Yesterday, I finished setting up a second domain controller -- with difficulty. The dcpromo completed without a hitch. AD objects from the other DC (DC1) copied to the new server (DC2), but when I checked to see if my logon scripts replicated, the NETLOGON and SYSVOL folders were missing. I proceeded to setup DC2 as my secondary DNS. I added it in the Name Servers list on my primary DNS server. The FQDN resolved which confirmed connectivity to DC2, and DC2 was able to successfully pull the Forward Lookup Zones from the master server. This still leaves me the mystery of the non-existent SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders. Some people suggested to demote and repromote the server. That seemed too much work for me. When I ran repadmin/showreps the report returned DNS errors. Hmmm... it's always DNS..... DNS, DNS, DNS. I double checked my DNS settings and all looked fine, but why in the world could I not replicate my servers?!?
Okay, so I could not ping DC2 from DC1 (IP and netbios name), or from my computer - very puzzling. Through Sites and Services snap-in my new DC was listed under Servers, but under NTDS Settings there was nothing. I was expecting to see one object there which would have been automatically generated. I added a new connection to DC1, but when I ran "Check Replication Topology" it returned an error: "The naming context is in the process of being removed or is not replicated from the specified server." What the....??? If I cannot ping the server from DC1 how can DC2 receive inbound connection for the replication to take place? I was thinking its connectivity problem, but DC2 could ping DC1! I cleared the arp table on DC1, but still no go. The only other thing I did not check was the firewall. Since I cannot ping DC2 I checked its firewall settings and found that it was enabled. With the Windows firewall disabled, Viola! everything was perfect :) Damn firewall!
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year!
It's 2008! Where did 2007 go? I can't believe that I had not posted here for the entire year of 2007. Main reason to only maintain one blog site instead of 2, 3 or more.
Wii Update:
After numerous attempts, very early morning waking hours, cold and long waits in line, I was able to get a Wii couple of days after Christmas in 2006. It was accidental. My co-worker and I decided to spend our lunch break hunting for the hard-to-find gaming system. We meant to check Best Buy, but because I made the wrong turn we ended up at Target. When we got there we saw a guy sprinting towards the electronics department. Somehow we both figured that he might be going for the same thing we were. At the electronics department there was a short line formed which we joined in. My co-worker and I were able to secure one for each of us, and the sales lady even allowed me to buy an additional system for a friend. All the trouble trying to get the system was all worth it. It really is a fun gaming system - there is nothing like it! Even none-gamers would enjoy it very much. If you don't have one, go get one :)
Technical Frustration Update:
After fighting the Dell laptop to capture my many many MiniDV videos I ended up using my Asus laptop. I completed 80% of the project in 2006 and made no progress for the entire 2007. What can I say? I am a procrastinator :)
2007 Recap:
Beginning of July I started work for a new company. May and June went by in a flash. I spent those couple of months migrating data, purchasing equipment, building and setting up new systems, and sitting in numerous boring meetings. The company that I now work for was owned by my previous employer which was purchased by another (a multi-billion dollar) company. Part of the agreement was to assist in splitting the two companies. Since all of the IT services were provided by the parent company new systems had to be purchased and setup. The system build had to be completed by first week of July. Then in August we had to move to a new building. Couple of weeks prior to moving we had to setup the entire network infrastructure. The move was a success. Day one at the new office all the employees had their phones, their computers, and had network and Internet connectivity!
Also in July we went to N. Myrtle Beach, S.C. for a week vacation. There, my daughter celebrated her 5th birthday. It was our first time in N. Myrtle Beach and we had a wonderful time. We loved it so much that we want to make a yearly trip there. I thank my college best friend, Mailah, for the idea. The condo we stayed at was a beach-front property and we loved the convenience of being able to just walk down the beach.
In November we adopted a kitty from the shelter. Our 5 year old daughter had been asking for one. But because of my allergy, my husband was opposed to having a cat in the house. A letter written by our daughter that said: "From Jackie Fox. I want a cat!" was all it took. My husband found this very sweet 9 month old male kitten from the county shelter. His name was "Chance" and our daughter wanted to keep his name. He is a medium-haired Tuxedo with a milk mustache. I had an allergy attack on the night that Chance came home. Since then I have not had any symptoms! We all love the new member of our family. He is mischievous and very sweet cat!
Christmas Present:
One of the presents I received from my husband was Guitar Hero III for Xbox 360. It is such a fun addictive game. The "Easy" level I completed in few hours of game play. The "Medium" level is another story. The more I played the better I am at it - it is all about practice :) Though some of us are just plainly gifted as this 9 year old kid who beat the hardest (Expert) level will demonstrate. Amazing! is all I can say. Can you do it? I wish I am as good as this kid!
