Unable to connect to machine

Remote performance monitoring of one Windows 2003 server from another that had been working for many months suddenly stopped working. The only thing that had changed was a local administrator account password on the remote system.

In hopes of getting more information as to why remote monitoring was failing to start, I start up Perfmon and try to create a counter for the remote system. It reports "Unable to connect to machine". I was hoping for something more specific.

So, I try from a Windows 2008 system. It gets slightly more specific with "Access is denied."

While it is generally a good idea to not disclose details about failed authentication attempts, a bit more info could be helpful in resolving this problem.

Special symbols

What makes a symbol special? What symbols are not special? Is a dash really like any of those listed symbols?

We had a little hiccup

"Especially the third point is a good one" - Bert

MYUSERNAMEWASHERE

Reported by James Grenning:

Chase Healthcare savings Account (HSA) management website.

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Awesome error that I got when trying to print using the 'ADOBE PDF' print option. That's a lot of question marks. - @BayouBengal56



I'm not surprised it can't find that. However, I have to wonder why it is trying to.

Internet Explorer requires Internet Explorer?

Alan Simkins reports:

Attempting to add a search provider (Google) to the list, using their standard page gives an ‘error on page’ error. However, there is a facility to add your own providers to the list.


Using this facility evokes the following error message:



Nice to know, but what’s the point??

Object cannot be liked

Tweeted by aalgar.



It appears Facebook doesn't allow users to like things that aren't accessible.

However, this message seems to be displayed if a user clicks the like link on something they have access to see that was posted by someone who is not their Facebook friend.

Access is denied

I have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device on my home network. This file-server-in-a-box provides a convenient place for family members to store and backup their data to a location that can be accessed from any computer in the house. There are a few file shares on this device that are public -- meaning any computer on the network (belonging to either friends or family) can access them. In addition to these public file shares, each family member has their own password-protected share to which they can save files they don't want available to everyone else.

The NAS device came with software that was advertised to automatically copy files from computers on the network to the file server each time they are modified. When I purchased the NAS device, I planned to use this feature to provide backups in case of data loss and to provide some automated versioning of files. I installed this software on my notebook computer and configured it to monitor a handful of directories to be versioned and backed up to my private file share on the NAS box.

However, there's a problem...


The backup software appears to be properly detecting file changes and attempts to backup data to the file share. However, it fails to write versioned backups to the NAS device. Each time it attempts to save a file, an error is written to a log file stating "Unable to copy file: Access is denied."

It appears that the backup software that came with the NAS device cannot write to password-protected shares on the NAS device. It only backs up data to unprotected public shares. Saving share passwords to the Windows XP Home network password list doesn't seem to help.

Who designed NAS backup software that doesn't support saving data to password-protected file shares? Did no designer, developer, or tester consider that users might want to backup to non-public shares?

How to inspire confidence

Trying again works in many cases? And when it doesn't: try again, again? Wonder if their cars come with similar instructions.


Submitted by Dale Emery