Recent content by kmills

rphips, Do you have split tunneling enabled? Without it, the user cannot print to a networked printer in Network 2 while in the tunnel to Network 1. Basically when he is tunneled into Network 1, he can only use Network 1 devices, if the VPN is configured to allow that. I am not recommending...

sxmont, Has your user recently changed his password? Did he leave himself logged on a different machine somewhere? When I had a user who repeated did the above, I would have to look at the security event logs on the DCs for ID 644 to find out what machine she left herself logged in on. Of...

biglebowski, We do not have Cisco switches, but have found that the NIC cards on the HP servers must be set to "auto" instead of to a GB in order for them to run at a gig. Then with our switches set to a gig, the servers run at a gig. Might give it a try. Kmills

iolair, Depending on your switching equipment and if you have arp requests for the same devices, you might be able to put in some static ARP entries. We had to do that because of Windows Network Load Balancing and the way our switches handled it. The Windows NLB issue is well documented, which...

Daniel, Do you have Banner pages turned on for that printer? Since you didn't mention your computer type or OS, just google for "HP Deskjet 3050 Banner page" for a link to the HP documentation on how to turn it on or off. KMills

quikeyman, Had a large printer once, don't remember brand, that was printing faded in some areas. Turns out it was plugged into a power strip & not getting sufficient electricity. After plugging it directly into a different outlet, never had that problem again. I know, sounds strange -- but...

Borvik, Does this user ever log onto a different machine on the network (& forgot to log off)? Map a drive (that didn't disconnect)? Click anything that says "save my password"? I have encountered all of the above causing the same symptoms you describe. Everything works fine till the...

Adam, Go to HP's website & read about each one. There is a difference in memory, paper size they will scan, power useage, phyisical size of unit, etc. That is why they are priced differently. Kmills

chrisb, Do you have enough space on your USB HHD to store more than one backup? On the servers where I use Windows Backup for weekly backups, I schedule 3 (use whatever number you have space for) backups -- each having a different name, each writing to a different file, each running every 3...

rb819, On that forwarders page, is there anything in the DNS domains box? Is the "Do not use recursion for this domain" box checked or unchecked? kmills

rb819, I assume all of your client computers are configured to get DNS from your DNS server. But, where is the DNS server getting its DNS? Do you have it pointed to some public DNS or to the root dns servers? Look in the properties of DNS on the DNS servers. Look at the forwarder tab. Kmills

Phototechman, Can you set the .bat to run as a scheduled task? The schedule can be configured to run under NT Authority as part of the system. That way your users won't need a password. I don't know if a power user can manually run a scheduled task, however. Kmills

Geoff, Java versions are the key to using PDM with Cisco products. Native1 JVM (VM 3809)or Java Plug-in 1.4.2 or 1.5.0 is the level for PDM 3.0.4, according to this page: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/pix/pix63/pdm30/release/notes/pdmrn304.html Kmills

RNW2, Here is an option that I use due to Java incompatibilities. I installed Sun's VirtualBox (free) on my computer, then built up a client system within it. That way I can run the things that need an older version of Java from that virtual client machine. I know it is a bit clugy to do it...

barnegattech, Have you check the hosts file on all your computers (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to see if there is an entry in it causing problems? I ran into that once. Good luck kmills