Recent content by amb3rsil

Hi, Im having some issues getting my head round a date problem. Im building an animal sightings database and am trying to calculate the age of an animal when it was sighted, which is calculated based on their DOB. It is not as simple as comparing the animals dob and the date of the sighting...

Hi, yeah I tried that, group policy totally over rides this though :/ Any other ideas?? Cheers, Amb3rsil

Hi, I have a w2k network and all the users have folder redirection setup so different users have access to different apps through the start menu and desktops. This is set through group policy user settings. The problem is I have a multimedia machine with unique software only to that machine...

Hi, I am attempting to apply the following patch at the login script when users login so that their default keyboard is set to UK as opposed to US. The registry patch is as follows :- (contents of keyb.reg) REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload] "1"=00000809 I...

Hello, I have w2k network with approx 110 client machines. I have got 2k pro on all of them and they are all setup with roaming profiles for users that are stored on the server and this all seems to be working fine. The problem I have is that despite when installing w2k pro on all the machines...

how do I set that up?

hello, Wondering whether anyone can help! I a w2k network and have office 2000 installed on the professional client machines, however everytime a different user uses a machine and goes to open an office document the windows installer loads saying "please wait while office 2000...

Hi, I just recently upgraded the network we have to w2k server. I setup the printer shares and then added the following line to the login script to setup the printer driver on each machine :- rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /c \\servername /n \\servername\colorljl The printer is an old...

thanks for the tip, however I worked out the problem was! It appears that when you specify the login script in the group policy it must be in the specific directory to that policy, I thought I could just point it to a batch in a standard folder on the server! thanks for your help though. Kind...

Hello, I have become rather stuck with a group policy problem in w2k. To quickly summarise the situation :- I manage a school network that has 6 different computer areas. Each area has their own printer. To prevent work from students being printed in the wrong place, I require that only the...

Thanks for the reply however I resolved the problem by making a router with a NT4 server box and two network cards. If anyone has a similar problem then please let me know and ill be happy to explain what to do. Thanks to everyone who helped! Amb3rsil

Thanks for advice, however I am still completely baffled! I changed the registry setting and then went into the static route section of routing and remote access and started adding some routes to the table, like you suggested but I am confused at this point.. What interface, destination...

Hello, Here is my current situation. I look after two networks, an admin and an education network. They are both completely seperate from one another. The admin network has the IP scheme 192.168.0.0-255 The education network has the IP scheme 192.168.42.0-254 Both networks have a link to...

Hi, Im in the middle of setting up a new 2k network, Im now up to the configuration for the networks internet connection. I have a isdn router with a static IP that is stated on the dhcp server in w2k server aswell my ISP s DNS servers as dns servers in DHCP. The problem is for some reason the...

Hello, We are shortly about to get a new internet connection, a cable modem line and a sun box that has been setup by the company who makes it to provide content filtering, firewalling and everything else. We have two domains an admin and educational. At present we have an ATI isdn dial on...