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  1. markstangroom

    Windows XP cannot find Domain after Samba crash

    i seemed to have solved the problem by issuing smbpasswd -S command!
  2. markstangroom

    Windows XP cannot find Domain after Samba crash

    I have set up two servers which are an exact copy of each other using heartbeat and drbd. Yesterday the main server crashed due to hardware failure and the fallback server has taken over. The problem i am having is with the Windows XP machines only. Windows 98 clients work fine. Windows XP...
  3. markstangroom

    system freeze during startup

    i've done a lot of testing over the weekend and even though my diagnostic software says everything is ok the problem seems to be caused by a faulty memory module. sorry to have wasted your time guys, but thanks for trying to help. Mark
  4. markstangroom

    system freeze during startup

    I have a Suse 9.1 system running on an AMD64 machine with 1Gb of memory and two 160Gb sata hard drives. About a month ago the system started freezing on startup. After resetting the machine a few times I can eventually get it to load up. The weird thing is it never freezes at the same point so...
  5. markstangroom

    Read Only Problem

    for anyone who ever gets this problem i have found the answer. It's to do with "OPLOCKS". If you have oplocks set to yes which is the default with samba it will allow the Windows user to cache a copy of the file they open onto their computer which they can then work on. If the network...
  6. markstangroom

    Drive Space Pop-up

    yes it is a java question which is why i put it in the java forum. i am trying to write a small java program, maybe a small IE window, which i can set to run when a user logs in which pops up and tells them how much space they have left on the drive. i've been playing around with...
  7. markstangroom

    Drive Space Pop-up

    i've seen a Windows XP setup where when a user logs in a pop-up appears with a pie-chart of their drive space. I've set my users disk quotas and would like to use somthing similar so they know when they are reaching their limit. But i can't find this, or any other, program anywhere. Please...
  8. markstangroom

    Read Only Problem

    one further thing i have noticed is that smbstatus was reporting a user logged in at 8am this morning when they had logged off and switched off ther computer 6pm the previous night. what could be causing this and is it related to the file locking problem i am having?
  9. markstangroom

    Read Only Problem

    I have a Samba 2.2.8 server which is set up as a Domain Server. It has been running happily for years. A couple of days ago one of the users has started having intermittent problems where it will not allow him to save or edit files. Windows throws up a message saying the file is already opened...
  10. markstangroom

    script to redirect my documents folder

    Thanks TonyGroves reg update didn't work on my XP systems but I got reg add to, and it works a treat and will save a lot of hastle in the future. Mark
  11. markstangroom

    script to redirect my documents folder

    i have a system set up where the clients have roaming profiles and the default location for the "My Documents" folder is set to their home directory on the server. the problem i am having is that whenever there is a glitch on the network or server, XP creates a "My Documents" folder in the...
  12. markstangroom

    Script to Move My Documents Location

    i have a system set up where the clients have roaming profiles and the default location for the "My Documents" folder is set to their home directory on the server. the problem i am having is that whenever there is a glitch on the network or server, XP creates a "My Documents" folder in the...
  13. markstangroom

    Restoration Problem

    i have now managed to solve the problem. thanks to anyone who was going to help.
  14. markstangroom

    Restoration Problem

    Due to a server failure i have had wipe my server and reinstall from scratch. i then tried to restore my databases from my backup but the new installation of postgresql will not read the restored databases it says they do now exit. i can't use the pd_dumpall utility because the backup server...
  15. markstangroom

    dbmmanage problem

    when i try to use dbmmanage to add a new user i get an error message "Can't tie advice_passwd: at /usr/bin/dbmmanage line 202." i have used this program many times before and as far as i know nothing has changed on the server i am using apache 1.3.28 & perl 5.8.1 any help would be...
  16. markstangroom

    Synchronizastion on Log Off

    i've found the answer! start > my computer > folder options > offline files > remove tick from Enable Offline Files
  17. markstangroom

    Synchronizastion on Log Off

    i have set up my XP pc's to log onto a samba domain with roaming profiles. The users cannot see the C:\ drive and all their data is stored on their home directory of the sama server. The idea being they can move from PC to PC. Everything works fine except when they log off they get a file...
  18. markstangroom

    Error Message when sending with Outlook XP

    I have a user who cannot send any emails. They get an error message saying "An API call exited Abnormally". Everything had been working fine until today and I cannot find any info about this on the web. Thanks Mark
  19. markstangroom

    Sum query

    if i use the group by statement i get a list of values for each day. what i need to do it to add up all the values for all the dates into one total. how can i do this? thanks Mark
  20. markstangroom

    Sum query

    i am trying to run a simple query to add up the totals in various column in a table between two date my query is SELECT SUM(inperson) AS totalinperson, SUM(byemail) AS totalemail, etc etc FROM reception WHERE inputdate BETWEEN '01/03/2004' AND '31/03/2004' ; but the results are coming up with...

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