Recent content by mousseman

Hi! Is it possible to have the classic 35 MB system utilities partition installed on a Compaq server with the new Smart Start 6.00 or later CD or is it all CD and no graphical utils for Smart Start anymore? Regards, mousse-man

Does the DC hold any FSMO roles. If yes, you need to seize them.

And does the expansion procedure work as well when the partition on that used-to-be-nondynamic disk was created before it was made dynamic? I was once tasked with the expansion of a logical disk on an EVA12000 SAN array. In the SAN appliance console, I assigned some additional diskspace...

Check your c:\program files\nsr\res\servers file, if it allows the backup server to backup that machine. usual entries look like: backupserver backupserver.fqdn.example.com

Basically, the problem is the Unix (not just RedHat) default is 6 chars min. I'd prefer if it were 8 so we have a few intrusions less because of doofus passwords.

To at least force NetWorker to change the host ID, stop and restart the Networker services. In theory, Networker uses the IP address to generate host ids. In the really old days, it used the MAC address of the network interface, but Legato got enlightened and changed this so in case your box...

We solved the problem. We made that service account the AT service account, removed the service account from the local admin, and gave it the right to log on locally. Actually, if you schedule something with AT, it will log in as a batch only, but if you use Task Scheduler, it will logon...

As long as the RAID is hardware-based, Windows does not care if the system partition is on a RAID or a single hard disk. However, if you only have a software RAID (via W2k), you can't have your system partition on it.

billieT, the problem is that the company IS security officer asked for this. I would love to have this service account have the local logon right. Now, is there a trick to tell Scheduled Tasks (on W2k) that the jobs have to be started in the same way the runas /netonly would do it? If...

I have a small nagging problem. I need to run a load of batch jobs with a special account which is local admin on the server, but which as the user right "Deny logon locally" set to enable for this account. To allow this account to log on locally has been considered unsafe by our...

Hi, is there a utility that would verify every used DHCP lease, ping the IP of the machine, and if it doesn't respond withhin 5 seconds, kill the used DHCP lease so I can reclaim the IP? We have the problem that a lot of users don't know or don't want to shutdown their workstations correctly...

Hi! Is there a possibility to kill an instance of WScript.exe and then with this kill (like if I do via the task scheduler and tell it to run a certain task and kill it some time later) and at that kill, have all processes started in sync with the script (ie WScript.Run rumpel.exe,,true)? So...

Have you tried to power up the machine with the panel off so you can see wether the fan is powering up? If it's not the case, something else is probably broken, like the 12V supply to a fan.

Looks to me like a virus or trojan problem, or something rotten with the harddisks/storage. But explore the virus route first.

Hi! Been programming VBScript, and I need something with which I can create an entry or maybe even manipulate it. MicroSoft has a taskscheduler.exe archive, but I have not been able to make it schedule tasks when I want it to (it always schedules tasks at 12:00 AM, with a start date of...