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This may seem a crazy way of doing this, but why dont you use the DIR 'filename' /s >found.txt this will find all files matching the name you have given in all dub directories, or you can just do a DIR of the current directory you are in and then pipe it to a text file. Dan

Richard, You could use scheduler and the Shutdown.exe utility witht he switch to restart the server / workstation. This way you could shedule the restart for any time you want. M1ckey

I believe that Backup Exec do a disaster recovery option for SBS 2000, I am looking into it for a client at the moment.

We used to diplay a daily message as a HTML page from within the logon script, this works fine, and has less overhead of updating everyones registry key every time you want to change the message. Dan

How is the printer set up on the workstation, is it set to spool first or print direct to printer. If it is set to spool, try setting it to print direct to the printer. Hope this helps Dan

Have you checked the event logs. (security) are there any services that are failing to start, make sure that the user account that is being locked out is not associated with any failing services. Hope this helps Dan

You can link them and make a small LAN then use modem sharing.

Just put "exit" at the end of the batch file without the quotes. Dan

Have you checked the event logs Dan

Hi All, Just a quick tip, we have just upgraded all our 2000 servers to SP2 and the backups started failing. The backup utility is ASO 7. We contacted CA about these problems and they highlighted the following .DLL that needed to be replaced. asdbunix.dll To replace this .DLL you need to...

Mew, I have had the same problem in the past, It seems that win2k does not support Serial mice. Thats just the way it is. Dan

I need to start the performance logs and alerts from the command line, to collect a pre-defined set of counter logs. does anyone know of a command line option to do this. Net start service does not work!!! Dan

Try running the disk administrator and try re-assigning the drive letters

JDang Ghost is a third party program produced by Norton, licensing is done on a per machine ghosted basis. Ghost will allow you to set up a multicast server which is where you will store the ghosted images. This server has a wizard that will help you create a DOS boot disk. You need to run...

have you looked in the device manager, this should give you an indication of what is causing the problems

Chaps they are both valid points, I did burn the CD at 4 speed, I suppose I could try dropping it lower. I will post something soon. Cheers Dan

that is a good point about the CD-rom driver, i did think of changing maybe i should. It seems to be an intermittant fault during the mini setup saying that some parts of the setup failed ??? Its got me I will keep ypu posted Dan

I have created a ghosted image, I have placed this onto a bootable CD-ROM, when I restore the image, I get errors during the mini setup stage that sysprep forces on first reboot, which are unrecoverable. When I restore the ghost image from the multicast server everything is fine. Anyone have...

Sysprep is a microsoft utility that you need to use when you are producing multiple clones, as you probably now each NT & 2000 has individual SID etc..... Run sysprep at the end of the install, the machine will then shut itself down. At this point you should boot to dos for ghosting and ghost...

Do you have SMS Have you tried RIS Dan