HTPC without a recei

Does anybody, besides me, have an HTPC centric home theater Translation - NO receiver.
All audio decode and control is done by an Audigy 2 zs Platinum. HT control is provide by a LiteOn keyboard/mouse (AirBoard). Input selection by an HDVio switch (TosLink & HDMI) controlled by an IrLink attached to a serial port. The HTPC is rack mounted under the 96" screen. Sound system is commercial (+4dBu). Room is dedicated (3 x 22) with 3 x 4 wiring closet behind the screen.

OS X has no onscreen keyboard, and besides, if it did, how would you type on it? The iMac's screen isn't touch sensitive.

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Can't connect remote PC with Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac after using a new router

I'm using a Windows 8.1 computer as a HTPC to download files and I set it logins automatically and I just need to press the power button then use RD for Mac to control the HTPC without extra monitor, keyboard...
Here is the problem: After I took my Mac and HTPC to another place, I can't connect it with new router now. (I change the PC name to new local IP, nothing else changed)
It shows on screen that:
Unable to connect to remote PC. Please verify Remote Desktop is enabled, the remote PC is turned on and available on the network, and then try again.
I can use shared disk drive of the HTPC on my Mac so I know the connection works.
Thanks!

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Generally, if it is a home network environment, please use IP address of the target computer as the PC name.
Remote Desktop Client
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/windowsserver/dn463762
Above one quoted from below thread.
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

MSI Media Center Deluxe III !!! Crash all time..

Hi
MSI Media Center Deluxe III keeps crashing. Is there any fix to this problem yet. All seams to have this problem.
I run XP Home SP1 with all live updates done. My Mega 865 only run MSI Media Center Deluxe III utility, since i only wish to install what i wish to use.
The MEGA 865 was bought due i wanted a pc/radio/cd combination. But since MSI Media Center Deluxe III will not start due crash when i starts.. The media machine is useless for me.
I hope MSI can give us an update so this will work. Also if this program will not work with some other software, give us a list :hypecrite:

After several attempts at getting my HTPC to function consistently....it became obvious......disable Media Centre III and install software that is functional and supported....with authors that listen to your suggestions and problems.
Here is what I did and I now have what I believe is a fully functional and integrated HTPC.
Install either MyHTPC (free) or Meedio (commercial version)
I use Meedio to do the following
Play movies from my Maxtor external 250GB hard drive using Bsplayer - movies are catalogued and cover art viewable (used DVD Profiler to maintain library)
Play Music from my internal 200GB seagate drive - music collection catalogued including covers etc
Play TV using Chris-TV. tv@anywhere also sucks so I do not use the supplied software and I have thrown away the tv@anywhere remote control. (Now using Streamzap remote) Chris-TV has much better tuning capabilities and works well with the streamzap remote.
Play DVD using the MSI DVD Player (using PowerDVD ) - note bsplayer also works well but i prefer the PowerDVD skins/interface
Play radio using MSI radio (yes I did keep some msi software) as it worked and it is not important enough for me to be bothered with anything easier to use
Play CD using the MSI CD player (using WMP9)
Call up Internet weather & Radar (Australian Weather only)
Launch internet browser
Play/Display pictures (digital camera snaps) from the home network (pictures are stored on separate PC)
Control home automation - Motorised screen up/down, theatre lights up/down/on/off, Seat lights on/off, projector on/off etc
To get this working seamlessly with one remote control - I use the streamzap remote.....everything mentioned above works flawlessly with this remote so I have also thrown the MSI supplied remote in the garbage.
I now have Meedio in my start-up instead of media centre III and my remote has a macro button that can also launch it. I have a standby macro on the remote that puts the mega 865 to sleep but I still have to manually wake it up (ie touch it)
The litmus test to all of this was to hand the remote to my wife's blonde friend and asked her to play a certain movie on the projector. The HTPC was sight unseen to her before trying this and she was able to (using the remote) navigate her way to the movie through the various features of the HTPC without me having to show her how. And not once did it stop/stall/freeze/reboot/go slow.
Happy to share in the details of how to get this all running to get the best out of the Mega 865.

A failure running Linux on a family HTPC - or any OS for that matter.

