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Post #35,526 by kmself 4/15/02 8:34:59 PM Reply	and...just used it on a Win2K box Worked like a charm. Booting the disk you're given a set of prompts to walk through sane defaults for most choices, adequate warnings of potentially dangerous actions, and, best of all, it works. About three minutes from boot to reboot and back into the system. Note also: the LNX-BBC ships with the ntpwedit utility, but doesn't support writing to NTFS. I suspect this will be supported in a future release. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #85,684 by pwhysall 3/5/03 2:46:58 AM Reply	Be vewwy vewwy careful with this it is absolutely the tool of last resort. Remember, kids, NTFS write support in Linux is extremely experimental. If the phase of the moon is wrong then your NTFS file system may be hosed. I've also heard that this kills domain controllers dead. If you've forgotten your domain administrator password and you're thinking of using this tool, then you should probably go outside and shoot yourself in the face, because a member of the domain admins group can change that, and you don't have any domain admin users... Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #85,921 by Andrew Grygus 3/5/03 10:56:12 PM Reply	Of course it's a tool of last resort . . . . but I've used it about 20 times on about 6 machines for practice and it's been flawless. It's worked on NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I've only used it for real about three times, all on NT. Of course, none of these were domain controllers. I'll have to try that sometime on a machine that's being decomissioned. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #85,930 by kmself 3/5/03 11:26:05 PM Reply	When write support works well... ...is when it's changing a fixed number of bytes in a file that\r\ndoesn't change length. Eg, apparently, changing the Administrator\r\npassword. So risk of filesystem corruption is likely very minimal. \r\n\r\n Domain controllers -- now that's another story, can't speak to\r\nit. \r\n --\r\n Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n

Win2K admin password reset? - (kmself) - (12) - April 12, 2002, 05:26:01 PM EDT

Ummm no fast and easy way.... - (folkert) - (1) - April 12, 2002, 07:10:04 PM EDT

[strike]Ummm no fast and easy way....[/strike] - (folkert) - April 14, 2002, 10:09:47 AM EDT

The Linux boot disk I used . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - April 12, 2002, 10:53:53 PM EDT

...which is what? - (kmself) - (8) - April 13, 2002, 06:43:20 PM EDT

Here ya' go . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - April 13, 2002, 10:13:12 PM EDT

You rock! - (kmself) - (4) - April 14, 2002, 04:55:11 AM EDT

and...just used it on a Win2K box - (kmself) - (3) - April 15, 2002, 08:34:59 PM EDT

Be vewwy vewwy careful with this - (pwhysall) - (2) - March 5, 2003, 02:46:58 AM EST

Of course it's a tool of last resort . . - (Andrew Grygus) - March 5, 2003, 10:56:12 PM EST

When write support works well... - (kmself) - March 5, 2003, 11:26:05 PM EST

This one goes in the permanent bag o' tricks. - (Silverlock) - April 14, 2002, 12:29:08 PM EDT

Saved me tonight - (Steve Lowe) - March 5, 2003, 01:39:45 AM EST

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