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Perfect. Thanks! [thumbsup2]

We have one SCO Unix server running on an Intel Pentium platform. I have been asked to provide server specs. What commands can I type in to determine how many hard-drives are installed and what sizes they are. How much free space is there per volume. How much RAM is there. How fast is the...

It's been a while since I worked with SMS, but I am pretty sure the SMS Installer is a part of SMS (Microsoft's System Management Server http://www.microsoft.com/sms). Microsoft's SMS is quite expensive and a very complex product. You might be better off finding another solution for whatever...

I guess you'd need to logon as a regular user and see if psexec is working properly. Why can't the user themself click on and run the .reg file to add something to the registry? One thing we did her recently was put a .reg file out on our Intranet and asked all users to go there and double...

You could setup this script as a logon script but without the prompting part and instead of %input%, just use %computername%. Since the script would run locally on the workstations (since it is a logon script) you could use that built in variable to get the computer name. Have the logon script...

Doh! The two "erase" commands should reflect the appropriate names of the file(s) you copied which in my example should be: erase /q \\%Input%\c$\script.bat erase /q \\%Input%\c$\spi386.exe

Well, when I needed to do the same, I was needing to do this from an NT4 Workstation. I searched around and found a batch command string that would cause a script to prompt you for input and you could use that input as a variable. Thing is, I haven't tested this on Win2K and if I remember...

Snicks2, I ended up using PSEXEC from www.sysinternals.com. It worked better than SU. I created a temporary account with administrative priveledges so I could delete it when I was done (and not worry if anyone got ahold of the password), then fully automated the process by putting in the...

I have a Win2K server that is acting as my Printer server and I have about 100 HP printers running on it. The problem is that I have 27 HP5Si MX printers with an 8-bin mailbox attachment. The server, with the HP Win2K drivers installed, cannot see the mailbox and therefore neither can the...

I'm not sure that you've proved that the protocol is the issue, however, RAS only uses PPP in your situation, which I think is a part of TCP/IP. NetBeui won't do you any good. Rockers, I would suggest you throw this situation out on the Experts Exchange network...

Also, I just need a program that will do this. I can get a program to run as a service and do that later. So the whole thing doesn't have to be written as a service.

Good point. I'll check into that utility and into using the Scheduler service. That one is a 'Doh!' (as I smack my forehead) kind of one. Should've thought of that. Anyone else?

I am a System Administrator and I need ability to run updates (for instance) in an administrator security context but using a logon script. It was suggested that I create a program and make it an NT service that will run on each workstation. The thing is, I'm VB programming illiterate. Here's...

Good Luck. I think you threw me when you mentioned mail essentials (ie the port 25 and 110 comment I made). Anyway, RAS is the issue! I hope re-installing works for you. Good Luck. G

What changes did you make in Mail Essentials if any? You want to make sure it is functioning properly or no mail will be able to get in or out! (I'm sure you know this). Are you running Exchange Server 5.5 since you mention Mail Essentials? This is a tough one. When was last reboot? Also...