RE: [NTSysADM] OT - tips on job change etiquette

2013-06-20 Thread Ken Schaefer
Interesting good to know. In Australia, you deal with the end company (i.e. you will interview with the recruiter, but then you'll interview with the company direct). The recruiter isn't involved once your hired. Gives you plenty of opportunity to ask whatever you need to the client direct.

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
And that it supports AD for permissions. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:56 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server So it seems like more folks ar3 leaning to the

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Richard McClary
They may call it CIFS rather than NTSF -- richard From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:18 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server Do they have NTFS permissions

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Guyer, Don
CIFS is the share from the storage (NAS/SAN) perspective. Once the server is connected to the CIFS share, you then apply NTFS perms to it, just like you would any folder/share. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread John Cook
My experience as well John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Link
Ding, ding... On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Unless it’s a Buffalo Terrastation…. L (or at least the version I have which is ~4 yrs old). ** ** *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Guyer,

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I think what he is referring to in single point of failure is the hardware. So for example if your ESXi host goes down, your Citrix environment is down. Same thing for your Hyper-V host running exchange. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Don Kuhlman
Same here on the Buffalo... blah :(Don KFrom: Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com To: "ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com" ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server Ding, ding...On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, David Lum

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread J- P
That was the basis of the original question, NAS or Server NAS must haves, non-negotiable; Redundant Power 2 NICS and or a slot to put a spare NIC AD Support RAID X number of supported connections MINIMUM 4 bays, prefer 8 - Now in retrospect your typical server already has everything

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Webster
I tried a QNAP NAS in my lab and even after getting ASB involved, we never could get the thing working the way it was advertised to work. I replaced the QNAP with a Synology and have been extremely pleased with the unit. ASB helped me get all the switch config stuff working. Write-up here:

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread J- P
That's really all the requirements, The reason I personally like the server idea is because of the fact that I can have a guest OS up an running almost immediately.y Lets say my SQL , or Terminal server suffers hardware failure (motherboard as someone pointed out) sure dell will overnight me

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Woody Blackman
+1 With a small environment and limited cash, I would want to maximize resources and options. The features and flexibility of Storage Server 2012 makes a pretty strong argument. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj643303.aspx

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Hoffman
We were told that 2012 R2 could act as an AD host - and we were told by the same storage vendor that they expected to start shipping units in 3rd quarter this year. For speed you will get the latest SMB speeds with the 2012 server which will help performance - some nas boxes seem to use

Re: [NTSysADM] OT - tips on job change etiquette

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Link
Just sucks when potential employers haven't done due diligence and have signed an onerous contract that prevents this kind of dialogue... On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: This is sometimes true in the US as well. It really just depends on the

Re: [NTSysADM] OT - tips on job change etiquette

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Link
i.e. sometimes (oftentimes?) it isn't possible to have that direct dialogue. On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Just sucks when potential employers haven't done due diligence and have signed an onerous contract that prevents this kind of dialogue...

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I still have one. The domain integration is annoying enough that I finally abandoned it. As for my much newer Synology, I cannot sing its praises enough... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've used Synology support so far, and they got back to me same day both times. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jimmy Tran

RE: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread J- P
Yes that is exactly why I was saying to get a new server, so that I will have to 2 hosts so that in the event of a physical failure i can jump to the other. Now can someone suggest or recommend good iSCSI device? Jean-Paul Natola From: asbz...@gmail.com

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Kadoo
Just a suggestion, I have been reading great things about Windows Server 2012 and using it as a ISCSI host. You get can an inexpensive server put lots of storage in it and use it as a NAS/SAN on your network. I am using it in a lab environment and it works great. Just a thought. On Thu, Jun

[NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Bill Songstad
I've recently moved from a small (50 node) network to a 3500 node network. In my last gig, I never had a single machine lose its trust relationship and have to be rejoined to the domain in 14 years. In my new gig I get 2-3 of these a month. Is that normal? Anybody with a large domain never

Re: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I've seen this sort of thing in larger networks, but more like 1 or 2 a quarter, at worst. 2-3 a month seems excessive, but some more details would be helpful... Windows versions, AD versions/levels, network configuration, etc *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker*

RE: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Did somebody create images without properly sysprep'ing them. I am betting yes. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Bill Songstad Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:27 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships

RE: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Guyer, Don
Saw it a lot more in NT4/2000 days than in more recent times. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 |

Re: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Erik Goldoff
duplicate machine names, duplicate SIDs, DNS db problems, AD db problems ? On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently moved from a small (50 node) network to a 3500 node network. In my last gig, I never had a single machine lose its trust

Re: [NTSysADM] NAS or Server

2013-06-20 Thread Kurt Buff
Paranoia, from watching very, very carefully... Kurt On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: No. Centralized storage is incredibly seductive. It's very easy to start putting everything on it, and then all your eggs are in one basket. What happens to

Re: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Bill Songstad
Most of the common culprits are in place unfortunately. DNS problems, DHCP issues, improper syspreps, replication failures a veritable smorgasboard of problem causers. The domain is W2K3 the clients are a mix of WXP and up including windows server 2008r2. There are 15 DCs across various sites

RE: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Dunno, but that is how it happened here. Roughly the same number of machines as you, just under 3K...tech's tried to do it the old cheater XP way. They were imaged over the summer, we had 3 or 4 a month over the course of the next year. Like you we never saw a bunch all at once. Before the

RE: [NTSysADM] Trust relationships failing

2013-06-20 Thread Kennedy, Jim
replication failures Of AD? I would fix that first before I fix the sysprep issue. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Bill Songstad Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:12 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Trust