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    - VPN setup to other VPN host. I currently have some scheduled tasks which run in the middle of the night to exchange information using FTP, SMTP, POP3 and HTTP with various sites. I update retrieved information into my SQL database and then pass this information on to a hospital using an ODBC connection into their SQL server database. I also have the need to access their SQL server via SQL enterprise manager. The current setup allowed port 1433 access into their network and only from my fixed IP address range. As of 01/01/2004 they require me to do this via a secure VPN. As a newbie to VPN, the more I read in this newsgroup about problems others are having the more I am confused about the best approach. The server I have has two NIC cards, one for the internal address and the other for the WAN side. How is the best way to setup this VPN tunnel without affecting my normal FTP/HTTP internet access? Is it best to use the built in VPN software solution or should I get a cheap LinkSys type router with VPN built in? Is performance an issue, meaning is it a load on the server to do the encryption and VPN security, enough to warrant a hardware solution? TIA Mark Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145702
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    - VPN set up problem We have benn trying to set up a VPN connection. We can VPN from a client PC within the domain and it connects OK. We can VPN out to a remote site and it also works. Remote VPN into the SBS 2003 machine never gets past the "Verifying username and password" dialog box. We have stepped through KB 320 697 and 308 208 without any luck. When we first try to install it, it says that RRAS can't find the default remote access policy. This error is followed by one saying that 80020007 can't find the specified file. Can anyone shed some light on this ? TIA, Ian Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145700
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    - OWA prompts for password multiple times I have OWA installed and the article 327349 says to unclear the check box for Ask Unauthentuicated users for identification to fix this problem. Will this open up the access to anyone? Peter V Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145694
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    - DNS Forwarders Hi, Stupid Question Time again. Given that the DNS will ask the root servers for any address that can't resolve why bother to add dns-forwarders to the DNS server? Craig Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145684
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    - ISA install-VPN help I have a server that was originally configure with one nic and a 3com firewall. We have moved to a new location and was unabled to get the 3Com configured. I installed a second nic and tried to install ISA and failed. Do I need to reinstall IIS first and then ISA? I need to get remote access and VPN working asap can any one help. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145683
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    - How does one retrive WAN IP address for remote access I have a Netopia router that apparently has some fairly advanced settings to allow me access into my office to use services such as XP Pro remote desktop I see where to configure the port forwarding in the router (TCP/UDP 3389) and I have the desktop access turned on at the client. But when I query the router info for the WAN side IP it shows me a private 10.0.0.x address. LAN side is in the 192.x.x.x range which I expected. How can i connect to this router (and thus the workstations) ? How can I find out the public address to this router? Contact the ISP (which could be a long wait) Or is ther another way? Ipconfig /all is no help either only reporting the LAN side IP. Also, once this is figured out,assuming their are 10 workstations all using XP Pro and configured for remote desktop, how does a remote user select *their* desktop machine? Does the rdp client have a means of viewing all available desktops? Not sure how you would then connect from a public address to an internal private address. thanks so much! Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145679
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    - DNS Hosting a website on SBS2000. I'm also running DNS server. However, external clients can't resolve address. I can nslookup www.mydomain.com dns.mydomain.com and get the address. Users internal to the next work can resolve addresses in the DNS, such as dns, mail, www. I have server publishing rules for DNS Query and DNS Zone Transfer Server in ISA as well as packet filters as well as the DNS Filter. There is a router in front of the server, however the ISA server logs reveal that packets are getting through. I'm at a complete loss now. I've tried a variety of configurations and followed instructions at http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/whitepapers/isp_dns_config.asp. Where am I going wrong? Robert Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145678
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    - Questions on the products that come with SBS I have a question pertaining to ISA on a SBS server. Would it be better to ask in the ISA group or here. The question is how can I find out what user is surfing to a certain web site? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145674
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    - shared fax / calling card dialing options Shared fax dials the appropriate calling card prefixes set up in the location dialing rules, but does not dial the suffixes after the phone number. All numbers are canonical and we use sbs2000 with exchange 5.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jack Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145673
