OT : Good XP Domain Admin book?

Rope scribbled:

To be honest I don't even know if its being used at all.

Got to investigate and find out exactly what is being used, and what
its being used for, whats in those bits. Then I'll know I can chuck
away or turn off half the stuff thats running.

From what I can determine so far the only problems migrating things
over are possibly the SQL, the various MS Outlook functionality (only
used by one person so shouldn't be a problem), and advertising all the
printers, file shares, etc, that Active Directory does (or should do,
but doesn't cause its not working)

There's something seriously wrong somewhere though, because just about
everyone looses connection from one subnet to the other, and the DNS
servers on one, and the gateway on another. Happened to me today, the
machine thats supposed to do the routing just stopped routing until I
rebooted my machine.

The routing table of that machine looks wierd too.

And looking at both the network cards IP setup, only one of them has a
default gateway setup...

<from memory>

subnets
192.168.0/24
192.168.1/24

internet gateway 192.168.0.152

router machine eth0 : 192.168.0.151 and eth1 : 192.168.1.1
eth0 : IP and netmask are correct, gateway set to 192.168.0.152
eth0 : IP and netmask are correct, gateway blank? Shouldn't this be
192.168.0.152?

Looking at the routing table (part of cause this is from memory):-

IP g/w
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.152
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.151
192.168.0.151 127.0.0.1
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1
192.168.1.1 127.0.0.1

Which looks fine to me apart from the loopback IP having a g/w of
itself? And it doesn't seem to have a Default Gateway setup?

Oh, and also Net BIOS is not being advertised from one subnet to the
other, which is a complete bloody PITA as all the machines on
192.168.1/24 have to have their lmhosts file edited so they can see the
DNS server (on 192.168.0/24)

 

dwb scribbled:

Err, no. I know linux, MS server is a pain with all its GUI bits since
over 75% of them seem to be extraneous!

And the win 2k admin pack doesn't work on an XP box, and the XP admin
kit partially doesn't work administaring a Win 2k server.

And I couldn't find remote desktop on the servers to set that up (yes I
know its a rather daft idea but I'm lazy!)

 

ginge scribbled:

If I can migrate everything else over to a *nix box and leave one Win2k
box running just the SQL server and nothing else I'll be happy with
that.

 

Krusty scribbled:

SPEC? SPEC? There's sweet FA documentation/design for anything here!!!

The first thing I did was trawl through 100 odd classes and identified
20 of them that do nothing and can be deleted.

And about another 5 that can be replaced by standard MFC.

 

Steve Parry scribbled:

Oooh, ta, if I ever finish early enough to get to PC World I'll try to
find a copy.

 

This is freak porn isn't it?

 

I'll repeat my question. Have you confirmed this would be in the best
interest of your employer?

Your knowledge of Linux is irrelevant to this question.

Getting a new PC and some more licences is very cheap compared to you
fucking off after 6 months leaving a "customised" Linux system that no one
understands.

 

It starts so well...

but we used an Access mdb to store the

And then goes down in a ball of flames.

 

being as I am, a manager these days, I've actually no idea - I just
spout the acronyms.

 

So 6pm'ish in the Paternoster? I've never been there so is it likely I will
find you, or is this a cunning plan? SimonK appears to have pulled a sickie
or something so dunno if he's turning up.

 

"at the bar". Well, at a table between the bar and the doors[1] - I'll
keep an eye out; email me to whatever @ sticky.co.uk if you want my
mobile no. (I don't think you have my current no.)

The Paternoster itself is very easy to find - it's a couple of doors
West along Newgate Street from St.Pauls tube station. You're based just
up the road near Chancery Lane or Holborn tubes, right? Obviously a
piece of piss to get the tube to St.Pauls, but FYI, I can walk from
here to the Sainsbury's at Holborn in 12 minutes - it can take longer
on the tube at rush hour, if you have to wait for a few trains to pass
before one's empty enough to get on.

 

He's only got short legs, though

There are plenty of buses whizzing up and down Holborn too

 

good point, well made.

"whizzing" is relative - it's still quicker to walk at certain times of
the day.

Are you coming, or what, BTW?

 

It's not actually - I've got 'normal' legs and a short body.

Hence why I have (and fit on) a gay motorcycle. (post editing not required
TYVM).

I wouldn't catch a bus anyway.

 

funnily enough, I saw the Kwack equivalent the other day, in orange -
looks a lot nicer than the v-Strom; amazing what a nicer colour can
do...

 

Probably. I'm feeling a bit shit, and working at home today, but these Day
Nurse/Night Nurse pills seem to be doing the trick. When are you leaving the
paternoster?

 

The likelyhood of someone understanding Samba setups is fairly good -
especially if you recruit the replacement with the appropriate skills.

Not so much 'customised' as 'using standard packages'.

Phil

 

Indeed. Using Oracle does considerably raise the bar on costs of
replacement staff..

Phil

 

around 7 or so. Aiming to be at Dragon for 7:30 at any rate.

 

1. Set up DNS properly. It sounds like it isn't. I assume that it is
running on the one of the AD server and is defined as an
Active-Directory Integrated zone. Anything else will give you big
problems.
2. Switch off any trace of netbios.
3. Use DHCP (Windows DHCP server is fine)
4. Set up WINS server on the server.
5. Point the WINS address advertised by the DHCP server to the WINS
server.
6. Switch all the workstations over to DHCP - ones that need fixed IP
addresses can have static reservations.
7. Set DHCP to update your AD DNS automatically.


Phil.