I failed. Here's the story:
About a year and a half ago I've bought a couple of components and put them together to have a relatively powerful, but still cheap HTPC that didn't eat too much energy, running at 40W in total. I also bought a dedicated TFT and hung it on the wall, so it's a bit like an internet kiosk as well, and it's really nice to play music from there. Looks really neat beside the TV. The TV is only neccessary to watch movies and look at pictures. I wanted to use it as a HTPC to watch movies, DVDs, have the music library on and use it as an always-on server for some stuff like mpd/icecast streaming and some files.
At first, I installed some shitty Vista, no idea why. Ran cygwin in the background but cygwin is no good at screen (not detaching manually would corrupt the session and make reattaching impossible). It didn't live long, as cygwin wasn't sufficient for my server needs. Though it performed well to watch DVDs, listen to music and watch pictures on the TV.
I cleared everything and installed Arch. With my non-linuxized family in mind, I chose KDE4 as the DE, so that lots of stuff comes preinstalled, like picture viewers, music players, DVD players and so on. But KDE4 just failed hard. Stuff didn't work most of the time, panel crashed randomly, kdm wouldn't do autologin but instead crash and I was unable to set the keyboard layout for kdm either. So I ended up using xinitrc to start it but still there was a lot of stuff going wrong. Besides of that, it was way too slow.
So I removed KDE and tried something more sane. Openbox and xfce4-panel. This worked fairly well, but one day the PC didn't react while I was away and my girlfriend just reset the box. After it had rebooted, all the xfce4-panel icons were back to defaults and had forgotten all their settings... And one day we had the mad idea to actually _rent_ a DVD and watch it, but it wouldn't work and I had to spend one hour googling for some mplayer error only to find out that there's some stupid copy protection on the DVD and that I needed yet another lib installed to play it, and using mplayer with some command line options, a task that my parents would not be able to do ever. So I would need to write another script that checks the DVD and uses some command line options accordingly...
I'm so sick of having to constantly research how to play some legally rented DVD or how icons disappear or the resolution randomly changes or all kinds of stupid stuff happening. Whatever my parents want to do simply doesn't work, and I have to come down and fix some stupid script or error. There's no end to the flaws in this system. Don't get me wrong, I'm using Arch on both my laptop and Desktop, and it runs great and I wouldn't want anything different, but for a box I'm not using everyday, where I'm not in control 100%, it seems like Arch or even Linux in general might not be working!
Now, what I'm going to try next is Windows 7 for the noob-friendly, DVD-playing family-part, and Archlinux on coLinux for the server stuff. Hope that arch runs well on coLinux. coLinux apparently runs on Win7 without issues.
Wish me luck.

So, my experience with win7:
- generally better then vista, less bloated, but pretty much the same from a usability point of view
- still seriously unpractical and lame for a poweruser
- needs lots of tweaking to be good
- arch on colinux runs well and is _awesomely_ fast. Problem is that I find it a bit outdated with its 2.6.25 kernel
- arch in virtualbox runs slow because the box doesn't have IVT unfortunately (c2d E4500)
- Stuff plays and runs, but it's as usual. One has to get rid of all the annoyances like WMP, all the notifiers, updaters etc...
So, of course I'm ditching it. Now, I'll try ubuntu 9.10. Hopefully all its bloat will help the box to perform well without much tweaking.
I'll try xmbc, but generally I feel like all these myth* and other mediacenter linux distros/apps don't really fit my setup as the HTPC has an extra screen and is not only attached to the TV, so it can be used as a normal box really. Sometimes I'd write a quick letter on it and print it and all that. It's a versatile setup:
- playing movies, viewing images
- surfing
- torrents, downloading
- serving mpd/icecast streams
- gateway for wake-on-lan'ing and ssh'ing into my desktop
- attached to printer, used to write quick stuff
I'll see how ubuntu performs....

Using Macbook as a HTPC, should I keep the battery in it?

