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Hi - We're running a 2K3 R2 AD domain with 2000 and 2K3 file servers. Occasionally, when users create new sub-folders on the file servers in explorer the new folder doesn't show up until they've hit refresh at which point it displays fine. This happens on both servers, but only to some people...

Thanks Glen, That could well be it. I'll have a play about with browstat and see what turns up. cheers Ed

Unfortunately its set to show all, and does list some logon/offs, but only about 10%. Its as if theres a bdc somewhere thats also validating attempts even though I'm sure there isn't... Thanks for your time Ed

Hi - I've got a domain running a pdc and no bdc's (don't ask! - we'll be moving them to a new 2K3 domain with backup controllers asap) When checking the security event log most of the logon/off events are not listed, although some are. Any ideas where the others have gone as this should be the...

Brilliant. That looks like exactly the sort of thing I was after, many thanks. Ed

Hi - I've got a file server (2000 Server, 400Gb partition) which is filling up rapidly. I'd like to extract a simple list of the sizes of folders and subfolders so that I can see where the worst of the increase is coming from. The only way I've found so far is the dir command with the /a and /s...

Looks like you might need to get Diskeeper or similar and defrag it - http://tinyurl.com/5m3zj

Not sure if this'll help but try double clicking the grey border around the task manager window - seems to make mine appear/disappear

Hi - Check out - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767 - It sounds like your problem. cheers Ed

Well , I kept flailing around changing boot.ini , the physical pposition of the drives , the scsi boot order etc and finally......it works! many thanks for your time cheers Ed

Hi - Thanks for your time , I had removed the dead disk and moved the mirror to where it was. So scsi id 0 , drive 0 , the new one is scsi id 1, drive 1. I've tried various permutations of rdisk and partition no's but no joy. The messages change slightly , either 'Boot: couldn't find ntldr' or...

Hi - I'm sure I'm missing something really simple but this one has me tearing my hair out (and these days there isn't much left!) I lost the primary HD in a Poweredge 2300 , I got a new disk , and tried to boot from the mirror , no joy. I created a boot disk with boot.ini , ntdetect and ntldr ...

Hi - Got a problem with one of our servers - NT4.0 sp6a , it appears that the print spooler failed ( lack of printing was the first sign ) but when the local admin tried to logon he couldn't . I'm guessing because the logon service had failed. The problem was fixed with a reset but I'm worried...

I knew it would be something simple , many thanks Ed

Hi - I'm trying to work out how to change the default save location for users - so it doesn't go to userid/my documents. I'm sure there's a registry key in there somewhere that'll do it but can't seem to track it down. Any ideas ? cheers Ed