Microsoft
Active Directory integration with Samba for RHEL/CentOS5.5
Sep 4th
I’ve been asked to develop an enterprise level of complex network servers that can provide many services including mail server, ftp, web server, file server, print server, backup server, roaming profiles and user’s home directory.. etc. The client demanded at least one Linux machine regardless of the service running on it.
I’ve decided to run the web server (Apache) on it associated with the FTP server for managing the web pages contents, so I had to come out with a solution to join the Linux server to the Domain Controller (which is windows server 2003) as a member server.
It is true that any number of Samba servers can normally be set up in a Windows network without joining them to a domain. However, advantages of domain membership are central management, authentication and single sign-on. So once you’ve done with all the configuration and successfully joined the server to the DC you can use the same account name and password to log on to your Linux or Windows machine as well as the network administrators will be able to logon to the machine with their administrator credentials. Read the rest of this entry »
Creating a User Template in Active Directory
May 21st
When you are creating several users with similar account options and group membership creating those users would be a repetitive and time consuming task. However, in Active Directory you may be able to reduce some of the repetition by creating a USER TEMPLATE.
User template simply an inactive user account (disabled account) that can be copied to create users with common attributes. Copying from the User Template Account will run the same wizard for creating a new user account so you can fill in the missing fields such as username and password, as well as you can make some changes on those in common attributes fields. Read the rest of this entry »
Change UAC behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators
May 11th
User Account Control (UAC) is enabled in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista and Windows 7 by default. Every time an Administrator trying to configure, change or apply different configuration tasks this service will prompt for permission to continue. By clicking Continue in the dialog box the Administrator would grant this permission. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows Server 2008 Hardware Requirements
Apr 27th
When determining hardware requirements to install and run Windows Server 2008 and any application or services you are about to run on the server, you need to focus on three hardware resources with keeping in mind the rule “The more the better”:
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Remove XP Security 2010, Vista Security 2010
Apr 25th
XP Security (or Vista Security) is a rogue antispyware program. It is also known as:
- XP Internet Security 2010
- Vista Security Tool 2010
- XP AntiSpyware 2010
- XP Antimalware 2010
- Antivirus XP 2010
- XP Smart security 2010 Read the rest of this entry »
Batch file script to map network drive to users
Apr 14th
A batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter. When a batch file is run, the shell program reads the file and executes its commands, normally line-by-line.
The following script can be used as a logon script to map a network drive to users home directory (or any directory) on the server or somewhere else.
1- Copy and past the script in a text editor, notepad will dose the job perfectly. Read the rest of this entry »
Promote Windows Server 2008 into a Domain controller
Apr 4th
Promoting Windows server 2008 via command line into a domain controller are pretty straight forward procedure. That is true for the first Domain Controller in the Forest. However, If you planning to deploy a second Domain Controller, which is best practice since the second DC provides redundancy for user account data and helps distribute the load for authentication and global catalog, there are some prerequisites you need to be aware of before you promote your server into a Domain Controller DC/AC which are not discuses in this post. Read the rest of this entry »
Installing and Configuring DNS Server in Windows Server 2003
Feb 21st
Please note before you start with the installation you MUST configure the server with a static IP address, otherwise the installation wizard prompts you to configure the server with a static IP address during the installation process.
Installing DNS Server on windows Server 2003:
To install DNS server you may choose one of the two following methods:
* Installing DNS Server through Control panel :
- Click Start ==> Setting ==> Control Panel ==> Add or Remove Programs.
- Click on Add/Remove Windows Components from Add or Remove Programs menu.
- On Windows Components click on “Networking Services” and then click Details.
- On Networking Services details select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, click OK and then click Next.
- Click Finish once the installation finished. Read the rest of this entry »
PuTTY the SSH and telnet client
Feb 13th
PuTTY is an open source and a free implementation of Telnet, SSH, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.
PuTTY was originally written for Microsoft Windows, but it has been ported to various other operating systems. Official ports are available for some Unix-like platforms, with work-in-progress ports to Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X, and unofficial ports have been contributed to platforms such as Symbian OS and Windows Mobile OS. Read the rest of this entry »
