A customer have 75 Laptops and 99% of time, the Laptops are out of the
company and sometimes they tend to not connect to the enterprise for several
days and sometimes even several weeks!
From time to time, some Laptops looses connectivity with the DCs (it´s a

We're trying to run a service on a server (not a DC) that accesses files on
a share on the DC. Although I run it under an account that has sufficient
rights to access that particular, it doesn't work. It says the service
didn't respond in a timely fashion.

Is it possible to recreate the Anonymous_User group in Win2k3 that
would have existed had I upgraded from Windows 2000?
I just want to share a printer over classic Windows networking to
Windows 2000 guests without having them encounter the "Login:" box &

I have a CA certificate that I installed to access a secure web site.  At
one time I could access the site with no problem, however, I can no longer
get to the site via my LAN connection (DSL).  I am able to access the site
if I connect to the internet with a dial-up connection.

imagine the following scenario:
- have a Windows 2003 SP1 VPN Server with standalone or enterprise
certification authority, allowing only L2TP/IPSec connections with
certificate based authentication.

it is not strong. So we want setup another Pserver as a mirror PDC. What
should I do?
what is the best practice?
what is the Document I should read?

we have a small domain, and two system administrator. what we used to do is
when user call us and say they want a software we go and install it with
domain admin account. But MS hacker could install a Trojan and capture the
admin password. so waht is the best do that?

I'm running 2003 servers in one domain. One server is PDC, DNS, DHCP,
one is a file server, and this new one is a file server also running
IIS.  I can't connect to my new server via Remote Desktop. I can connect
to both of the other servers. I get the error:

Writing up a new security policy for 2003 servers.  2003SP1 comes with SCW,
but there's the SCE (since 2000SP4) out there too.  I realize they both do
some different things.
SCE is a bit less user-friendly than SCW which comes with a nice wizard.

I have a SBS 2003 server with PCanywhere installed, host mode
listening on port 5631. I can enter internally (192.168.1.102)
Externally I have port forwarding set to forward to port 5631 to the
internal ip address and port 5631.

I have tried configuring port forwarding on a linksys router exactly
how I read here.
http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPORT/pca.nsf/pfdocs/1999050310452112
Also tried the DMZ.

Being new to the Windows Server family, I'd like to know hoe to do the
folowing thing :
On my server 2003, I have a drive (named DATA) on which I put important
company data ; database files and other documents, located in a few folders,

 What should I do that I wouldn't need to have all intermediate CA
certificates on IIS 6 side to sucessful certification chain build ?
 I'm sorry for repeated question but my last post to "Different IIS 5 & IIS
6 behavior on checking clients' certificates" thread is unanswered ...

We have DL 580 G2 Series from HP, the array is 5i smart array controller.
the server having problem we have to move the HDD to another Server, but the
Scsi is 6400 smart controller.
is there anyway to change the settings, when i put the HDD to new server

we need to renew the ca certificate and we want to change the subject
name of the certificate at the same time. we tried to install a new
certificate with a modified subject name. the ca displayed an error that
  the common name of the submitter does not match the name of the