The following error occurred attempting to join the domain Access is denied
We tried several things, but the thing that fixed the issue was this command
"secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose"
Source:
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?s=b5574fb2ca5d322f27c32d0570aab94a&t=51731&page=2
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Windows 7 Machine Can't Connect to Network Share
Thunder plugin for iNews doesn't work in Windows 7 because Windows 7 machines can't connect or map a drive to a network share folder on a machine not in the domain.
Click the Start button and type secpol.msc in the search function.
Browse to "Local Policies" -> "Security Options".
Now look for the entry "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it.
Click on the dropdown menu and select:
"Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated".
Apply the settings.
source:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/68ffbe2a-09a7-4e29-859c-ca1aaf75dcd1/
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"LmCompatibilityLevel"=dword:00000001
Click the Start button and type secpol.msc in the search function.
Browse to "Local Policies" -> "Security Options".
Now look for the entry "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it.
Click on the dropdown menu and select:
"Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated".
Apply the settings.
source:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/68ffbe2a-09a7-4e29-859c-ca1aaf75dcd1/
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"LmCompatibilityLevel"=dword:00000001
Thursday, March 24, 2011
HP Pavilion dm1 Webcam Not Working After OS Change
After changing the operating system from 64-bit Windows Home Premium to 32-bit Windows 7 Professional, the internal webcam would not work. The HP MediaSmart Webcam software or Skype would give a error message saying:
HP MediaSmart Webcam cannot connect to your webcam (HP Webcam-50).
Skype can't connect to your webcam.
The drivers for the webcam were installed from HP's website and the Device Manager showed the webcam as working.
I found this info:
1. Open regedit
2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\0000
(This should be the registry key for your webcam. If it is not, it may be at 0002, or 0003, etc.)
3. Add a new 32-bit DWORD value called "UvcFlags"
4. Set the data for this value to 10 (10 Hex, 16 Decimal)
5. Restart your computer and test the webcam
Source: http://sites.google.com/site/raysfamouswebpage/hpwebcam
There was also a 32-bit DWORD called "KS" with a value of 1 on the original 64-bit Windows Home Premium installation.
After adding UvcFlags & KS and restarting, the webcam works fine now.
I have a 2nd HP Pavilion dm1 that I did the same OS change to & it had no issues with the webcam.
HP MediaSmart Webcam cannot connect to your webcam (HP Webcam-50).
Skype can't connect to your webcam.
The drivers for the webcam were installed from HP's website and the Device Manager showed the webcam as working.
I found this info:
1. Open regedit
2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}\0000
(This should be the registry key for your webcam. If it is not, it may be at 0002, or 0003, etc.)
3. Add a new 32-bit DWORD value called "UvcFlags"
4. Set the data for this value to 10 (10 Hex, 16 Decimal)
5. Restart your computer and test the webcam
Source: http://sites.google.com/site/raysfamouswebpage/hpwebcam
There was also a 32-bit DWORD called "KS" with a value of 1 on the original 64-bit Windows Home Premium installation.
After adding UvcFlags & KS and restarting, the webcam works fine now.
I have a 2nd HP Pavilion dm1 that I did the same OS change to & it had no issues with the webcam.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
HP Pavilion dm1 Factory Image Restore After OS Change
After doing a clean install of 32-bit Windows 7 Professional on a Pavilion dm1 (dm1-2010nr) - replacing the original 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium - I needed to restore the machine to its original OS. I did the clean install by formating the partion that contained the original OS, but left the others intact so that I could use the factory restore partition in the future. Unfortunately, I could not boot to the factory restore partition after the OS change. It ignored the F11 press during bootup (It actually displayed on the screen F11 - System Recovery, but then went on to boot Windows anyway). I had to go to the Windows Computer Management console (Start menu & search for computer management) & go to the section called Storage & then click on Disk Management. The Recovery partition shows up as the D: drive. Right click on that partition & choose "Mark Partition as Active". On the next reboot, the machine will boot into the recovery environment.
HP Netbook & Verizon HP un2420 Broadband Wireless Module
We purchased a number of HP Pavilion dm1 (dm1-2010nr) netbooks from Verizon which came with 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. We need 32-bit Windows 7 Pro for our software. After doing a clean install of 32-bit Windows (formating the partition with the original Windows install, leaving the other partitions alone), & installing the drivers & software from the HP website, the HP un2420 Wireless modem would not connect to Verizon using the VZ Access Manager software. The VZ Access Manager software recognised the card as an HP un2420, but couldn't configure it. Instead of displaying Mobile Broadband (EV-RevA), it would show an error message "Network registration denied". The Options menu in VZAM did not display an Activation option. Even restoring the machine with the Factory Image Restore did not restore functionality of the wireless card.
To resolve this, open the VZ Access Manager and go to Option>Network Selection & change the Network Mode to CDMA. Click Yes to the popup window that says, "Are you sure you want to change the network mode?". It should then be able to complete the configuration & display the "Activation" option under Options. Click on Options>Activation and complete the activation process.
BTW, pressing CTRL-T while in VZAM will bring up a terminal window that can be used to test whether the modem is working. The modem should respond to an AT command with OK & it should return a bunch of info to an AT&V command. ATDT#777 should return something like CONNECTED 3100000, not NO CARRIER.
To resolve this, open the VZ Access Manager and go to Option>Network Selection & change the Network Mode to CDMA. Click Yes to the popup window that says, "Are you sure you want to change the network mode?". It should then be able to complete the configuration & display the "Activation" option under Options. Click on Options>Activation and complete the activation process.
