Recent content by ejstrom

Retire your userid and create a new one that is complex / complicated and do the same with your password. You should have an admin user ( assuming you are the admin)and a seperqate regular user, don't use your admin user for anything except server maintanace, use your regular user with "user"...

all I can tell you is it is the "save changes box" in spanish

Hi all, I have 6 win98 machines in a remote office that are renewing leases every 7 (not my decision I would use 30 days) days. When they do this they get a mask of 255.0.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0 . I can release and renew and it makes no difference. I have 9 other machines in same...

Hi, Here is a copy of a post from 2001. The supplement microsoft publishes dosn't alway work. If you have mapped drives on your machine , the problem is they are not being released from the otherside fast enough. try this it is still working for me. ejstrom (MIS) Sep 24, 2001 I have 450 users...

Hi, Here is a copy of a post from 2001. The supplement microsoft publishes dosn't alway work. If you have mapped drives on your machine , the problem is they are not being released from the otherside fast enough. try this it is still working for me. ejstrom (MIS) Sep 24, 2001 I have 450 users...

switch to LPR ports and then follow the suggestions in the following thread. my spooler has not stopped in about a year thread55-212435

I run a script at startup that looks on the machine for various software. ( IM's and rouge e-mail progs) if the script finds the executable on the c: then it deletes it. Then the script creates a text file with the users name as the title. At this point the text files are turned over to the...

some backup software will delete files after the file is backed up, if the option is set. ARCServe 6.5 will do this. Be careful not to use this option when doing a full backup. write a job just to backup those files and this should remove them. Good luck

go to usermanager double click the user name go to the "logon" tab put the name of the workstation in the blank and the next time the user logs in he will be limited to the workstation that was specified, If he tries to log in somewhere else he will receive a warning and not be...

My apologies, I meant no harm or to offend anybody Although this is not the forum for this, our workstations never go off, they have been on for over 24 months.(we use a scheduler to clear the ram and temp files every night @ 2am) MSN is deleted by a network crawler along with AOLIM, ICQ, bonzi...

I also won't allow webshots. Unfortunately almost all users who have it say it makes for a nicer desktop. Tell them to use it at home where they can decorate with there own money and time not the stockholders. 500 users at 10 minutes a pop = 5000 minutes or 83 hours 83 hours at $25.00 an hour =...

This is more than easily solved go to the following thread thread55-212435 This is the only way I found that will work, I use this on all my client's networks

We keep getting a number of "locks" when we look in server manager. Does anybody know what these are? Any help would be great

Thank You, The articles were somewhat helpful.I have made some changes that will enable us to view this info in the future.

Please anybody?