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    - outbound fax problems I have a problem with my outgoing faxes through SBS2000. I have tried to send a fax with an attachment to an outside agent through Outlook XP. It is always being returned to my inbox stating that it's undeliverable. The content of the undeliverable e-mail looks like this: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Apple Vacations Fax Sent: 12/8/2003 3:31 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: FAX:Dennis Loomis@+1 (563) 386-3093 on 12/8/2003 3:31 PM The e-mail address could not be found. Perhaps the recipient moved to a different e-mail organization, or there was a mistake in the address. Check the address and try again. I tried sending a fax to another person in my contact list, and that fax goes through perfectly. Why would it fax to one person, but not to another? HELP! Thanks! Torrey Lauer Modern Travel Services www.moderntravel.net Milwuakee, WI, USA Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145672
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    - exchange I have a user who is getting copies of everyones sent and recieved e-mails in the domain. We download POP3 mail from individual accounts from our hosted mail into exchange. I am getting undeliverable messages for his account from anything we try to send him from the outside world. One read " A configuration error in the e-mail system caused the message to bounce between two servers or to be forwarded between two recipients." I have since killed his account on the POP3 connector and he is recieving mail at the ISP now. We have done no config changes on exchange. I am at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145664
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    - Create Folder for a Group Forgive me to ask this very basic question: How do I create a folder in SBS2K in order to give access only to a group of user? I do not want anyone except this group to see the contents of the folder. I created a group (eg. MyGroup) from AD and added few users including myself to this group. I can see this group name under ..\Mybusiness\Group folder. I then created a folder (eg. GroupFolder) in the Server and select properties. I choose "Do not share this folder" in the Sharing tab. I added the MyGroup in the Security tab with Full access. I remove Everyone from the Security tab. When I try access to the file folder, I got the error "Access is denied". What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance. Ron Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145663
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    - How to upgrade SBS 2000 to BackOffice Server 2000 ? Help needed Hi All, How to upgrade SBS 2000 to Microsoft BackOffice Server 2000? Do Microsoft website provide any documents for reference? Or if you have the experience, please guide me how to that. Thanks in advance. Vincent --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 03-12-05 Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145658
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    - Shared Fax / Dialing rules / Outlook XP - need help with 100+ faxing per day ! I need to get Shared Fax working for a customer has Win2000 SBS (W2K sp3) and Outlook XP clients. I have done the Contacts import/export conversion so that ALL contacts have the canonical form dialing showing up. (i.e. +1-555-222-3333). The local phone company requires area-code inclusion for LOCAL calls. Long distance calls require +1 on the number. There are 2 USR 56k PCI modems installed on the server. they were on the Server 2000 HCL list. I have added to the Shared Fax - Outgoing Routing - Rules to use "1" as the country code for "all areas", "all devices". The default rule is still in place. So...the user STILL does not get a successful fax connection to a 1+###-###-#### attempt but you can pick up the same line with a handset and dial directly with a good result. Mostly, I'd love to hear from anyone who does a high volume of faxing 100+ per day, successfully. Also, which computer really controls the dialing...the client or the Win2K server? please, any help would be appreciated. I do have a MS support incident i can use but i want to get real world advice as to whether this thing will ever really work ...even with MS Support. Thanks! -Edwick (508 335 4563) Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145653
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    - How to redirect email for one user to and external pop3 account I'm trying to redirect the email for one user externally to his private pop account. Sadly he can;t collect email directly from his Exchange server for connectivity reasons! Can anyone tell me how to do this? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145645
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    - POP Connectors Hi, Last year I setup a pop connector to collect my client's email from a personal account. Now I'm trying to turn off that pop connector and can't for the life of me remember where to find the settings. Can anyone jog my memory? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145643
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    - Terminal Services I have a client that has SBS2k with several people using terminal services. How many concurrent terminal server sessions are allowed. Thanks Jimmy Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145642
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    - Network Monitor capture of logon failure Hello Is there anyone that can read a capture I have to try to determine the flaky Domain login issues we are having? I have captured the data between the server and the w2k client machine when it fails to login. Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks Dan Andrews Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145641
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    - Administrators Account Password Can anyone tell me if there are problems with changing the Administrators password on SBS 2000. Do any services rely on it? Is there any info available on this subject? Thanks in advance. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145640
