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Thanks Paul.

I think I worked this out $x contains: bnr,KIL,vi,dd,,,,,,dse,sdg,,,,,, @y=split(/,/,$x); $z=$y[1]; print "$z \n"; output: KIL this seems to work. Is there an easier way to do this?

Hi, newbie to perl here. please be gentle. how can I get a comma delimited line of text from a scalar into an array. example text: bnr,KIL,vi,dd,,,,,,dse,sdg,,,,,, I actually want to use the second field, in this case "KIL". I thought if I could get it into an array I could just...

Hi Gia, thanks for your response. the policy is using the logon script part of the user policy. the machine part is disabled. the rights to the GPO are fine as the policy is applied, verified by using gpresult.exe. it's just the net use commands are returning the error. when I run the...

Hi all, I have been hammering my head against a brick wall for sometime on this: I have win2k Pro clients connecting to a win2k AD domain controller also running file and print services. I'm running a logon script through a group policy (the only thing applied in the policy). The script is...

What is the best way to change Internet Explorer settings for 30 users. I need to change from "Use a Proxy Server" to "use automatic configuration script". I have NTTS running 1.8. Thanks Tood

Hi all, I'm running networker 6.2 on Windows 2000 sp2 with a overland data 5-tape autoloader. I would like to run a script that performs an inventory of the autochanger. What I'm seeing is that when a different pool of tapes at still inventoried by networker, but physically the tapes are not...

Hi Jkalbus, Thanks for your response. I took a look at my idle device timeout setting and it is already set to 10, so enabled. I looked at the help function of this and it says that the idle device timeout only apply's to SmartMedia, Silo and shared native jukeboxes with device share enabled...

Thanks, this works nicely. Tood

Hi, I'm running Networker 6.2 on win2k sp2 with a Overland Data autochanger. I would like the tape to automatically eject from the drive back into the autochanger after completing a backup. I see under the properties of the antochanger there are several features that can be selected. Under...

Hi, I have recovered from this error. There was one important thing step I was doing after install the autochanger at the Win2k level, but before adding it in Networker. That is disabling the device in the Microsoft Removable Storage Manager (RSM). Networker currently doesn't support RSM and...

I too am having the same problem. I have a Overland Data loaderXpress library running on win2k svr sp2, with latest drivers from overland data. I also updated the Quantum tape drive driver in the library with the latest from Quantum. When I try to either do an inventory or a reset on the...

I didn't try the unloading and reloading of the different tsa, but I have found a fix. It is simple but a bit time consuming. I simply made a copy of the directory/files, deleted the original and renamed the copy to the original name. The error goes away and the directory/files are backed up...

I tried changing the retry options mentioned in the CA article, but it has made no difference.

Thanks for your help....I'll try this and let you know how it goes.