Had been struggling with the nasty authentication problem for one of the company sites in Romania. Turns out that in order to use the RomTelecom ADSL modules you should not use the ppp authentication command, which was causing rather strange behavior in the PAP & CHAP authentication monitor.
Network Connection And Sharing Center & Microsoft Firewall not functioning
After some strange issues regarding the Network Connection and Sharing Center not working properly I figured out that adding both the Local Server and Network Service accounts to the local administrator group fixed the issue. Then I encountered a problem with the firewall not working. Searching led to this post on Microsoft: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7security/thread/754bba1e-d100-45b2-8a2e-91ed41af61e3?prof=required Where http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943996/en-us […]
Windows 2008 x64 installation with USB stick drivers
Yesterday I attempted to install several new Dell D210’s with Windows 2008 x64. Booting to the installer prompted to load some drivers for the PERC S100 controller. No problem, downloaded them from the site and inserted the driver. After selecting the partition needed to install the OS a error popped-up: “Windows could not determine if […]
NAT Building on Cisco IOS 12.3
Most common use of a home router is ofcourse NAT. The “new” 2621 is now running IOS 12.3.26(GD) IP and has been fully configured for NAT. There are lots of guides out there but I will post my own approach here also: conf terminal interface fastethernet 0/0 no shutdown description WAN bandwidth 102400 ip address […]
Cisco study plans
As part of my work I have been heavely involved in Cisco routing, VPN and VoIP technologie for some time now. To improve on my own skills with Cisco I have orderd a bunch of Cisco routers namely: 2503 (single Ethernet router with BRI interface) 2611 (dual Ethernet router) And most recently a 2621 (dual […]
Adjusting dependancies on Windows services
While working on an issue with a 2003 SP2 server we ran into an error 1075 System error 1075 has occurred. The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion. But looking at the service in the Services manager we could not see any dependancy that was missing or not running. Turns […]
SharePoint 2007 Portal Site Hidden Login
In an on-going effort the create SharePoint template pages we have made a nice piece of code that allows us to hide the login button of the SharePoint Portal site unless users add a specific variable to the URL or unless they are logged in: <% SPUser currentUser = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser; string DisplayLogin = Request[“login”]; if […]
Exchange 2007 backups to PST
As many system administrators face the same issues with ExMerge falling away I went and dug up some method of still being able to make PST based backups of every user in an AD environment. Requirements for this are: A 32-bit server / workstation with Outlook 2003 SP2 (I use Outlook 2007) or higher installed […]