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    - Security on Company Sub Folders All, I posted a question a while ago about sub folders not inheriting the permissions set from higher folders. I have been looking at this again as it has come up after a few weeks. Below is the permissions for the company drive and a new sub folder created on a Win XP Pro machine. The Test document is not available to any other clients. D:\Company Shared - Domain Users, Domain Admins - FC not ticked to inherit from Parent. D:\Company shared\Advisory - Domain Users, Domain Admins - FC inherited from D:\Company Shared - Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object is ticked D:\company shared\advisory\test - FC Everyone D:\Company Shared\Advisory\Test\test document.doc - FC Administrators, System - ONLY Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object is ticked. When the Win XP Pro client created the about Sub folder Test and then the Test Document.doc the security is all wrong. Anyone any ideas why this is happening? I can reset the permissions fine but any new documents or sub folders created end up with the wrong security info. Thanks Dave Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145630
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    - Multiple Clients Hi, I have 2 clients running SBS 2003 sharing a DSL line. How do I change their "companyweb" default so that each goes to his server? Thanks Rich Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145624
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    - Setup SBS2K Exchange for SMPT email receve Hi All Our server was setup for POP3 but now we want to have mail delivered direct to our server. Our ISP can deliver SMTP and I will set that up when we have the server configured. I need to know any setting I need to make to make sure the mail is delivered to the correct mail box on the server. -- Regards Simon Hardstaff --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 05/12/2003 Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145621
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    - Help on setup VPN sbs2K Hi All Can any one point me to info on VPN setup on SBS2K -- Regards Simon Hardstaff --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.548 / Virus Database: 341 - Release Date: 05/12/2003 Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145619
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    - Exchange log files Let me start by admitting that I don't take good enough care of my SBS 2000 box - that should avoid the 'serves you right' replies :-) I have SBS 2000 serving approx 35 employees, and I back the server up using Backup Exec 9.0. I run a FULL backup each weekday night. I have 2 large Exchange files... priv1.edb 2.8Gb priv1.stm 8.3Gb However, I have noticed today that I also have approx 12Gb of log files on another drive (e.g. E0008EDA.log), and the vast majority of these are from Sunday 7th December. Can somebody explain what is going on ? I thought the log files were deleted once they were backed up ? How can I have 12Gb of log files from a day when the server was barely used ? Ian. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145617
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    - blicking unwanted virus spam In exchange is it possible to block these virus things claiming to be from microsoft? Our antivirus picks up around 10 per day and they jsut sit in the SMTP queue as the antivirus cant delete it. We use Mcafee. Is there any other way other than putting the adresses into the filter list, of blocking these annoying emails? If not, in the filter list can you block say a whole domain as in anything from.adviser.net as an example? Other people must have this very frustrating issue!! Thanks a lot Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145614
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    - joining a domain I would like to know if i can join a domain from a remote site. I have setup some laptops to connect to a small buisness server 2000 using VPN i can connect to the server and use outlook to connect to the exchange server this works fine, The problem is I can not browse the network. I have had a pc hardwired to the network and joined a domain, when i connected this through VPN i can browse the network. does the client need to be connected to the domain?? can i join a domain through VPN???? Thanks in advance Regards Stephen Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145611
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    - Is SBS 2000 right for me? I am new to SBS 2000 and Exchange as an admin. I have used them for years, but never set them up. I am suggesting a recommendation that SBS be installed at my brother's law office. Here's the scenario: In the office there are 10 PCs running peer-to-peer. There is a file server installed. There are 2 partners in the office and each has a secretary. Each partner uses a laptop and a pda. The secretary syncs the pda with her local copy of Outlook. But each partner cannot use his laptop to see current Outlook appointments because they are on the secretary's system. My idea is to install SBS 2000 and create a domain. Each secretary could maintain the corresponding partner's calendar by opening it in Outlook. When the partner wants the PDA synced up the secretary can open the appropriate calendar (and any other folders) and sync it. The partner would also be able to see his own calendar in Outlook. Does this sound reasonable? Another option is to forego SBS and Exhange and have the secretary sync her Outlook to the pda, then have the partner sync the pda to his copy of Outlook. Still another option is to sync each copy of Outlook using Vaita's OSASync. I think they will get much better mileage out of SBS and Exchange. Thanks - Jim Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145607
