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I have a question on global policy. If there is a policy in effect from an AD domain server and the policy restricts or allows a service to start or stop can/will this policy stil be in effect off...

the run as command does not do any good b/c then we would have to give out the admin password which is a def. no no.

THe power users group is worth checking into....

thanks again,

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I have looke extensively in the gpedit.msc but have found nothing about "user" rights able to install network printers.

CAn you give me some direction if at all possible?

regards,
harvey

Hi guys,

I am wondering if anybody knows of a way to give a local base user account running xp pro the ability to install/map to network printers. The way it looks now, w/ base user rights on...

thanks alot!!!

HArvey

I am trying to undersrtand how a Cname record works in DNS?

I was told a Cname is an alias to a real host name.

CAn someone give an example of how and or why a Cname would need to be used?? I...

I saw this posted somewhere, I thought it was here. It was a list of the most common and most useful domain policies for setting up a domain in AD. I believe it was the top 50 most used or something...

Thanks again!! I appreciate it.

Harvey

Thanks again for your extremely helpful information. Could I trouble you to explain what an MX record is and how it works. I always thought it was a dns entry for e-mail?
IG. mail.abc.com???

But...

ahhh, that was the answer I Was looking for. Yes, they are running exchange on this server. SO it makes sense now.

So mail.abc.com is the dns entry on the internet that points to this exchange...

Thanks for the quick reply.

So suppose the address is mail.abc.com that means this server is known on the public inernet as mail.abc.com???

Just seems strange that they would use mail before...

My boss connected to one of our clients 2003 server remotely by opening up a browser and typing http://mail.(the domain name).com/tsweb

I Was wondeing if someone could explain how this works and...

Thanks for the response. So I guess DNS isn't totally self sufficiant at this point in that WINS will allow for netbios name resolution and run in harmony w/ dns??

thanks again,
harvey

Hi great forum, glad to have found it!

I have a question pertaining to WINS. We will be moving to 2003 server AD shortly. Currently running novell 5.1 w/ XP and 2000 clients.

MY boss seems to...