Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations TouchToneTommy on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  • Users: TinRam
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. TinRam

    GPO question

    GPO is applied to an OU that houses a computer. Lets call this GPO “IE_Settings”. This GPO has the loopback policy set to “Replace”. User is in another OU. I would like have “IE_Settings” NOT apply to this user. Possible? I know that the usual way of setting the ACL of the GPO to deny the...
  2. TinRam

    IBM Laptop - Factory restore

    Hello... I have a IBM T42 laptop that I want to restore to factory image. But the partition where the factory image is stored is blown away. Can I download or order a factory restore CD from IBM? I can't find it anywhere on there web site. Anybody know? Thanks!
  3. TinRam

    Product key on bottom - why does it not work?

    Hello... I have an IBM laptop that on which I want to blow away the OS and do a fresh install of Windows XP. The laptop has a Windows XP product key sticker on the bottom. I would like to use this product key, sine the laptop came with a legal license, might as well use it right? But I can't...
  4. TinRam

    IAS for PIX

    Friends… I need little insight into using Microsoft IAS as a Radius server to authenticate VPN users connecting to a PIX. I have the PIX VPN working well with a local database, but users would like to use their windows passwords to log in. I register the IAS server in AD then in IAS clients I...
  5. TinRam

    VF45 connector??

    Hello... I have a client asking about a switch that supports VF45 connectors. I have not encountered this kind of connectors before. I assume this is some old technology using fibre? Anybody know anything about these connectors? Any switches support them? Any place I can read up on this kind...
  6. TinRam

    Strange pcAnywhere connection problem

    Friends... I have a strange issue with my pcAnywhere connection. I connect to my home PC from my laptop. I started having this problem recently that makes me think some update patch caused it. Either a MS patch or perhaps a Symantec liveupdate for pcAnywhere. It is pcAnywhere 11 This is what...
  7. TinRam

    SUS statistics

    Hello... I have read pretty much all the threads about SUS but nobody is talking about the biggest issue with SUS; reporting. Anybody have a sugestion on what program to use to de-crypt the IIS log that holds the info about which clients got updates?
  8. TinRam

    Full Name Environment Variable??

    Hello... Everybody knows the %username% Environment Variable in Windows, it produces the user's logon name. I am in need of a variable that would produce the users full name, for example John Smith. How can this be done? Can I put something in the logon script that populates such a variable...
  9. TinRam

    Upgrading from Standard to Advanced

    Hello fellow techies... I have a need to upgrade one of my Windows 2000 Standard Servers to Windows 2000 Advanced server. I was under the impression that I can just put in the Advanced Server CD and it will ask me to upgrade it. HOWEVER.... I get a message saying that I cannot upgrade 2000...
  10. TinRam

    Dos network client

    Hello... I have a laptop and PC both with Windows XP pro. I wanted to take an image of the laptop and keep it on my desktop. My laptop does not have a floppy, so I spent HOURS making a network boot CD. I finally got that to work. but when I boot with this network CD in my laptop I cannot map a...
  11. TinRam

    config.sys and autoexec.bat

    Hello... I have a question regarding the two startup files config.sys and autoexec.bat: Can the config.sys file issues regular command and/or can the autoexec.bat file load drivers? I know this sounds strange but basically what I am doing is making a boot disk with a ram-drive. The...
  12. TinRam

    VPN losing connection?

    Hello... I have inherited a Checkpoint NG FP3 firewall that is having an issue with the VPN. It’s a small setup with 2 locations connected via site-site VPN. The remote site connects to the main site for MS Exchange purposes. Users experience freezing in Outlook as if the remote exchange...
  13. TinRam

    Authentication when not on domain

    Hello... I am having this really strange problem at a client. When a user is not logged into the domain and launches Outlook, a box comes up asking for a user name and password... as it should. But when the correct username/password is entered, Outlook continues to ask for the user/pass as if...
  14. TinRam

    Which RS/6000 machine?

    Hello... Over the next several months I will be heavily involved in learning AIX and pSeries machines. My company is sending me on training, which is great, but I want them to get a machine I can play with to learn on my own time too. Something older that won’t be too expensive. I need...
  15. TinRam

    Red Hat 9 under VMWARE: Running X

    Hello... I successfully installed Red Hat 9 under VMware. The instructiosn tell you to install in text mode and not to configure X until you install VMware tools. I did that. Then I followed the instructions to install VMware tools. Looks ok. Now to get X Windows working, ie the GUI Linux you...
  16. TinRam

    What is streaming file for?

    Hello... I am a little confused about what the streaming file does in Exchange 2000. I am used to Exchange 5.5 having the edb files for databases and logs. Now I have logs, an ebd file and an stm file that is about the size of the ebd file. What is this stm file for? Or rather, what is the...
  17. TinRam

    Invalid directory...

    Hello... I am getting this message when setting up a Domino 6 server on a Solaris machine. "Invalid directory name or device not ready" We have 2 other domino servers, which are version 5 and are both Intel based. I did register this new server and gave it the server id using a...
  18. TinRam

    "Invalid directory name..."

    Hello... I am getting this message when setting up a Domino 6 server on a Solaris machine. "Invalid directory name or device not ready" We have 2 other domino servers, which are version 5 and are both Intel based. I did register this new server and gave it the server id using a...
  19. TinRam

    Domino 6 on Solaris 9

    Hello... I am thinking of dimplementing a Domino version 6 infrastucture on a Solaris 2.9 server. Does anybody know if the Domino 6 for Solaris 2.8/Sparc will work with a Solaris 2.9/Sparc server? I am mostly a Windows guy, and in the windows world this usually is not an issue. In other words...
  20. TinRam

    Domino 6 on Solaris 9

    Anybody out there know if Domino 6 for Solaris 2.8/Sparc will work on a Solaris 2.9/Sparc machine? Much appreciated!

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top