So today, I had a quick brown out from the wind. Since the macbook I use connected to my TV as a HTPC doesn't have a battery, it instantly turned off.
I took the battery our cause it got real real fat. There is known issue with these batteries that for some reason, they start to inflate so to speak, causing the battery to bevel and it looks like it has a tumor growing inside the case.
I tossed the battery out cause it is a past its cycle anyway but I head that some of the time, this happens to batteries when they are plugged in to the power adapter all the time, which this was.
Since I wont use the battery much, I can get a cheap generic battery so in the case of another power brown out, at least it wont kill the laptop, sort of a UPS backup.
So what do you all think? Should I buy the new battery and not worry about the fat battery syndrome? Or throw in a few extra bucks and get a real UPS system just for the macbook?
Thanks!

One problem with running your MacBook without a battery is your MacBook will reduce the processor speed while it is operated with the battery out of it. See Mac Support article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2332 and http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/applenotebooks_take_hugeperf.php
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Partitioned Time Capsule as Media Server for HTPC

I recently made the big switch to Apple - purchasing a Mac Mini, Imac and Time Capsule - and wish to use the Time Capsule to back-up the Imac (in office) via Time Machine and serve media to the Imac and Mac Mini (HTPC). The reason I want to do it this way is because I want to use Front Row to play media via the Mac Mini. I initially had the Mac Mini linked to Itunes media on the IMac (where I currently store all of my music) using Home Share, but every time the Imac went into sleep mode, I would lose access to the media.
I have successfully partitioned the Time Capsule into two virtual drives - one for Time Machine back-ups and one for media to be accessed by the imac and mac mini (no easy feat). I copied all of my media from the Imac to the proper Time Capsule partition. Additionally, I was able to "point" itunes on each computer to the itunes file on the Time Capsule.
The problem is, when one computer is pointed to the Time Capsule, I lose the connection on the other and it diverts back to the old location of the media files. My questions:
1. Is it possible to do what I am trying to do?
2. Is there a better way of creating a permanent connection to Itunes between two computers so that I don't lose the connection when they "sleep"? (I tried using the function where the computers would wake on network access, but it didn't seem to work.
Thanks for you help!

Over my head wrote:
I have successfully partitioned the Time Capsule into two virtual drives - one for Time Machine back-ups and one for media to be accessed by the imac and mac mini (no easy feat).
Were you able to do that without physically removing the drive? If so, how?

K8N Neo4 Platinum as HTPC mobo questions

I've been looking at building a Home Theater PC (HTPC) for a little while now and have been investigating various parts, including possible motherboards. The MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum is a key canidate and I was wondering if I could get some advice from people who actually use the board as to whether it would be suitable. Here is the basic run down of what I need:
1) I have read that there are potential issues with the AMD 90nm cores. It seems a lot of people in the forum are running them though. Has the problem been cleared up with the latest BIOS? (I am looking at using at least a 3500+ Venice core, but might try to go a little higher).
2) The board has a cooling fan on it, How loud is it? (The goal is to try and make the system as silent as possible without going over budget)
3) Front side Firewire connector - it seems like its located between two PCI slots. Has this posed a problem?
4) The PCI slot "reserved" as a comm slot - is it usable for other PCI devices? (One reason this board is on the short list is that it has 4 PCI slots. I plan on putting in at least 3 tuner cards, possibly 4 or using the 4th for a sound card or some other device. Thus, having this slot available as a general purpose PCI is important. Some retailers claim it is 'reserved' others don't.)
Any other recommendations would also be appreciated. Especially as concerns silencing and processor choice.
-Watson

