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*** SIGH *** Why Should I Bother Giving People Advanced Warning?

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Windogg

Lifer
Seems corporate HQ wants to know if people are correctly using company server resources. An outside auditor went out an order for all admins to catalog any EXE, COM, ZIP, ACE, RAR, BAT, JPG, GIF, MP3, WMA, etc... files on all public and user drives. This was suppose to be a "surprise" so that people didn't just get rid of stuff and put it back on later. Liking most people in the office and just wanting to be nice. I sent out memos about what was going on. Everyone was concerned and told me that they would check their stuff and have it off in the 24 hours I managed to delay the project.

Many people heeded the warning and cleared an personal items that might raise red flags. But guess what? I check the log files I sent off and there were still people with TONS of very incriminating personal items on the servers. It's not just an isolated file here and there but some people had full directories blatantly "JOKES," "MUSIC," and a few other choice titles.

Oh well, their own fault. They had advanced warning and chose to ignore it. I have made it a personal policy not the snoop in people's personal file space but things might change soon if I was order to do so.

Windogg

EDIT: Here is an example

Directory of k:\users\*** NAMEDELETED ***\backup\jokes

10/11/1999 10:43a 276,552 testic.exe
10/11/1999 09:24p 524,200 finester.exe
02/23/2000 09:28a 1,082,258 COMBO#5.EXE
11/03/1999 11:32a 270,944 MESSBOTS.EXE
11/04/1999 06:18p 692,093 marriage.exe
11/16/1999 10:29a 420,682 UUAAH.EXE
12/22/1999 05:00p 1,138,023 christma.exe
12/24/1999 08:58a 480,553 mammary.exe
12/24/1999 11:22a 1,329,851 greet.exe
01/02/2000 10:35a 188,864 newyear.exe
02/28/2000 01:56p 297,952 farter.exe
03/21/2000 10:22a 12,800 al.exe
04/07/2000 10:12a 347,005 GOGGLES1.EXE
06/12/2000 03:48p 228,441 SPEL.EXE
06/21/2000 02:14p 855,614 POOTINPA.EXE
06/27/2000 02:58p 163,927 ploska.exe
08/18/2000 10:57a 665,088 voodoodick.exe
17 File(s) 8,974,847 bytes

Think anyone is gonna miss that?
 
Hehehe, I know what ya mean Windogg. It sucks when Backup Exec fails because some igit stuffs mp3's in the source code directory, and grows too big for the tape.
 
Some people just are clueless. I was going through some NT event logs for some servers at a site I used to support and came across print notices from a link to an amateur nudie site. The user was a help desk type that should have known better. Since there was a chance that the customer might want to look at these logs regarding the issue I was researching I figured I would give the guy a call and let him know on the side that these were in the logs with his user name and workstation. He immediately started giving me some song and dance about &quot;someone broke into my computer&quot;. Whatever <sigh> all I was trying to do was give him a heads up that this may become an issue and in anycase maybe he would want to not use Federal Government PC's to access these types of sites in the future. The guy actually came up to give me this song and dance in person later on. I told him I really didn't care past letting him know the info was in there and no I could not just clear out the event log.
 
Can anyone beat this for a single employee person? We had a girl last year using over 2 GIG of hard Drive space on the network. All MP3s! :Q
 
Come on Windogg, all that stuff is clearly work related. For instance, &quot;vooodoodick.exe&quot; is clearly a program to benchmark and compare company video card performance, and &quot;testic.exe&quot; is an IC (Information Catalog) testing program. 😛
 
I think Buckmaster has a pretty good one. 🙂

bigsmooth, damn, how could I be so dumb?!?!? 🙂 I should have known.
 
Linflas,

That was pretty cool of you giving him a warning letting him know about the log file, and to be more careful. Even though he didnt sound to apperciated. 🙂
 
Windogg,

I did copy the MP3's to my hard drive and burn them to a CD first, before deleteing them off the network! 😉

Thats the thing were I work. The users are to stuipd or scared to save and or copy files to there users directorys on the network. I would say atleast 50% of our employees just save there files to floppys!


LOL...Do I hear 3 GIG???
Going Once...
 
sounds like our people. I told them no keeping unimportant files on servers, same goes for your drives. Sure enough the receptionst downloads 3Gb of MP3's.. and her machine crashes... I ask her why.. she said it crashed while printing..she filled her C drive up.. so there was no space to do a print job.. ARRGH!!
 
I used to keep a few gigs of data on a LOCAL drive, but on network drives I try and keep it small (ie: compress directories once in a while). After a while my MP3s started to get too big so I simply keep them on CD-r which takes 0 HD space and I get enough music to last a work day on a single disk.

Edit: &quot;too big&quot; ment that I had less than 3GB free space left on an 8GB HD (w/ normal applications).

If MIS had wiped them all out I wouldn't have even asked why.
 
hehe, the developers here (about 10) have personal directories on one of the servers, I just looed, and all of them combined total just over 66gb. Time for some spring cleaning
 
Buckmaster: Yeah, we had a guy here who filled up his department's common drive with 2GB of MP3s... the secretary called in wanting to know why she couldn't save to the drive, and surprise, it was WAAAY over quota. I sent his boss a note and let him deal with the situation, needless to say the MP3s didn't last long... 🙂

Dave
 
DaveJ,

Were resolved our matter the same exact way! 🙂


OK do I hear 4 GIG? It has to be a USER and saved on the server! Also Boss's and supervisors dont count! 🙂
 
thanks for reminding me, i gotta clean out my drive space at work. I have too much personal data. thanks 🙂

danny~!
 
Well being a Network Admin is hard 🙁... Always keeping track of people who are wasting Harddrive space with their personal data. I had experienced too many people's harddrive crashing because they ran them down to 0MB of space. Trust me it will take a good 2 to 3 hours to setup the harddrive if everything went well especially when you're dealing with Pentiums, Pentium Pro, 486's 🙁. But then I got nothing to complain about since they're paying me to do such things. Try to imagine supporting 60 PC's and 2 Servers by yourself 🙁 plus also working as a Engineering Staff. I get piss off when projects are due and people comes to me asking me to change their damn printer cartridges :|. As of today no problems has been reported yet. 🙂 thats why I'm typing to yall now hehehehe... I think they're ripping me off on my pay check though but I need that pay check for Bills... 🙁

/me sighs and goes back to his little corner.





--SCSI
 
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