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    - VPN into another Domain outside local domain SBS GODS.. we have sbs 2003 and are tring to connect to a clients office with sbs 2000. when i was connected at our location whit a computer with xp pro and a router and cable modem i was able to VPN into there office (sbs 2000) and see the server and the remote cpus but now i have put in a sbs 2003 and i can connect to there network but when i try to run the remote desktop i cant see any remote desktops or server....i able to ping them but cant see them or connect to them. also at there office they want to connect to one of there clients from there office sbs 2000 they can VPN into there clients office but they have the same problem they cant see any computers or the server. ANY help on this subject would be GREAT.. MARK Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145606
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    - Message delivered twice on SBS200/Exchange 200 server Hi I am encoutering a problem where messages are being delivered to the local domain twice. The message is successfully saved to the local store by the smtp store driver but then is resubmitted to advanced queuing to be delivered all over again. I have performed integrity checks on the information stores and they check out ok. Help please.. SBS2000, Exchange 2000 SP3 Terry@ehis.net.nz Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145604
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    - <<< Small Business Server news of the week December 7th 2003 >>>>> Kevin's song of the week news://msnews.microsoft.com:119/u6Rs0h7uDHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl ---------------------------------- Bryce Milton is seeking SBS testers for our SBS date issue news://msnews.microsoft.com:119/Oihe35EvDHA.2464@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl --------------------------------- This past week was Security webcast week.... if you missed them, all the webcasts have been recorded and posted on the web. Go to www. microsoft.com/security for more details -------------------------------- This Tuesday is the second Tuesday of the month and that means it's Security Day! Look for potential hotfixes to come out on that day. Sign up for security bulletins to be informed of these patches Go to www.microsoft.com/security for more details ------------------------------- SHAREPOINT ISSUE Just remember our Sharepoint issue .... set your system date clock back before 11/24/2003 and install your Small Business Server 2003. More details including picture how-tos are at www.sbslinks.com click on the "Sharepoint link" at the top. ------------------------------- So today I'm on the road coming home from a weekend trip to Los Angeles to visit with friends and celebrate their son's "Black belt" in TaeKwanDo. And being the geek that I am, I've got the laptop, the cell phone, the digital camera for the trip. For a friend of the family, we are building them a new computer with Windows XP [yeah ... the Home version but they only need the computer for Home] and one of the major things we did was to enable the firewall on that dial up connection. Start, control panel, network connections, network card properties, click on the advanced tab and enable the firewall. When you visit friends and family this Christmas season, do your Holiday geek duty and just check out their computers, ensuring that they are patched, have an up to date antivirus. In fact, burn in XP sp1 and all security patches on a cdrom and help them keep their systems up to date. Yes, that's really geeky I know.... but all of us can help each other be a little more secure. If you want to know just HOW geeky I am.... I'm connecting to the web using my GPRS Nokia 6220 cell phone to send this email. I know... pretty geeky that as long as my battery holds out and I can get a GPRS connection, I can get online just about anywhere! :-) --------------------------- Spanish police arrest Raleka worm suspect Spanish police have arrested a 23-year-old man in Madrid, who is suspected of being the author of the W32/Raleka worm which infected more than 120,000 computers in August. The Raleka worm operated in a similar way to the Blaster worm, exploiting the Windows RPC Service vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP operating systems. Infected machines could then be used to mount further remote attacks. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126855 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/34226.html - - - - - - - - - - Police arrest ID thief in Wells Fargo case Police have arrested a California man for stealing computers containing the personal information of thousands of Wells Fargo customers. Edward Jonathan Krastof, 38, of Concord in California, has confessed to stealing a computer containing the sensitive information after breaking into the offices of a financial analyst hired by Wells Fargo, Reuters reports. Krastof also stole another computer and laptop during the same burglary. hhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34234.html http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5112193.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/27/MNGUO3BN101.DTL http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/27/wellsfargo.theft.ap/index.html http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1542609 http://www.timesheraldonline.com/articles/2003/11/27/news/news05.txt http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/27/wellsfargo.theft.ap/index.html - - - - - - - - - - Pay attention -- that guy could be a laptop thief A man walked into an Atlanta office, made chitchat with two workers and sat down for lunch with them. Nobody noticed when he left with four stolen laptops. In another incident, police officers stopped a pregnant woman as she left an Atlanta-area workplace and found a laptop strapped to her belly. In yet another case, a thief walked into San Francisco-based Aligo Inc. during business hours, hid until everyone left and then took about a dozen devices worth at least $7,000, including laptops and personal digital assistants. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/7369019.htm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/150472_laptoptheft01.html http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-5/1070260519214470.xml - - - - - - - - - - Fraudulent e-commerce site proves hard to close A convincing e-commerce site is still up six weeks after the discovery that it is fraudulently using fake security certificates and the details of another, legitimate, Web site. A Web site that purportedly offers cheap mobile phones is still online more than six weeks after efforts began to close it down for what is believed to be fraudulent activity. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118208,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Sobig.F lingers as cure backfires One of the IT sector's biggest threats in 2003 is still out there. The blame lies partly with PCs that don't know the time, but also with action that was taken to minimise damage done by the worm. Sobig.F is still rampaging around the Internet, two months after the virus was supposed to have terminated itself. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118188,00.htm http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5112207.html - - - - - - - - - - Debian attacker may have used new exploit An as-yet-unknown security hole allowed the recent hack attack on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system project. An as-yet-unknown security exploit in Linux may have been responsible for a recent compromise of Debian.org's servers, according to a system administrator with the Debian operating system project. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118183,00.htm - - - - - - - - - - Microsoft decries overseas Longhorn rustling Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Microsoft Windows operating system years before it is supposed to be on sale. Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia, CDs containing software that Microsoft has code-named Longhorn are on sale for 6 ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. Microsoft's current version of Windows, XP, sells for more than $100 in the United States. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5112229.html http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/01/technology/microsoft_piracy.reut/index.htm http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-01-longhorn-pirated_x.htm http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,87707,00.html Microsoft investigates IE holes http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39118197,00.htm http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/01/explorer.holes.reut/index.html http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61416,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Single bug or virus attack could cost your business £66,000 The cost to businesses of a single bug or virus attack can be as much as £66,000, research has revealed. The estimate, contained in a report from analyst firm Datamonitor, comes as users face threats from the latest flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer and the "Mary" e-mail bug which tempts users with porn.Users are still waiting for a patch from Microsoft to prevent Explorer from downloading damaging code from hacked websites. This code, in turn, allows users? desktops to be hacked remotely. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=126908 Swen fends off Mimail to top viral charts http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/34261.html Sysbug-A Virus On the Prowl http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113680,00.asp - - - - - - - - - - Viruses may jeopardize power supplies, official FINNISH MAGAZINE Helsingin Sanomat said that large corporations have received official notices from the government to keep a close eye on their networks. In particular, the Finnish government seems concerned about comms and electricity distributors suffering from viruses and worms. The paper said that a virus forced the Nordea Bank in Finland to shut down some of its branches. The government is worried not about viruses and worms affecting the distribution of electricity, but delays in carrying out repairs if necessary. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12916 Top viruses for November http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=50938 Top 10 viruses and hoaxes reported to Sophos in November 2003 http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2003/0312010750.asp - - - - - - - - - - Symantec fixes product activation glitch Security software maker Symantec has fixed a problem in the company's product activation technology that was causing its Norton family of security applications to fail. The problem, as previously reported by CNET News.com, affected a small percentage of the more than 1.2 million users of the company's Norton Antivirus 2004, Norton Internet Security 2004, Norton Antispam 2004 and Norton SystemWorks 2004. http://news.com.com/2100-7355-5112771.html - - - - - - - - - - Study: Firewall sales to spread The market for firewall software and devices will jump 25 percent in the next two years to nearly $2.5 billion in worldwide sales, predicts research firm Meta Group in its latest report. http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5112857.html http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22788.html Tips on locking down your WLAN http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,87705,00.html Mirage protects the LAN http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,87730,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Internet Attackers on Phishing Expeditions As I said in my 2004 Outlook column, our e-mail accounts are now filled with some recent advances in the field of "phishing." If you haven't been paying attention, the term refers to a particular type of Internet scam in which a user is tricked into giving up personal information, like bank account information. http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=113465,00.asp - - - - - - - - - - Heavy squalls of blended worms to hit next year Net users can expect a growth in attacks of Unix systems next year, not to mention more Blaster-style worms capable of infecting computers without using email. The growing trend of virus writers and spammers apparently working together (evidenced by worms like Sobig and Mimail) can also be expected to continue into 2004, according to security firm Sophos, which predict little let up in mass-mailing viruses next year. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/34326.html - - - - - - - - - - Expert: One-third of spam is homemade One-third of all spam circulating the Web is relayed through PCs that have been compromised by Remote Access Trojans (RATs), according to corporate spam and antivirus company, Sophos. Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, said on Wednesday that the increasing use of broadband Internet connections and a general lack of security awareness have resulted in around one in three spam e-mails being redirected through the computers of unsuspecting users. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5113043.html http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5113080.html http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61457,00.html - - - - - - - - - - Debian's Response Things got pretty exciting in the Linux world recently, when the Debian Linux distribution announced that a cracker had broken in to four debian.org machines, escalated privileges to root, and installed rootkits on several of the servers. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/202 - - - - - - - - - - Until next time.... see you on the wires.... Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145601
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    - DNS Configuration Hi, Several of my customer's ISPs charge for DNS hosting. I would like to have my servers do it instead. I have customers with 12+ domain names and they will be charged a lot for this by their ISP. Rather than having network solutions point the domain name to the ISP's DNS it will be pointed to the SBS servers. I have several customers running SBS so I am hoping that I can use seperate servers for DNS redundancy. What I would like to ask is if anyone out there can give me or point me towards idiot proof instructions for how to do this on the SBS2000 server. Guy Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145598
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    - Brightmail Anti-spam Has anyone had experience with Brightmail anti-spam on SBS2000? I know that it is expensive ($1499/year) but I have heard some good reports. Thanks, George Beckwith Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145593
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    - Health Monitor won't open I can no longer open it. I get no event log errors, it just won't open anymore. This is on an HP Proliant ML350 G3, I say this because I am wondering if it is a server model bug. Server has been running for 3 months and it used to open. May have been started by a patch installed last month. Any comments before I try to uninstall and reinstall it? Are there problems reinstalling this? Thanks Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145587
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    - W98 client using Outlook 2000 connecting to SBS 2000 Exchange I have the following problem: "the name could not be matched to a name in the address list" prompting on the W98 client after loading Outlook 2000. Any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated, thanks Or A help list of procedures for connecting W98 Outlook 2000 clients to SBS 2000 Exchange. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145578
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    - SMTP We have a small network (25 users) all using win2k & a SBS 2k server, this connects to the outside world via a linux firewall, if the firewall (or the ADSL line) goes down any mail sent during this time ends up in the destination unreachable queue, understandable, however all subsequent outgoing mail ends up there also, & the only way to move them is to stop & restart the SMTP service, any ideas why this is happening? and more importantly how to stop from happening? Any & all suggestions gratefully recieved, I don't have all that much hair left! __________________________________________________________________ Mike ICQ#: 122232506 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me __________________________________________________________________ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C Clarke Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145573
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    - ISDN Router Hi all, Can anyone recommend an ISDN Router that will support VPN pass-thru. Thanks.... Andy Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145572
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    - Exchange 2000 Hi, I'm getting the following event log error when I start up SBS, The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: %%0 Get this when starting the MTS stacks as well. Windows SP4 with hot-fixes Exchange SP3 If I manually start the system attendant, then the IS and MTA stacks its starts up ok? but won't auto start any suggestions? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145567