Quote from: watson on 08-March-06, 00:54:50
1) I have read that there are potential issues with the AMD 90nm cores. It seems a lot of people in the forum are running them though. Has the problem been cleared up with the latest BIOS? (I am looking at using at least a 3500+ Venice core, but might try to go a little higher).
There were, make sure u get a E4 revision or higher. 99,9% of CPU's shipped today will have that.
Quote from: watson on 08-March-06, 00:54:50
2) The board has a cooling fan on it, How loud is it? (The goal is to try and make the system as silent as possible without going over budget)
Very, I have the same fan. I run it at 5v, than it's OK, u can get an adapter in most PC shops. Getting a passive haetsink is also a possibility, but that will void your warrenty.
Quote from: watson on 08-March-06, 00:54:50
3) Front side Firewire connector - it seems like its located between two PCI slots. Has this posed a problem?
Dunno, Don't see why, make sure u get a HTPC with a front bracket with a FW port.
Quote from: watson on 08-March-06, 00:54:50
4) The PCI slot "reserved" as a comm slot - is it usable for other PCI devices? (One reason this board is on the short list is that it has 4 PCI slots. I plan on putting in at least 3 tuner cards, possibly 4 or using the 4th for a sound card or some other device. Thus, having this slot available as a general purpose PCI is important. Some retailers claim it is 'reserved' others don't.)
Hmm, my gues is that that would be a problem.
Quote from: watson on 08-March-06, 00:54:50
Any other recommendations would also be appreciated. Especially as concerns silencing and processor choice.
See if this will fit in ur HTPC (the 80mil one)
http://www.coolermaster-europe.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product&p_serial=RL-MUA-E8U1%20/%20EBU1&other_title=+RL-MUA-E8U1%20%2F%20EBU1+AQUAGATE%20Mini%20R80%20%2F%20R120
Underclocking and undervolting will also help keeping the CPU cool = less need for noisy fans.
Be weary of components causing heat. Samsung HDD's are the coolest, use as many as the onboard stuff as possible, etc..
Stick to 1 casefan and put it on the NB-FAN, so Corecenter or Speedfan can manage the fan speed. Recomended brands are Papst, Panaflo and Vantec Stealth.
4GB limit is due to having a 32bit OS. With 32bits u can only adress a max of 3GB. It might work using XP 64-bit, but I don't see why a anyone would need it.

New DC without netlogon share is not working.