New Year's Resolution:
I have not thought about it until just now. As in the past, I am not optimistic about sticking with it. But, I will definitely TRY this year. Maybe having a written Resolutions will help me stay on track. My main goal for this year is to get back in shape. I also would like to add reading and keeping up with my blog on the list. Basically, it is all about laziness. So my New Years resolution this year is to not be lazy. The reason I am out of shape is I am too lazy to exercise, lazy to think about eating healthy, and lazy about reading and writing.
Wii Update:
After numerous attempts, very early morning waking hours, cold and long waits in line, I was able to get a Wii couple of days after Christmas in 2006. It was accidental. My co-worker and I decided to spend our lunch break hunting for the hard-to-find gaming system. We meant to check Best Buy, but because I made the wrong turn we ended up at Target. When we got there we saw a guy sprinting towards the electronics department. Somehow we both figured that he might be going for the same thing we were. At the electronics department there was a short line formed which we joined in. My co-worker and I were able to secure one for each of us, and the sales lady even allowed me to buy an additional system for a friend. All the trouble trying to get the system was all worth it. It really is a fun gaming system - there is nothing like it! Even none-gamers would enjoy it very much. If you don't have one, go get one :)
Technical Frustration Update:
After fighting the Dell laptop to capture my many many MiniDV videos I ended up using my Asus laptop. I completed 80% of the project in 2006 and made no progress for the entire 2007. What can I say? I am a procrastinator :)
2007 Recap:
Beginning of July I started work for a new company. May and June went by in a flash. I spent those couple of months migrating data, purchasing equipment, building and setting up new systems, and sitting in numerous boring meetings. The company that I now work for was owned by my previous employer which was purchased by another (a multi-billion dollar) company. Part of the agreement was to assist in splitting the two companies. Since all of the IT services were provided by the parent company new systems had to be purchased and setup. The system build had to be completed by first week of July. Then in August we had to move to a new building. Couple of weeks prior to moving we had to setup the entire network infrastructure. The move was a success. Day one at the new office all the employees had their phones, their computers, and had network and Internet connectivity!
Also in July we went to N. Myrtle Beach, S.C. for a week vacation. There, my daughter celebrated her 5th birthday. It was our first time in N. Myrtle Beach and we had a wonderful time. We loved it so much that we want to make a yearly trip there. I thank my college best friend, Mailah, for the idea. The condo we stayed at was a beach-front property and we loved the convenience of being able to just walk down the beach.
In November we adopted a kitty from the shelter. Our 5 year old daughter had been asking for one. But because of my allergy, my husband was opposed to having a cat in the house. A letter written by our daughter that said: "From Jackie Fox. I want a cat!" was all it took. My husband found this very sweet 9 month old male kitten from the county shelter. His name was "Chance" and our daughter wanted to keep his name. He is a medium-haired Tuxedo with a milk mustache. I had an allergy attack on the night that Chance came home. Since then I have not had any symptoms! We all love the new member of our family. He is mischievous and very sweet cat!Christmas Present:
One of the presents I received from my husband was Guitar Hero III for Xbox 360. It is such a fun addictive game. The "Easy" level I completed in few hours of game play. The "Medium" level is another story. The more I played the better I am at it - it is all about practice :) Though some of us are just plainly gifted as this 9 year old kid who beat the hardest (Expert) level will demonstrate. Amazing! is all I can say. Can you do it? I wish I am as good as this kid!
New Year's Resolution:
I have not thought about it until just now. As in the past, I am not optimistic about sticking with it. But, I will definitely TRY this year. Maybe having a written Resolutions will help me stay on track. My main goal for this year is to get back in shape. I also would like to add reading and keeping up with my blog on the list. Basically, it is all about laziness. So my New Years resolution this year is to not be lazy. The reason I am out of shape is I am too lazy to exercise, lazy to think about eating healthy, and lazy about reading and writing.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Techie Stuff and Not So Techie Stuff
So my weekend was a technical failure. I was not able to accomplish my project. I had zero video captured!
Monday morning I took my video camera to work to test the firewire ports on the brand new latops - same model as the laptop that I had problem with, the Dell Latitude D820. All three did not detect my camera, but when I plugged in the camera to a Latitude D420 it instantly detected my camera. Again, this proved that my camera and cable were working. Now I am convinced that the design on the D820's is flawed.
