PiqueABoo

Interesting.. I've got a recipe which has you turning off "Offload Transmit TCP Checksum" for Intel GB NICs... have never checked, but it maybe it breaks things in a similar way.

Look in DHCP then? Haven't got the very latest list but Belkin MACs start with 00-11-50, 00-17-3F and possibly 00-30-BD. If that or scanning the low bit of 192.168. doesn't work (I've seen a Belkin with a default 192.168.2 address) you could try connecting a laptop to it with an x-over cable, running something like Network Monitor 3.0 and then turning the AP on - it *might* spit out a packet or two revealing the IP address.

Me... I want "updates etc.".. the Windows DC still provides DHCP & DNS (NAT gateway address works as a DNS forwarder).

Gosh, you can't move in here for people volunteering to actually make these things. Could have sworn I seen the anti-CC3 et al people say it's only a five minute job as well ;b I'm not volunteering either because I know it's big/hard, but if someone does have the energy to work on this then I'd aim to make pre-configured registry.pol files and obviously with any ADMs you might need (more or less self documenting once you get them in GPMC and turn off unconfigured settings).

Isn't this the forum where people recurrently moan about not being treated like professionals? ;b Googles: http://www.thegrid.org.uk/info/traded/sitss/support/index.shtml Bit of a giveaway in that URL: a traded service with support contracts. I can't get the PDFs but it has a section on a "Telephone Helpdesk Service" so chances are the RM course stuff is just them saying they won't risk having to provide an infinite amount of support for a fixed price service and want some assurance that cooper has a clue. ::shrug:: Sounds fair enough to me and if the school doesn't like it they can probably walk away.. only make that **gracefully**. It's NOT a good idea to start cracking or evading passwords on systems where someone else has contractual responsibility.

Don't know, but I have seen an XP box with a specific NIC get as far as, but then fail to download policy (approx 100K file sizes) through a particular brand of switch. Solution was to update the XP NIC driver.

Just a thought: I've seen AV file system filters (i.e. real time scanning) break network xfers of big data.

Not entirely true.. personally I've seen more empty legals threats than plausible ones. Some people who know they don't have a credible case and don't intend to go anywhere near a court, will simply take advantage of your ignorance... life is a bit of crock in this respect. Yeah why not - I mean we spend all day moaning about you lot when we're not passing the time chatting on forums. There's just nothing like a good out-group to blame for all your troubles ;b That would be something settled in court. There is obviously a huge amount of irony in this because it encourages you not to moderate i.e. increases the amount of naughty/defamatory crap on forums.

AIUI if you have moderators exercising "editorial control" e.g. routinely reading and sometime removing posts for [whatever reason], you risk liability by failing to spot and remove a defamatory post. In practice giving notice like this is the standard approach - legals ticking boxes established in prior cases.

I've been a forum operator for a long time, it's more hissy and defamatory than some, I've had legal threats and I'm sympathetic to others in the same position. You have to accept that whoever runs the forum can and should do whatever they feel is best in these scenarios. That said I think there's some broken reasoning in this thread, for instance I wouldn't be comforted by some poster appending reasons e.g. "X is [whatever] because of Y and Z". Faced with A Letter[tm] the operator would brave to keep that post up unless they personally knew that Y and Z were true. Fortunately libel threats almost inevitably do more harm than good to those precious reputations - and for me that thought compensates for having to deal with them.

Ah ha! If you want stdout redirection to work you have to do it something like this: x.Run("%comspec% /c fred.exe inputfile > outputfile", 0, true);

I'm a pragmatist and just changed to Exec, StdOut.ReadAll and a file write to get what I wanted, but for future ref. does anyone know why using Run like this doesn't work? x.Run("fred.exe inputfile > outputfile", 0, true); That's jscript, but I imagine the issue is generic. The exe runs and if I change that 0 to 1 I get to see a transient dos box in which I see the output i.e. the redirect to file doesn't happen

Was released recently. Anyone using the released version yet - is there any compelling reason to upgrade from 5.x unless you want to run it on Vista?

Much googling later I can do the reading but via the MS ResKit regview.exe and look for things in the output. No luck yet for changing/adding. ::time passes:: Found one in a collection of GPL utils written in Delphi called batch_tools.zip at http://www.mirkes.de. gpscript - nearly everything I want. gpcvreg - converts reg files into format usable by gpscript. I say "nearly". Regview and gpscript both dump registry.pol entries across multiple lines e.g. key value type data But I want those all on one line to make checking an entire entry easy with findstr or whatever. Don't have Delphi to tweak the source so ended up writing my own util to do that bit (<20 lines of C).

