Windows Issues

Loss Of Trust Between Workstation And Active Directory Domain

PC will display a loss of trust between it and the domain. This will prevent the user from logging into the PC. This has so far only occurred to laptop users.

Solution :

The PC needs to re-establish a trust level. This requires that the PC be removed from the domain and then re-added.

• The PC needs to be setup not connected to the LAN.
• Login as a user that has previously logged in to the PC. This user needs to have local admin permissions. Use this user to enable the local admin and reset the local admin password if required.
• Login as the local admin on the PC and move it from a domain to a workgroup. This will require that the PC be restarted.
• Login as the local admin and change the PC to be part of the domain. Only connect the PC tot the LAN just prior to pressing ‘enter’ to start the change. The system will require a domain admin login ands password to move the PC into the domain. A system reboot will be required for this to complete.

Verify that the user can now login using the network ID, and that there are no warning messages about the trust levels.

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Windows 2012 As A Vpn Host

Update your router settings to make sure it has PPTP compatibility and has PPTP and L2TP VPN passthru enabled. Enable port forwarding for port 1723 for the TCP/IP and the GRE protocal (protocal 47) and directed to these to your Windows 2012 server address (e.g. 192.168.0.10).

The Windows 2012 server needs the Network Policy and Access Services role and the Remote Access services role installed. Once installed these need to be configured with a static IP range within the network subnet (e.g. 192.168.0.200 to 192.168.0.220) being assinged as the VPN pool.

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Disable Automatic Network Resource Connections

How to stop Windows XP automatically connecting to network resources.

PROBLEM

Windows XP looks through network resources on the network and automatically connects to available network resources. This can clog up the My Network Places and Printers and Faxes area.

RESOLUTION

Fortunately this function can be turned off fairly easily. Simply click on My Computer , select the Tools menu, then click Folder options and View. Find the ‘Automatically Search for network folders and printers’ option and remove the check box next to it.

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Enable Registry Editor

A lot of malware, viruses and spyware disable the use of the Registry Editor to stop you from removing the offending software. If this happens, you can re-enable use of the Registry Editor by click Start and then Run and typing in:

REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

then click OK. Then you will be able to click Start and Run and type in

regedit

and click OK. You may need to do this quickly, as some malware detects the changes and disables it again.

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Error Somethings Gone Wrong And Accountright Needs To Close

PROBLEM

When opening MYOB a dialog box appears with the cryptic messege: “Error: Something’s gone wrong and AccountRight needs to close”. Clicking the close button (X at the top right) allows you to just keep using MYOB AccountRight.

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RESOLUTION

This problem is described on MYOB’s website, but, as is typical with MYOB, the solution provided is less than useless. If MYOB provided decent support for their products we might recommend them, but in their current form we can’t. As an aside, for a good accounting product that does provide great Australian based support have a look at SageOne.

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Hiding A Workstation From Others On A Network

If you would like to hide a PC from being visible to others on the same network run the following command on a command line (Start - Run - cmd - OK)

net config server /hidden:yes

You will need administrative privileges to run the command.

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Remote Dekstop Listening Port

Problem

Everyone knows the port for Remote Desktop services, but I still want to allow access remotely.

Solution

For a quick piece of added security when using Remote Desktop change the port that it listens on. This can either be assigned through your router’s Port Forwarding functions or can be done by assigned a new value to the HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber key in the registry. When connecting to the PC, connect to host:port, as per normal connections.

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Remotely Disable The Windows Firewall

PROBLEM

Have you needed to log in remotely to a server on your WAN only to find the firewall enabled and blocking remote desktop connections?

This information comes from an occasion where a new virtual server was set up and the firewall was enabled before the remote desktop connections were allowed. As it was a virtual server hosted on a WAN site there was no other way to access the user interface other than via remote desktop.

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Replace Folder Ownership

Resolve permissions issue in Windows 7, 8 or 10

PROBLEM

Windows may deny access to actions such as installing software updates, deleting folders, customising Start Menu items. Often Windows will provide prompt you to contact your system administrator, or request Administrator privileges even when the account is the administrator.

Sometimes the problem can be caused by internal Windows errors, sometimes the issue is created when old accounts are removed.

Sometimes viewing the folder or file permissions will provide an error such as “You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object”, or using the takeown command will result in an “ERROR: Access is denied.” message.

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Wake On Lan

Problem

Don’t want to leave your computer on but would like to be able to access it remotely without having to be physically present to turn it on? Try these Wake On Lan settings.

Solution

First, enable wake on lan in the BIOS (under Power setting normally). Also, in Windows Device Manager select properties for you network adapter and go to Power Management and select Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby.

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