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Anonymous    Mar 01, 2001
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Page 20
bullet item 1: "Chapter 5" now reads "Chapter 7"

Anonymous    Dec 01, 1998
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Page 22
1st bullet item: changed "and its children" to "and its parents"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 24
2nd bullet under "Using and customizing..."

moved the footnote marker to the end of the second
sentence, after "(try!)"

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 24
footnote, 1st sentence: changed

The character used ...
to
If it doesn't work, it's easy to enable it:
the character used...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 48
1st para. under "Determining the Time...", 2nd

sentence: changed

However, this event is not, in fact, recorded,...
to
However, this event is not, in fact, always
recorded,...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 64

The second sentence in the last bulleted item did read:

"Such strings just as vulnerable..."

Now reads:

"Such strings are just as vulnerable...

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 70
first paragraph, changed "5 attempts and 10 minutes" to "5

attempts and 30 minutes"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 81
under Customizing the Login Process: changed "Winlogin" to

"Winlogon"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 108
changed A-head to "Tools for Creating a Compute Server"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 187
under "Differential backups": changed

...are copied and marked as backed up...
to
...are copied but not marked as backed up...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 211
next-to-last line: changed the reference to Table 8-1

to Table 8-2

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 213
under "Services": changed the reference to Table 8-2

to Table 8-3

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 224
Table 8-3, description of Windows Internet Name Service

changed to

Provides NetBIOS name registration and resolution
services, translating NetBIOS computer names to IP
addresses.

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 229
1st para., line 3: changed

...pre-loaded into the WINS cache...
to
...pre-loaded into the NetBIOS name cache...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 229
last line: changed "simply some subtree" to "simply

some pruned subtree"

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 232
1st para. under "Caching-only server", last sentence

changed

...by never asking for the same name twice between
server restarts.
to
...by not asking for the same name again as long as
the name remains in its cache.

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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step 4, lines 2 and 3: changed

...this selection creates a subzone of the currently
selected zone...
to
...this selection creates a new subdomain in the
currently selected zone...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 233
step 5, 2nd sentence: changed

These zone must be assigned names...
to
In most cases, these zones are assigned names...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 235
replaced the 1st paragraph with

By default, the DNS server facility is installed
in caching-only mode. If your network is connected
to the Internet, then no further configuration is
required. If not, modify the DNS cache file as
indicated in step 4 below. I prefer to run a
caching-only server in manual mode. Here are the
steps for setting one up:

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 235
step 4: change

...that points to one or more DNS server. For example...
to
...that points to one or more authoritative DNS servers
for your domain. If you are connected to the Internet,
then these will be the Internet's root name servers;
these are provided in the default cache file provided
with Windows NT and may also be obtained from
ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/root.cache.

If you network is not connected to the Internet, then
the file should contain entries for the local root servers.
For example...

("ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/root.cache" is in italics.)

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 236
2nd bullet list, 2nd bullet item, "The Forwarders tab..."

changed

...specifies a list of hosts allowed to ask for name
resolution...
to
...specifies a list of hosts which can be contacted for
name resolution...

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 238
last para., 1st sentence: changed

...is checked, the WINS service interfaces with DNS
name resolution services (via the Microsoft DNS Server
facility) as required (discussed later in this chapter).
to
...is checked, the system will use DNS name resolution
sevices (via the Microsoft Server facility) to resolve
a name if WINS is unable to do so.

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 241
removed the paragraph immediately before "Dynamic IP

Address Assignment" (beginning "As we've seen...")

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 276
number 1, under "Printing from UNIX Systems": changed example

pic:lp=:rm-vala:rp=picasso
to
pic:lp=:rm=vala:rp=picasso

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 277
NOTE, last sentence: changed "This path" to "This patch"

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 320
final B head: added initial "N" for Normal.

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 327
1st bullet: added new sentence to the end

Also, remember that only items on NTFS filesystems can
be audited.

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 327
3rd bullet: changed to

Failed remote login attempts in which an invalid
username is entered are not always recorded (there may
be a hotfix for this bug).

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 372
In the second bullet and the last paragraph, changed

"IsDomainMasterBrowser" to "IsDomainMaster".

Anonymous    Mar 01, 2001
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Page 373
In the first bullet, changed "IsDomainMasterBrowser" to "IsDomainMaster".

Anonymous    Mar 01, 2001
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Page 380
code sample 2, line 4

$dir = @ENV{"LOGLOC"};
now reads
$dir = $ENV{"LOGLOC"};

Anonymous    Dec 01, 1998
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Page 415
second bullet: changed "dig" to "dlg"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
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Page 417
bullet item 2 under "Articles": the URL has changed to

http://www.winntmag.com/Magazine/Article.cfm?IssueID=14&ArticleID=2816

Anonymous    Dec 01, 1998
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Page 417
In the first paragraph under the "Articles" heading, the ftp site did

read:

ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/security/admin-guide-to-craking.Z

Now reads:

ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/admin-guide-to-cracking.101.Z

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 419
Integrating Windows NT and UNIX bullet has a new URL

www.performancecomputing.com/unixintegration

Anonymous    Apr 01, 1998
Printed
Page 419

In the paragraph "Windows NT Information," the URL did read:

"www.ntinternals.com"

Now reads:

"http://www.sysinternals.com/"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 436
NOTE: changed to

The form "2>&1" used by the UNIX Bourne shell to
combine standard output and standard error is supported
only if it follows the initial I/O redirection construct.
In other words, "> file >2&1" but ">2&1 > file" doesn't.

("file" is italicized both times.)

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
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Page 441
under "Conditional Commands" changed

if [not] exists file cmd
to
if [not] exist file cmd

(in constant-width; file cmd is in constant-wdith italics.)

Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998