Have a machine running XP sp3, trying to get it to go clear to the
destkop on bootup. When I put control userpasswords2 in RUN or a DOS
box, I get:
‘control’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file
WTF?!??! Tried gpedit.msc, mmc, those don’t work either. What gives?
What would cause this?
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Stevo
Nevermind…path was borked…
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Stevo
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:56:04 GMT, “Stevo” steveSPAM@LESSccgov.net
wrote:
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Nevermind…path was borked…[/color]
Glad you figured out the issue. 
KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’:
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Glad you figured out the issue. :-)[/color]
So my response to KeN’s comment is…
I’m glad it was something simple.
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Stevo
Still working today…or just browsing the forum?
I just finished up a GW8 to GW2012 upgrade…and also migrated it from
Netware to OES11. Now I need to finish setting up a PC for a new
employee that starts Monday…which I just found out about yesterday.
I am really going to enjoy relaxing tomorrow. 
KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’:
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Still working today…or just browsing the forum?
I just finished up a GW8 to GW2012 upgrade…and also migrated it from
Netware to OES11. Now I need to finish setting up a PC for a new
employee that starts Monday…which I just found out about yesterday.
I am really going to enjoy relaxing tomorrow. :-)[/color]
So my response to KeN’s comment is…
Just checkin the forums. I know the feeling finding out about new
users, etc. Many times I get a call:
User: “So and so cannot login to the network”
Me: “What’s their userid? Who is it?”
User: “It’s , they started last week”
Me: “Ummmm, I don’t recall any notification about them, they don’t
have a userid”
User: “Oh, we need to let you know about stuff like that?”
Me:
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Stevo
“Stevo” steveSPAM@LESSccgov.net wrote in news:iGIOr.835$If2.490
@kovat.provo.novell.com:
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Just checkin the forums. I know the feeling finding out about new
users, etc. Many times I get a call:User: “So and so cannot login to the network”
Me: “What’s their userid? Who is it?”User: “It’s , they started last week”
Me: “Ummmm, I don’t recall any notification about them, they don’t
have a userid”User: “Oh, we need to let you know about stuff like that?”
Me:
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Sometimes the people who make the decisions have no grasp of the complexity
or how far down and up their change travels. I know of instances where
sales sold a solution that needed IT involved as it had cost recovery and
printing changes, to be tied into their network infrastructure based on
user login ID’s, but their IT was only brought in after it was signed.
Having to implement a solution with grumpy IT is never fun…
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Ciao, Dave
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 01:27:42 GMT, “Stevo” steveSPAM@LESSccgov.net
wrote:
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KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’:
[color=green]Still working today…or just browsing the forum?
I just finished up a GW8 to GW2012 upgrade…and also migrated it from
Netware to OES11. Now I need to finish setting up a PC for a new
employee that starts Monday…which I just found out about yesterday.
I am really going to enjoy relaxing tomorrow. :-)[/color]So my response to KeN’s comment is…
Just checkin the forums. I know the feeling finding out about new
users, etc. Many times I get a call:User: “So and so cannot login to the network”
Me: “What’s their userid? Who is it?”User: “It’s , they started last week”
Me: “Ummmm, I don’t recall any notification about them, they don’t
have a userid”User: “Oh, we need to let you know about stuff like that?”
Me: [/color]
LOL! My favorite was the time I was asked when I would have a
computer ready for the new person. I was asked the morning the new
person started. And I had no available equipment…had to order
something. But fortunately most of the time I do get advance notice.
Ken
Dave Taylor sounds like they ‘said’:
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Having to implement a solution with grumpy IT is never fun…[/color]
So my response to Dave’s comment is…
Don’t I know it! I’m usually the grumpy one.
We’ve had many many times where a dept goes out & buys some software
package w/o discussing anything w/ us. Then we get a phone call:
User: “Such and such company is here to install this software today”
Me: “What software”
User: “Oh, we bought some software, they said we need a server,
additional client computers, etc, etc”
Me: “Well this is the first I’ve heard of it”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH!!!
