Windows 2003 Server
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Spooler service stopping on Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server
by Guest Jason A Ash- 9 replies
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Hello, I've recently run into an issue with a client who is running Windows Server 2008 as a Terminal Server. What is occurring, is the print spooler service is stopping, with no errors or warnings. Restarting the spooler service allows printing to continue. The client is accessing a Foxpro based program, and we are using Remote Application for the remote users, rather than a full desktop. The server is up-to-date on Windows updates. Other clients, connecting to an identical Terminal Server, running the same application, in the same office, have no problems with the print spooler stopping. Any thoughts? Thank you, Jason A.
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MSDN Activation
by Guest chuskey- 2 replies
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We ran into a situation with a customer and we're trying to figure out the best way to get them sorted out. They had a crash over labor day weekend and both of their servers went down. Their former IT guy wasn't doing everything above board and we're not sure exactly how the crash happened. They didn't actually have any Windows Server software on hand. Their old IT guy had set everything up for them and he is out of the country. Being labor day weekend the only thing we had access to was an MSDN copy of Server 2003. We used this to create the OS for the host server and also a VM server that acts as domain controller. Neither of which were activated.…
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DNS Problem ??
by Guest Luca Rossi- 3 replies
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Hi to all, i've a problem on my domain (Win2003 Server and XP clients): Often, if i ping a host it does not responds, but the IP that returns probably was previously and now no more working. Assumed that i know the correct IP of that host, if i ping the address with -a flag, it returns the correct hostname.... Example: 1) Ping p-crespi.alerva.local [192.168.15.115] con 32 byte di dati: ---> does not respond 2) Ping 192.168.15.83 -a --> It works and resolve P-CRESPIalerva.local.... Is it a DNS problem or a DHCP problem ? Thanks to everybody in advance Bye Luca
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Share printer on the domain
by Guest David- 1 reply
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Hi, I set up a domain for my small network (first time). I added up some pc's to the domain without problems. Now I want to add up the printer and share it. I install the printer on the Domain controller server and then try to share it, but strangly the users can't find the printer on their local pc's. Anyone had this problem? What's the easy way to share this printer to everyone? Thanks.
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Need Recommendation for Bare Metal Recovery
by Guest Dragon- 2 replies
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Hi, We have many remote sites with small servers. I am looking for a solution to make a daily backup of these server for bare metal recovery purposes. These servers are non-critical and all their data is available from central location. goal here not to provide fully redundent recovery but to speed up recovery time. We can always get another server, and download all of the informatiom from the central location. But if I have an expensive solution (USB?) that I can plug into the server and simply restore the OS and existing data from the device, it will make recovery faster than manually installing OS and downloading data from the central. It could be…
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Issue with Remote Desktop MMC Plug in
by Guest Tom- 0 replies
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Hello, Something has changed on one of our networks to prevent a Remote Desktop MMC from logging into remote desktops without prompting for password. We used to be able to click on any remote desktop in the list and it would just log in without prompting but now the remote machines are prompting for password despite updating the passwords stored in the connections. I checked the policy thoroughly and also ran rsop.msc to make sure a policy wasn't doing it. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom
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Server
by Guest Bob- 4 replies
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We are looking to build a server to last at least 7 years. Our company employees 31 people in 3 office. We are looking to establish a VPN between the main office and the other two. One of our goals is to have servers in each office with the same drive mapping. The exchange mail is shared between offices. I would appreciate any input on the server configuration which is as follows: MS Windows SVR 2008 64bit std 5u cal operating system Liteon 20x DVDRW IDE Black BUL NO SW # DH-20A4P Optical drive Nero 8.3 MPEG2 Intel XEON E5420 2.5 GHz 12mb 1333 MHz BX80574E5420P PAS. HS Processors Intel AXX6DRV3G 6-Bay SAS/SATA HS CAGE w/o Exp. SC5299/5400 Server Chas…
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Hey guys, I am running server 2003 and have about a hundred distribution lists. Is there a way to run a query that returns the name of each list as well as the account that is assigned as manager? Thanks, Larry
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Microsoft Migrates From Servers to Supercomputers
by Guest abhi- 1 reply
