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Since my server has bitten the Big One (as chronicled in my Lounge post) tonight, due to an unrecoverable error starting the Directory Service, it's looking as if I'm in for yet another complete reinstallation of Win2K Server. Before I start I'd like to clarify a few things about DNS, since it's so central to Active Directory, and since mine has never worked right.
Years ago I registered a domain name, and I've always hosted it on my own PC for development use. I've always assumed (incorrectly, I now believe) that this domain name must also match my Windows domain name when setting up a server. A conflict happens when I install Win2K, as it insists upon creating a root SOA DNS record for the domain, even though that root is maintained by my Internet domain registrar.
The root question (sorry about the pun) is: Does my home network domain name have to be the same as my registered Internet domain name? Can I simply call my home network MyPlace - with no extension - and build my DNS tree from there? It seems to me that this would allow me to set up my DNS to ignore the world and listen for requests only on my internal interface, while at the same time allow me to host my own Internet site on IIS using my registrar as the SOA DNS server.
If this is a trivial question, I apologize, but having only Microsoft docs to guide me, it's nearly impossible to figure out what they mean when they say 'domain' in any particular context. Any guidance would be a great help...
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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I just set my AD DNS to newman.local That behavior seems to be default on 2k3 Server, but it keeps your external and local queries sperate.
Matt Newman
If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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That's a good sign! If I have to resort to rebuilding this thing again, I'll give it an unregistered domain name and see what happens. I assume that since I can direct DNS to listen only on the internal interface that it will never know the difference.
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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I installed WINXP then Win2000 which I think made loader file corrupt.Is there any way I can get back XP without reinstalling.
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Boot from the XP CD to the recovery console. There's a program to fix that, I forget the exact name but it's "fixmbr" or "fixboot" or something like that.
--Mike--
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Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
I think so Brain, but how will we fit the hamster inside the accordion?
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Both programs exist and are useful. But I seem to recall that the order in which they're run is important, and I don't remember which goes first.
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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If you have a working XP installed machine somewhere you could try what worked for me: copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from the XP machine to the broken machine (files are in C:\ root-dir). You'll need to disable hiding of "OS protected files" in Tools...Folder Options...View first though. Or you can do what Mike suggested
Paul
van der walt is qualified to answer - googlism
modified 18-Jul-18 11:59am.
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Hello all,
I had given my laptop to my friend for a few days and he somehow managed to install all the junk in the cyberspace that's available (like Gator etc.).
I have tried finding and uninstalling those softwares but they just don't seem to go away.
So I've decided to re-install windows on the machine. I know there are 2 ways to do it one is kind of an overlap and the other is to totally re-install.
My question is would I be able to loose all that unwanted stuff if I go for the complete re-install method?
Also I've noticed that certain folders in the Program Files still remain even after re-installing it that way. Is there a way to make them go away (I am a little scared to delete folders off the Program Files) during the installation process?
Regards,
Tiruvan
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Just to possibly avoid a reinstall, you might want to try Ad-Aware (http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml[^]) on the system first...
It is got to be one of the best cleaners out there...!
Peace!
-=- James (Sonork:100.21837)
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Thank you James, I'll try this one out.
Regards,
Tiruvan
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My windows 2K DCs have been unable to replicate for the last 4 months causing major headaches with printers not working and users not being able to access shares on a dc when logged in to another dc. Well after running dcdiag, setting entries in the DNS servers and reseting the machine passwords for all the dcs it still did not work until I just figured it out.
One of the dcs had a problem with the rpc server and logged it in the event log. I did not notice this because the problem mostly was denied access to the other dc...
Event ID 1656 - The Directory Service was unable to find any RPC protocol sequences installed on this computer, failing with error 1719. The Directory Service will be unable to respond to any RPC requests as long as this condition persists.
Here is the fix:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Rpc\ClientProtocols]
"ncacn_np"="rpcrt4.dll"
"ncacn_ip_tcp"="rpcrt4.dll"
"ncadg_ip_udp"="rpcrt4.dll"
"ncacn_nb_tcp"="rpcrt4.dll"
"ncacn_http"="rpcrt4.dll"
Save this as a .reg file and opewn it with explorer.
A link suggested that this was caused by blaster which makes sense because we got both blaster and welcha at the hospital where I work...
John
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Does anyone know if/how I could synchronize tasks/calender between Outlook 2003 installed on my PC and Web Outlook on my schools Exchange 2003 server. I have to use both interfaces because of my school blocking SMTP for its own mail service I can only check email from the web interface. Anyone have any ideas?
