Recent content by TobyT

No wasn't share permissions. The test user accounts I used had been created previously when I once tried folder redirection experiments before. It was reading previously created folders ok but not letting you use them properly. I deleted relevant folders and let the system recreate them and it...

Hi All, We're looking to implement Group Policy to do Folder Redirection for My Documents across our network. We've set up several test accounts and are currently coming up with the following problem. The users My Documents folder creates and files are brought across as expected, however if...

This is one I'm interested in. I've printed off the relevant info, can anyone say roughly what the downtime would be for a defrag of this sort? I'm looking at around 7.5Gb TobyT

McAfee report that the DCOM problem is with the Common Management Agent. A download of v3.5 appears to have fixed the error for me. TobyT

Ok this is probably in the wrong forum but unsure which to post it on and Windows 2000 server service packs started the problem. Since upgrading the service packs we've experienced a slow down on the SAN for access to files and the exchange server. Event logs show 'Event ID 772' which states...

Any help on this one V-much appreciated. We have 3 servers DL360's connected to our SAN via fibre which connects to the MDR that then connects to a SSL2020 tape library via SCSI. All 3 of these servers use Backup Exec 8.6 to do backups to the library. We are currently trying to add a 4th...

Using Backup Exec 8.6 which still doesn't work as should however i tried an NTBackup this morning which has successfully cleared the log files. Thanks for the Advice. TobyT

We have noticed on our Exchange 2000 server that the MDBDATA logs are not being cleared after Backup Exec has been run. These are building quite quickly and disc space is soon going to become an issue. Looking at the Veritas website for advice it says that in our selections we should be backing...

Generally on all our PC's we remove the desktop wallpaper and disable changing wallpaper within gpedit.msc Several PC's that have had the settings for changing wallpaper disabled have had wallpapers added to their desktops. Users in question don't have any admin rights on the PC and settings...

We do this within our AD. Look on the sessions tab and you can change the idle settings to disconnect when any session limits are reached. TobyT

It's ok Commtec17 put me on the right track. In the media set the retention period was set to infinite, changed this and all appear ok now. Thanks for all your help TobyT

Could be this. How do I check, set or change retension periods?

We've recently installed Backup Exec 9 on one of our servers. It works fine execpt for the fact it won't overwrite tapes. It keeps telling me that the media is overwrite protected, which it isn't. Settings for overwrite media all seem to be correct. We currently get around it on this server by...

I've bin working on this problems too. I've wrote the batch file below to stop/start the spooler and delete the files. net stop spooler echo y | del c:\WINNT\system32\spool\printers\*.* net start spooler exit My problem is how to grant an average user rights to be able to stop/start the...

We've had the program installed on various Win98 PC's - Dell, Compaq, Tiny etc and it eats the User resources down to almost nothing on all PC's The GDI resources aren't as bad and seem more stable. Toby