- Published:
- October 6, 2008 – 11:45 am
- Author:
- By Dave
It is possible to install Active Directory authentication in Ubuntu 8.04 and later. The Likewise Open packages accomplish this task, and it is actually pretty easy. Just a note – when installing Ubuntu, do not add a user named “administrator” as I did. This makes it impossible to join the Ubuntu workstation to the domain using the “administrator” active directory user – but you can use a different Domain Administrator username and password. The steps to follow: sudo apt-get install likewise-open sudo domainjoin-cli join fdqn.yourdomainserver Administrator sudo update-rc.d likewise-open defaults sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open start As a side note – you should also consider adding the following code to make it so that users do not have to login with DOMAIN\username on the ubuntu login screen. You can do this by changing /etc/samba/lwiauthd.conf and adding this line: 1winbind use default domain = yes Also, another helpful tidbit of information is getting your….
Categories: Linux,Security,System Administration,Ubuntu,Windows
Tagged: active directory, likewise, login, lwidentity, Ubuntu
- Published:
- October 1, 2008 – 2:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If you receive this error while opening Excel or other Microsoft Office programs, it is usually caused by an Adobe PDF addon that is having problems. According to Microsoft, this can happen if: 1. The Microsoft Office Startup folder or the Microsoft Excel Startup folder contains either or both of the following Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker add-in template files: Pdfmaker.dot Pdfmaker.xla AND 2. Norton AntiVirus software is installed. To fix it, delete the files from the startup Office folder. There are a few locations it might be, in my case it was in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART. See this Microsoft KB Article on fixing the error.
Categories: Programs,Software,Windows
Tagged: dismon, error, module, office 2007
- Published:
- August 27, 2008 – 6:49 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Windows XP and Vista hides the advanced user dialog from the control panel area. This area has been used in Windows 2000 to set saved passwords for login, and also to save passwords for Exchange servers so that you don’t need to type in a password every time you open Outlook. It can be used to save a password for Outlook if your domain is not the same as your Exchange server. If you don’t set this password, then the proxy server will always ask for a password even if you check off “Save Password”. Go to Start->Run, then type in: 1control userpasswords2 This will launch the advanced user dialog. You can now access the advanced tab. Tested in XP Professional and Vista Business.
Categories: System Administration,Windows
Tagged: configuration, exchange, outlook, xp
- Published:
- May 27, 2008 – 4:47 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Updated on 8/26/2008 with corrected information! Window’s simple shutdown command works well, but has some major drawbacks. The major one is that it will only schedule a reboot up to 10 minutes into the future (600 seconds). Linux’s shutdown command makes this easy, just issue the command ‘shutdown -r +60′ for example to reboot an hour in the future. No such luck in Windows, you need to download a separate program to do this. It is a sysinternals program, you might remember sysinternals from such utilies like FileMon and ProcessMonitor. The program we use for this is called PsTools and more specifically the file psshutdown.exe. [Download PsTools here] Place psshutdown.exe into a directory for future use, for this example we will use c:\tools\. Easiest Method: Type the following command into the command prompt: 1c:\tools\psshutdown.exe -r -f -c -t 02:00 /accepteula PSshutdown will respond with: 12345PsShutdown v2.52 – Shutdown, logoff and….
Categories: Programs,Shell,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: sysadmin, tricks, Windows
- Published:
- February 25, 2008 – 12:11 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Clients using Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition requires a password while uninstalling the client. The default password out of the box is symantec. If you have changed this password within the Symantec System Center – then you need to use that password. If you have changed the uninstall password and you no longer have access to this password – well then shame on you. Fortunately there is a workaround: 11) Open Regedit 2) Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\ VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\Administrator Only\Security\ 3) Change the value for this key from 1 to 0 useVPuninstallpassword 4) Close the registry and retry the uninstall [From Experts Exchange]
Categories: Programs,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: Intel, Symantec
- Published:
- February 4, 2008 – 5:10 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
For those of you, or those of you with clients, who have MSDOS based programs like Wordperfect and you want to print to a networked printer, this is all you need. This also works for other printers who use USB ports or something other than LPT. The solution was to map the share to an LPT port using [I]net use[/I]. For example: [I]net use lpt1 \\printserver\sharename /persistent:yes[/I] If the USB printer is on your local machine, you can share it and then map this same printer locally to an LPT port. From Microsoft KB314499
Categories: Programs,System Administration,Windows
Tagged: lpt, LPT port, map, microsoft, ms-dos, msdos, printer
- Published:
- January 3, 2008 – 8:13 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Downloading a CAB file to install onto your Windows Mobile device can be a pain – after downloading the cab file to your desktop, you need to first copy it to your device, then find the cab file to install and then proceed to install it. CABviaActiveSync is a simple, free program that adds a context menu to automatically parse the cab file on your desktop and install it via activesync. This can save you a bunch of steps and is incredibly handy if you are like me and are always installing/uninstalling programs to check out. Download CABviaActiveSync from Modaco.
Categories: Cell Phones,Programs,Software,Windows,Windows Mobile
Tagged: activesync, cab, install
