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Oh, incidentally, I used to have exactly the same issue. The way we got around it was to set the users home drive, etc to "Local Drive, H:". This wouldn't actually exist at logon time, but one of the first things the login script would do was to map the H: drive to the nearest File & Print...

Workstations will use any available DC *in their local site* to authenticate. If none are available they will then start looking elsewhere. Therefore, if you have AD configured as a single site, Site A and Site B will randomly authenticate each other, which will also add to your bandwidth...

The problem you have is, "How do you tell what is orphaned?" If you use Microsoft RIS for imaging, and set it up correctly, it will re-attach each PC to the same object in AD each time it is re-imaged (by using the unique GUID of the computer). But if you are using some other method of...

I have an existing network consisting of a Cisco 2948G-L3 switch connecting to a couple of 3548 switches via the two giga-bit interfaces. I now need to add additional workgroup switches (i.e. more 3548's), so I want to add the 4912 as a giga-bit backbone. The 2948G-L3 switch has multiple...

Actually I did end up working out a solution to this. Meant to post my own reply, so answer would be attached to the question, but never got around to it :( The end result is somewhat counter intuitive, and I am not sure it is going to suit you exactly, but here goes... The basic idea is that...

Alright.... first things first. The default DNS suffix is configured from - Control Panel | System | Computer Name | Change | More By default, it should be the same as your domain name, but it can be different. Likewise , the DNS zone does not need to be named the same as your domain name, but...

Please post the results of a "ipconfig -all" command for your server and one of the working workstation machines. If you are worried about secuirty, edit the results a bit, but make sure that all the lines are still there, and for the Ip addresses, only edit the first parts (make sure...

By default normal users can run Regedit. However, there is a specific GPO option to "Disallow registry editing tools". You don't have to change the permissions on the executables. Not sure about why you can edit locked down values. Try editing the following ...

I have a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services enabled. I set the language option to "English (Australian)", and the locale to "Australia" during the original Install, and made sure that these changes were applied to the default user profile. When a pristine...