I took a slightly different approach to this issue at our site. We have approx 900 stations split over 150 or so rooms and my solution handles drive and printer mappings with a minimum of admin overhead - although is more complex to configure initally.
What i did was to extend the AD attributes...
we run a small app i wrote that queries our domain controllers for current logon sessions and reports back both ip address and station name against each users AD account name.
let me know if it is of interest and i will send the code/app to you.
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
Just adding a thought here. we do something similar, however we query our domain controllers for active sessions to determine who is logged on where as it is much faster than WMI calls to a list of computers (especially if those computers happened to be turned off!)
Jamie
Jamie Gillespie...
problem now sorted!
we run a Cisco PIX box - reset that and all is well again. External mail delivery was failing due to being unable to bind to external dns servers.
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
wondered if anyone out there can help?
on restarting our mail server we get the following error messages in eventlog:
The MAPI call 'OpenMsgStore' failed with the following error:
The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft...
quick answer is you don't unless absolutely necessary. you don't need to store the same information in two tables.
can you be a bit more specific in what you are looking to do?
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
ok then.
from control panel / user accounts / advanced / manage passwords can you see the connection there and change details?
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
from command prompt run 'net use'
you will see all shares that are in use here, find the one one waht to 're-use' and issue a 'net use \\server\share /del' command
from within Windows then you should be able to recdonnect using new credentials.
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
go to computer management on your server, expand shared folders then click on sessions. you will now see a list of all server sessions for that server, order the User column alphabetically and find your user! the Computer column tells you which machine
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
logging on as administrator grab ownership of the path, resetting permissions all the way down. you can then add administrators group to the NTFS permissions granting you full control again!
Jamie Gillespie
j-gillespie@s-cheshire.ac.uk
we just use a gpo linked to an nt security group that sets a dummy proxy server address and denies the user access to changing ie settings.
the advantage is users can be moved in and out of the nt security group without affecting any other group policy stuff.
Jamie Gillespie...
if you don't want to bother with code then as long as the ID field is set to primary key in the destination table a simple append query from the source to destination will do what you want.
just need to set docmd.setwarnings = false before running append and docmd.setwarnings = true when...
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