I'd like to automate reading and changing settings in registry.pol files i.e. run some DOS box script that could point out missing/broken settings, run another one to add some new settings. The policy file format is relatively simple and ::gasp:: documented, so there should be zillions of tools for this, but.. Anyone know of any?

"we've been here before".. or at least I have in the Windows forum last month ;b I half expected it to detect VMware and break on purpose. Server Core runs too. Left a few tips in other post and here's another one: Some of the configuration articles you find at the top of google searches have curiously replicated broken netsh commands - the best place for info is the technet forum and MS Server Core blog (blogs.technet.com/server_core/default.aspx)

Suspect a lot knew that rule or heard just fine, but some folk just have to be first with [pretty much anything]. I've just changed from running 2K with a dual-boot XP (rarely used), to XP with a dual-boot Vista (rarely used). Would have kept 2K and replaced XP with Vista but it was a new box and I'll probably need dotNet 3.0 at some point.

It's a very general purpose operating system and you simply can't do that and keep everyone happy. Yes but which ones can't be fixed by someone armed with google and persistance? Newbie ;b Exchange 5.5 was definitely the hellish one. What do you think all those betas and usability labs are for? Ok the first is is marketing too and you'll never get s/w vendors to skip the in-application marketing (arguably the cause of a couple of your issues). And talking of markets I suspect most Microsoft: 1) Technically clueless users benefit from the tours. 2) Corporate users are relatively big, with in-house gurus who can turn off everything they want turned off. Failing that they just tell MS to do it for them (once found a security oops which was a side-effect of a last minute change demanded by a big corp). Smaller market sectors won't get as much attention - that's business. Whatever, the real irritant is the huge amount of resources Vista needs to do uhh.. what exactly? Windows has definitely gotten out of hand.. an OS is supposed to be there so I can run applications, not steal the show.

Only two? Microsoft have been subjected to a sustained "Make NT safe for the technically clueless" campaign for a long, long, long, long time. Will never be perfect because really good security hurts usability too much, but it is considerably better now. Here's a third level: People who are: a) clueful enough to turn most irritants off, b) perfectly happy to pay the inevitable price of that better i.e. a few irritants you just have to live with. Security Centre is for granny isn't it?

You only need to open one of those ports and opening it for OWA instead would be easier. It's the client side of RPC over HTTPS that'll bite you, especially when they know it works and now want it from home. Could you explain why? haven't played with one, but I thought that role was basically a glorified SMTP relay.

In practice yes. You can get 32bit version to play with, but MS only support 64bit on production boxes. Don't have one. You could run memtriage for a while to help verify your hunch.

Eww.. lsrunase has snake-oil for it's reusable password encryption. Supercrypt should be safer[1], but the name suggests otherwise. That's probably unfair but.. [1] Same principle as older "cpau" from joeware.net (which has a good caution on security limits in the FAQ) FWIW you can write a command line "create process as user" util in fewer than 50 lines of dotNet2 (pick your language) which compiles to a ~ 5KB executable.

Plausible, but not an issue with mine... yet.. will probably end up making some kind of virtual sandbox once the <4 yr old starts getting dangerous.

Nothing on Windows. A/V is a pain and techs really ought to know how to avoid running malware without it spoiling too much of their fun. So what's wrong with ClamWin then?

A few initial tips you may or may not need to do things in VMWare: 1) It works.. or at least for me.. so far. VM #1 being a forest root. 2) I changed the VMWare NIC to an Intel (so I didn't have to track down a driver) by editing the *.vmx file and adding: ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" 3) Server Core: My VM #2 joined to the domain. There's apparently a "step by step" guide for an earlier beta somewhere. You you might need MSDN or something because I can't find it, but there is a technet forum with some useful nuggets but not the next one.. 4) Server Core: First thing you normally do is use netsh to assign an IP address. Skip the next sensible step (trying to ping that address) because unlike standard server, Server Core firewall has inbound Echo-Request - ICMPv4-In disabled. [Very unimpressed by that being classified as a "File and Printer Sharing" rule instead of "Core Networking" used for ICMP Dest. Unreachable, ICMP Frag. Needed....] 5) Sever Core: Unless you like hitting CTRL-ALT every time you need your cursor out of the VM window, you can install VMWare Tools by mounting the ISO to the CD drive and then manually running the MSI.