Recent content by bilbonvidia

this error is on the DC which when a net time is run shows itself. Also all domains member look at this dc for their time. "The time provider NtpClient was unable to find a domain controller to use as a time source. NtpClient will continue trying to locate a DC every 960 minutes. This message...

Are they all in the same workgroup?

I think you have to set up a VLAN?

If you do a ipconfig /all can you see both DNS servers in there?

I recently followed these procedures which worked perfectly. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6345_11-5034284.html Bill

From what I can gather its due to the existing database being fragmented and in need of compacting due to redundant info (well not given its size) and the fact that the new database is clean anf fresh and only contains current information.

The query has now begun to return results. It must only start to record the actual data after the raising of functional level and not look retrieve data retrospectively.

Last night I promoted a member server to a DC and transferred all of the FSMO roles from the one existing DC. This morning just checking the logs etc all seems okay but I have noticed a difference in size of the NTDS.dit file. On the existing DC It is 35 MB and on the new one it is 28MB. (small...

I keep getting errors in the eventlog complaining about not being able to sync time from a dc or an external time source. Is this much of an issue can I disable this service?

Cheers Mark. Can you recommend any good websites to learn vbs for a relative newbie? Bill

why would I get this error: object required:'WSHNetwork' <code> '======================================================= ' Determine the appropriate greeting for the time of day. '======================================================= Dim HourNow, Greeting HourNow = Hour(Now) If HourNow >5...

Yes it is. Could it be because the only dc was upgraded to 2003 from 2000? I am due to do a dcpromo on a new 2003 server I have put in recently maybe then it may work?

I have raised the functional level of my domain and forest to 2003. However when I run the dsquery user -inactive command I never get any results? It does appear to run but does not return anything.

That stuff is very cool. What is the local user version of this: WSHNetwork.username ? Regards Bill

Thank you I just tried that on a test pc and it worked perfectly.