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Stevo
KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’:
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LOL! My favorite was the time I was asked when I would have a
computer ready for the new person. I was asked the morning the new
person started. And I had no available equipment…had to order
something. But fortunately most of the time I do get advance notice.[/color]
So my response to KeN’s comment is…
Fortunately for us we have the commissioners’ backing that any new
computer, etc to be put on the network needs to be requested through
them, so usually we don’t get that dropped on us.
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Stevo
On 23/07/2012 15:31, Stevo wrote:[color=blue]
User: “Oh, we bought some software, they said we need a server,
additional client computers, etc, etc”
Me: “Well this is the first I’ve heard of it”[/color]
Me: Ok, well we will need to order in that new hardware AND a support
package from the vendor in case of issues. What’s your department’s
budget code?
Dave Howe sounds like they ‘said’:
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On 23/07/2012 15:31, Stevo wrote:[color=green]
User: “Oh, we bought some software, they said we need a server,
additional client computers, etc, etc”
Me: “Well this is the first I’ve heard of it”[/color]Me: Ok, well we will need to order in that new hardware AND a support
package from the vendor in case of issues. What’s your department’s
budget code?:)[/color]
So my response to Dave’s comment is…
Yeah, I agree, problem is it usually becomes an emergency as the
software vendor/consultant is on site to install, & we get made to look
the fools as we don’t have anything ready for them.
Of course we’re running VMware, so that’s not too bad a turnaround time
to spin up a server. It’s just that we keep getting forced to run more
and more ‘servers’, and many times we’re not involved in any of the
decision as to what is being installed & what it will need to run
properly.
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Stevo
On 23/07/2012 16:54, Stevo wrote:
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So my response to Dave’s comment is…
Yeah, I agree, problem is it usually becomes an emergency as the
software vendor/consultant is on site to install, & we get made to look
the fools as we don’t have anything ready for them.Of course we’re running VMware, so that’s not too bad a turnaround time
to spin up a server. It’s just that we keep getting forced to run more
and more ‘servers’, and many times we’re not involved in any of the
decision as to what is being installed & what it will need to run
properly.[/color]
Get the billing code anyhow. One approach is to maintain some slack
“capacity” in vmware for such needs, but mark it as emergency resource,
to be swapped out for either an expansion of the vmware farm (with a
modern setup, that’s largely just buying an extra blade and the
licences) or physical kit, if the vendor recommends (and its amazing
what low-performance badly written crap is handwaved as “needs dedicated
hardware”). By charging the moving department for the extra vmware
resource you can usually gain some extra slack (for immediate
provisioning in the future, if they need it and get your emergency
space back as well
Stevo,[color=blue]
Yeah, I agree, problem is it usually becomes an emergency as the
software vendor/consultant is on site to install,& we get made to look
the fools as we don’t have anything ready for them.Of course we’re running VMware, so that’s not too bad a turnaround time
to spin up a server. It’s just that we keep getting forced to run more
and more ‘servers’, and many times we’re not involved in any of the
decision as to what is being installed& what it will need to run
properly.
[/color]
When I started here, we had maybe 150 servers. We now have 1500+.
Funny what a migration from NetWare to Windows can do …
On 24/07/2012 14:03, Douglas Black wrote:[color=blue]
When I started here, we had maybe 150 servers. We now have 1500+. Funny
what a migration from NetWare to Windows can do …[/color]
To be fair, the 1500+ are almost as good as the 150 were
Douglas Black sounds like they ‘said’:
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When I started here, we had maybe 150 servers. We now have 1500+.
Funny what a migration from NetWare to Windows can do …[/color]
So my response to Douglas’s comment is…
No kidding. Funny too how an OES server running software to ‘emulate’
windows stuff cannot have anything else on it either.
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Stevo