Recent content by AjayM

Everybody, our company has recently decided that we need some type of Groupware product, and Exchange is at the top of the list. However I keep coming back to Mdaemon's groupware and poking around the information posted. We are a small company (under 100 email accounts) and I think Exchange is...

Our company is looking to setup an Exchange server, and I have a couple of questions (to start with) that have come up during some of our planning meetings. 1) How "user friendly" is the "offline" piece of Outlook? We have a small group of laptop/traveling users who need...

The reason earlier copy protection schemes didn't stick around is because they simply didn't work. The scheme of having something to plug into a parallel or serial port worked great, until you lost the dongle. Then your software didn't work at all. Or maybe it wasn't compatible with your...

I'd say the original mentioned consultant knew very little about what it takes to be a sys admin and even less about security, basically the guy has no business charging for his knowledge and skills. The guy denied access to getting virus definitions as the best example of incompetence. I'd...

Sonicwall and Watchguard both offer firewalls with DMZ zones on them (or basically a 2nd secured zone). I'm sure there are lots of others as well. Andrew

Well disabling NetBios on one of the interfaces will probably solve the problem, but it's also going to whack off a good chunk of the work that you want the NIC to do, since it will no longer do any kind of "windows network" type stuff, it will strictly be doing TCP/IP stuff. Have...

On Win2k on one of the interfaces you tried checking off the box "Disable NetBios over TCP/IP"? I had the exact same problem you are describing on these machines I have here, except that the one NIC was connected to a different subnet and didn't need WINS/NetBios. I tried the same...

Disable WINS on one of the controllers will clear up the NetBios errors and probably the no DC error as well. The problem I'm still having with multi-homed servers is accessing them from a trusted domain. Basically we have two domains here in the same forrest, one for our production/live...

Well I'll tell you the three most important things to have in a Citrix box - Memory, memory, memory. I made a small upgrade from a dual 750Mhz server with 512MB of RAM to a dual 1.2Ghz with 2GB of RAM (also upgraded from NT to 2k and MF1.8 to XP), and the speed differences are small at best, I...

Don't worry about the routing, as you mentioned you are already connected and are not having problems with connectivity or pinging (by IP address). I guess the biggest question here is, at your remote site, do those DNS servers have any information from the main site? For instance in your...

I think I could probably get some of the basics down, but it may take a week or two to get it all out on papaer and actually coherent and understandable. Any volunteers for beta reading when that time comes? Andrew

Well it's not even so much as "mission critical", but if something happens to the one machine and you lose the AD, then every client is going to feel the effects in one way or the other. It helps to know the budget obviously, if you only have like $4k for a machine, then getting two...

I don't have any IBM experience, at least in a Wintel enviroment, but if those servers are anywhere as good as some of their higher end AIX stuff I don't think you can go wrong, but that's a big if. Past that I've been using Dell servers for the past 5 years and I have not yet had a complaint...

Sheesh, I should have expanded on that a little more. Basically the first thing I do when coming into a new place of employement where my job duties would include security is to first see where all the weakness's are at. I'll sit at home and port scan (have to be careful as your ISP may not...

A couple of other things you may wish to add, first is links to various security info sites, CERT would be a good one, certainly a link to something like the bugtraq mailing list (they were posting Slammer messages hours and hours before it started to become a real problem). I only breezed...