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Friday, October 26, 2007

MTU


There was an issue when some PCs could not perform a specific (mmbe,f8) operation in SAP and produced error "connection reset by peer".

The problem was fixed by addding MTU parameter (1300) into WXP registry, it was missing for some reason. Refer to the SAP note 155147

Friday, October 12, 2007

Disable services you do not need in Windows XP

http://www.techgalaxy.net/docs/winxp/tweaking_winxp_services.htm

Windows XP virtual PC SID change

As you know it's easy to clone Virtual machines, but two clones must have different SID to work correctly simultaneously in the network, such as Active Directory. There is a MS tool called "newsid" that allows to change SID and PC name. The tool can assign random or predefined SID to the system. Clones also need different MAC address.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Cisco Secure Desktop and Vista

Cisco Secure Desktop release. 3.2 does not support Secure Session in Vista. It will perform only cache clean.

 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/csd/csd32/release/notes/CSDRn32.html#wp39068

 

Table 1 Operating Systems Supported by Cisco Secure Desktop

Operating Systems1

Prelogin Assessment

Host Scan

Secure Session

Cache Cleaner2

Microsoft Windows Vista

Y

Y

-

Y

Microsoft Windows XP

Y

Y

Y

Y

Microsoft Windows 2000

Y

Y

Y

Y

Apple Macintosh OS X 10.4 (PowerPC or Intel)

-

-

-

Y

Linux

-

-

-

Y

 

1 Includes both English and non-English support for 32-bit Microsoft operating systems. Cisco Secure Desktop does not support the 64-bit versions.

2 Cache Cleaner also supports WebLaunch of Cisco AnyConnect on a PC running Windows 2000 or XP.