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Now then - this is a nasty one.

We run a windows domain with 2003 Enterprise servers and XP Pro clients. About a year ago we removed all the floppy drives from our client machines...

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On site, we use a web proxy/cache box, which is supposed to authenticate users (via LDAP queries) against one of our Win2K3 AD servers. How would I log the receipt of and response to...

What sort of results do your users achieve if they try to ping www.google .com from the command line?

Further useful information : concurrent with each attempted logoff, eventvwr logs the following entry in the System log:

The attempt by user MYDOMAIN\Administrator to restart/shutdown computer...

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Strange problem with one of our Win 2K3 servers. All seems to be working well, except that, having logged on via RDP, I cannot log off. (I prefer to log off RDP sessions rather than...

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How's this for a bizarre problem. I have a Samsung P28 laptop with Radeon mobility 9100 graphics. Windows XP Pro - fully updated with all the latest chipset and graphics card drivers. ...

Onour Windows 2000 domain (XP SP2 clients), we map a network folder to a drive to provide a documents folder for all users.

Some users experience a problem where (even tho drive mapping and...

For the network administrators out there:-


If you use XP clients and a windows 2000/2003 server, after applying SP2 to clients you will find that any Internet Explorer Maintenance Group...

Just a brief follow up on this post - Newe DVD rom ordered and awaiting installation - I'll let everyone know if this fixes the problem.

PS - when people view the threads, how come no-one ever...

I'm replying to my own post in case anyone else reads this and is helped - the fault is with XP SP2 machines, where Group Policy applies Internet Explorer maintenance and Folder redirection (in...

Bit of an odd one this.

Running Windows XP Pro on a single workstation.
My MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8584A was working fine the other day, but now it is convinced it is only a CD ROM. The diagnostic...

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running a windows 2000 domain, with 2000 adv server on DC's and XP Pro clients.

Proxy server and home page for Internet Explorer 6 sp1 is set via group policy, but it fails to apply...

Hi, just a quickie - does anyone know if my Win 2K Advanced server will require a restart after installing the Connection Manager Administration Kit? Kinda mission critical to avoid restarting this...

What network are you connecting to? If you only use this computer for the internet then it looks like someone has set themselves up with remote access to your machine (which is NOT good) That weird...

I'm guessing either that your RAM is slower than your motherboard supports (perhaps too slow for your CPU), or that the web-site you used is just red-flagging when it shouldn't be (i.e. a bug in...

Hi - this is really a revival of an old thread as it seems to have died in terms of interest.

In short - I have a dual boot Win98SE/Win2kPro system ( Win98SE was installed first)

Win98SE is...

Sorry - maybe I should have mentioned - already tried that - and a whole bunch of other stuff into the bargain. Radeon Catalyst drivers will now no longer either uninstall or re-install due to a...

Sounds a lot like a virus - active and running on your system - use regedit and look in
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run for references to the file....

VMWare is the way to go - lets you try almost anything before you commit. We use this a lot at work to try out network solutions before we commit them to the live domain - very very cool.

HI all,
Oops - My win98se/2kPro dual system at home was running fine (service packed and updated to the hilt) until I installed a new graphics card (Radeon 9600 128MB) - now -
Win2k - no problem -...

hello - not been on for a while

I suspect that my machine (win2k) may be contaminated with spyware and the like. could anyone recommend a good (preferably freeware) tool for scanning and/or...

Apologies if this was easy to find out elsewhere.

I am trying to write a small script that can be run on our network by each user, which captures their user login name and uses this to look up in...

Does banner printing print out an extra page at the end of each job? The network is part of a scondary school and as a result resources are severely limited. Also, as many jobs are one page only,...

OK - I am reposting this thread as I believe I may have placed it in the wrong forum to begin with.


Is it possible to programmatically capture a print job and append additional print data to...

Anyone know at which point during the Windows XP startup the Windows Script Host loads? having problems with a startup script which refuses to run on our network, and suspect that we may be trying...

You can set options to install the .NET framework with your application if you use VisualStudio to build an install package too. Means that your app should install and work on a machine regardless...

are off topic messages allowed in the PS section of a post? - just an etiquette enquiry...


by the way - dcantrell - hobacks - any joy?

What drive letters are your cd drive(s) mapped to? do you by any chance have a dvd drive called D: and a cdrw drive called E: that might explain it......

really? I used partition magic on my home machine to create a 98SE FAT32/ 2K Pro NTFS dual boot system with no problems at all. - had to resize the NTFS partition several times before I got it right...

virus checking is definitely recommended - should be done whenever the computer starts doing something new without asking - its not only God who moves in mysterious ways...



P.S. - anyone...

Try searching your entire hard drive(s) for all sound files (.wav , .mp3 etc.) and try everyting you find tilyou locate your noise. at least then you'll be able to tell where it is on the disk and...

Thanks Paladine - all help gratefully received

Thanks Paladine - that helps me with another problem I wanted to sort out, but doesnt really help with interfacing the script to DiskQuota. I want ultimately to include this script in the users...

Hello - here's my problem - trying to set up a lil bit of code that checks win2k disk quota and warns user if they are approaching their disk space threshold.


here's the code - (cut down for...

hello peeps

We are currently trying to catch the little jobbie who keeps printing swastikas form a variety of printers on the school network - anyone got any ideas how to force the network to...