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  1. amb3rsil

    Calculate Date Period ?

    Hi, Im having some issues getting my head round a date problem. Im building an animal sightings database and am trying to calculate the age of an animal when it was sighted, which is calculated based on their DOB. It is not as simple as comparing the animals dob and the date of the sighting...
  2. amb3rsil

    Desktop and Folder Redirection Issue

    Hi, yeah I tried that, group policy totally over rides this though :/ Any other ideas?? Cheers, Amb3rsil
  3. amb3rsil

    Desktop and Folder Redirection Issue

    Hi, I have a w2k network and all the users have folder redirection setup so different users have access to different apps through the start menu and desktops. This is set through group policy user settings. The problem is I have a multimedia machine with unique software only to that machine...
  4. amb3rsil

    Registry will on patch on w2k client machines

    Hi, I am attempting to apply the following patch at the login script when users login so that their default keyboard is set to UK as opposed to US. The registry patch is as follows :- (contents of keyb.reg) REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload] "1"=00000809 I...
  5. amb3rsil

    Default Regional and Keyboard Settings

    Hello, I have w2k network with approx 110 client machines. I have got 2k pro on all of them and they are all setup with roaming profiles for users that are stored on the server and this all seems to be working fine. The problem I have is that despite when installing w2k pro on all the machines...
  6. amb3rsil

    hello, Wondering whether anyone

    how do I set that up?
  7. amb3rsil

    hello, Wondering whether anyone

    hello, Wondering whether anyone can help! I a w2k network and have office 2000 installed on the professional client machines, however everytime a different user uses a machine and goes to open an office document the windows installer loads saying "please wait while office 2000...
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    Colour Laserjet 5 paper Source Prob

    Hi, I just recently upgraded the network we have to w2k server. I setup the printer shares and then added the following line to the login script to setup the printer driver on each machine :- rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /c \\servername /n \\servername\colorljl The printer is an old...
  9. amb3rsil

    Hello, I have become rather stuc

    thanks for the tip, however I worked out the problem was! It appears that when you specify the login script in the group policy it must be in the specific directory to that policy, I thought I could just point it to a batch in a standard folder on the server! thanks for your help though. Kind...
  10. amb3rsil

    Hello, I have become rather stuc

    Hello, I have become rather stuck with a group policy problem in w2k. To quickly summarise the situation :- I manage a school network that has 6 different computer areas. Each area has their own printer. To prevent work from students being printed in the wrong place, I require that only the...
  11. amb3rsil

    New internet connection

    Thanks for the reply however I resolved the problem by making a router with a NT4 server box and two network cards. If anyone has a similar problem then please let me know and ill be happy to explain what to do. Thanks to everyone who helped! Amb3rsil
  12. amb3rsil

    Getting confused with Routing

    Thanks for advice, however I am still completely baffled! I changed the registry setting and then went into the static route section of routing and remote access and started adding some routes to the table, like you suggested but I am confused at this point.. What interface, destination...
  13. amb3rsil

    Getting confused with Routing

    Hello, Here is my current situation. I look after two networks, an admin and an education network. They are both completely seperate from one another. The admin network has the IP scheme 192.168.0.0-255 The education network has the IP scheme 192.168.42.0-254 Both networks have a link to...
  14. amb3rsil

    DHCP having problems assigning client with DNS

    Hi, Im in the middle of setting up a new 2k network, Im now up to the configuration for the networks internet connection. I have a isdn router with a static IP that is stated on the dhcp server in w2k server aswell my ISP s DNS servers as dns servers in DHCP. The problem is for some reason the...
  15. amb3rsil

    New internet connection

    Hello, We are shortly about to get a new internet connection, a cable modem line and a sun box that has been setup by the company who makes it to provide content filtering, firewalling and everything else. We have two domains an admin and educational. At present we have an ATI isdn dial on...
  16. amb3rsil

    Need someone who knows about batch files!

    Hello, I am right in the middle of testbedding windows 2000 server. We currently have an existing NT4 server, but I am not allowed to put them on the same network full stop! (according to my grumbling manager) so the migration path is a little complicated in that I cannot simply make the w2k...
  17. amb3rsil

    Changing ini files across a whole network?

    Hello, I have to remove a couple of dead links cmmpu and powrprof.dll references in the win.ini and system.ini in order to resolve the problem of nasty error messages popping up when users log in. It works fine, all I have to do is remove them using msconfig or load them up in notepad, however...
  18. amb3rsil

    File copy error when trying to install DNS Server

    Hello, I have finally managed to get w2k server installed on my new server. (Specs 1.4 gig athlon 2x60gig hd's in raid mirrored, 512 mb of rdram K7tpro mbr). The problem is when I try then to setup active directory, it then prompts me to install DNS server which is fine until I get the message...
  19. amb3rsil

    W2k Server will not detect the cd on install....

    Hello, Thanks for all your help. It turns out to be that my brand new 52x cd rom drive needs a firmware update in order for it to run, its to do with the timing on the spindle speed not being set correctly and therefore it doesnt respond quickly enough during initial detection. I found a KB...
  20. amb3rsil

    Excessive Dial Up On Router - I'm going to be fired !!

    I have also had a similar problem with an allied telesyn router. After sniffing what was going on and where I narrowed it down to WINs on port 135. Try blocking port 135 it may help. Amb3rsil

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