Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category.
September 8, 2010, 12:25 PM
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 order for wbinfo to work, and you need to be connected to your domain.
wbinfo -p
Ping to winbindd succeeded on fd 4
A simple ping test to see if your DC is alive
wbinfo -t
checking the trust secret via RPC calls succeeded
Verify that the workstation trust account created when the Samba server is added to the Windows NT domain is working. This is a good first step to make sure you can talk to your DC
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January 15, 2010, 4:13 PM
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.
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October 21, 2009, 11:51 AM
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 non-Microsoft utilities, you should be OK by just making sure Windows Time is running. However, if it is not running, or something has broken time, these are steps that will help you fix your problems.
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June 18, 2009, 7:42 AM
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 a time. Looking around the internet, I found many different suggestions on how to fix the issue. I should say I found many suggestions for which reg key to delete. In the end, I only had to delete one. It worked for all ~37 of my machines, but it took two passes. Your mileage may vary.
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April 28, 2009, 10:18 PM
While trying to make sure a GPO got applied on a Windows 2003 Server, I tried to run gpresult. I got “Access Denied.”
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