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    - Internet failed! I am at a client site where their Internet connection had failed. It seems the router was the fault but the "administrator" here tried to fix it by changing IP addresses of the second NIC and even adding a third NIC in. I have restored a system state but unfortunately the latest one is the night after the changes first started. Anyway, I have now removed the 3rd NIC, set up the second to how it should work, ran ICW again (no change to ISA or Exchange) but it aint working! If I ping an IP I get an instant faillure, not even a time out. I have a system state backup from August but this caused more problems that it fixed. However the Internet was working, email and everything else so I am sure the problem is configuration or something that needs manually adjusting. Any help woud be great! My weekend is dwindling! Tippy. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145560
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    - slow server connection hi.. situation: got a client with a sbs2k server. the server seems ok in most areas. thing is no one can connect if the server's nic is set to anything other than 10mps. even tho the card is 100/10. have replaced the cable. the one area that concerns me is that the server is kept in a cupboard with a large incoming power cable. but it is quite well shielded. My intention is to trial the server outside this area, but just in case does anyone have any other suggestions. btw the cat 5 run is less than 30 feet. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145548
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    - moving shared folders I need to move the Company folder to a new larger drive. Are there any requirements for doing this in SBS2k? Can I just move the entire folder. How does the Active Directory system work on moved folders. Any suggestions would be helpful. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145546
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    - Synchronising outlook on laptop Hi How can I make sure that my laptop's outlook offline folders are synchronised so if I take my laptop off the network, I can still read the downloaded mail and reply to it offline? Is there a good resource for information on how to properly setup offline folders and synchronisation with server? Thanks Regards Yahya Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145523
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    - Antispam - SBS2000 - POP3 downloads... Hi all, Quick request for advice. Anyone got any pointers on anti-spam software that will operate effectively in the following set-up?: SBS2000 - Broadband Internet connection using 2 x NIC and Broadband Router Mail is downloaded via multiple POP3 mailboxes [5] Outgoing mail has a disclaimer added as per instructions on www.smallbizserver.net [so we have no SmallBusiness SMTP connector but two SMTP virtual servers configured] Trend C/S/M Suite in place Trialled Trend Scanmail eManager but felt it was average 'out of the box' and required a fair bit of ongoing configuration to operate reasonably. Have license for full Trend NeatSuite [only utilised the C/S/M elements thus far] - price was so close to C/S/M that it made sense really, especially if we end up going to SMTP mail further down the line. This is noted purely in case it may have any relevance. Ideally, we'd like something that links with Exchange [obviously] and would allow at least a degree of automatic 'white-listing' so that anyone our users send to would automatically be allowed in and never be tagged as spam. If it could automatically update its definitions and rules that would also be a benefit. We're not too concerned about outgoing content filtering as it's not really a concern in our particular set-up, so we don't particularly need something that is 'heavy' on that front. Hope that's enough info to start with. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, David Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145521
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    - XP clients way slow after Win2k server made DC I have a peer-to-peer network of 10 users that consists of: Win2k SP2 Server - member server XP Pro SP1 clients DSL Router giving out IP info via DHCP (clients access the Internet directly through this router) I wanted to setup an actual Domain so ran dcpromo to convert the server to a Domain Controller. I took all the defaults as far as sole domain controller and forest info. I wasn't sure about the DNS naming convention so used a FQDN of lawfirm.company.com. DNS installed without incident and I re booted. No alerts and I began setting up user accounts and a logon script. I noticed that the full name of my server was now server01.lawfirm.company.com and started getting nervous ( I was expecting the server name to just remain server01 I was able to join a workstation to the domain but found that my logon script wouldn't map any drives and more distressing, access to shares and computer resources crawled to a standstill. I re-ran dcpromo, demoted the DC to a member server (lost my user accounts I knew about) and uninstalled DNS but after a reboot noticed that the server name now had a trailing dot after it's name. What's more, any user accounts (i.e. local admin) now had a dot before the name (.administrator etc.). My main questions are: How come my clients couldn't quickly access the DC? Is it a client DNS issue because they get their DNS info from the router? Is this a querying issue? Have I screwed up my server as far as the "." being in the user accounts and hostname id's? I really would like to have this network take advantage of an authenticated environment but am afraid to re-run dcpromo and deal with client issues again. If I re-run dcpromo, do I have to identify my DC as FQDN? How short of a name can I get away with? Thank you for seeing something I obviously didn't and your help. Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145518