BTW, pressing CTRL-T while in VZAM will bring up a terminal window that can be used to test whether the modem is working. The modem should respond to an AT command with OK & it should return a bunch of info to an AT&V command. ATDT#777 should return something like CONNECTED 3100000, not NO CARRIER.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
11/24/09
The Windows System Defender malware/virus has an interesting new trick to stop/disable the Task Manager, as well as other programs like Trend antivirus.
It adds hundreds of entries in the
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options] registry key.
The added entries will have the name of a particular program (image file) with a debugger setting to svchost.exe, like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe]
"Debugger"="svchost.exe"
This starts svchost.exe as the debugger whenever the program starts. Since I haven't done any debugging, I don't know if using an invalid debugging program (svchost.exe in this example) will cause the program to fail on startup - essentially stopping it from starting - or if it will run hidden from the user. Either way, it stops you from being able to see the Task Manager. It also will disable the Trend Micro OfficeScan client, as well as others.
There are hundreds of programs that are disabled by Windows System Defender using these registry entries. I didn't look at all of them, but many look like a lot of the usual malware suspects. So, it disables all of the competing malware products that might be on your machine so that it can have exclusive use of your CPU. How nice.
I cleaned them manually (tedious), but I believe Malware Bytes is now aware of this trick & can be used to clean up the registry once you've cleaned up the main stuff. I used Malware Bytes to clean up the rest of files first by pulling the harddrive and using a USB adapter to connect the drive to another machine. MB lets you choose which drive(s) to scan, so you can scan an external drive. You may have to add write permissions back to the hosts file for your user so that you can clean that up (or to delete it & create a new one).
BTW, the following registry entry is a standard Windows registry value & does not need to be removed:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Your Image File Name Here without a path]
"Debugger"="ntsd -d"
"GlobalFlag"="0x000010F0"
It adds hundreds of entries in the
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options] registry key.
The added entries will have the name of a particular program (image file) with a debugger setting to svchost.exe, like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe]
"Debugger"="svchost.exe"
This starts svchost.exe as the debugger whenever the program starts. Since I haven't done any debugging, I don't know if using an invalid debugging program (svchost.exe in this example) will cause the program to fail on startup - essentially stopping it from starting - or if it will run hidden from the user. Either way, it stops you from being able to see the Task Manager. It also will disable the Trend Micro OfficeScan client, as well as others.
There are hundreds of programs that are disabled by Windows System Defender using these registry entries. I didn't look at all of them, but many look like a lot of the usual malware suspects. So, it disables all of the competing malware products that might be on your machine so that it can have exclusive use of your CPU. How nice.
I cleaned them manually (tedious), but I believe Malware Bytes is now aware of this trick & can be used to clean up the registry once you've cleaned up the main stuff. I used Malware Bytes to clean up the rest of files first by pulling the harddrive and using a USB adapter to connect the drive to another machine. MB lets you choose which drive(s) to scan, so you can scan an external drive. You may have to add write permissions back to the hosts file for your user so that you can clean that up (or to delete it & create a new one).
BTW, the following registry entry is a standard Windows registry value & does not need to be removed:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Your Image File Name Here without a path]
"Debugger"="ntsd -d"
"GlobalFlag"="0x000010F0"
Thursday, October 29, 2009
10-29-09
iNews Wires Not Working
AP AP Express Fox CNN
If the Data Receiver computers are restarted, the wire services in iNews will stop functioning.
The iNews console will display the following message repeatedly:
"No configured WS resources for AP" (or whichever wire service is down).
At the console, type in:
List C News
That will provide a list of wire services and their respective numbers, like this:
DEV DEVICE_TYPE COMPUTER CCU PRINTER SPEED OPTIONS DEVNAME
w51 news A-net AP
w52 news B-net AX
w53 news A-net FX
w54 news B-net CN
This tells me that the AP & Fox wires are on Server A and that the AP Express & CNN wires are on Server B.
It also tells me that the AP wire is wire 51, AP Express is 52, Fox is 53, and CNN is 54.
To restart the wire service & get the wires working again, type:
Stop XX
where XX is the 2 digit number of the wire in question. E.g.,
Stop 51
would stop the AP wire service on the iNews server.
It will automatically restart when the next wire story comes in.
You have to type the command in on its respective server. So, if I want to stop wire service 52, I have to switch to the B side first and then type in Stop 52.
Go back to the Data Receiver machine & launch the Data Receiver Administration Application & check to see if wire stories are coming in. Open the iNews client on a machine & check the wires queues to see if new stories are coming in. It's been my experience that missed stories will start coming in once the wire service is restarted on the server.
AP AP Express Fox CNN
If the Data Receiver computers are restarted, the wire services in iNews will stop functioning.
The iNews console will display the following message repeatedly:
"No configured WS resources for AP" (or whichever wire service is down).
At the console, type in:
List C News
That will provide a list of wire services and their respective numbers, like this:
DEV DEVICE_TYPE COMPUTER CCU PRINTER SPEED OPTIONS DEVNAME
w51 news A-net AP
w52 news B-net AX
w53 news A-net FX
w54 news B-net CN
This tells me that the AP & Fox wires are on Server A and that the AP Express & CNN wires are on Server B.
It also tells me that the AP wire is wire 51, AP Express is 52, Fox is 53, and CNN is 54.
To restart the wire service & get the wires working again, type:
Stop XX
where XX is the 2 digit number of the wire in question. E.g.,
Stop 51
would stop the AP wire service on the iNews server.
It will automatically restart when the next wire story comes in.
You have to type the command in on its respective server. So, if I want to stop wire service 52, I have to switch to the B side first and then type in Stop 52.
Go back to the Data Receiver machine & launch the Data Receiver Administration Application & check to see if wire stories are coming in. Open the iNews client on a machine & check the wires queues to see if new stories are coming in. It's been my experience that missed stories will start coming in once the wire service is restarted on the server.
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