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Here is my scenario:
1) A login session running some interactive displays on Windows XP Pro.
2) A remote desktop connection connects to XP via RDP. It takes over the control. When the job done, it closes the connection.
3) When the connection closes, I want to restore the previous login session automatically.
How do I acheive step #3. I've tried TSCON command, but it gives some error. I tried using one account only or using two accounts.
Best,
Jun
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You can login as console using the /console switch on older RDP or /admin on new RDP (vista, win7, 2008 , etc). Will connect you to same one each time
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Hi all,
We have an office With windows Server 2008 having 7 Work stations(Computers). I need to add a new computer to the server . i have alredy created a new computer and user in the Active directory users and computers on the server but the problem i have is to connect that Work station(the new computer) to the server . Let me share few steps that i did
- i logged in as administrator of that computer. I right click MY COMPUTER-PROPERTIES-COMPUTER NAME-CHANGE then i wrote the name of the computer and the Domain name
-MY NETWORK PLACES-RIGHT CLICK LAN-PROPERTIES-TCP/IP-PROPERTIES then i wrote the prefered DNS SERVER ip address the same as the one from the server-OK
After trying to log in it didnt allow me for both administrator and any domain user
Any one with idea on this. i appreciate your support thanks a lot
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You have to go into the system settings and set the workstation as a domain member. Depending on the OS this will look different.
Its not enough to JUST set the user and the machine to have a domain account, you have to tell the workstation that is now the member of the domain so that when you log in you see the domain name option and the workstation will use that as the point of authentication.
In Win7 it is a link in the Computer name, domain, and work-group area of the System information box.
In Windows XP you can Right click on My Computer and one of the tabs allows you to move from Work-group to Domain mode.
Either way you will need to know the domain admins username and password.
Keep in mind that this also changes the users local profile so any customisations that are not machine generic will be gone. It also repoints things like the My Documents folder and stuff like that so you may have to go around and hunt stuff down and move it tot h new user profile.
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thanks for the helpfull information it fixes my problem
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Hello,
Can you please assist me on how to add a Computer DNS in Windows Server 2008 and if there is a tutorial somewhere send me a link. The issue came back as now i cannot log in to the new computer added and i looked to the older computers there is a computer Domain Name System(DNS) but in the new one it does not allow me to add the computer DNS - i guess that is a problem i have
thanks for your continued support
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Hi all,
We have a small office with Windows server 2008 and 7 domain users . We are getting an error message "A DUPLICATE NAME EXISTS IN THE NETWORK" in each user during logging in .Anyone with idea on how to remove this duplicate name please we need a help
thanks for your continued support
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Hmmm username or machine name?
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That message only shows up when you have two machines on the network with the same computer name.
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thanks i fixed the problem
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Hi guy.
I want to develope a bootloader that load a .com application(second stage of bootloader) and execute it. How I can do that ?
Thanks alot.
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I don't think you can do this unless you can also load the requisite system support libraries, which need Windows to be running.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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One of my clients has finally got fed up with users abusing free internet access, and has asked me to lock each user's accessible content down to only those sites they need for their job. He doesn't want to spend money on a decent firewall or additional software to do this.
The domain is spread over a large area and several floors, and I would lose a day walking around each system to put a content password on each PC, together with the approved sites per user. It is a Server 2003 Active Directory environment, which does not provide such a facility directly.
Is there anyway this can be done from the PDC?
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The hard-to-manage solution would involve only approving a small site list and distributing that through policy. But, this gets out of control when you have multiple groups of people using different site lists and you're constantly adding new "work related" sites all the time. Also, if the users install other browser software besides IE, they can easily bypass this restriction.
The better option is install a proxy server and route everyones browser through it. You get much better management capability, higher security and no little ways for the users to bypass it.
BTW: The money that your boss doesn't spend on a firewall is going to be burned up managing this through policies. Either way, he's spending money on this. There's just no way around it.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: The hard-to-manage solution would involve only approving a small site list and distributing that through policy.
Unfortunately, the list is quite extensive, and this would mean dozens of sites for each user, most of which would be irrelevant.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: and you're constantly adding new "work related" sites all the time.
This will definitely happen.
I am currently thinking that RDP into each user's PC would probably be the only way of getting the job done without a budget.
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Chris C-B wrote: I am currently thinking that RDP into each user's PC would probably be the only way of getting the job done without a budget.
Your salary is on someones budget.
I think that in the long run the firewall/proxy will be cheaper.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Your salary is on someones budget.
Yes - mine, regrettably, in this case. I have several clients who pay me a monthly retainer for SysAdmin, which provides me with a nice line of revenue between projects, so I have to get the job done. I was hoping to find a way of doing it from the server room, and thus avoid losing an entire day to the task.
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Hi,
Obviously building a small firewall/proxy with a free linux distrib is the cheapest way to achieve this. This computer can even be built on a virtual machine, so it does not require buying some additional hardware (apart from network cards for proxy's interfaces).
The time you're going to spend on it on the long run, if you do it the way your boss would like you to, will be much more expensive, and much less effective, than having a centralised solution where you can set rules and log traffic. Having to log on each and every computer to setup a solution is never a good idea ; and much of the settings are of a per-user basis, that means you have to log on the computer with the credentials of the user itself (thus you have to ask him its password). Last, what you can setup using GPO's can be easyly defeated by using a different browser.
The key idea is iptables and a proxy solution (I'm using squid for the latter).
- iptables will allow you to do a transparent routing from port 80 to the port of the proxy service ; that means you won't have to configure browsers to use a proxy server.
- squid will allow you to setup a bunch of rules and access lists based on computer's IP address and/or username. You can also use predefined categorized site-lists that allow you to block much of unwanted traffic.
Finally, be careful with legal questions ; in my country, it is not legal to log traffic without informing people you do.
Hope this helps.
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Hi All,
anyone to help on this issue,
We have a small office with Windows Server 2008 and eight Domain users, i deleted one Domain user which is no longer working with us but then we discovered that we need some important files from this domain user. I tried to recreate the domain user but when i log in it gives me empty screen. We do Back ups every week.
Any one please who has idea on how to retrieve the files from the deleted domain user
Your support is highly appreciated
thanks,
Yusufu
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Recreating the user won't recreate that persons SID. Login as an administrator, find his files in the system and the admin can Take Ownership of the files, giving you access to them.
When a user is deleted, the files do not get deleted with him. They stay in the file system wherever they're at.
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@ Dave
thanks for the feedback but can you expand more what to do when i log in as administrator because i logged in and found nothing in mydocument, Desktop and other location. I think may be there are further steps to view Domain files
Thanks for your support
Yusufu
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MyDocuments shows you the files for the currently logged in user, so of course you can't see the other persons files.
You have to open either C:\Documents and Settings (Win XP and below) or C:\Users (Vista and above) to see the other persons files.
You then right-click the folder/files you want, click Properties, Security Tab, Advanced button, Owner tab. Then you can click on Take Ownership.
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thank you for the helpful information - happy happy you make me standing you make me look good to the staff
i real appreciate your support
Kindly please is there a way to retrieve the web mails associated to the deleted user
thank you for your continued support;
Yusufu
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Mail? Depends on the system. If it's something like Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail, ... no.
If it's your own internal email system, then you're going to have to consult the documentation on it.
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