Recent content by dholbrook

Martin911, It would greatly help if you explained what you are trying to do so we could understand the problem (if there is one). All servers can do Raid functions, but the drives can not be in basic mode if you do software RAID. If your server does hardware RADI, then make the RAID drives...

Short of building the Win2000 server (and you can downgrade the 2003 license), the simpler solution may be to contact the application vender and see if they have updated drivers for WIn2003. Since the App runs on Win 2000, I would bet they have an updated driver. Try their web site, or call...

When you rebuilt the NT Domain, it was a totally new domain that your WIN2k system has never seen before (even though you re-used the same Domain Name). The SID for the NT Domain has changed as a result of the rebuild from scratch. Restoring the database, etc did not change the SID of the new...

Put a router between the systems and the ISP, and give the hard address to the router and let the router provide all systems with the internet access, plus provide the DHCP addresses for all your systems. Without routing, or a router, your local systems have 10.x.x.x addresses and will not get...

Could be because the reboot is cold, and no user has been logged on, hence there is no load of the batch file on the initial boot, but after log on, off, then on again, the batch file kicks in. I presume the batch file is part of the user log on, not in the system startup configuration, and no...

Your problem could be that the portion of the registry that users need to access to write the password changes may now be restricted access (as part of the security updates in the service patches), and only administrators may now have access. This in turn gives the "you do not have permission...

DanielUK, There are several issues here. You seem to be worried that someone is going to steal your systems, and/or your database being destroyed/corrupted, and/or you can recover and get back up quickly, etc., so it is essential you have daily backups running. If daily backups are not good...

cavie, I am making the presumpption that the different jobs are using different data files, and that is the reason to use different drive letters for each batch file. The system will accept concurrent multiple maps to the same remote drive, and all will run concurrently and be very happy...

In the print manager delete all outstanding jobs, then go to the print server and stop/start the spooler service. This deletes all jobs in the server, and you do not have to reboot the server. If your printer has a large amount of RAM, it may be necessary to reboot it to clear the RAM from a...

Sounds like this is a survival need. I agree with the backup/restore approach. Be sure the two machines you want to be PDC's are nearly identical hardware, or the AD restore can run into problems. I recently moved the DC to a new machine, and had tremendous problems because the hardware (in...

Having used batch files like this for unattended jobs, I agree with setting the net use and delete commands in each batch file. Simple to do, and keeps the problems down. Since you are using scheduler to call each job, just put the commands into the batch file for each different job, i.e...

You have really left a lot out, which would help greatly. I presume, and may be wrong, that you are trying to print from a system thet is coming in over a VPN link. However, if the print server hosting the printer is a domain member, and the external user is not, then he will not be able to...

See if I understand correctly: You are very very confusing when you use "Domain" interchangably with Domain structure and Domain name of a web site, they are different animals, and it would help greatly to understand the problem if you could be a little more specific and identify when you are...

Shannon, SonicWall VPN can be either a group VPN or single VPN connections. Which are you using? IS your VPN connection to the firewall (and is it doing NAT?), or are you connecting to another system in the LAN? If your VPN is to the firewall, once the connection is up the NAT should work...

The FIRST machine promoted MUST BE THE existing PDC, otherwise you are creating an entire new DOmain. Your new W2k server can not be a DC in an NT domain, it requires AD to run, so it has to join a domain which already is running AD in order for the direct DCPROMO step to work. I would...