. Jon On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Chris Newby-Robson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not so far even contemplated creating and installing an XP virtual > machine on my Vista desktop. > > I am taking the view that my inability to log on using RDP, is associated > with the inability to connect to any of the printers I published on the > Windows 2008 server. > > I am also taking both of these events as indicative of my having missed > some vital part of the dis-arming of all the overbearing security features > on Win08K. > > I have to say that I think it is ridiculous to ship a server operating > system so locked down that it will not perform any useful function "out of > the box" > > Has anyone any thoughts on what I might have forgotten to do in order to > make the server perform usefully in a Windows 2K domain? > > Chris > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