Hello all,
I have a brand new DC (server 2012) that I joined to my domain and it is not behaving. It is a clean install plus the directory services role, the static IP and the promotion, nothing else. The domain has one more DC (server 2012) and it is functioning
properly. The DNS servers of the new DC are the working DC and 127.0.0.1 as secondary. The time is the same, the name is new on a new install of windows (no images, no cloning, no restores). The promotion completed successfully with the initial replication
(it said).
Here is the output of dcdiag:
Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
Trying to find home server...
Home Server = IL-DC2
* Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\IL-DC2
Starting test: Connectivity
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Connectivity
Doing primary tests
Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\IL-DC2
Starting test: Advertising
Warning: DsGetDcName returned information for \\MD-DC.mydomain.com, when we were trying to reach IL-DC2.
SERVER IS NOT RESPONDING or IS NOT CONSIDERED SUITABLE.
......................... IL-DC2 failed test Advertising
Starting test: FrsEvent
......................... IL-DC2 passed test FrsEvent
Starting test: DFSREvent
There are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after the SYSVOL has been shared. Failing SYSVOL
replication problems may cause Group Policy problems.
......................... IL-DC2 passed test DFSREvent
Starting test: SysVolCheck
......................... IL-DC2 passed test SysVolCheck
Starting test: KccEvent
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000481
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:07:50
Event String: Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not valid.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x80000B46
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:09:43
Event String:
The security of this directory server can be significantly enhanced by configuring the server to reject SASL
(Negotiate, Kerberos, NTLM, or Digest) LDAP binds that do not request signing (integrity verification) and LDAP simple
binds that are performed on a cleartext (non-SSL/TLS-encrypted) connection. Even if no clients are using such binds,
configuring the server to reject them will improve the security of this server.
......................... IL-DC2 passed test KccEvent
Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders
......................... IL-DC2 passed test KnowsOfRoleHolders
Starting test: MachineAccount
......................... IL-DC2 passed test MachineAccount
Starting test: NCSecDesc
......................... IL-DC2 passed test NCSecDesc
Starting test: NetLogons
Unable to connect to the NETLOGON share! (\\IL-DC2\netlogon)
[IL-DC2] An net use or LsaPolicy operation failed with error 67, The network name cannot be found..
......................... IL-DC2 failed test NetLogons
Starting test: ObjectsReplicated
......................... IL-DC2 passed test ObjectsReplicated
Starting test: Replications
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Replications
Starting test: RidManager
......................... IL-DC2 passed test RidManager
Starting test: Services
......................... IL-DC2 passed test Services
Starting test: SystemLog
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:20:58
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:50:41
Event String:
Name resolution for the name teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers r
esponded.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000003F6
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:50:41
Event String:
Name resolution for the name teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com. timed out after none of the configured DNS servers r
esponded.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:51:32
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00001001
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:56:46
Event String:
The machine IL-DC2 attempted to join the domain mydomain.com but failed. The error code was 1332.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:58:07
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x0000271A
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:58:06
Event String:
The server {9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x00001796
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 04:59:21
Event String:
Microsoft Windows Server has detected that NTLM authentication is presently being used between clients and t
his server. This event occurs once per boot of the server on the first time a client uses NTLM with this server.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:09
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Universal Printing PCL 6 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:09
Event String:
Driver Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2010 is unknown. Contact t
he administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:12
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP (192.168.2.20) is un
known. Contact the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:12
Event String:
Driver Microsoft XPS Document Writer required for printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer is unknown. Contact
the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:13
Event String:
Driver PrimoPDF required for printer PrimoPDF is unknown. Contact the administrator to install the driver be
fore you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:00:13
Event String:
Driver Send to Microsoft OneNote 15 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2013 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727A5
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:08:51
Event String: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.
A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x00001796
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:12:17
Event String:
Microsoft Windows Server has detected that NTLM authentication is presently being used between clients and t
his server. This event occurs once per boot of the server on the first time a client uses NTLM with this server.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:02
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Universal Printing PCL 6 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:02
Event String:
Driver Microsoft XPS Document Writer required for printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer is unknown. Contact
the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:03
Event String:
Driver HP Universal Printing PCL 6 required for printer HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP (192.168.2.20) is un
known. Contact the administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:04
Event String:
Driver PrimoPDF required for printer PrimoPDF is unknown. Contact the administrator to install the driver be
fore you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:04
Event String:
Driver Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2010 is unknown. Contact t
he administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
An error event occurred. EventID: 0x00000457
Time Generated: 03/06/2014 05:13:05
Event String:
Driver Send to Microsoft OneNote 15 Driver required for printer Send To OneNote 2013 is unknown. Contact the
administrator to install the driver before you log in again.
......................... IL-DC2 failed test SystemLog
Starting test: VerifyReferences
......................... IL-DC2 passed test VerifyReferences
Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Schema
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... Schema passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Configuration
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... Configuration passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : mydomain
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... mydomain passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... mydomain passed test CrossRefValidation
Running enterprise tests on : mydomain.com
Starting test: LocatorCheck
......................... mydomain.com passed test LocatorCheck
Starting test: Intersite
......................... mydomain.com passed test Intersite
I also have the following event:
Log Name: System
Source: NetJoin
Date: 3/6/2014 4:56:46 AM
Event ID: 4097
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: S-1-5-21-1062633599-3710215183-3313947919-500
Computer: IL-DC2
Description:
The machine IL-DC2 attempted to join the domain mydomain.com but failed. The error code was 1332.
Although the machine joined the domain, it is listed with the appropriate records and promoted.
Can anybody help me get a second DC for this domain running? It is kind of urgent... I tried demoting/promoting, reinstalling, I tried to do a non-authoritative restore, however, I don't have the appropriate registry key... I saw the various different posts
on similar issues, please do not paste them as I read them and I was not able to solve this.
Thank you in advance for any responses!
Best regards,
Irina

Umar,
Thank you big time for your time and help today. After we finished talking I tried the authoritative restore (vs non-authoritative the first time - didn't help) and then I started over (one more time) and created one more DC. Before promoting it I disabled
the firewall and the user control in order to make sure nothing is stopping it. I also triple checked the time. I promoted it without the DNS server and Global Catalog functions. I faced the same wall. After the promotion the SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares were
still not there.
After hours of more reading I finally found this:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/58b8cdc3-a990-46c7-a70e-a51fd6965537/sysvol-and-netlogon-shares-missing-from-new-domain-controllers-using-dfrs?forum=windowsserverpreview
and it saved me. So I followed this guy's steps and my system shares showed up on both new DCs. Then I had to wait one more hour for everything to get in sync and after that I successfully shut down my main DC and the other two took over.
Thank you again for the help!
Best regards,
Irina

View data in client B from client A in the same SID without a valid logon?

