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  1. PistolPete30

    Changing NIC Speed and Duplex

    Hi I have several hundred dell workstations with Intel PRO/1000 MT Network Cards. We need to change the settings on all of them to be 100Mbs, Full Duplex. Anyone know how to script this in order to prevent us having to change the settings on each individual PC. THe PCs run Windows NT4 SP6...
  2. PistolPete30

    Items fail to archive

    Hi A user running Outlook 98 on Windows NT4 connecting to an Exchange 5.5 server attempts to archive items from the mailbox to a .pst file. In every mailbox folder apart from the Inbox, the items are archived as expected. However, the inbox simply ignores the majority of items that should be...
  3. PistolPete30

    Saving to draft folder

    I'm running Office 97 on Windows NT4. If I open word and type a document and then chose to send it to a mail recipient, the normal Outlook email box opens with the document inserted as an attachment. If you then chose the Save option the message is saved directly in the Inbox and not in the...
  4. PistolPete30

    Removing a DC from a 2K domain

    Hi I've been running a W2k AD domain with 2 windows 2K servers - I now want to just run it off 1 server but although in a W2K AD domain all servers are supposed to be equal (No PDC and BDC) this doesn't seem to be the case. For example, all DCs don't have a copy of the Global Catalogue by...
  5. PistolPete30

    Archive (.pst) problem

    Hi When a user is attempting to archive his mailbox in Outlook to a .pst file, he gets the following error after it has archived about half of the necessary items: "Archive skips store due to error. Failed to open a source store" Anyone seen this before? The workstation is NT4...
  6. PistolPete30

    Downloading IE6

    Hi Anyone know of a foolproof method to download the full version of IE6 - not just the 470Kb ie6setup.exe file? I've follows KB257249 and the switches provided simply do not work. P
  7. PistolPete30

    Backing up to ZIP drives

    Hi Apologies for this - I am totally new to Arcserve. Anyway, I'm running Arcserve 2000 Advanced Edition (SP4) on a W2K server (SP3). The documentation seems to suggest you can backup to Iomega Zip drives but I simply can't get Arcserve to recognise the drive. I'm not using this as a long-term...
  8. PistolPete30

    Upgrade Workstations or Servers First?

    Hi I'm about to upgrade a NT4 network to W2K. I know it's not a big issue but what is the stated Microsoft order of doing the upgrade?. Should you upgrade the workstations and then the servers or vice versa? Is there a stated Microsoft preference? Cheers Pete
  9. PistolPete30

    How to open links in Outlook in NEW browser window

    Hi Having recently been made redundant from my job, I'm spending lots of time on my home PC. At work, whenever I clicked on a link in an Outlook message a new browswer window opened. Now, whenever I click on a link it opens in the current browser window - over the top of whatever I may be...
  10. PistolPete30

    Multiple delivery of a single email

    Hi I'm using Exchange 5.5 on a W2K server and the client PCs are all W2K Pro with Outlook 2000 as the mail client. One sent an email on September 26th. Since then, he has been getting irate emails back from the person he sent the original email to as the email is getting delivered time and...
  11. PistolPete30

    Running VNC on a linux server

    Hi I've got Red Hat 8.0 running samba ans it's being used as a simple file and print server on a w2k domain. I'd like to be able to connect to it using VNC like i do with my other PCs and servers. I use a W2K professional PC to connect to other machines. I've managed to get VNC server working...
  12. PistolPete30

    Printing to Samba on Red Hat 8.0 from Windows

    Hi Having searched previous threads on the subject, I found a few that helped with a problem I was having printing to a Samba print server on Red Hat 8 from Windows (2K) PCs. I thought I had everything set up fine on the Red Hat box and could browse to the shared printer via windows PCs. I...
  13. PistolPete30

    Upgrade or Clean install?

    Hi I'm running Exchange 5.5 on a W2K server with about 120 mailboxes. I want to move to Exchange 2000 but am unsure as to the best way to go about it. Should I simply upgrade the 5.5 installation or do a completely fresh install on another server?. I've heard its better to do a fresh install as...
  14. PistolPete30

    W2K Server on a laptop?

    A strange one I know, but a colleague wants to install W2K Server on a laptop in order to be able to demo some software to clients. The laptop has a pretty good specification - 256Mb RAM, P4 processor etc but I'm just not sure that it will run server. Has anyone got any opinions? Cheers Pete
  15. PistolPete30

    Connecting 6 Superstack 3300's

    Hi I've got 6 Superstack 3300's connected with 2 Matrix modules in two groupings (4 switches in one group and 2 in another). All have the latest firmware 2.69 installed). Since a recent power failure, the switches "Hang" and all network resources become unavailable to uses. We have...
  16. PistolPete30

    Disappearing emails!

    Hi I'm running Exchange 5.5 SP4 on a W2K server with approx 100 mailboxes. A few users have complained that emails they know have been sent to them are simply not getting through. However, the sender doesn't receive an bounce-back so I'm trying to figure out where they could be going. I've...
  17. PistolPete30

    Mail delivery failure - error 552

    Hi Can anybody tell me why I'm getting this error message when sending to one particular email address? The full error message is: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host smtp.crain.com [63.115.63.139]: 552 Error: Message content rejected Has anybody seen this before...
  18. PistolPete30

    Password Protecting Shares on W2K

    I have various useful utilities / programs on a share sitting on my desktop PC running W2K Pro. When I'm at user's workstations I want to access this share in order to install utilities, drivers etc. Under Windows 98 I could simply browse to the share from another PC and would be prompted for...
  19. PistolPete30

    How do I create new priv.edb and pub.edb files?

    Hi We've had a problem with our information store due to a hardware failure and the priv.edb file has ballooned to 85Gb. All the relevant data has been extracted to .pst files so the users can carry on as normal. I now need to delete the priv.edb file and create a new blank one. On a test...
  20. PistolPete30

    Email logging

    Hi - Is there any way to log outgoing emails on an Exchange server (5.5) in order that you can get an idea of the traffic?

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