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Always a stander, I have inspect what I have nearly busted a blood vessel for.

 

Plus slightly off topic but have you ever wondered (probably not) how really fat people wipe their arse? when their arms are shorter than the circumference of their belly so resulting in thier arms not being able to reach the dirty zone.

Does that mean you wipe from the front? How strange. I wipe from the rear.

I don't think the DS restore password is the same as the admin one.

I think this is where we're getting our wires crossed. The DS restore password is the *local* admin one - i.e. it's the password you would use before you ran dcpromo, except that during dcpromo you are asked to set this to a new password.

It's not the same as the Active Directory admin password. It's a local admin password, just like what every workstation has..

Well yes, the restore mode password will stay the same.

That's the point. The restore mode password is stored in the local SAM - just like local users on a workstation. The usual administator password on a DC is stored in Active Directory.

The following kind of comfirms it anyway, just ignore steps four onwards since he is trying to reset the Active Directory admin password, for which he needed to reset the DSRM admin password first.

So, steps 1 to 3 only, except that I recommend you use the tool above rather than the freeware linux based utility that this chap mentions:

http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_2000_ad.htm

Now upgraded again with a new DVD-ReWriter, since the CDRW stopped working just when I wanted to burn a Mr Big CD - doh!

I don't think the DS restore password is the same as the admin one.

I did a bit of googling, and I think it is.

Many documents suggest using an offline password changing tool (i.e. something which works on the SAM file directly)

The Administrator password that you use when you start Recovery Console or when you press F8 to start Directory Service Restore Mode is stored in the registry-based Security Accounts Manager (SAM) on the local computer. The SAM is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config folder. The SAM-based account and password are computer specific and they are not replicated to other domain controllers in the domain.

Funny you say that - I always used to stand, and then one time my gf said "Why are you standing?", and I thought "hey - I never thought of doing it sat down", so I do it sat down now, but I do tend to do a final wipe stood up, particularly if it's after a morning coffee explosion.

Good thread

Stuck at home in the snow today.. But I will try it.. I have actually tried a linux password change on the local admin account already.. Said it worked, but when it came to logging in it still did not like the password

Hmmm. I've had the same situation before when changing the local admin password on a domain member workstation. Worth a go though.

Stuck at home in the snow today.. But I will try it.. I have actually tried a linux password change on the local admin account already.. Said it worked, but when it came to logging in it still did not like the password

 

Maybe these programs will have a better chance.

 

Does the boot disk support SCSI drives?

As long as your SCSI card supports BIOS level hdd access (int 80h/81h) - which it will do if the machine boots from it, then you'll be fine.

I like it this way. It's like our little secrety society - only we know just how good these cars are

If it worked for you, then consider spending ~£20 of your company's money on the newest version of this great tool.

http://www.password-changer.com/price.htm

How'd you get on?

No, sorry, you mis-understand.

 

The yanks (when importing jap cars) get a translated version of the manual from what Toyota told me, we never bothered.

Ah, I do understand now. Sorry

I wonder who was providing them though? Toyota America wouldn't be the ones importing the jap cars, and I'd have expected Jap imports to be very very few and far between over there anyway, since the cars are RHD and the yanks want LHD, and then the fact that the yanks had many more specs available than us anyway so no need to import (aerotop TTs and things I think).

You need Premium if you want SQL Server included. Your app might be fine with MSDE though which is free but limited to 10 concurrent connections I think.

We didn't get nowt! UK cars come with English manuals.

Ah I see. I'm not sure. I would expect it to just be an English or American one.

Sorry, I meant PWD_CHNG.exe, which is a commercial program. I'm sure chntpw would work as well, but it's not as straightforward.

PWD_CHNG.EXE has inbuilt NTFS code, and just runs from a dos boot disk.

I'm not responsible if it all goes pear shaped though, but I'm confident it won't.

http://home.css-networks.com/PWD_CHNG.EXE

I might be wrong, but I am fairly sure the "DS Restore mode" administrator password is an equivalent of a local administator password. Therefore, you could use Winternals administrator pack, or even better you could use chntpwd.exe, which I have found to be awesome.

I'll find the tool and erm, upload it in a sec.

They're sold on eBay I think.

In theory yes, however If you bung in ram which is too fast, your motherboard might not automatically limit it to the motherboards top speed. It may just try and hit what the ram wants to do, and hence cause the system to crash etc.

 

So in terms of trouble shooting for Daston, you cant assume that the ram is only running at a certain speed because the motherboard cant support it. When set to auto commands this if often the case. Thats why you need to manually select speeds etc to setup systems like this properly.

Well, I've never encountered such a situation in 9yrs of building computers. Admittedly, I don't bother building PCs anymore and so haven't done many in the last year, but I've still never seen a motherboard default to overclocking itself.

ah my hardware isnt supported by cpu-z yet (now theres a first!)

It'll also be reported in the POST screen (where the memory count occurs and the processor speed etc is displayed after power-on).

Anyway, it's working so you're doing OK

Thats not actually true at all but never mind.

Really? Unless you overclock the chipset, it'll run at it's maximum spec'd bus speed won't it?

CPU-Z (freeware download from http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-138.zip ) should report the operating memory frequency.

I haven't played with any cutting edge hardware for a while, but the motherboard will run the memory at its (the motherboard/chipset's) maximum speed.

Your PC2-8500 (533Mhz) memory will be running as PC2-6400 (400MHz), and that's perfectly fine..

One of my customers uses a Blackberry via POP3 and he loves it.

That's always going to be a possibility, but it's hardly a cutting edge solution. No calendar synchronisation (I presume Blackberry's are capable of synching to an Outlook calender), and no sent items sync or read/unread status.

If you want to run it through MS Exchange, you need to have a BES server afaik. Ive been working with these things for years now. Obviously the packages that BT/Vodafone have just go via pop3.

 

The best use out of them is to have a BES4.1 server. this means that the Blackberry will wireless sync everything, not just e-mails. the older v3 stuff didnt do that.

Obviously I can't install BES on a hosted Exchange system. Some of the hosted Exchange providers say that their servers are Blackberry enabled, which might mean it's on there.