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XP Security inconsistency / confusion

5-Jul-06 21:19

Thank you very much for your comment. But what I want is the book or resource that could give all example of the command which is using in windows.

john john mackey5-Jul-06 7:20

john john mackey

5-Jul-06 7:20

I have a HP Pentium 4 laptop, 3.60 GHz, 1GB RAM, running Windows XP ver2002, Service Pack 2.

I noticed and inconsistency in the Windows Security Center (application). When I open up the Security Center, the page shows the "FIREWALL" section reporting ON, "Norton Internet Worm Protection" is currently on. But, when I scroll down the Security Center's page and open "Windows Firewall", the page that opens reveals that Firewall is OFF.

How can one report Firewall being ON, while the other reports OFF?

This lead me to the problem I suspect this inconsitency is causing:

I have a network application that is listening to network traffic and getting UDP packets to process. It seems that my application doesn't function as has in the past and as expected because the "Firewall" is blocking network traffic.

I have tried putting the Port #s I'm monitoring in the "Exceptions" page settings, but this doesn't seem to help.

Any suggestions to fix the Firewall inconsistency?

Thanks!
Johnny

Re: XP Security inconsistency / confusion

Mekong River6-Jul-06 15:36

6-Jul-06 15:36

john john mackey wrote:
I noticed and inconsistency in the Windows Security Center (application). When I open up the Security Center, the page shows the "FIREWALL" section reporting ON, "Norton Internet Worm Protection" is currently on. But, when I scroll down the Security Center's page and open "Windows Firewall", the page that opens reveals that Firewall is OFF.

I guess that you might install norton internet security on your machine. I used to install norton internet security too but it is long time ago. I think this problem because of norton firewall take over control of windows firewall. To make sure or you want to solve your problem try to check your product manuall for further information.

Blue screen

x-trate5-Jul-06 5:02

x-trate

5-Jul-06 5:02

Hi Everybody,

I boot from 2 hdd (raid0)a windows 2000 server OS. It's loading, and then appears a blue screen with the error: STOP: c0000218. The file \systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE is missing or damaged. How can I solve this. And also, how can i see what files are on the harddisks in MS-DOS or something? Because they are RAID, i can't see nothing with fdisk or startup diks or something like that.
I just want to avoit reinstalling, because there are many things already setup that i don't know exactly how to do them again.

Thanks a lot!
Bogdan

Re: Blue screen

Dave Kreskowiak5-Jul-06 5:45

Novell and windows logon problems

5-Jul-06 5:45

That file missing means that your registry is corrupted. You'll need to get the machine started on the Recovery Console or using something like ERD Commander to fix it. You'll have to have the drivers for your RAID controller handy in either case. There is no DOS boot disk that will help you since DOS can't see NTFS partitions, let alone read/write them without special drivers. You're only other option is reinstalling Windows.

"Windows Could Not Start Because the Following File Is Missing or Corrupt" Error Message When You Start Your Computer[^]
How to Troubleshoot a Stop 0xC0000218 Error Message[^]
How to troubleshoot registry corruption issues[^]

How did I find this things?? Easy -> Search the Support Knowledge Base (KB) at Microsoft[^]

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: Blue screen

Mike Dimmick5-Jul-06 5:54

Mike Dimmick

5-Jul-06 5:54

If it's telling you that file is missing or damaged, your disk is seriously broken. You should never install your OS on RAID 0 - if any of the disks goes down you lose the whole volume, doubling (at least - for 3 disks your chances triple, 4 disks quadruple etc) your chances of a catastrophic failure. If you really mean RAID 0, striping, not RAID 1, mirroring, you'll be out of luck. The file is vital to Windows - it contains the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software registry key.

If you meant mirroring, RAID 1, if it's software RAID 1, disconnect the primary drive, select the other drive to boot from in the BIOS, and see if it comes up. If it does replace the primary disk.

You might have been lucky and it was a software error that corrupted the file, and you won't need a new drive. I'd replace them anyway as a precautionary measure. If this happens with more than one drive look into the general stability of your system. Don't overclock anything. Check that your drive cables are rated for the speed you're running them at and that they're intact. Replace the disk controller. Consider replacing the RAM - RAM errors rapidly become errors on disk as the OS flushes in-memory changes to the disk.

Mirroring is no substitute for backups. If software writes an incorrect value to the disk, or if a RAM error corrupts a piece of data before it's written back, the OS or disk controller will happily write the erroneous value to all disks that make up the mirror.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

wpa_supplicant

fabiotriolo5-Jul-06 4:21

fabiotriolo

5-Jul-06 4:21

I have a problem with wpa_supplicant configuration. I must pass to this configuration, the path of my personal certificate, but I don't know what is this path. Some one can help me?

WillemM5-Jul-06 0:34

WillemM

5-Jul-06 0:34

Hi,

I am working on a new CRM v3.0 installation and I noticed that I can't login on the installation. It has something to do with the novell login. But I can't figure out why.

When logging in on novell I also logon to a windows domain for exchange.
This part works, since I can open outlook 2003 and it will access exchange right away.