Hi Folks
We are planning on upgrading our 4.6C system to ERP 6.0, and are initialy considering having two clients in the same sandbox SID. One would be for the developers to perform code remediation checks (client A), and one would contain a copy of production data for performing testing of functionality over live data (client B).
Would it be possible to view data in client B from client A in the same system without a valid logon to client B or RFC connection to client B from client A? For example via the use on an ABAP program to SQL the database?
I know one can use transactions like SM30/SM31 to view, compare, and adjust data between clients, but this requires an RFC connection and valid logon to the target client.
Regards
Kevin.

Hi Kevin.
>
Kevin McLatchie wrote:
> Would it be possible to view data in client B from client A in the same system without a valid logon to client B or RFC connection to client B from client A? For example via the use on an ABAP program to
Short answer: yes.
If someone has the right to write and execute ABAP reports on the system he is able to access the data of all clients. So I don't think that this setup is advisable. Don't mix development and production data in one system.
Best regards,
Jan

SSO to ECC (without java stack), BI (on NetWeaver), & Portal

I have a client that wants to configure their SAP systems in such a way so that the users sign onto their Windows workstations, are authenticated by Windows Active Directory and from then on they can sign on directly to an ECC ABAP instance, a BI instance, and an SAP Portal without having to supply a user/password combination again. (We already have SSO setup for users access some BI reports through the Portal, but in this case we want to setup direct access to the ECC and BI systems without necessarily going through the Portal environment).
The servers are running HP-UX, the clients Windows XP, and the AD system is running under Windows 2003.
Is this possible without using a third-party tool and if so,can anyone point me to the appropriate documentation (I've done a lot of searching, but can't find anything).
Thanks in advance!

I am sure this has been done before and often discussed here?
Take a look in the FAQ thread at the top of the forum for a general overview discussion of SSO. If you keep an eye out for the note numbers, terms used and those folks who contributed to it when searching, then I am sure will find plenty of infos to start with.
Specific vendor evaluation details and comparisons (outside of the technical realm) are generally not provided, as the 3rd parties are generally competitors...
Cheers,
Julius

OBIEE 11g - without going to Sawbridge first.....

If you called OBIEE via the default path: http://domain-name/analytics?NQuser=xxx&NQpassword=xxxx
instead of
http://domain-name/analytics/saw.dll?NQzuser=xxx&NQpassword=xxxx
would your credentials be checked by weblogic before the default login jsp has access to the request parameters or after?
Or does weblogic/OBIEE stop you passing parameters to the default URL?
What I'm trying to say is, if you go via the default domain without calling saw.dll first can you pass an encrypted password to your bespoke login.jsp (default.jsp) within the analytics domain and get this default.jsp
to convert the password to plain text and then this default.jsp calls (forwards) to saw.dll....

I have been trying to log in with my YouTube account name and password like usual. I just tried using my gmail log in and it works. Did they merge or something? It was working yesterday just fine without me changing the way I logged in. Either way, thanks for the help! Works great now
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Edit and output video without modifying any pixels?

That subject line sounds cryptic, I'm sure, but I need to assemble numerous snippets of animated pixel art into what should become a somewhat lengthy animation. Final Cut should perform no internal resizing and no compression prior to output; all input files are 240x160 without exception. Stills are PNG to take advantage of the Alpha channel, but the animated clips are uncompressed QuickTime with a single, unique RGB value reserved for the background for chroma-keying (all layering is to be all-or-nothing with regard to the Alpha/keying; there is no partial transparency at play).
All I need is to compile these clips together, layer a few elements on top of each other, and tweak the timing here and there. Beyond that, Final Cut should leave everything exactly like it found it, down to the pixel. (I'll worry about the output format and compression later.)
Is this possible (and easy) in Final Cut Express? In my disastrous trials with Adobe Premiere Elements (v.1), Premiere insisted on internally resizing the clips for editing, which fuzzed up the images and defeated the chroma keying (as if the fuzziness wasn't bothersome enough). It's possible this was due to user error, but as far as I can tell, nothing can prevent Premiere from reprocessing everything into its native DV dimensions, which is quite destructive toward pixel art. Anyway, I'm frustrated enough with Premiere that I'm willing to purchase Final Cut, if it can meet these requirements easily.
Thanks much for any information you can provide. Oh, and if Final Cut could possibly output the entire sequence as an animated GIF, that'd be fantastic, but I tend to think it'd be a little too heavy-handed (even though my total palette is well below 256 colors) because it's used to crunching fancy true-color videos instead of this basic pixel art.

