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Is remote desktop enabled on his XP machine? You have to actually turn it on, it is different than remote assistance and not on by default. Also the user will have to be in the administrators or remote desktop users on the windows XP machine. Mark

on the server where you want to change the local admin password: net user administrator newAdminPasshere don't put /domain MAL

HIt CTRL+ALT+DEL and use the change password on the windows security screen. MAL

I think you can push out a machine dsn through a script Mark

Howdy All, I have a lot of users on my network which use a lot of different groups of computers in the office - labs, offices, common areas, etc. Each set of computers has different programs and restrictions on it. Some of the computers have different groups of users being allowed to log into...

It will very much depend on what services those links provide; There may be additional ports you need to open up for those applications to work properly or communicate to the client with. maybe take the sonic out and then portscan your box from the outside and see whats open? Mark

Howdy folks --- after a long day we've gotten this resolved! yay! A very long day; the below has been posted to a specialized mailing list for the law office system we use but the story and solution, symptoms and such are there. mark Evening/Afternoon, Last night I got a call from the...

The two Dell servers I got at a lawfirm both came with a 15gb partition for the OS and everything else on one big chunk, I didn't setup the first and didn't liike the 15gb cuz I had to constantly go move files and such off of it to keep at least some space free. When I got the other one, it...

I have a script i'd be willing to share which uses the DS add command for users, specifies their home directory, roaming profile, random password, etc. I use it on a SQL server because my accounts are created when events on our intranet occur which then creates users on our network. Uses a...

Have never tried it on a server or any type of RAID'd system, what about something like Partition magic which lets you change your partition sizes while preserving data? (I dont' like this way, I know a bunch of people who use it, I've done it once or twice and never on a server, I'd go for the...

porkchopexpress: yes, nothing erroneous, just a lot of POP3 connector alerts from connection issues and host/rsctaxbusters.local errors (not sure what those are about -- been there for months). captaincrunch00: No, using symantec 9. I talked to two or three IT admins at other law firms who...

No, no recent policy changes which have been reported to me -- i'm 2500 miles away right now talking to the person there and well, thats not going so well. Since the last post I've gotten some new info; --- there are no services hung in the starting state --- The person on site CAN logon to...

There is no error, at the console it hangs at "applying computer settings" and no logon prompt, through terminal services (admin mode only) it hangs at "applying personal settings" --- does not error, just hangs.

I'm grasping at straws at this point 2k3 SBS server w/ exchange, not SQL --- local and term serv console sessions froze up but server would still serv the users in all manners. Attempted remote shut down, failed, powered off manually, restarted, cannot logon to console or term serv in; can...

that query looks more like a MS Access query then a MS SQL query with the ! and forms references; maybe check the access help or see whats actually being sent to your server, maybe the forms arent' filling in your values right before the query is sent to SQL server and you're not getting your...

RobertT687 -- yeup, I have discoverd this, thats why I tried to move GETDATE() to be a default argument rather then the function body (and that actually works out better there if I can make it work) --- do you know any work around for getting past that limitation? I can always just pass...

Howdy, I am attempting to write a UDF which I can use to check to see if a member is currently active in our organization; right now this is a simple datediff by month but the definition of an active member may and will change so the logic to calculate and active member I want to be centrally...

Add your intranet webserver address to the Intranet Zone and in the security settings in IE for the "intranet zone" make sure that the allow automatic logon is permitted. Mark

I have had the same problem ---- I remember reading some place that the network logon that the client ghost uses --- a DOS based client cannot properly authenticate to Windows 2003 server. we've since solved this by using hte corporate version of ghost and using the broadcast image to the...

Good'day, I have two programs that need to run for a piece of software which our office uses; they don't run as services, they want to be running on the desktop. The vendor solution is "configure your server for automatic administrative login and put shortcuts to the application in the startup...