But accessing CRM doesn't work, it seems like it doesn't recognize my username and password. This while exchange is accessable.

Am I save to say that both apps should work in terms of login, since outlook works allright.
There's one special condition on the CRM Server: we are running biztalk with single-signon too on this server. (It's a test environment).
Could this cause problems with the logon?

WM.

What about weapons of mass-construction?

Equivalent of 'uptime' on Windows

Rob Philpott5-Jul-06 0:07

Rob Philpott

5-Jul-06 0:07

On Linux I can use 'uptime' to see how long the computer has been running since its last boot.

How can I do this on Windows, and in particularly on Windows Server 2003?

Help appreciated! Smile | :)

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Craster5-Jul-06 1:04

Craster

5-Jul-06 1:04

There is a Microsoft uptime.exe. I believe it's part of the Res Kit.

Rob Philpott5-Jul-06 4:43

Rob Philpott

5-Jul-06 4:43

Cool, thank you. I don't think its part of the resource kit though, I downloaded that and there was no sign, you can however get it direct from downloads at MS.

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Mike Dimmick5-Jul-06 5:56

Mike Dimmick

5-Jul-06 5:56

PsInfo[^] shows this information along with many other statistics.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

COM+ Application service is not starting

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar5-Jul-06 19:12

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

5-Jul-06 19:12

Rob,

Check out this --> http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/web_server_uptime.asp[^]

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dev dhoundiyal4-Jul-06 20:57

dev dhoundiyal

4-Jul-06 20:57

i am not able to start my com+ application service when ever i start the service it gives message unexpected error and terminate, due to this my IIS is also not working.

Pls suggest possible solutions
thanx

Re: COM+ Application service is not starting

Dave Kreskowiak5-Jul-06 3:04

Customize the answer file

5-Jul-06 3:04

Check the event logs for any errors. Without knowing what the errors are, you're pretty much on your own for troubleshooting. There's only about a thousand possible problems...

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Mekong River4-Jul-06 17:17

Re: Customize the answer file

4-Jul-06 17:17

Hi, I have create the answer file for automate installation of windows xp. The target client is a single new machine which consite of 40GB unpartition hard disk drive. I want to customize my answer file to automatically devide disk space to 10GB format with NTFS for installation an operating system and the remain 30GB drive format as NFTS automatically to store document?

Dave Kreskowiak5-Jul-06 3:15

Re: Customize the answer file

5-Jul-06 3:15

Once again, the Windows XP Resource Kit. Unattended Installs...

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Mekong River5-Jul-06 6:36

5-Jul-06 6:36

Thank you

. I already have it.

Disk duplication

Mekong River3-Jul-06 23:47

3-Jul-06 23:47

Hi, I want to perform disk duplication to automate windows xp installation. Does any one know any resource that I could update my knowledge?

Dave Kreskowiak5-Jul-06 3:15

5-Jul-06 3:15

This stuff is pretty standard, you can find more at Wikipedia[^]. It's called "Cloning". Norton Ghost, Drive Clone, DriveImage, TrueImage, ...

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Mekong River5-Jul-06 6:00

5-Jul-06 6:00

Thank you very much for your comment. I also implement a mini setup for disk duplication but what is an obstacle for me is doing an image of the hard disk. For example, norton ghost could be able to ghost a hard disk and restore an image to the other computer. And now what I need is a step by step guide to ghost/image a hard disk from a source computer to destination computer.

Dave Kreskowiak5-Jul-06 6:14

5-Jul-06 6:14

Roath Kanel wrote:
And now what I need is a step by step guide to ghost/image a hard disk from a source computer to destination computer.

There is no "step-by-step" guide. You have to put your own pieces together depending on your own environment.

Ghost, or any other image software, is fully capable of writing a hard drive image to a file somewhere, be it on a set of CD's, a DVD, an external hard drive, or a network drive. What you do depends entirely on your deployment requirements and storage medium.

If you want to slam just one or two machines at a time, then creating a boot CD with the image software on it and keeping the drive image file on a set of CD's or DVD's is perfrectly fine.

If you have to deploy to hundreds of machines, then a network solution would work better.

I myself, use PowerQuest's (now part of Symantec) ImageCenter. It comes with a Server component you can setup on a machine to store and serve up nothing but disk images. You still need to create your own boot floppy or CD to get the target machines up and running so you can image them. You still need to build network support into those floppies/CD's by including DOS-based drivers for your network card(s) or CD drivers to get the read from a CD. But this depends on what image software you're using. You might even have to include support for loading different sets of drivers if you want those boot CD's to work on different network cards and/or reading from CD's...

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Mekong River5-Jul-06 6:24

5-Jul-06 6:24

Thank you very much for your detail explaination. So now I decide to find a documentation about the specific product on how to made an image of the hard disk drive. If I found any problem I will post the question to this forum again.

Best regard,
Kanel

Mike Dimmick5-Jul-06 5:58

Mike Dimmick

5-Jul-06 5:58

Read up on SysPrep[^].

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Mekong River5-Jul-06 6:04