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We do and its OK. I agree about what the books say but if you have a hardware router I can't see why you should want more than one NIC (but I'm sure someone will explain why it's a good idea)

I don't know whether this will help you at all but the system we use is to have 2 servers A and B. The main user files are on A, and these are replicated to B every few hours using Robocopy. Then set up DFS so that the links are to both locations but only enable referrals to A. To switch...

I'm looking to add a really fast file server to our 2003 network. We have 5 users using 3D CAD (SolidWorks) who are typically opening several hundred files at a time (up to 2GB total). What I would like is for it to be as quick opening those files if they are across the network to being on...

You might need to allow tcp through the firewall as well as forwarding to a specific ip address. This section of your router is probably also where you will also find GRE mentioned. Keep persevering - it will work. I looked up your router and I'm sure it's just fine. I had similar doubts...

Can anyone tell me if waht I'm experiencing with the Volume Shadow Service is normal please. I have set up VSS to provide shadow copies twice a day on our file server. When I look in properties of a folder I see about 9 previous versions spanning the last 4 or 5 days, regardless of whether any...

Call me old-fashioned but if I buy a 6-port card I expect it to have 6 usable ports, not 5 on the back an one internal of which you select to use either all 5 on the back or 4 on the back plus the internal. For my money I make that a 5-port card. Someone wants reminding of what Adaptec once...

We had the same problem which we fixed by using a static pool of addresses within RRAS rather than DHCP. Choose a non-routable subnet which your users are unlikely to have such as 10.x.y.z But I'm a beginner too so you might want to wait for a more authotitative response!

OK I have a partial answer which might help but you may need to modify it to suit. I'm not sure the name you suggest is legal anyway. First you create a temporary file with the date in it: now>now.txt Then you parse this with the FOR ... IN command to extract the parts of the date you want...

We have a similar situation I think but I didn't realise it was wrong. In Forward Lookup Zones on the PDC, we have a single zone such as MyDomain.local under which are folders for _mcds, _sites, _tcp, _udp, DomainDNSZones and ForestDNSZones. BUT we also have a second zone called...

When I try If %COMPUTERNAME%==X OR %COMPUTERNAME%==Y echo Match, I get an error that OR is not recognised as an internal or external command. I am not using a scripting language here only intrinsic commands in a batch file. Maybe I'm missing something. Thanks for your interest and help it...

What is the syntax for an =OR list please? I've drawn a blank trying to find that one. Thanks for your help.

Don't laugh but I use an IP scanner called Angry IP Scanner. Tells me which workstations are on line and who is logged on at them. Probably numerous similar products out there but this one was free!

We backup 18GB of data each day to a removable hard drive, using Robocopy (actually 2 in rotation). These are USB2 devices on an XP workstation attached to the network. The files themselves are copied from a W2K3 file server. I am worried that the drives are taken off-site (good) by a...

Er, I chickened out of the GP stuff in the end and just a simple test of %COMPUTERNAME% did the trick in the logon.bat file. It solved my problem anyway. Thanks for the ideas all the same.

I'd not even thought of putting all DCs into an OU, thanks very much. Still a beginner but willing to learn ...

When I log on to my network at a workstation I want a login batch file to run, which it does. But when I log in at a DC, using the same name, I would like to prevent the batch file from running (because it creates unwanted mapped drives). Is this possible? I'm sure it's really obvious but I...

47 is a protocol (Generic Routing Encapsulation), not a port. It can't be forwarded but it must be enabled in any firewall on the router in the WAN to LAN section. On my router it shows up as GRE(0). You must also enable in the firewall the 1723 TCP port for PPTP (making lots of assumptions...

We have two AD integrated DCs one of which (ServerA, the PDC emulator) also acts as file server, handling 17GB of user files. Both machines run Windows 2003 Server. I set up a domain root (called DATA) on ServerA and used a spare 5GB volume (drive E:) to host the root. The data itself is in 4...

Thanks both of you! It was the Remote Desktops option that was causing it. I disabled it in the options in the client application and it fixed the problem. I couldn't find it in GPO but problem solved since I'm unlikely to want to be printing from a remote desktop connection.

Solved it! My router at home had the same internal LAN IP address as the gateway router at work! My colleague who had no problems had a different router address. Simply change the router LAN side address at either end of the connection - I used 10.11.12.1 to keep to a non-routable address...