Re: Workstation Naming Standards

2001-09-27 Thread Ernest . Dinda
The same way you are thinking about with one exception. Instead of the user name we use the asset tag. Users come and go, PCs get reassigned, etc., but the asset tag is unlikely to change until the asset is retired. I would go with "cityname-dept-asset tag". Thanks

Re: Win2000 IP Change by Non-Administrators

2001-09-12 Thread Ernest . Dinda
The first thing you might try is the registry keys that contain the IP information. Try granting various ACLs to those, maybe start with FC and see if it works, then tighten it until it does the absolute minimum required. Thanks

RE: W2K Print Drivers on NT4

2001-09-04 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Here is a basic process that will work, it is what we use for this situation. It specifies HP since the majority of our printers are HP, but the process is the same for all other brands too. ** Users with W2K Professional workstations can have trouble mapping to p

RE: script for Office 2000 w/Terminal services

2001-09-04 Thread Ernest . Dinda
What you are looking for is the terminal server translate file, I beleive it is called termsrvr.mst. Thanks Kent Spencer

RE: Group Question

2001-08-30 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Here is a quick little vbscript that will accomplish that. We used it to remove a certain group and add a different group to the local administrators group on 100+ servers. Edit it and test to meet your needs. It reads a text file with the server names in it called serverlist.txt, which you can

RE: Active Directories & Domains - Trusts

2001-08-30 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Native mode AD domains can communicate with NT4 domains and you can setup one-way and two-way trusts. However we installed the DCs in "pre-Windows 2000 permissions" because of the legacy clients and NT4 domains and servers. I can admin my legacy NT4 domain logged in with a W2K account and vice-ve

RE: Active Directories & Domains - Trusts

2001-08-30 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Native mode AD domains can communicate with NT4 domains and you can setup one-way and two-way trusts. However we installed the DCs in "pre-Windows 2000 permissions" because of the legacy clients and NT4 domains and servers. I can admin my legacy NT4 domain logged in with a W2K account and vice-ve

Re: WINS server querying other WINS server

2001-08-28 Thread Ernest . Dinda
You would need to make it a replication partner. Even if it could pass the query the holes you would have to open in the firewall make no sense. I guess I would wonder why a DMZ web server even needs access to WINS period, I would think you would only need DNS. If you need a netbios query for som

Re: SmartStart Question

2001-08-28 Thread Ernest . Dinda
We do the quick config instead of following the GUI in smartstart. Then we load the server O/S wiht our unattended builds. You can access the quick config by pressing F10 once the GUI just starts, ie that red screen with the van , etc. appears. Then you can choose the language and then you get a

Re: Printing between Trusting Domains (NT4)

2001-08-28 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Sounds like a netbios name resolution issue. At a command prompt when you type net view \\pcname\print-sharename what happens. You mention a HOSTS file and the German PC IP being in there. Do you use WINS and if yes is the PC registered there and are both clients at each end properly setup as WIN

Re: NTW system rights

2001-08-24 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Use the resource kit utility called ntrights. Here is the syntax for this util: NTRights.Exe Grants/Revokes NT-Rights to a user/group usage: -u xxx User/Group -m \\xxx machine to perform the operation on (default local machine) -e x Add x to the event log -r xxx r

Re: NetBIOS name resolves to domain name

2001-08-24 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Niki: The ping difference means that DNS (or the hosts file) is resolving the one server and WINS (lmhosts file) the other. For example, I have 2 servers (server01 and server02). I have a DNS namespace of div1.company.com. I have both valid WINS server(s) and DNS server(s). The 1st server, serve

RE: Upgrading from NT Domain to Win2K Domain

2001-08-22 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Clayton put it very well, there is no wrong or right way. There are opportunities and trade-offs either way. We did not upgrade our existing NT4 mess (it was not an architecture, it was a mess, almost 400 separate domains most of them account) and choose to do a in-place migration. This allows u

RE: Upgrading from NT Domain to Win2K Domain

2001-08-22 Thread Ernest . Dinda
We choose to make ours slightly different internally. Using your example our external in widgets.com and our internal root is internal.widgets.com. From that root placeholder we then built our domestic and international domains where the users and resources are. So our domestic internal domain is

Re: Browser/WINS issues

2001-08-20 Thread Ernest . Dinda
MS does not recommend multihoing the master browser per various technet articles. I found an article that gave a workaround for NT4. Later I found an article that stated the PDC and master browser cannot be multihomed. Go figure. Anyway, I found a number of Q articles that might help you so here

Re: Q-login script & service packs

2001-08-15 Thread Ernest . Dinda
Yes you can use any one of several different methods to read the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion -- you are looking for the reg_sz valuse called CSDVersion, for SP2 it says Service Pack 2 on a W2K box for example. You could do this from a logon script if

Re: WIN2K - HP4550DN PRINTER

2001-08-14 Thread Ernest . Dinda
I would not install any 3rd party print server software. I would use the Standard TCP/IP Ports and setup all my printers that way. Instead of using an IP address, I would recommend registering the printer's hostname in DNS and using that hostname in the port. That way if you have to change the IP