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I am working on a new system of printer scripts to help simplify our Active Directory/Group Policy setup. I had an idea of assigning printers based on OU, but rather than making a printer script for each OU, I was hoping to make a script that ascertained a given computer's OU and then assigned...

Recently, we moved our user's data folders (students, faculty, and admin at a local school district) to a new server and had to re-create all the user folders. Our file structure is, basically, this: Users Faculty --jdoe --gdoe Students --fdoe --rdoe Staff --adoe --zdoe I...

I have an IBM ThinkPad A31 laptop here, with built in wireless via an IBM High Rate Wireless MiniPCI. I recently installed Windows XP on it (was using 2000), and put SP2 on, and the wireless was working fine with the drivers I got from IBM's website. I installed some very minor automatic updates...

Sorry for the crosspost but it was recommended that I post this in here: I have a client who connects with AOL 9.0. She can use email and instant messenger fine, and she can even ping just fine. The problem comes with browsing webpages, either using AOL's version of IE or the "real" version...

I have a client who connects with AOL 9.0. She can use email and instant messenger fine, and she can even ping just fine. The problem comes with browsing webpages, either using AOL's version of IE or the "real" version of IE that comes with WinXP. Whenever she tries to go to a page, the...

I am trying to use the "Don't run specified Windows applications" policy on certain OUs on my domain. If I enable this policy at the top level of the domain, all the programs that I specify are blocked, no problem. However, I cannot leave this policy active at the top level... but whenever I...

I have a weird one here...at least, weird in that I have never seen it before: A computer running Windows ME (I know, I know, but it's not mine...) has been infected with a virus that neither Norton AntiVirus, AVG, AdAware, or Spybot are able to detect. Upon loading Windows, this trojan adds...

Recently, computers have had trouble getting and retaining IP addresses via DHCP. A computer will have the correct IP address, but after restarting/shutting down, it will come back up with an IP address in the 10.0.0.x range (needs to be 172.24.5.x). To get the computers to get the right IP, I...

I have about 30 computers here running IE6. 28 of them run WinXP, and the other two run Win2k. Every computer picks up the proxy settings via Group Policy - they are set to use 172.22.0.1:80. However, when you first load an internet site, instead of trying to access the site through the proxy...

I have here an HP ScanJet 6200C scanner. It is hooked up to a Windows 2000 machine via USB. I went to the HP site to download the drivers, and they installed fine. I also downloaded the fix to allow USB communication with the scanner through in Windows 2000. However, the computer still does...

To clarify some things: 1) I clicked on 'Bridge Mode' in the modem setup, and then "Apply". This made the home modem screen stop displaying "PPPoE 8/35" and changed it to "RFCSomeNumber 8/35". However, now that it says that RFC thing, I cannot get on the internet. Resetting to factory...

All I know is that I had to use port forwarding on both the modem and my router to get ports to actually forward through. I don't know if my ISP did some firmware upgrade, but there are functions there for port forwarding, static routes, etc. Entering bridge mode facked that all up; can't get...

I can elaborate on this; I was actually the smacktard who put it into Bridge Mode. I hit the Bridge Mode link by accident and without thinking clicked the button on the next page (don't ask, it was late). Now it is in bridge mode, and I cannot figure out how to get the PPPoE connection back...

First, some background on our setup: We use Active Directory to manage logon names for all faculty and staff at a local school district. Our current OU setup is something like this: HIGHSCHOOL -STUDENTS -FACULTY -COMPUTERS MIDDLESCHOOL -(same as above) ELEMENTARYSCHOOL -(again, same as...

Please shoot me if this has been asked; I couldn't find it using search. Whenever IE 5 or IE 6 is started on a particular computer here, it will freeze after loading one or two sites. These sites are not anything in particular; no matter what site you try to visit, it will freeze up after one...