Matt Newman
If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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Provide me with some information regarding how does JBoss works, what are its requirements, what r the jar files required,its environmen etc.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, if you use Google or other search engine, that should provide you with more than enough information.
It works by providing an application server (i.e. a host environment and context) for one to execute java apps in. Others are available (although the names of ones we've tested against escape me). You shouldn't infer from these comments that I know what I'm talking about, I don't even code in Java.
Steve S
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Hi every body,
I want the event(notification) of new window creation, so that I can
get the handle to that window, and do whatever things I want to do
with it.
I am able to get this event using sytem-wide CBT hook.
Why I dont Want to use CBT hook :: Because of sytem-wide hook I am
not able to get access to functions of components.(Methods of
Interface
like IHTMLDocument2::get_URL()) which are part of OLEACC.DLL because
of shareability problem. This shareability problem is because of
error 0x8001010D.
Documentation for this error says that it is because of when one
process is inplace active in another process's window, the system
queues of the two processes are synchronized as in 16-bit windows, so
the deadlock could occur. To prevent this, OLE stops synchronous OLE
calls from being made while the caller is the recipient of an input-
synchronized call.
System-wide CBT hook DLL which I created must be making the
proceess inplace active in another process's window to get its
messages.
So I want to get this event(CreateWindow) by some other way(other
than global hook). If there is some work around please help.
Avya.
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I have an NT 4 server with several web clients hosted.
I use Internet Service Manager to configure their websites and FTP access.
My problem is that I am using differing FTP ports to configure multiple FTP sites
for my clients but I recently discovered that *ANY* login will work on any of the
sites if you just use different port numbers while connecting.
This is a terrible security risk.
I tried switching to using only 1 FTP account and allowing the login ID and password
to log them in, but they don't get sent to their home directory as specified in their
User Manager for Domains settings.
This is also a terrible risk because they all end up at the root directory of the hard drive!
How do I set up the FTP accounts so that when a user logs in with FTP they are moved to their home directory?
This is really important because I have stopped all FTP service to my system and sent 35 clients an email explaining that I am doing "system upgrades"
Ideally, I will have 1 FTP site with no anonymous access. I want the users NT account specified home directory to be the directory they are placed in as the root of their FTP login.
Thanks!
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Thanks - I'll check these out. But are you saying that Windows NT server 4 and Information server have no way of mapping client logins to their home directories?
This just seems like an incredible hole in its functionality.
Since it uses their NT account for login validation, why can't it just place them in their home directory? You would think that all of those geniuses at Redmond would have considered this.....
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I've never seen it.
Serv-U allows you to do things when files get uploaded/downloaded etc.
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Thanks for the pointer. I've downloaded the eval version and will test it this week.
I am still trying to come to grips with the fact that MS didn't build this in to their products....... (shuffles down the hallway - head hung low, mumbling to self)
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Thanks. I tested the eval version and liked it a lot. I've disabled the MS FTP service and purchased a license for Serv-U. Good tip!
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Couldn't you just disable anonymous FTP access and then in the user profile manager, set their home directory under their account settings?
I'm speaking completely off the top of my head, since I have never done it, but that would seem like a logical place to start...
[edit]Never mind. I just re-read your post.[/edit]
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Miszou wrote:
Couldn't you just disable anonymous FTP access and then in the user profile manager, set their home directory under their account settings?
I've done that. For a given FTP port number there seems to be only 1 home directory - the directory you configure in the Internet Services Manager. It uses NT account info to validate logins, but it ignores the clients home directory as configured in User Manager for Domains and instead dumps everybody who logs in into the single home directory for that FTP port.
I worked around this by using different ports and setting up several FTP sites. But the passwords work no matter what port number you enter. So you have the problem where someone could easily start guessing port numbers and ending up in other peoples folders.
I am just amazed that MS didn't think about this.
I guess they just assumed everyone in the entire friggin world would be using MS networking.
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I can configure User Profile and Desktop setting for INDIVIDUAL USER as follows:
>mmc
>Add Snap in
>Active Directory Users and Computer OR local users and groups
>Select a PARTICULAR user from the available account/user list
>Properties
>Profile tab
>User Profile
>Profile Path
How can I configure the user profile for a "WINDOWS USER GROUP" instead?
Thanks.
Norman Fung
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Groups don't have profiles, only users do.
Some of the settings you want to make may be possible through Group Policy - run gpedit.msc.
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