Okay, so I’m following Hugh’s lead, and I’ve added a skill-testing question to my comment thingie. I’ve also added something that directs anything with more than five urls in it to a place that’ll ask you to donate $5 (go ahead, try it!) and then throw ya into the moderation queue.
That oughtta do it (famous last words).
Made it further than I have before (after rebooting the 2k3 box, ’cause any time I tried to log into it with the GeckoTemple domain account it was complaining that the RPC was unavailable). If this works, I’m a happy man.
Oop. Wait.
Getting the ADPrep thing, ’cause I didn’t do that (and I’m a bad man).
So from my w2k box, I map to the cdrom for Win2k3, and in the i386 directory run adprep /forestprep and then (after the second try) I hit “c” and then Enter instead of just enter (which cancels) Read the freakin’ screen, man.
Now it says: “Adprep successfully updated the forest-wide information.”
This is equally wonderful and frightening. I guess that’s why I got into this crazy biz.
Okay, so it’s all finished, and asked me to reboot. I think we are, in the words of Jodie Foster, “okay to go“
Okay, so I thought I’d try to get all smartulent and set up a new Windows 2003 server, with Exchange 2003 on it. There’s a few things I have to watch out for while doing this, because I’ve got Liz & Emma on here in the Exchnage server, as well as it being my primary email address.
SO…
I get the server installed, and I’m like “Okay I’ll just drop Exchange in there, and away we go.”
Hold on, sparky, it’s not that simple.
In order to install Exchange 2003, you’ve gotta have a Domain Controller to install on. Fair enough. So I start the Win2k3 wizard to upgrade to the AD. I’ve already joined the GeckoTemple domain, so far so good. I need a DNS server running on the box in order to get the…. thing… with the-
Hang on, I remember seeing some weirdness in my Event logs on my WinXPPro box, something about not being able to determine the name of the server/workstation, ’cause the RPC isn’t available or something. I can always log in, and open Outlook without logging in again, and I can browse the DFS tree I’ve created and everything seems cool. Funny about the, uh errors though. Oh well, I’ll just pound on through and…
I run the wizard to add Active Directory to the new server, and that’s cool. I get past the first two steps where they warn you that WinNT pre SP3, Win95 and two cans tied together will no longer be able to authenticate on the server. Fair enough, I think. It asks for authentication to make sure I’m allowed to pull this paritcular stunt, and then it asks for the name of the domain I’m going to become a secondary on. Geckotemple.com, I’m thinking, and then I get this error that I can’t do that because the new server can’t find a DNS record for the Active Directory. Hmm…
Start fiddling around with the DNS on the old server, and reading lots of archaic writings on the dos and don’ts of DNS, and how not to configure things, and talking about DCDiag. Okay, I drop the DCDiag tool into the old server, and run that, but right off the bat, it complains that it can’t find the GUID {super long Object name here} but it can ping the name of the server, and pings are being ponged. It’s “half-working” this tells me, but some stuff is wrong. I’m thinking Man in the Middle attacks and all kindsa weirdness, but then I run across a thread that talks about someone having the very same problem, and some of the folks replying are talking about making sure that the _MSDC links and a couple of other things are in the DNS entries, and if not I should run NetDiag /fix
But I also find at the end of that thread the original guy saying that uninstalling DNS completely, and then reinstalling it did the trick (after running the NetDiag /fix line).
I rip it out, put it back in, run the netdiag line. BOOM. Buncha stuff saying that it’s fixed/added/corrected a BUNCH of things.
DCDiag is coming up all happy now, too.
Just rebooted, we’ll see what happens(ed).
Can’t wait to move from my current box to the new one.
Wish me luck.
I’ve been tempted to place my IP filter (Protowall) on my server for blocking this sort of thing, and then masssage the heck out of the data so I can still get to my server from work (Protowall was designed as an Anti-Anti-P2P application, which my employer would fall under), but there’s lots of groups listed in the IP blocks as “scammers, spammers, badporn,” and those sortsa things. I’ve been running it on my workstation as a way to avoid a lot of the popup and cookie tracking systems out there, and so far so good, but there’s new blocks being added all the time, so I just don’t know.
It’s tempting to put together a script that humans wouldn’t see, but the spammer scripts *would* that looks up their IP, and sends the comment to the Abuse@ for the IP block owner… That’d be fun.
Either that, or find the $10/hr guy in the Bay Area (or wherever he is), who’s been writing the commenting scripts (and the Google silliness that finds new posts) and offer him $100 for his customer list as “Market Research.”
It’s supposed to put more than just (go to the site to see the rest) thing.
Hmm…
Click here if you wanna know what the heck I’m talking about.
Okay, so I’m playing with the latest & greatest version of WordPress anti-comment-spam RBL Of course, I’ve misconfigured something, because I accidentally managed to get blocked on my very first post!
On… my own… server.
From my house.
Hmm…
For now, I’m setting it to moderate anything that’s deemed unworthy, until I figure this out.
Witty Text 1.1 is making my day.
And that little quote thing under the picture at the bottom right of this blog.
Nifto.
If you’re tired of posting to your WordPress blog using the web front-end. Maybe you need this:
Looks like things are picking up… w.Bloggar now has version 4.00 RC2 released, and it looks like it’s working (so far).
There’s a More tab in the edit window (for Extended Entry, Keywords, Exerpt, and Trackback entries).
Let’s see if I can post too.
YOINK!
Okay, so maybe I’ve got to try something new today because… uh… I’m always installing new stuff. Oh well. Anyhoo, I’m playing with Zempt until wBloggar comes out with a version that directly supports WordPress (which should be the next version, according to their release candidate info). Let’s see if I can log into Arwen’s Blog with this tool.
Thanks to Virtual PC 2004, I created a little 1GB partition on my data drive (which looks like the “C:” drive to the virtual computer), and then installing Win98SE. That still takes about 20 minutes to do, just like it always did back in the day. So then I go looking for IE55 (not 55SP2, or 55SP1), and had a heck of a time finding that (I did, thanks to FileMirrors.com)
The fun part was when I enabled the hyperthreading under XP, and then assigned the Win98SE VirtPC to the “2nd” cpu.
Good times, good times.
We’ll see now whether or not I actually got 5.5 like I think I did, or if it’s actually something else.
Still, kinda fun. In a sick demented sorta way.
