Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations Chriss Miller on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  • Users: firthm
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. firthm

    Backup Scenario

    Hi Everyone, I just wanted to suggest an interesting backup scenario I have stumbled across whilst using Windows Server 2003 <R2>. Windows Server 2003 R2 now introduces DFS-R which allows DFS clients (clients browsing to network shares as \\domain.local\share rather than \\server\share). All...
  2. firthm

    GPO's Applied Intermittently

    Hi Everyone, Very odd and frustrating query here for me. I have an SBS 2003 Standard network looking like this: SITE A "SBS Server / DNS / Exchange" "Additonal DC / Application Server" "Terminal Server" "File Server / DHCP Server" SITE B "DC / File Server / DNS / DHCP" SITE C No Server...
  3. firthm

    Clients using WAN server rather than local.

    Hi Everyone, This may be an easy one or may not. I recently added a domain controller to one of our remote offices to facilitate local authentication, DFS for file shares, local DNS etc... It all works well so far and i'm hoping continues to, AD replicates etc and roaming profiles are...
  4. firthm

    Branch Offices - 2003 Server

    Hi Everyone, Just a general query here, not a problem as such. I am looking for people opinion on the best way to go about adding a server to my branch offices, here is the scenario: One company (domain) which is spread across three sites: Head Office - Server located here Branch Off1 - 10...
  5. firthm

    DFS &amp; SBS Standard 2003

    Hi Everyone! Just a quick query. I have SBS 2003 Standard as well as a Windows Server 2003 File Server. I am about to purchase two more servers to be located at branch offices, but would ideally like to take advantage of the DFS features of Server 2003 R2. Is it possible to upgrade anything...
  6. firthm

    Mitel Novice

    Hi All, I am a total Mitel novice, and have just inherited (by nature of my job) a Mitel 3300 ICP (?) telephone system with voicemail. I have a couple of very quick simple (hopefully) questions.... I have a 5224 IP Phone, and directly below the LCD screen there are three buttons, two of which...
  7. firthm

    Desktop Wallpaper Problem

    Hi Everyone, I currently have a problem with a wallpaper which I am deploying via Group Policy though i think the issue is a setting on the clients. Basically I am deploying a corporate background, it's a JPG (and hence i'm using active desktop) and is going out to Windows XP clients. The...
  8. firthm

    Domain Connectivity Problems

    Hi Everyone, I have some serious problems on my SBS 2003 domain and would like some help if anyone has any beaming ideas...? Situation: I have: SBS1 (DomainCon, Exchange, DNS)Win2003 IG1 (FileServ, MemberServ,DNS)Win2000 FILE1 (DomainCon, FileServ, DNS)Win2003 IGTS01 (TermServ)Win2003...
  9. firthm

    Folder Creation

    Hi Everyone, I am slightly puzzled as I thought this would be an easy job, but apparantly not! I am trying to create a folder for all users in my Exchange organisation within their mailbox. For example, I would like to automatically create each user a "Spam" folder, so that filtered e-mail is...
  10. firthm

    SYSVOL Share Access

    Hi Everyone, I have a strange problem which I think I should be able to solve but seem to be coming up blank...grr. I have an SBS2003 network with an additional DC which is Win2k. In sysvol I have created a batch file which simply maps a drive...no problem at all. I have set this as...
  11. firthm

    Group Policy - XPSP2 - Windows 2003/2000

    Hi Everyone, I have a frustrating one here for you to ponder, though someone may give me the right answer straight away. I have a Windows 2003 Small Business Server network running, 99% of clients are Windows XP-SP2. We have two DC's...one Win2003SBS and one Win 2000 Server. The Windows...
  12. firthm

    Websense Reporting

    Hi All, Anyone know how to set Websense so that it sends a monthly e-mail report of web sites visited by category etc? Thanks, Mike Michael Firth Network Infrastructure Officer ~If it's not broke, break it and LEARN~
  13. firthm

    Netpilot & ISA 2004

    Good Morning, Has anyone tried to get a Netpilot VPN product to form a site-to-site VPN connection with ISA Server 2004? I'm currently in the process of trying to establish a VPN tunnel using IPSEC between a Netpilot VPN and Microsoft ISA 2004 server. I'll post up on here again if I get it to...
  14. firthm

    Fortinet Fortigate 800 Password Firewall Problem

    Hi All, I have recently started working at a company, who, to be blunt has the most cocked up network i've ever seen. Part of the problem is the Fortinet Fortigate 800 firewalls we have. THey're great, except no-one here knows a password t get in to the damn things so I can't seer what...
  15. firthm

    Error in EventVwr related to SUS. WUSyncSvc.exe does not exist.

    Hi Everyone, Just wondered if anyone was able to help me at all? I've had an SUS server set-up and running sweetly for about a year and a half now, no problems at all apart from the occasional glitch. However, I am suddenly receiving a number of eventvwr error messages which I believe are the...
  16. firthm

    NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON

    Hi There, I have noted on my Windows 2003 servers, that I get these logon messages in the security field of eventvwr. Now, I've checked and I can see that this message is generated when any standard TCP/IP traffic hits the machine that doesn't require authentication (Ie connecting using VNC...
  17. firthm

    Active Directory

    Hi Everyone. I am looking to investigate/learn some active directory skills. I currently work in an organisation where we do not have AD but are planning it for the future, however, I am looking to leanr as much of it as I can now, but can only find sites that either want me to go to college...
  18. firthm

    Output to PDF

    Hi Everyone. I wondered if someone may be able to give me a little buying advice. I have been asked by a user the best way to output a report from Crystal 9/10 to a pdf file. Does anyone know if this is an add in I could purchase, or is a product like Print2PDF the best bet? Thanks in...
  19. firthm

    Proliant ML530 G2 & Dell PV122T VS80

    Hi All, Just a quickie....I have a slight problem with my Compaq Proliant ML530 G2. The server runs beautifully with NT4 Server installed and is our Exchange server and BDC. However, we recently purchaesed a Dell PV122T VS80, this is an 8-tape DLT autoloader, it connects via SCSI but whenever...
  20. firthm

    EPO 3.1.2.247 / Windows 2003

    Hi All, I currently have a problem wherby I have upgraded from EPO 3 to 3.2 Hotfix 4. Unfortunately although the agent sits happily on my Windows 2003 servers, it only comes up with a message saying: Checking for product confilcts Product Confilct: VIRUSCAN6500 Will not be installed. This...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top