Windows 2000/2003 Security

Syskey enabled with "Password Startup" - how to disable syskey when don't have password. Syskey is enabled by default in Windows 2000 with "System Generated Password" with "Store Startup Key Locally".  Just found a few servers that had the syskey option changed to "password startup" which prompts for a ...

I need to know if there is a way to allow a user to change the IP address of a laptop PC without having administrative access. Anyone know of  a quick solution to this? Users are connecting to multiple IP devices, and need to enter a different ...

Hi everyone, I am faced with the following challenge and would really appreciate if you could help or point me in the right direction. We have two computer running Win 2000 Pro. We would like to give a public access to this computer so anyone coming in ...

The security event log on our W2K, SP4 server has hundreds of the above messages in it.  There are no associated 'logon' events, just the 'logoff' events. File and Print sharing is enabled on this server. There are several published file shares (all hidden); and there are ...

I need to script changing Windows Login names (e.g., rename the administrator account), and also script the setting of "account is disabled", "user must change password at next login" and the rest of those.  This is for local ...

Peter - we have, it seems, a similar problem... I'm wondering if you can shed some light. I've been pulling my hair out to find any solution to our conundrum. We have remote users with Windows XP (SP1 currently, as SP2 caused some ...