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    - Song of the week - Dec 5, 2003 Ok, Christmas is less than 20 days away! So, to get you in the proper spirit ... the classic: The Christmas Song (by Mel Torme) MID: http://www.tantara.ab.ca/fun_xmas/job_aids/songbook/chestnut.htm Software's burning on an open fire Windows crashing every day You keep hoping that it's time to retire But where's the backup that you made? Everybody knows that Linux has just got to go Can't make everything work right Laptops running with no filters to show And hackers working hard tonight We know that Bill Gate's on his way He's loaded lots of disks and patches in his sleigh And every mother's child is gonna pray To see if X-Box can really load and play And so I'm looking through my software disks From DOS to Windows 98 All thought it's been said many times, many ways Make a backup today! Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145517
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    - Hosting a website Got a few bugs in the system and need some help. First running: AD, DHCP,DNS, ISA, IIS, RAS and Exchange from SBS200 all behind a router. Router forwards certain port traffic to external interface. I have two websites setup in IIS. I did this because when I had the site in the wwwroot directory I lost the exchange instant messenger and Trend Micro Anti-virus managment console. So now, First is the local intranet handles Exchange instant messenger, Trend Micro Anti-virus and Exchange and listens on any unassigned port 80. The second is the public website and listens on the external interface IP address port 80. I'm able to view the public website by typing the the external interface ip address and the external internet address (www.mydomain.com). So the router is forwarding correctly and I have the DNS entry correct. I have ISA publishing rules for OWA and WWW. The WWW rule forwards the www.mydomain.com to the external interface IP address. The OWA forwards www.mydomain.com/exchange*, www.mydomain.com/exchweb*, and www.mydomain.com/public* to the internal interface IP address. The OWA rule also includes the external internet IP address, the external interface IP address and the internal interface IP address with the directories as well. The theory here was no matter what I typed domain name, public ip, external interface ip, internal interface ip with /exchange it would give the authentication window. PROBLEM1: I'm only able to access OWA via the internal interface IP address. Authentication window pops up and logs on fine. So somehow the ISA publishing rule isn't forwarding to the internal interface IP. Now, If I stop the public website and type in the public IP address I receive the standard page under construction and I'm able to send smtp mail again. If I type the public IP address + /exchange or www.mydomain.com/exchange I get the authentication window and I log on fine. ISA is listening for requests on the external interface IP address port 80. So I know that ISA is forwarding the information correctly and that I have the proper rules set up. PROBLEM2: How can I set my domain up to use my DNS server as the name server for both the site and mail? I have an Mailexchanger What changes do I need to make to the router, ISA, and the DNS server? I have a forward zone added for mydomain.com. And Host entries for DNS-internal interface IP address, MAIL-internal interface IP address, WWW-external ip address. Mail Exchanger- mail.mydomain.com. So I have valid internal ip address for dns.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com. I think I'm close getting it all together, but I think I'm missing one or two steps. Any and all help is much appreciated. Robert Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145506
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    - Access to Remote Web Workspace and Intranet We are running SBS 2003 and all is fine internally. We cannot access the Remote Web Workspace from the internet to gain access to our internal system. Our system is sitting behind a firewall but we have opened up the proper ports we believe. Does anyone have any suggestions? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145504
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    - Software Update Service and SBS 2000 w/ ISA Server Can SBS2000 with ISA server installed use Software Update Service? I've installed SUS w/SP1 ona SBS2000 with ISA server installed w/ SP1 and in trying to syncro get error 0x80072EFD: unable to connect. I've configured SUS to use the proxy server (ISA server) <servername> port 8080 same as clients use for internet access. Any Suggestions??? Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145502
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    - Set up VPN Connection to SBS 2003 from Mac We just completed our installation and configuration of SBS 2003 yesterday. Everything works fine on our PC's but we do have a few users with Mac's. I need to figure out how to setup a couple of remote Mac's to be able to connect to our intenal Intranet via a VPN. Is there a way on a Mac to configure a PPTP session? If so, how would we go about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated... Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145499
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    - Domains We're adding SBS 2003 to an existing network. We've reached the Domain name part of the set-up, but can't add the server to an existing domain. We get the message that the netbios domain name already exists. Creating a new domain name isn't an option, since it would require us to reconfigure all of our workstations. I called the support center, but found that it would cost me $245 to get beyond this install problem! Considering how much I've already paid for the product, this isn't acceptible. (I can get Linux support for a lot less.) Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145492
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    - Remote Desktop I usually vpn to the SBS 2000 server and than open a Remote Desktop Session, but since i rebooted the server I can still connect to the server via VPN but now I get this error when trying to connect via RDP: Because of a protocol error at the client (code 0x1104) this session will be disconnected. has anyone seen this before? Peter V Tag: Venture funding group for CSEEs Tag: 145491

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