Client setup of W2k3 server AD setup

Hi All When I setup PCs for use in a basic Windows 2003 server R2 setup using AD/GPO, I have this thing in my head that if my client machines are pre-set with as much settings as I want already then this is faster than doing it all through GPO. ...

Message posted on the August 24th, 2011 - 3:41 PM ET

Can W2k3 dns server resolved any clients that is not part of domai

My W2k3 is setup as DC and as dns server. The rest of my workstation Windows or Linux client are running in workgroup environment. I have set all my clients workstation dns ip point to the W2k3 dns server. Can that help to resolve my name resolution?

Message posted on the January 14th, 2009 - 8:48 AM ET

Setup a NTP server on W2K3

Hi all, I've got a windows 2003 server with 2 network cards. This serveur is member of AD domain (connected on 1 network card). I would like to have got a NTP server on the 2nd network card without losing the NTP client with my AD (configured on ...

Message posted on the June 15th, 2010 - 10:30 AM ET

[Samba] One shared folder to be HA over CIFS to windows clients

Hi, i'm Emiliano this is my first mail to samba mailing list. I have to solve this issue for a company. They need to had a folder, shared over CIFS for windows/mac clients, that is always available, also if the server who host it hang up or burn. ...

Message posted on the January 7th, 2011 - 9:00 PM ET

(Cannot execute Windows Updates on Server’s) Bad Group Policy Ad mi

On my network we have a very intensive Group Policy that was turned over to us by the Security Department before they left to do just straight Security. I have a big problem with a lot of my W2K3 Server’s some of them install and take updates ...

Message posted on the February 10th, 2009 - 11:21 AM ET

Terminal Servers (WSUS clients) are not reporting to WSUS 3.0 serv

Hello, I would like to contact WSUS supporting team to verify if WSUS 3.0 doesn’t support WSUS CLIENTS that are functioning as terminal servers. The release note of WSUS 3.0 SP1 specifies that WSUS 3.0 SP1 is not supporting servers running TS. ...

Message posted on the January 21st, 2009 - 7:51 PM ET

2008 DC in trouble

I have added a w2k8 DC to our forest (all other DC's are running W2k3 sp2 except for 2 other w2k8 DC's) and the SYSVOL didn't seem to get shared. DCDIAG shows the following: Directory Server Diagnosis Performing initial setup: Trying to find ...

Message posted on the May 27th, 2009 - 2:54 AM ET

Unable to access DFS path

I am getting an unpredictable results when attempting to connect to a DFS directory. I also have intermittent issue where DFS root cannot be mapped. Help needed Problem Description: Intermittently unable to access or map to DFS root e.g. ...

Message posted on the March 15th, 2009 - 6:16 PM ET

moving mailboxes hosted on xp to exchange server?

Its been a while since i have looked at my exchange setup but as i understand it some users have local mailboxes on xp and some host them on exchange. Im working on an E2K7 upgrade and as part of this i am intending to move local mailboxes onto the ...

Message posted on the November 6th, 2009 - 4:33 AM ET

HELP: Can't connect to database instance (SQL 2005)

Hello, Background: I am running SQL 2005 on W2K3 in a lab environment. This is for a BizTalk test deployment. I have a cluster setup and a SQL instance is installed on Node-A. In the cluster, I have a group for Node-A of the cluster. It has a ...

Message posted on the July 2nd, 2009 - 11:10 AM ET

Turn off SPA for POP3

W2k3 SP2/IIS6. I had originally setup the POP3 server to use Secure Password Authentication. Now I've turned it off, but if I turn it off on my client (Outlook Express), I get a logon failure. So apparently, the POP3 server is still requiring SPA ...

Message posted on the March 11th, 2009 - 4:36 PM ET

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