Monday night after dinner I started researching the firewire issue again. This problem was a great challenge that I had to keep going. You can say that I am not a quitter :)
Anyway, I painstakingly verified each IRQ settings on the devices. I had a suspicion that it was some type of hardware conflict. Alas, my hard work paid off. I found three entries in the Device Manager with the same IRQ address. It was IRQ 19 assigned to the IEEE 1395 Host Controller, the 02Micro SmartCard BusController, and some Intel port under the System Devices. First, I disabled the 02Micro SmarCard and deleted the IEEE 1394 device, and then rebooted the laptop -- leaving the camera plugged in via firewire. After the reboot a new hardware (one I had not seen before) popped up with the yellow exclamation mark. I felt a little excitement - I was into something, getting close to proving my earlier assumption that it was a conflict issue. I tried to update the new hardware, but the update failed and the device disappeard from the list. My next step was to disable the Intel port that had the IRQ 19, and again I uninstalled IEEE 1394 (leaving the 02Micro disabled) and then rebooted the laptop. After the reboot the IEEE 1394 was listed in DM with the yellow exclamation mark. I updated the driver and after the driver update I heard two dings and couple of balloons popped up stating that the A/V digital device was ready for use. YIPEE!!! It was a great satisfaction to figure out the problem.
Although the camera was listed under Scanners and Cameras, Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 could not detect the camera for capturing. And the weird thing was that I could control the camera to play the movie through the software. I launched Microsoft Movie Maker to see if it would detect the camera, and it did. Looking through the properties and settings I discovered that Movie Maker had the capability that I wanted. It could capture my videos and keep the quality intact by capturaing in DV-AVI format. This format would take up 178MB disk space per 1 minute of video. No biggie, I have plenty of HD space. Well, my happiness did not last long. After about 5 minutes of capturing an error message popped up stating the device failed. I guess I had not totally figured out the problem - the system was not stable. After the reboot the camera was not detected. I tried a few more reboots until I finally gave up and turned in for the night. I had to wake up at 5:30 the following morning.
I have decided that I am not going to use the D820 to capture my videos, instead I will try to use a desktop computer (Optiplex GX745 with Core2Duo) to capture my videos. Besides the hardware on the desktop is more capable in that it has a good video card along with a 3Gbps SATA drive.
The Not So Techie Stuff....
Despite the technical hurdle, this past weekend was pretty good. We went to Costco on Saturday to get some things for our Thanksgiving trip to PA, and to check if Don's (my husband) glasses were ready. Don's younger brother invited us to spend Thanksgiving with them in Pennsylvania. It turns out that our trip is going to be cancelled because my brother-in-law's wife's grandmother passed away (she was 99 years old) and the funeral is on Saturday after Thanksgiving. Don thinks that the trip it would be a good idea to skip the trip because his brother and his wife is going to be busy with the funeral stuff and we would just be a burden.
Jackie spent most of Saturday afternoon playing Kameo on Xbox 360. She can only play video games after noon. On Sunday I tried to give her some Edys fudge swirl ice cream (on cone), which she immediately pushed to Berna and asked for the "other" ice cream on a big container (making the hand motion shaping a rectangle). In the past, we had been buying Bryers chocolate ice cream which is in a rectangular container. It was quite funny. I had to explain to her that mommy has chocolate ice cream but it is in a round container and I had to show her the content. After she saw the ice cream, a big smile on her face and said "Yes, that's the one!".
Monday morning I took my video camera to work to test the firewire ports on the brand new latops - same model as the laptop that I had problem with, the Dell Latitude D820. All three did not detect my camera, but when I plugged in the camera to a Latitude D420 it instantly detected my camera. Again, this proved that my camera and cable were working. Now I am convinced that the design on the D820's is flawed.
Monday night after dinner I started researching the firewire issue again. This problem was a great challenge that I had to keep going. You can say that I am not a quitter :)
Anyway, I painstakingly verified each IRQ settings on the devices. I had a suspicion that it was some type of hardware conflict. Alas, my hard work paid off. I found three entries in the Device Manager with the same IRQ address. It was IRQ 19 assigned to the IEEE 1395 Host Controller, the 02Micro SmartCard BusController, and some Intel port under the System Devices. First, I disabled the 02Micro SmarCard and deleted the IEEE 1394 device, and then rebooted the laptop -- leaving the camera plugged in via firewire. After the reboot a new hardware (one I had not seen before) popped up with the yellow exclamation mark. I felt a little excitement - I was into something, getting close to proving my earlier assumption that it was a conflict issue. I tried to update the new hardware, but the update failed and the device disappeard from the list. My next step was to disable the Intel port that had the IRQ 19, and again I uninstalled IEEE 1394 (leaving the 02Micro disabled) and then rebooted the laptop. After the reboot the IEEE 1394 was listed in DM with the yellow exclamation mark. I updated the driver and after the driver update I heard two dings and couple of balloons popped up stating that the A/V digital device was ready for use. YIPEE!!! It was a great satisfaction to figure out the problem.
