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  1. maff

    Dirty rotten lier of a database

    We have a copy of Arcserve 2000 running on a Compaq NT 4 Server set to run a full nightly backup. We did a test restore the other day and found that the directory listing of the tape contents had loads of missing files as if it had missed half the files on backup. Instead of restoring a...
  2. maff

    Cheap SAN solution

    Hi all, We are an Art Institute and have large capacity servers for multimedia and photoshop students consisting of 3 Dell Poweredge servers with a total of 370GB of data. We are looking at a temperary backup solution until we have the budget to get a fibre to storage area network. Would it be...
  3. maff

    Customised logon message

    Does anyone know if you can change the text on the logon window? I know you can regedit / use a system policy to add a message screen AFTER pressing ctrl+alt+del to log on. What we would like is the name of our Institute and a message with our help desk number where you type your password and...
  4. maff

    Customised logon screen

    Does anyone know if you can change the text on the logon window? I know you can regedit / use a system policy to add a message screen AFTER pressing ctrl+alt+del to log on. What we would like is the name of our Institute and a message with our help desk number where you type your password and...
  5. maff

    Automating backups

    Being an Arts Institute we have fairly large servers running around 320Gigs of data. As DAT backup is obviously too slow and capacity too small, until we get the budget to buy a wacking DLT store we've used a standalone NT server with 4 80GB drives. The idea is to use a simple script fired off...
  6. maff

    Users getting locked out spontaneously

    Hi all, Have a network of 300+ users using a mixture of NT4 Workstation and Mac OS 9 with NT Server 4 (1xPDC, 2xBDC, 1xStand alone). User accounts are set to lock out after 3 failed attempts. Recently the amount of students getting locked out has increased alarmingly. People have reported...
  7. maff

    NT Services for Macintosh

    Hi, Tried this a few days ago, but got no replies.... We are a mixing Mac and PC environment being an Art Institute. I have an NT4 BDC set up with the dreaded Services for Macintosh on a 100mbps network. Eveything runs swimmingly until a mac tries to copy anything fairly weighty from or to the...
  8. maff

    Dirty Macs

    Hi, We are a mixing Mac and PC environment being an Art Institute. I have an NT4 BDC set up with the dreaded Services for Macintosh on a 100mbps network. Eveything runs swimmingly until a mac tries to copy anything fairly weighty from or to the server and then it bluescreens, curls up and dies...
  9. maff

    WINS on multiple subnets

    HI, We have two class B subnets - 10.1.*.* for staff and 10.0.*.0 for students separated through vlans and a router. Each of these subnets has its own PDC with DHCP and WINS installed with a scope for its respective subnet. The staff PDC WINS server reports that about 50% of its queries...
  10. maff

    DHCP Probs

    Hi, I have a niggling problem on our NT network which is running DHCP and WINS. The event log on certain workstations is showing this DHCP error: DHCP IP address lease 10.1.1.202 for the card with network address 00D0B7BCA90A has been denied. Despite this, the workstations are logging on to...
  11. maff

    Home directories in word etc

    One thing thats been bugging me: How do you get MS Word etc and other apps to look to the home directory specified in user accounts instead of the my docs / personal folder? I thought that they were supposed to do this automaticly... Any ideas? Matt ffolliott-Powell...
  12. maff

    Installing network printers for multiple users

    Hi all, We are a large Arts Institute in Bournemouth and have many suites with both PC and G4s. These are used by different courses each with thier own usernames and passwords. Each suite has an HP printer networked through DLC to the NT server. When installing the printer on the workstations we...
  13. maff

    Collisions

    Hi, We are an Art Institute in Dorset and have a LAN with two subnets seperated through a router. We have three main buildings each with thier own Summit switch installed connected via gigabit FDDI. These summits are divided into two VLANS corrosponding to the subnets. We have been experiencing...
  14. maff

    Drive power lost!

    Hi,<br>We've use Dell 4300 servers. On one of them we backup using Arcserve 6.5 every night <br>onto DAT. Sometimes when I return the following morning the log reports that there was an error due to tape drive power being lost and aborts the backup. We have tried replacing the drive and the scsi...
  15. maff

    Synchronise your watches!

    Is there a way to syncronise the clocks on all client computers from an NT 4.0 Server either when they log on or from a command line on the server?<br><br>Also, when a user deletes a file on the server through a mapped drive on his/her workstation it doesn't go to thier local recycling bin, so...
  16. maff

    Backup software

    Does anybody know about Retrospect backup software? A fellow colleague (a typically smug mac user) recommended it (the PC version obviously) over Arcserve which we currently use. <br><br>He says quote: &quot;it is very reliable and much more easy to use and doesn't rely on 'outdated' Archive bit...
  17. maff

    I've got the Nack(s)! and I don't want them!

    We have two VLANS (subnets) separated by a router - staff and students respectively. Each of these has a PDC and two BDCs. Each PDC runs DHCP and WINS for its subnet.<br><br>On the student PDC the event log is constantly reporting that it has issued a NACK to the client (mac address) IP...
  18. maff

    DHCP dishing out duplicate IPs

    We have a two subnets separated through a router - one for Staff and one for Students. Each subnet consists of a Single Master Domain model with a PDC and three BDCs. The PDC in each subnet is configured for DHCP and WINS/DNS. <br><br>Every client in the college (PC & Macintosh through DAVE...

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