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I have a problem with our secondary domain controller PC. When booting it would hang with the message "preparing network connection". Eventually after about 30 mins it booted to the login screen. Upon investigation, I found that there was an additional DNS entry on the server pointing to our...

Hi, We are running a windows 2000 domain. I've found that the Domain Security policy - Password Policy, is being ignored. If I change the Min Password Length to 5 then I still have to enter a 6 character password for users. If I change to 10 then I'm still OK with 6 or more. My obvious...

Last week on the 24/03/11, we had an issue with the date/time on our windows 2000 server that our Domino installation sits on. The date and time were changed to 01/07/2011. Since then, a number of users are reporting that in their Notes client they are being report so many unread messages when...

Hi, Firstly we are still running Domino Administrator 6.5 I've set the maximum message size allowed for internal and external e-mail and have tested with a mail larger than this size. I can see from the mail routing event that the message has failed due to the excess size but there's no...

Hi Glugger, No, I've not managed to get the bottom of the issue. I only get this with two of our users, but it's in-frequent. I've tried recreating with the users accounts and PC's, checked permissions etc... but no joy. If you get anywhere, let me know...

Hi Rodjor23, Unfortunatly I've already tried this and no joy...

Hi, Sorry, I should have mentioned. Windows updates are set by group policy. I've examined the registry entries that you highlighted and both a good and bad PC have the same registry settings. Interestingly, if I point the bad PC to windows updates via the internet and not our WSUS server, I...

I'm having an issue with five of our Windows XP PC's where, when viewed on the WSUS console, they appear with the details "The computer has not responded yet". Our version of WSUS is 2.0.0.2620, which sits on a Windows 2000 server. I currently have another 100+ XP PC's connected to WSUS with...

We have a couple of XP PC users here, who from time to time when the create a a new folder on our windows 2000 shared network resource, the new folder is created with the name of fldr. If the user try's to rename the folder then they are not allowed. Strange this is that if the user repeats...

Hi, We have recently been infected with the conficker virus kido, which is causing amongst other things, a lock on our active dir domain user accounts. We are in the process of battling the virus but I would like to remove the hasstle of constently having to unlock our users accounts. Does...

Hi, We operate a windows 2000 server with XP client PC's. In the last few days I have had an issue where a users domain account will not login to any PC that I have tried on our network. What happens is, the users name and password are accepted but the PC just hangs on loading windows. This...

Hi Guys, I'm relatively green in terms of networking. We have our network configured with serveral VLAN's setup. In one of our VLANS (50) we have a workgroup. If I connect a laptop to a port configured in VLAN 50 then I can access the workgroup. If I try and access the workgroup from any...

Hi, I'm looking to create a batch file that will run the net file command on a PC to output a list of all of the open files and then from the created list search and extract the lines where a certain text string is present. I would then want to extract all none required data from the serach...

I have a problem where I am unable to map a drive from one of our old win95 PC's to a win98 PC. From the 95 PC I can ping the IP address of the 98 PC but cannot ping the PC name. I cannot map a drive using either the IP address or the PC name. From a win 2000 PC I can ping the IP address of...

Hi - We are running windows 2000 server. I want to be able to give one of our users the ability to close certain open files on our data (windows 2000) server. And really wondered what the best way to do this would be. I was thinking via a script maybe but I'm unsure of the contents that the...