I don't like you very much right now, James! ;-) *sigh* Oh, well... I guess it could be worse. I could be just getting ready to *start* my work day. :D
From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird Windows firewall issue Worth a thought....I'll have a think about how to sort it out once and for all when I arrive tomorrow, as in this part of the world, it's just about quitting time :-) On 5 October 2010 15:11, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: You could always change the local login/password using Pete Nordahl's Boot Disk. It won't change Domain username/password, but it'll work on all but domain controllers. Here's a link to that -- http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird Windows firewall issue Well disabling IPv6 and then, strangely, re-enabling it allowed the server to start responding to pings....however, I now can't log on to it because of the old "trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed" error. As luck would have it, just when I thought I was getting somewhere, it turns out no-one has any idea what the local username and password would be for this system...so it looks like I'm going to have to nuke it from orbit. Thanks for the help! On 5 October 2010 13:35, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: IPv6 is installed and active....will give it a go... On 5 October 2010 13:09, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: wondering, do you have both TCP/IP v4 and TCP/IP v6 installed and activated on that interface ? If so, try disabling v6 and see if you get any change. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:30 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: I found this article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;980873) but it appears the issue is weirder than I thought. Even when the firewall is disabled, the problem machine can access other machines and the internet fine - but nothing can connect in the other direction. Every method of connection fails with "network path not found" - and even more bizarrely, when you open "Network" from the problem machine's Start Menu, it declares "you are not connected to a network". Despite the fact it is enumerating machines by the boatload in the window underneath. This looks a bit nasty - I think I will just flatten it. It's only a test server, and apparently it was upgraded a few different times in the past, so there may be a history of neglect and/or weirdness just waiting to bite me on the backside here. On 5 October 2010 12:13, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: Here's a strange one - I've got a Windows 2008 R2 server that for some reason has suddenly decided it is connected to a public, rather than a domain network. Despite the fact that the IP address hasn't changed (it's statically assigned) and I am logged on with domain credentials - it is showing as "Connected" to a public network and not surprisingly, the windows firewall is blocking just about everything, including ICA and RDP traffic, which is proving to be rather annoying. I thought it was something to do with the "Network Location Awareness" service, but that is running fine. Does anyone know how the server determines what sort of network it is connected to, and how I could maybe convince it of the error of its ways? TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
