Archive for February, 2008

Apache web server on windows, how to password protect directory

Running Windows 2003 with Apache 2.2, how do I password protect a web directory? First, open up your httpd.conf file located in your apache\conf directory. In the directory sections, add the following <Directory “c:/htdocs/foldername-to-secure”>  AllowOverride All  Options none  Order deny,allow </Directory> To create the password file, goto a dos prompt, and into the apache’s bin [...]

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Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 licensing server won’t accept license

You look in your licensing manager and you don’t see your new license file listed, even after you add it. The only one there is the startup license. In your server application event logs you receive numberous error messages such as this: Source: WSH Event ID: 1 Citrix Monitoring Script Event 2 Citrix MetaFrame Compute [...]

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Slow RDP into Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 using Vista 64

Brand new server Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Enterprise Edition Client Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Before upgrading to SP2 on my server, I could RDP with no issues. After SP2 was installed, RDP was such a dog. It took time to login to the server, and moving around was very hesitant. I went to the [...]

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A domain controller for the domain could not be contacted

I decided to create another VLAN on my network for a new development server, but keep the same domain name as my production environment. I tried to add it to the domain and here’s the message I received…. The domain name geowire might be a NetBIOS domain name.  If this is the case, verify that the [...]

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