How to launch control panel items or objects from a RUN or CMD line.

On June 10, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Sometimes it is just simpler to run from CMD line control panel objects. It is even easier to get a user who does not have the menu items available to hand them a “RUN” CMD to open the correct control panel object you need them to. Below is a list of all the control panel objects just type the CMD in the RUN or DOS windows and you place a user right where you need them.
Accessibility… Continue reading

Winsock 2 accommodates layered protocols. A layered protocol is one that implements only higher level communications functions, while relying on an underlying transport stack for the actual exchange of data with a remote endpoint. LSP  aka Layered Service Provider can be a security layer that adds protocol to the connection establishment process. An example of an LSP is the Microsoft Firewall Client Service Provider installed as part of the Internet… Continue reading

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Ever get this when logging in to a Vista or Windows 7 system?  I seem to get it all the time, here is how to quickly fix it. By the way that is not a typo in my subjectline but how the error shows up when you try logging in. Not sure why but I am guessing that “User Profile Service is a Service and thus the “User Profile Service Service”  as… Continue reading

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There are many symptoms that may arise when you are installing a new firewall on a network that is using a DSL circuit and the MTU is not set correctly. That’s right the MTU, Max transmission Unit as it is know is a happy 1500 bytes on any Ethernet,  that medium makes up most endpoint networks on the Internet. Most admins never think about what the MTU is set at… Continue reading

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Monitor a WD ShareSpace using XYMon on any remote network

On June 4, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Do you happen to be a systems support guy who needs a method of getting the basic stats of a WD ShareSpace into your XYmon or MAG monitor? If you are like me then you are a systems admin responsible for many different networks spread across the Internet. You then may have deployed a few NAS systems including the WD ShareSpace that runs a version of BusyBox Linux. This is good… Continue reading

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How-to Setup Windows 2008 R2 Server Core As An Active Directory Server

On April 7, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Setup Active Directory on a Windows Server 2008 core

 

This is pretty simple actually; Install Windows as normal but selecting a Server Core as your installation medium. It will install just like a normal Windows 2008 install until the reboot process when it loads Windows for the first time. At the point it will ask for you to set your admin password and then boot to a Window’ish Continue reading

Samba and Winbind Fix for Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Services

Having issues with file sharing when inside a Windows 2008 R2 Domain? Are you getting these errors in you logs?
rpc_client/cli_pipe.c:rpc_api_pipe(790)
rpc_api_pipe: Remote machine 0.0.0.0 pipe \NETLOGON fnum 0x8007 returned critical error. Error was NT_STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED
A little searching online shows a lot of people with this or related problems, It looks like there’s a bug in the samba package that prevents Continue reading

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Outlook Express “Compact Messages” pop-up

On July 6, 2010, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

I have a user who every time they log in they get a pop up notice that Outlook Express needs to be compacted. They don’t use Outlook Express so why would it need to be compacted?

The short answer is that it does not. There is a issues with Windows Search indexing.

So here is the fix!

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Mac OSX Leopard Guest Setup under VirtualBox

On July 2, 2010, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

MAC on Windows

How to install and run a MAC on a windows or Linux systems virtually has been made easy with the tools and instructions available for download. 

Download EmpireEFI and Full Pdf Manual here –>  MAC-Leopard_Vbox-VM

With just a little effort you can run MAC OSX 10 Snow Leopard on your windows system or linux system. You can buy OSX at BestBuy for about $30 and get for free Continue reading

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Cleaning Up the Exchange 2003 Server’s SMTP Queues after NDR attacks

On May 7, 2010, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Warning: This process will delete all email that is due to go to external recipients. Internal messages are not affected, neither are new inbound messages from the Internet unless they are from the spammer continuing to try and abuse your server.

Capturing the Messages Into a Single Queue

This process requires an SMTP connector for all addresses. If you don’t already have one (with a * on the Continue reading

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