What is the meaning of the built in account ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS
versus the Domain Local group named Domain Controllers?    The Enterprise
built in group is for all domain controllers in your forest?

How should security templates be layered?  For example, I have a member
server template that is very restrictive.  It really locks the server down.
Shouldn't I apply that first to a newly imaged server, then install the
application? (ie. Exchange 2003)  I guess my concern is the ...

I have a web service, as I understand from msdn docs, web services in IIS 6
works with network service account. Therefore for a specific purpose, I have
to access the HKCU registry of network service account and add some keys
there. But the problem is that, How to do that, since ...

Last week  members of a distribution group in AD all appeared greyed out,
however the individual accounts seemed fine. This was down to the fact that
the limit had been reached for the number of memebers in a distribution group.
The strange thing now is that the members of the ...

I'm setting up a standard means of setting up a testing Windows Server 2003
server on the open internet (as opposed to behind our corporate firewall).
Questions:
1.

Hi, everyone.
Sorry for my bad english ... and bad knowledge of Microsoft FTP:)
How can I set up FTP server on W2K3 SE to permit FTP users
to logon directly into their own FTP directory. Am using Windows

Hi to all,
I have Windows Server 2003 as DNS, DC and AD server set up and work fine.
How can I log on as user (restricted user) on that server(console login), so
i don't need admin rights.

I recently changed the configuration of my server to from the member of
a domain to a member of another work group.
I was prompted for a restart, now the issue is that the only login ID i
know is that of a login that belongs to a domain and i do not have the

We have a Web application running on IIS under a Win2k3 server. The
application uses delegation to allow the users to access resources from
their remote browser. The users are in two domains. A TEST domain and a
PRODUCTION domain. The machines are in the TEST domain. The ...

I have the following ports open on our server.  Several do not look right to
me.  I used a Linux Security boot CD and Nmap to scan all our addresses for
open ports.  Any ideas?
Interesting ports on (10.253.10.1):

Does the Windows 200x BUILTIN\Users group need access to
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ ?
I would like to restrict access to this group to Administrators and SYSTEM.

I am currently running Windows 2003 Server w/ iis/DHCP/DNS and active
directory on the same box.  I am wanting a way to ssh to the server.
I am wondering if any of you have opinions on how to install this service.  I
have used Cygwin before and it worked fine until I upgraded the ...

Anyone use or have seen the USB logon keys. I am considering them for use
here and need feedback. We aren't a nuclear site or anything, We just have
careless users who leave thier machine logged in all the time because they
don't want to remember thier strong password. These keys ...

I ppl.
I have one problem with my wndows 2003 server.
sometimes he restarted itself and i don't know the reason.
i go to event viewer and have this:

How to reset the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService account in windows 2003
enviornment?
Thanks
Gopi