Recent content by awayman

I don't think it's a dust buildup issue, mainly because a reboot always fixes it. I'm inclined to blame a media player program, as felixc suggested. Our antivirus is also a likely suspect. I'll post here if I get time to figure out what it is (it's not a top priority; similar to ceh4702's...

Thanks for the tip. This started well after we rolled out Service Pack 2, but since you mentioned it, I've seen re-installation of an old service pack fix weird issues like this in the past. We'll try it on a couple of boxes and see how it goes. If you're referring to the multitude of...

We have about 50 PC's running windows XP in our office. A while back (about the time Internet Explorer 7 came out, but I don't know if that's actually related or not), we started having issues with the optical drives on multiple machines. The symptoms are that when someone puts in a disc...

I haven't checked the firmware yet; I tend to have bad luck with firmware updates, so I usually do that later in the troubleshooting process. Hadn't thought to try re-creating the job; might be interesting to see if that does anything. I did resolve my issue (for now, anyway) by changing the...

I'm running BackcupExec 10, and I'm only getting 1:1 compression on the tapes in my Exabyte EZ17 drive with a Mammoth drive. (Note that it isn't a Mammoth 2; this is an older unit.) I'm using Exabyte brand 170m 8mm AME tapes, and the "Enable Compression" box is checked on the configuration tab...

I have a very small domain that consists of one Win2k Domain Controller (W2KDC) and one Windows 2003 member server (2K3SRV). The W2k3 server is not reading group policy correctly, because it can't access the SYSVOL folder in Active Directory properly. Here is what I know: 1. Active Directory...

Update: Actually, a user can change their own password if they are an admin in the subweb they are logged into. However, if they are not an admin, the password change fails. Basically, any time the user is prompted to enter their original password, then the new password, the change doesn't...

Posted this to Microsoft TechNet (twice), and got no help. I'm running WSS in AD account creation mode. A new issue has come up; changing the password through the website used to work. When a user tries the Change Password feature, they get an error page that says, "Error changing...

Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't want to give them full admin rights (even local admin, and definitely not domain admin) on these boxes. Part of this issue involves shared computers at remote sites. We sometimes have two or more staff people that need to use the same PC, but none of the...

We have run into several situations where I would like one person (UserA) to be able to log off a user (UserB) who has locked windows (or the screensaver locked windows), but I don't want to give UserA administrative access to the machine. We haven't found anything in group policy in Win2k at...

I'm a PC guy, but we have one Macintosh G4 running OS X in our shop. I want to get a gigabit NIC for it, but I'm not finding much information on compatibility. If I buy a normal PCI gigabit NIC like I usually get for a PC (such as a 3com), is it going to work in the Mac? I haven't found...

Do you know of a reference that tells me (or can you post) how you "unchecked LDAP as an option, leaving only HTML" in your CA settings? I can't seem to find a dialogue with this option, and so far, Microsoft's "help" isn't helping. TIA

(I'll be redundant & re-post my answer on this thread) We had trouble with Outlook Web Access because of using a self-generated certificate. Internet Explorer insists on verifying the cert back to the root Certificate Authority, so when we took our root CA offline (the subordinate CA was still...

We had trouble with Outlook Web Access because of using a self-generated certificate. Internet Explorer insists on verifying the cert back to the root Certificate Authority, so when we took our root CA offline (the subordinate CA was still online), the dialogue wouldn't open until the root CA...

We have one server (W-SERVER) that is in its own workgroup outside of our Windows 2000 domain (DOMAIN). However, I have a handful of users who need to map to a password-protected network share on this workgroup server. We can map the share using a user account that is local to the...