When the recent SMB 2.0 vulnerability was announced, there was some discussion on the Toasters mailing list about whether Data ONTAP was affected. Val Bercovici from NetApp responded that Data ONTAP was not affected by this issue.
Today, I discovered that to enable the filer snapshots to be visible within the Previous Versions facility within Windows [...]
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Is that program running as administrator?
Using Process Explorer to view process integrity levels
A friend asked me how to open a Control Panel applet As Administrator. In Windows Vista, when you see a little shield icon as part of a button or shortcut, that would indicate that you would get prompted by the User Account Control (UAC) facility to elevate the [...]
Monday – 2009-09-28
Today’s issues:
Backup issues
Shared folder quotas
Printer configurations
Data execution protection
I created a Server 2008 x64 guest for managing 64-bit drivers on our shared printers. It works much better than trying to use Printer Management MMC in RSAT on Windows 7.
One hiccup I ran into while install the Ricoh PCL6 Driver for Universal Print was that it was [...]
backups – Bad and Good
We’ve been working with our backup vendor to address some shortcomings of their product as it relates to Windows 2008 system recover. This was precipitated by a failure of a portion of our virtual infrastructure, which lead to corruption of several hosts’ virtual disk files.
We managed to rebuild one failed host from bare (virtual) metal, [...]
re-enabling ESET NOD32
ESET has fixed the problem that caused widespread system hangs. If you followed my instructions to disable NOD32, you can re-enable it by repeating those steps and changing one word: replace disabled with auto.
To recapitulate:
1. Boot into safe mode
2. In either the Run dialog or the Vista Start Menu search box, type the following:
cmd /k [...]
ESET NOD32 making many systems hang
I’ve spent most of the day trying identify a systematic way to work around the campus antivirus solution, which is causing widespread system hangs. Our vendor has tentatively identified a problematic recent update, and is recommending that affected users temporarily disable the Eset Service service until a patch is available.
Disabling ESET NOD32 / ekrn Service.
If [...]
Range Retrieval
Working on the Server 2008 hard limit of 5000 attribute values max per query, which breaks our Identity Management process. I’m looking at having to write a clone of LDIFDE that can issue queries using Range Retrieval and then synthesizes a single LDIF entry for groups with more than 5000 members.
Safari Tech Books online provides [...]
Steve retires :(
Among other things Steve said at his retirement celebration, today, was this. “I hope I have as much fun in retirement as I’ve had working at UVM.”
My tears didn’t come until I left the party.
Friend to me and many, many souls here at UVM; visionary, curmudgeon, provocateur, playful adopter and vocal advocate of [...]
List folder contents – XP vs. Vista
Yesterday, a client called me complaining that, after installing Vista SP2, she couldn’t access a folder on a file share. She could access that same folder from her XP workstation, logged in with the same account.
I paid a service call (across the parking lot; any excuse to get up and walk outside ), [...]
Troubleshooting Wifi logon
I’ve been working with client to try to identify why we sometime log onto the UVM wifi network successfully before workstation logon, but frequently this fails and drive mappings are not performed successfully.
In consulting with a colleague, he suggested that it could be a race condition between the network authorizing the connection and the Windows [...]
