USB External Hard drive and Windows XP
I have two issues which are basically the same. I have an external USB hard drive that I connect to a computer running Windows XP. Windows USB driver recognizes the hard drive and shows the drive in Device Manager but Windows does not show the drive in Windows Explorer. A customer has a USB FLASH [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  11:58 AM
Adapters/Interfaces, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, Desktops, Development, Disk drives, Fibre channel, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Deleting old userids
I used to display the last signon date on a specific user profile to know if it was still used, if it was older than 3 months, it was deleted. Now there are more & more user profiles defined to the system for other applications than the “green screen”, like FTP, ISeries Navigator, ODBC, etc…. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2006  5:55 PM
Application security, Biometrics, Database, Digital certificates, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Network security, provisioning, Secure Coding, Security, Security tokens, Single sign-on, VPN, Wireless

Security on DB2/400 files and MS Access DSN’s
We need to restrict the ability of users with MS Access using DSN’s from maintaining records in our files. Wondering what security we can put on our DB2/400 files and user profiles that will still allow our ERP users to do their job? Currently using V4R5 and ERP is PRMS 8.4. Thanks.

Answer Question   |  January 18, 2006  2:30 PM
Security

data encryption/decryption
We are in the process of building encryption/decryption applications. We are using the IBM QC3ENCDT AND QC3DECDT API’S. I’ve starting testing against our database using apprx 3000 records to encrypt and then decrypt. Out of that 3000 records, there are 17 instances of failure to decrypt to clear data and it is always the same [...]

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2006  10:39 AM
Application development, Application security, Database, Encryption, Exchange, Instant Messaging, Secure Coding

Ipnat.sys related error on Win2003 Server
Happy 2006 to you all! One of my customers is getting a strange error since someone disabled (deleted actually!!) the Terminal Server service on their Windows 2003 Server SP1. The error that pops up is: “Windows Firewall cannot run because another program or service is running that might use the network address translation component (Ipnat.sys)”, [...]

Answer Question   |  February 23, 2006  10:34 AM
Access control, Browsers, Desktops, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hardware, Incident response, Intrusion management, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Networking, OS, Patch management, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Tech support, VPN, Web security, Wireless

SFTP supporing FTP product
We have some external contacts that continue to use FTP to our FTP server. Is there an SFTP product that would support FTP without changing out the client software? This server is running Windows 2003 Server. I understand there is also a way to have both FTP and SFTP running on the same server. Which [...]

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2006  3:51 PM
Access control, Browsers, filtering, Networking, Servers, SSL/TLS, Web security

To retrieve data from a remote system
Hi, I have to retrieve data from a remote system (May be of any operating system) and shall put into AS/400. This process should be automated and there can’t be any manual intervention. We can not use FTP commands here. Is there any other way this can be achieved. Can?t go for MQ Series either [...]

Answer Question   |  November 23, 2009  11:11 AM
390, Application development, AS/400, AS/400 careers, Backup & recovery, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, CLP, DataCenter, DB2, DB2 Universal Database, Development, Email, IBM Marketing Sound Off, Mainframe, Mobile, Mobile security, Network protocols, PC/Windows Connectivity, Printing, RPG, RPGLE, Security, VoIP, Web development, Wireless, zSeries

Symantec Resources
Our company has just partnered with Symantec and being new to their products, I’m finding myself a bit overwhelmed. Are there any websites that offer mailing lists or online forums that can help with some of the issues I’m running into? This seems like an interesting concept for user-to-user support, but it’s not the friendliest [...]

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2006  10:14 PM
Access control, Application security, backdoors, Backup & recovery, Brightmail, Browsers, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Exchange, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Hacking, human factors, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, McAfee, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Servers, Software, Spam, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Symantec, Systems management software, Trojans, Veritas, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms

Security Testing
How do u use the ‘whois’ utility on a windows XP OS? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2006  8:30 PM
Access control, Browsers, Desktops, filtering, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Web security

Media storage standards
What are the standards for storing backup tape media once the systems information has been copied to the tapes? We would like to store the tapes on site being that the IDF is more than 1000 feet away and two fire walls are between the MDF and the IDF. The media would be stored in [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2006  1:05 PM
Security, Storage

Active Directory management
Movetree utliity Can this be used to just move one account to another Doamin? I have found some samples , but are difficult to follow.

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2006  11:44 AM
DataCenter, Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Auto eMail from within a VB 6.0 App
I’m running Windows XP and I have an app that eMails automatically. This part works fine. The question is XP notifies me that a program is trying to eMail and is this okay. How do I suppress this question to let it eMail without asking me? Thanks, Tony

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2006  3:45 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Development, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Distribution Lists in Exhcange 2003
Hello everyone, Earlier today I created a distribution list in Exchange 2003 using Active Directory Users & Computers, I gave it an email address but the DL is not showing in the Globa Address List for some reason. I’ve done this before and never had any problem, but for some reason I have one now. [...]

Answer Question   |  January 17, 2006  1:39 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Exchange, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

DNS PTR records inexplicable appearance
I’ve met some strange DNS server behavior. A month ago I’ve renamed the domain. Today I found a PTR record containing old domain name. I deleted it, but after refresh I saw this record again. I checked DNS update requests log for the request to create this record but didn’t find anything. How can I [...]

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2006  2:35 AM
Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Management, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Email encryption
Dear Colleagues: What is the best way of detecting whether email messages are transmitted as cleartext? I want to determine whether our company email messages are encrypted or not when they are transmitted within and out of the corporate network. Thank you very much!

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2006  8:26 AM
Application security, Database, Encryption, Exchange, Instant Messaging, Secure Coding, Security

Joining computer to the domain and adding computer to specific OU
Hi, all! Usually when you join computer to the domain, the account of this computer is created in Computers container. I have a remote office and OU of this office in AD. That office has a local system administrator. He should be able to join computers in his office to the domain. I’ve gave him [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2006  3:13 AM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

Blue Screen Of Death
Hi All, I have a machine running on windows NT 4.0 service pack 6a, Its hard disk has partition c: and d: C: is a system partition and i have some Programs installed on D: drive. Recently I got encountered with Blue Screen Of Death with some reason and the mass storage device the SCSI [...]

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2006  7:31 PM
DataCenter, Desktops, Hardware, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, Software, SQL Server, Tech support

Nested stored procedures in SQL 2000
How can I use results from one stored procedure (result is a record set not a single value) in another stored procedure and assign it to a temp table in the second procedure?

Answer Question   |  January 4, 2006  5:10 PM
Desktops, Management, Microsoft Windows, OS, Security, Servers, SQL Server

PIX Simulator
Hello Everybody I’d like to know from where can I get PIX simulator for free?

Answer Question   |  January 13, 2006  7:53 AM
Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, Security, VPN, Wireless

cisco pix firewall
how do make the vpn more secured with cisco pix firewall.what are the prerequisites to have security with pix firewall.guide about the pix features

Answer Question   |  November 28, 2007  1:40 AM
Cisco, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Network security, VPN, Wireless