Posts Tagged ‘active dir’

Feb 22 to 26th, 2010

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

This week I’ll be working with the Profs at DGP to come up with a relatively easy to use system for publishing papers on the dgp website. I’ve released a flash update for the managed servers and would recommend applying that your to personal computers as well.

  • New scripts for installing printers that is windows 7 compatible
  • Draft of paper upload submission system
  • Windows machine updates
  • Upgrade fax server to debian 5.0.4 and create debian package for hylafax config
  • Continued work on automated install script for non-active directory windows computers

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Using the ADMIN$ file share to review log files

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I found a useful way to review the windows folder on clients via file sharing. Basically, an ADMIN$ folder is accessible for every client machine the active directory admin has access to. It will allow you to view and alter files in the c:\windows directory.

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Active Directory Machine Account Problem

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Occasionally, I’ve noticed that some computers in the active directory domain we have will no longer update their group policy. When the computer is restarted, the error message given is :

Windows cannot find the machine account, No authority could be contacted for authentication. .

The solution to this issue, or at least a work-around, is to power off the affected computer and disconnect the power until the motherboard loses power. After it is powered up, it resumes normal function in the active directory domain and the group policy updates.

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Cluster Upgrade and Active Directory move

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so we’ve managed to clear a few of things on the task list. I’m going to talk a little bit about them here. The cluster update was a success, but I found a side effect of having the path include a reference to itself (to allow cluster specific binaries to be available). When building adding packages or changing the default partitioning scheme for the cluster nodes, the build process would fail if the root environment was accessed from a user who had this path setting and used su. It would build, but the install process would fail because key files aren’t copied in the hierarchy. Specifically, updates.img and stage2.img would be missing.

The active directory move was accomplished by using several vmware instances to test out the various stages. There is still some work to be done with the security certificates, and then the old domain structure can be removed. The cs disk space move was accomplished without incident.

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July 28 – 30, away until 4th

Monday, July 28th, 2008

As I mentioned above, I’m away for most of this week, so it’s likely I won’t get to many things on the list:

  • reorganizing windows scratch space
  • using new network as Active Directory rename testbed
  • downgrading from vista to xp
  • installing test imap server

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