IT Thread

[theholycow]

Originally Posted by theholycow

4:07 LOL, "twatface"
6:15 they forgot Windows ME

How large was the hard drive? IIRC there were some serious limits on hard drive size for DOS that would prevent modern Windows from installing. Also, what about filesystems? DOS created a FAT16 filesystem. I can't remember if Windows 95 could run on FAT16 with some sort of extensions or if it had to convert to FAT32, but I'm pretty sure XP and up won't even try to install on FAT16 or FAT32.

I may have to duplicate the experiment.

Come to think of it, I think MS has provided utilities that can convert a live filesystem. I'm pretty sure there was one that could turn a FAT16 FS into FAT32. I know for a fact that XP has one to convert FAT32 into NTFS; I used it yesterday. Doesn't answer the size question, though.

[theholycow]

Good news, every IT guy:

I've always known how psexec works and I've used it a few times, but for some reason I never thought to use it to push software installs and such. It's generally not a problem on my employee domain where the user is usually a local administrator, but on the student computer lab domain it's tough because a logon script runs as the user. Anyway I am using it right now to push two pieces of software to every computer and it's working just right.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...rnals/bb897553
Direct download: http://live.sysinternals.com/psexec.exe

Single line to run "command" on all domain member computers:
psexec \\* -u DOMAIN\USERNAME \\server\folder\command

Run it against a text file list instead:
psexec @computerlist.txt -u DOMAIN\USERNAME \\server\folder\command

Run it on a single computer:
psexec \\computername -u DOMAIN\USERNAME \\server\folder\command

[stonehenge]

[JayBo]

I def need to set up a WSUS server, but don't you have to have SQL for that?

[theholycow]

IIRC, when you install WSUS it'll install whatever SQL server it needs.

Having SQL is not a big deal. You don't have to pay for it, Microsoft provides free versions to support stuff like WSUS and such.

I tried WSUS and found that it wasn't very helpful for me.

[stonehenge]

WSUS is only helpful if you are the kind of person to go through every update and research before approving them (FTS too many i just approve all) or if you have SO many computers that them downloading updates from off-site locations causes problems.



We set it up because bawws wanted it but srsly don't need.

---------- Post added at 08:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 AM ----------

This is kind of a shot in the dark since I don't think either of you deal with Macs much, but I'm having a problem here.

I am trying to map two different shares from the same server (using the same username) and it only maps the first one. When I try to map the second, it just opens up the first one even though I specifically entered the path to the second share.

So example:

I Apple+K and enter "smb://bamf.server.seks/shares/datshare" and enter le credentials and now I have "datshare" open.

Cool.

Now I hit Apple+K again and enter "smb://bamf.server.seks/shares/datothershare" and "datshare" pops up.

It isn't a problem with how the shares are setup. If I do the above process on an old iMac, both shares work. I can also successfully map both from a windows box. So it has something to do with the newer version of OSX. FML.

---------- Post added at 08:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:50 AM ----------

Oh and the server is running 2008 w/ DFS and namespaces and whatnot.

[theholycow]

My limited experience with file sharing on Macs was a pain in the ass...sorry, can't help.

[stonehenge]

ok, haz another question. Is separate but may help with the previous issue.

Do you use namespaces on an 08 server? I've never dealt with them and I think they are setup incorrectly. Another guy here was going to manage this server, started setting it up, then GTFO so I got stuck with it. Let me give an example of how it's setup now...

The E: drive is where we have all the home directories and shares. Inside E, there are folders for each department and then inside those are Users and Shares directories that contain the obvious.

Ex:

E:\
|- Dept01
  |- Users
    |- User01
  |- Shares
    |- Share01
    |- Share02
|- Dept02
|- Dept03

etc

Now the dude setup namespaces for the departments, so there is \\Server\Dept01, \\Server\Dept02, etc.

I don't want users accessing those namespaces and I will never map them or anything, is there a reason to have them?

---------- Post added at 09:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 AM ----------

As a normal user, if I map \\Server\Dept01\Shares\Share01 on a mac, I can move back up the file tree and see the Shares dir, Dept01, and even go all the way back and see Dept01,Dept02,Dept03. I can't see the files IN them because I don't have permission but I can see all the folders because they are namespaces I think.

As you can tell, I should NOT have been put in charge of this server

---------- Post added at 09:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:32 AM ----------

on pinche linux we setup a share and thats all the fgts can see

[theholycow]

I gots nothin' fer ya. We don't use DFS. I got some experience with it back in like 2007 but I forgot it all.

[stonehenge]

rofl k

Now I'm thinking it's more of a permissions issue. If they don't have the ability to list contents and whatnot in the Dept01, Users, and Shares folders then they can't go up the tree.

[BillyJeanKing]

youtube wasn't werking for me earlier

i cleared cookies and all that shit and now it werks

wtf did that do???

[theholycow]

Shit did stuff bro.

[BillyJeanKing]

thanks cao

[stonehenge]

[MFB]

lol @ windows servers

[theholycow]

I used to LOL at Windows servers too but they're quite good these days.

[stonehenge]

our 2008 server is aight, i like all the shit that can be done with GPOs but our linux domain is so much easier lol

[apedestrian]

k. so my ram is shitty and i ran memtest86 for liek 3 hours and no errors showed up. WTf should i do?

idk if i hav to test each stick individually or what?

[stonehenge]

if memtest isn't giving any errors then what makes you think it is the ram that's shitty and not something else?

[theholycow]

Test, success, RAM is ok.

[apedestrian]

Originally Posted by Juan!

if memtest isn't giving any errors then what makes you think it is the ram that's shitty and not something else?

i tested it with one stick and it showed 11 errors.


and because when i load up counter strike source and select "server list" it starts loading the list and freeze

so i have 1 good stick of ram
i just loaded up css and it didn't freeze (with the good stick that passed) but now im gon be stuck wit either 2gigs or no ram for liek 2-3 weeks

[stonehenge]

i'd probably go with 2gb instead of 0gb

[apedestrian]

Originally Posted by Juan!

i'd probably go with 2gb instead of 0gb

yeah


i emailed teh IT ram guy dat my other stick is workin so i prolly only have to only send in 1 stick

---------- Post added at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:51 PM ----------

anyone want 2 gigs of ram

[apedestrian]

another thing. I over clocked my system and ram, if id send this ram in to GEIL (makes on the ram) would it still be overclocked?

[theholycow]

No, overclocking is something you do with the motherboard (though you're doing it to the CPU or RAM). It explains your RAM failure, too.