BTW, I have 5 2008 servers running at the moment with 2003 servers and all are relatively happy. As for having to turn on things. I would much prefer to have the pain of installing stuff that take the chance someone forgot to un-install something and no matter how good a job is done removing stuff once it is installed I always figured it was still installed. I would hate coming in one day and finding a server was hacked because someone had forgotten to un-install something. It is a lot easier to install stuff than fix a hacked system. It is also less painful.
Jon On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/> ~