Although the camera was listed under Scanners and Cameras, Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 could not detect the camera for capturing. And the weird thing was that I could control the camera to play the movie through the software. I launched Microsoft Movie Maker to see if it would detect the camera, and it did. Looking through the properties and settings I discovered that Movie Maker had the capability that I wanted. It could capture my videos and keep the quality intact by capturaing in DV-AVI format. This format would take up 178MB disk space per 1 minute of video. No biggie, I have plenty of HD space. Well, my happiness did not last long. After about 5 minutes of capturing an error message popped up stating the device failed. I guess I had not totally figured out the problem - the system was not stable. After the reboot the camera was not detected. I tried a few more reboots until I finally gave up and turned in for the night. I had to wake up at 5:30 the following morning.
I have decided that I am not going to use the D820 to capture my videos, instead I will try to use a desktop computer (Optiplex GX745 with Core2Duo) to capture my videos. Besides the hardware on the desktop is more capable in that it has a good video card along with a 3Gbps SATA drive.
The Not So Techie Stuff....
Despite the technical hurdle, this past weekend was pretty good. We went to Costco on Saturday to get some things for our Thanksgiving trip to PA, and to check if Don's (my husband) glasses were ready. Don's younger brother invited us to spend Thanksgiving with them in Pennsylvania. It turns out that our trip is going to be cancelled because my brother-in-law's wife's grandmother passed away (she was 99 years old) and the funeral is on Saturday after Thanksgiving. Don thinks that the trip it would be a good idea to skip the trip because his brother and his wife is going to be busy with the funeral stuff and we would just be a burden.
Jackie spent most of Saturday afternoon playing Kameo on Xbox 360. She can only play video games after noon. On Sunday I tried to give her some Edys fudge swirl ice cream (on cone), which she immediately pushed to Berna and asked for the "other" ice cream on a big container (making the hand motion shaping a rectangle). In the past, we had been buying Bryers chocolate ice cream which is in a rectangular container. It was quite funny. I had to explain to her that mommy has chocolate ice cream but it is in a round container and I had to show her the content. After she saw the ice cream, a big smile on her face and said "Yes, that's the one!".
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Technological Frustration
While waiting for my Windows updates (16 new updates currently chugging along) I decided to do some research about blogging. I have been wanting to write a diary, but I keep failing with the upkeep. I thought with a web based journal I would be more inclined to keep it up since I am on the computer all the time. I am keeping my fingers crossed - I am a procrastinator.
Anyway, speaking of failure....
I wanted to capture all the videos on about 20 miniDV cassettes. So I brought this pretty powerful laptop from work (2GB of RAM, T7400 2.16GHzCentrino Core Duo with 75GB SATA hard drive). To make the story short, the IEEE 1394 port would not detect my camera. I have spent several hours on getting the firewire to detect my device and I had also spent some time with the Dell technician. No go... When I get to work on Monday I will check the other laptop that is identical to this one and see if this problem is specific to mine. I am now attempting to use a desktop computer to capture the videos. The new 'victim' is one that I had just rebuilt. This desktop PC is running Window Media Center Edition. And again to make the story short -- more technological frustration! Adobe Premiere Elements is complaining about not being able to load audio drivers and that I must reinstall the application. The reinstall did not work (of course, who said this will be easy?) and forums suggested that it is related to my audio card driver which is the reason for Windows updates. Oops, I better check on my Windows updates....
Alright, I am back. Yet another reboot. The Windows updates did not do a thing. Still, Adobe Premiere refuses to launch! I am pulling my hair now! I downloaded audio drivers from the Dell site and it requires a reboot which I am doing now. I have to run downstairs so I can hit F1 otherwise the computer would not boot. The system fan is the cause of this problem - that's another story.....
Anyway, speaking of failure....
I wanted to capture all the videos on about 20 miniDV cassettes. So I brought this pretty powerful laptop from work (2GB of RAM, T7400 2.16GHzCentrino Core Duo with 75GB SATA hard drive). To make the story short, the IEEE 1394 port would not detect my camera. I have spent several hours on getting the firewire to detect my device and I had also spent some time with the Dell technician. No go... When I get to work on Monday I will check the other laptop that is identical to this one and see if this problem is specific to mine. I am now attempting to use a desktop computer to capture the videos. The new 'victim' is one that I had just rebuilt. This desktop PC is running Window Media Center Edition. And again to make the story short -- more technological frustration! Adobe Premiere Elements is complaining about not being able to load audio drivers and that I must reinstall the application. The reinstall did not work (of course, who said this will be easy?) and forums suggested that it is related to my audio card driver which is the reason for Windows updates. Oops, I better check on my Windows updates....
Alright, I am back. Yet another reboot. The Windows updates did not do a thing. Still, Adobe Premiere refuses to launch! I am pulling my hair now! I downloaded audio drivers from the Dell site and it requires a reboot which I am doing now. I have to run downstairs so I can hit F1 otherwise the computer would not boot. The system fan is the cause of this problem - that's another story.....
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