22 Sep

start up ntop load vpc 2004 start redhat 7.3 login run ntop -u swildow

root hat gui boot, no login screen

22 Sep

you should not have to telnet to the system you should be able to loggin into a console by typing or any of the following F2,F3,F4,F5,F6. I would then change the following line as root in /etc/inittab change id:5:initdefault: to … Read More »

22 Sep

Ghost’ing an SBS Server This information comes from Les!

CPU types

17 Sep

unforunately Intel has decided to produce different CPUs with identical types, eg “Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3” is a “Coppermine” Pentium III or XEON or Celereon with a clock rate between 600 and 933 MHz. Here is the CPU … Read More »

no backup exchange mailbox rant

14 Sep

http://mail.tekscan.com/nomailboxes.htm Intro This is my rant against individual mailbox backup. I was reading/posting in the exchange newsgroups, but I’m not doing much admin anymore, so if you need something, find something wrong, or find a dead link please e-mail me. … Read More »

ms kb

9 Sep

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3BQ315669&sd=tech how to harden the tcp/ip stack against denial of service attacks

time sync setup windows

8 Sep

Run the following on the problem machine: net time /querysntp (this will tell you what your currently configured time source is) net stop w32time net time \\(problem-machine) /setsntp:goodsntpservername (more than likely your PDC emulator) net start w32time w32tm /resync

robocopy use

8 Sep

The Directory Replicator Service that is provided by Windows NT Server requires exclusive access to Netlogon and REPL$. When it doesn’t get exclusive access, replication fails. A better way to replicate is to use the ROBOCOPY utility from the