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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...

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...

Hi, I'm looking for some assistance please. I have two excel worksheets and I want a formula that will do the following: Within cell B1 in worksheet 1 look at the value in cell A1 in worksheet 1 and check for a matching value in column A in worksheet 2, and where there is a match enter the...

I have a problem when trying to copy or move larger "300MB+" files from my local hard disk to a hard disk or flash drive connected via a USB 2 PCI card I have installed. When I attempt to transfer a larger file I get either the error "file path too deep" or the PC hangs. I have this same issue...

I have a problem when trying to copy or move larger "300MB+" files from my local hard disk to a hard disk or flash drive connected via a USB 2 PCI card I have installed. When I attempt to transfer a larger file I get either the error "file path too deep" or the PC hangs. I have this same issue...

Hi, We have a really strange one. One of our users running Windows XP on his notebook, connecting to a windows 2000 server has lost all folders on a mapped network drive other than those he accessed earlier today. This is the second time in a week this has happened. Rebooting the notebook...

I have a problem where I cannot get a mapped drive to retain it's password even though I have selected re-connect at login and have selected "connect using a different user name" and have populated the required details to login to the mapped drive which is to a Samba unix dir. I would say that...

Hi, Is it possible to print to a windows based network printer from unix "HP-UX" via samba?. If so, can anyone offer a few pointers or suggest an alternative?. Cheers...

As part of a Database Maintenance Plan, we backup database transation log files but have the "Remove files older than:" checkbox set to 2 days. The problem we have is that this option of deleteing transaction files of older than two days is being ignored i.e. we have many-many .trn files in the...

As part of a Database Maintenance Plan, we backup database transation log files but have the "Remove files older than:" checkbox set to 2 days. The problem we have is that this option of deleteing transaction files of older than two days is being ignored i.e. we have many-many .trn files in the...