This document is intended to step you through some of the basics of troubleshooting samba connectivity with your domain controller, using wbinfo. This is not intended to show you how to configure Samba to talk to your domain controller. Others have done a much better job that I can. winbind must be running in …
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I have some .vbs files I wrote, and I thought that I should be able to quicklook them just like any other text file. Finding out exactly how wasn’t terribly easy.
Windows time has two components. First is the Domain Controller. The Domain Controller should be sync’ed to the master NTP server in the environment. Microsoft’s excellent document on the steps necessary can be found HERE. The Windows clients will need to be configured to point to the Domain Controllers (DC’s.) If you’ve never installed any …
On our ESX server, we deployed a bunch of Windows 2003 clients from a template, using the “Guest Customization” feature. When you do this, you get a new SID, but you don’t get a new SUSClientId. Since all the clients have the same SUSClientId, only one of them can talk to the WSUS server at …
While trying to make sure a GPO got applied on a Windows 2003 Server, I tried to run gpresult. I got “Access Denied.”