After some further research, it seems my best approach for this project will be to compose my small QuickTime clips with all layering done beforehand, then assemble them with a utility such as QuickTime Pro or MPEG Streamclip, as discussed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7813920&#7813920
MPEG Streamclip, in fact, seems to work quite well in my initial tests. If the clips are numbered sequentially, dropping them into the application assembles them beautifully. And it's free!
Thanks again to those who replied.

Sale Order without Division

Hi,
I have an issue in prodution system, there is a sales order created in 2008 without division (I dont know how the system allowed), this sale order is created with reference to a contract, and the contrct is having division. And now users want to close the sale order. When i am trying to open sale order in VA02 / VA03, it is giving error mesage " Sales area 1000 10 is not defined". Now I am unable to open the order.
Pls anybody suggest me how to close this order??
How system will allow to create a sale order without delivery??
Regards,
Srikanth

Hi,
I can see a way by which this could have happened.
Initially there was a sales area called 1000/10/00. For tihs sales area, some transactions were created. After sometime, by mistake or intentionally the assignment of this sales area is deleted in configuration. If this is done, it will affect the documents in retrospect and all those documents cannot be processed from then onwards. There is a possibility that this has happened in your case.
Check some other sales orders for the sales org 1000 created in 2008 and you are bound to get this error. If you realise that there are lot of documents affected because of this, please check the change logs in the sales area configuration and find out when was the sales area dimantled in the system. There can be some business reason behind this. Find out the business reason, tell them implication of removing the sales area, do the configuration once again and rectify the affected documents once again by means of a Zprogram.
Please check initially what is said, and let me know if you need more information on this

Open discoverer report in new browser window and without connections page

Hi All,
We are using Oracle 11g Discoverer 11.1.1.4. Requirement is to open the discoverer report in a new browser window and without connections page.
When we are running discoverer reports with this parameters we unwantedly get the connections page of the discoverer plus which we don't want.
Went through the documentation given in this page and followed it still the issue persists, and i see couple of threads with my issue and no updates.
This excerpt is from the documentation available in the link
" _plus_popup=true and framedisplaystyle=embedded launches Discoverer Plus in a new pop-up browser window that contains the Plus applet embedded in it "
http://www.art2dec.com/documentation/docs/oas10g1012/linux/bi.1012/b13918/urlstart.htm
and Here is what we use to invoke our reports.
http://ipaddress:port/discoverer/plus?cn=cf_123&_plus_popup=TRUE&framedisplaystyle=EMBEDDED&wb=disc_wb_1
Request the forum users from PRO discoverer group to help me out of this issue and expect a good discussion on this.
Thanks in advance

Closing the thread
We were able to achieve by changing the browser settings in the IE 8 Browser. Disabled Tabbed browsing.

Activity Report download is saved without extension and unreadable

Hello,
The Portal Activity Report iView has a button which enables the user to download the report to his PC.
The problem is that when the user clicks on that button and saves the file it is being saved by this default name: com.sap.portal.activityreport.frontend.DownloadableActivityReport
The main problem is that it is being saved by default without any extension and after saving the user needs to manually add the .xls suffix.
Another problem is that once I open the report with Excel The Object Name column is unreadable.
Is there any way to resolve these issues?
Roy

Hi Roy,
> if it wasn't supported there
> or you would still consider it as a bug?
The feature in general of course was supported, but what I cannot say is if it was a known issue that it didn't work correctly. As I dont't use the ActivityReport, I also have no experience if it didn't work at some time and maybe now is working.
The wrong filename I don't expect to be corrected in the meanwhile, as said, that's a problem in some places. So at least for this you could open an OSS message. And maybe combine this with the problematic column issue.
But if upgrading to SP18 would be an option for you, maybe you could first test that.
Hope it helps
Detlev

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