Dear friends,
I am experiencing a strange problem resuling in the unability to establish
the IPsec connection from both communications partners, it only works when
machine B contacts machine A, not vice versa. After pinging machine A, A can

Does anyone know of some free, open source or free Windows Fault Simulation
Tools?
For example:
   - Spin up CPU to XX%

I've recently tried to Antigen 9 for SMTP trial version on my SMTP relay
(IIS 6.0) in a DMZ. For security reason, the server is in a workgroup.
Unfortunately Antigen won't run and even more prevents the SMTP service from
running correctly.

I am getting similar 529 events where only the IP is listed.  There
will be about 20 entries in a row with the same IP.  Why can't the
kerberos ticket be decrypted?  What would cause this to occur?  Most
importantly, does this sound like suspicious activity or can I ignore

We have around 10 trusted domains that we sometimes add users from into our
domain local groups. When a user from a trusted domain leaves, we need a way
to find out what groups in OUR domain he is a member of and remove him  I
have not been able to find any way to do this (short ...

I have created a shared folder on a Windows 2003 server in a Windows
2000 domain. However, I cannot add the Administrators Group to the
access list, only Domain\Administrator. I'm not sure if this is because
the AD is on a Windows 2000 server, but any help would greatly

i have a win2k3 server and 5 clients, all xp pro, all exactly the same
machine. I have a kyocera printer setup as shared on one of the xp pro
machines. intermittently 1 (the same one) of the other machines loses its
connection to the networked printer,   It cannot see or print to ...

We are reserching possibilities to secure Windows 2003 Server SP1 and
Windows XP systems at a customer location with IPSec. All the domain
controllers also host other services like file and printing ressources. Have
read several papers, and whats confusing me is that according to ...

on my system log, i found an entry that says:
The rsyncd service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.
event id:7000

We want to log users who try to write to folders that they do not have
permissions to. We have enabled logging under Local Policies, Audit
Policies. Its not working tho.
For example, say there is a folder on the C:\ that users do not have

Which are the minimum permissions to join an XP computer to a domain?
I want to give help desk people the permissions necessary to do this BUT
without having Administrator permissions.
Thanks,

In our Windows 2003 installs, I am seeing four long foreign SIDs in the User
Right "Logon as a Batch Job".    How does Microsoft use those?

On a Windows 2003 server with File and Print Sharing enabled, I turn on
Windows Firewall and then configure the checkbox exception for File and
Printer sharing.    With the firewall on, file sharing breaks.   With the
firewall off, file sharing works.

I am unable to run certain MSI and EXE files. I receive the following error..
"The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation"
Windows Server 2003 SP1
Domain Contoller

I'm looking for an entry level firewall I can install on all Windows 2000
computers, similar to the one Microsoft includes with Windows XP and Windows
2003.    I think Zone Alarm is far too glossy with all of its pop up
dialogs, and it's logs often hide important details from me.   ...