RPGonzo's questions

Recently we had a motherboard failure on a terminal server so we replaced the faulty motherboard, re-setup the RAID arrays (same motherboard but still wouldn't recognize old RAID setup) and continued to recover the system from a previous backup.

No problem up to here, after restoring the system you are prompted to reboot and than login. On login we get a message box stating that Windows needs to be activated do you want to activate now, press yes but than the OS proceeds to log you off and do nothing at all. You can try over and over but to no avail.

Found a few articles about a glitch in the activation script and how to reset it, tried that with the same results. Hoping someone can share some knowledge if you have seen this before? Thanks!

We are looking at migrating all of of shared folders and files to one server. Currently it's spread out over a few severs which has been the method for the past years but now we want to upgrade and consolidate.

We have been kicking around the idea of a Linux (Ubuntu to be exact) based file & print server. Which I'm familiar with the OS but what I'm not sure of is how to migrate the Windows shares (including user access rights,security,etc) over to the Linux machine and maintain those rights.

Another thing I'm not positive about is interlinking the Linux box with our Windows based LDAP for those permissions to be implemented. I know there is the Kerberos daemon which works fine within our domain but in the security and access control of a particular share via Samba we cannot select users from the domain to be "authorized" to use the share.

Info: I'm using Webmin to access the "GUI" of the Samba shares.

Mostly looking for information and literature on this, but if it becomes to troublesome we may have to stick with the Windows Server OS, which we are trying to avoid just to save a few bucks and some overhead on the machines performance.

Thanks in advance for any information!

We have a need to lock certain users down to a very restrictive desktop on our terminal servers as well as only serve them a single application which will auto launch. I have a GPO setup for each need but cannot figure out how to only apply these GPOs to the particular user(s) that we need to enforce this on.

The WMI filter was my first guess without diving into the Group Policy Loopback ( which could cause issues with our current AD structure and associated GPOs ). My issue is writing the WQL statement to suit my needs.

I tried [SELECT * FROM W32.ComputerSystem WHERE UserName = 'domain\username'] but this query always provided a false return. My guess is because of the terminal server environment but im not positive. Looked slightly into the W32.TSAccount class but didn't see anything useful there as well.

Anyone have ideas or literature you could reference me too so i can dive further into this? Any help would be MUCH appreciated as im no AD/GPO guru.