I want to be able to force Windows 2000 machines to logoff at a certain time of day. I have found some programs that force logoff and have tried to run them in the Scheduled Tasks but they do...
We have a small Cat5 network. Windows XP & Home. It is a Workgroup not a Domain.
We have one machine that we want to protect from most users but not all. Can we set up a password allowing cer...
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My firewall logs show connection attempts named nbname(137) and nbdgram(138) almost every minute from the local LAN network.
As I researched some information about them, I h...
What i have done is to make a W2k server then i installed VMware. I then installed Win2k server again updated it with all the service packs and software which is going to be needed during the ...
Recently I've begun seeing quite a few failed login attempts on one of our servers. They all pretty much look like this:
Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: ...
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We recently installed a few citrix servers with a web interface, allowing clients to connect using their browser to access specific applications. I have come up with an issue with...
I read many of the post regarding this topic so please don't expect points for referring me to them. I have activated the the GPO to Force logoff when logon hours expire under a GP that I have...
My Windows 2000 Server SP 4 keeps rebooting. Before it reboots, it displays the message
NT Authority
WINNY/SYSTEM32/|sass.exe termianted unexpectedly.
Please note that I think the fir...
I'm a new XP administrator. Could someone please help out?
Currently, this feature (Windows Explorer - Tools - View Folder Options) is hidden from the user but I want to unhide it. How?
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I'm having some problems with updating the group policy using - gpupdate /force.
The Background:
We have 6 Domain Controllers. 5 are windows 2003 server and one is a 2000 server. The 2000 ...
A majority of our users use laptops. We have bridging of network adapters disabled via group policy.
Is there a security need to disable the wireless card while connected to a docking stati...
How do I disable "User must change password at next logon" from command line?
I want to disable this flag and enable "Password never expires" on all of my local Windows 2000 user accounts (...
I ran into this problem while trying to download/install/run Norton Internet Security 2006 Upgrade. I started to see the errors during the install. Now I can't run almost anything on my WIndow...
When I try to entre the computer, inserting password on the Welcome Screen, it enters and then it keeps logging off, just seeing the background screen for some seconds.
I have installed Norto...
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I had an Zip file, which I made a backup some years back and it was password protected, and
I forgot it. There are some recovery tools but mostly they use dictionary attack ...
I want to take a domain user (windows 2003 domain, native) and give her the rights to join computers to the domain. This person builds workstations and has to be able to join the workstation ...
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I would like to enquire whether is it possilbe to disable users from copying from a specific shared folder from the server, but in the meantime users are able to access the speci...
I have a customer who had a guy lock down some XP work stations using local policy. Now i have tried changing them back one setting at a time but some stuff is still not working right.
What...
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I am an technical supporter and quite often I encounter the problems caused by users installing some unauthorized programs. I supposed that by setting MMC prolicy I should be abl...
I disabled a user account at 9AM in our 2003 Native AD, yet I still see the following Success Audit events in our DC's Asecurity log, why is that????
Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source...
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I wrote a service (C#, .net-framework 2.0 beta) which needs the permission to interact with the desktop. It also needs to run under a certain account, but NOT the local system account. O...
I need a dedicated tool that (reset local administrator password remotely, add global group to local administrators group, list who is added to the administrators group, gives reports,...)
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Our users recieve the open File Security Warning when running exe file from network share on Terminal Server 2003, We have a development application that resides on a network share, when in ci...
This works:
net use s: \\10.10.999.999\it m@rl!n /user:it
This does not:
net use s: \\10.10.999.999\it m@rl!n /user:it /savecred
A command was used with conflicting switches.
I real...
The message shown below is very annoying. I figured out how to disable it completely, (for EVERY ActiveX control), but that does not seem to be very safe.
Is there anyway to disable it for...