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Once relegated to the realm of national laboratories, supercomputers have started to move downstream. These days, any business with $25,000 to $100,000 to spare can buy a computing system capable of cranking through very difficult tasks. And, in fact, more businesses than ever have started to buy exactly these types of systems as competitive pressure mounts to perform complex operations faster. With this in mind, Microsoft’s interest in what’s known as high- performance computing (HPC) makes a lot of sense. The world’s largest software maker this week released a new, specialized version of its Windows operating system built to distribute tasks across large grou…
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High CPU usage: System -> SRV.SYS / HAL
by Guest Woolbox- 1 reply
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Dear Experts! :-) I've been troubleshooting performance problems on a particular server for a few days now and cannot quite figure this one out. Environment * The server used to be a physical one, was virtualized using VMWare Converter and now running on VMWare Server 1.0.6. * Host machine runs on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise with SP2 and has two dual-core Intel 3.2 GHz processors and has 8 GB RAM * Host machine currently hosts the problematic server only Symptoms and attempts to resolve When copying (larger) files from the server, approx. CPU utilization rises to 50%, slowing down the server. Process Explorer reveals that the off…
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Windows Server 2000
by Guest Pete Jones- 1 reply
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Any idea when Microsoft will cease supporting 2000 (if they haven't already)? -- Pete Jones MCSE:Security, MCSE:Messaging
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Folder Security Question
by Guest KTosser@gmail.com- 0 replies
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I am trying to setup a folder on a network share for students to save there work in. My plan is to have a folder called "In Box" that the students can save finished work to turn in. I would like it so that all the students can save their work here, and edit their own work. But I don't want them to be able to open or modify any one else’s work. I have set folder security on my "In Box" folder to the following: Teacher - Full Control - This Folder, Subfolders, and Files Students - List Folder / Read Data, Create Files / Write Data, Create Folders / Append Data - This Folder Only CREATER OWNER - Full Control - Subfolders and Files only System - Full Co…
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Windows 2008 Hyper-V - Licensing question
by Guest Jammy- 2 replies
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Hiya All, In regards to licensing of Win08 for Hyper-V: I am aware of the 1+4 rule for Windows Server licensing however in a HyperV environment i am wondering: 1. Does the +4 rule include downgrade rights to 2003Std 2. Does each of the +4 require additional CAL's for connecting clients or does the baseline determine CAL's across the 1+4 Rule Cheers
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Not Enough Server Storage Error
by Guest Dave Leonardi- 4 replies
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I am receiving a "Not enough server storage is available to process this command <1130>. when I execute a shutdown -m \\ComputerName -r. and when our some of users are trying to print. Thanks for your time and efforts. W3K Server SP2. 1 Gb Memory Domain Controller, Acting as a File Server/ Print Server Windows XP Pro SP2 Environment. We plan on upgrading memory within this week.
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Strange Network in My Network Place
by Guest Jonathan- 0 replies
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Hello All. My domain is a windows domain with windows 2000 and 2003 server. The computer on the network are windows 2000 and XP. Tonight I'm doing maintenance on the network and see something that is very weird. My domain name is: mydomain.com but when I open My Network Place\Microsoft Windows Network, I see a lot of domain there, not only mydomain.com. I can see a list of domain like domain1, domain2, domain3, asf ..... like if these domain are linked to our network. All the domain that I see in this list are concurent company and I'm pretty sure that someone in our company visit their web site during the day. Why I see many domain in "My Netwo…
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How to Setup Anonymous Shares / Null Session Shares
by Guest harmandeep- 0 replies
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i need a guide/url for achieving Anonymous / Null Session SMB Shares (Windows Shares ) one more thing , do we need to enable/provide any User account for getting Anonymous Logons ( mainly Guest acc as it don,t require any pass @ network logons ) One guide is here http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/windows/anonymous_network_logon_print_server.html But the same question here , why any User acc ( guest in this case ) is being enabled for getting anonymous / null shares I m considering Workgroup Model nd not the Domain Model -- harmandeep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ harmandeep's Profile: http://forums.techare…
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No Drive letter assigned to my USB on Server 2003
by Guest moni.gsm@gmail.com- 1 reply
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I have a question..I just put in my Server 2003 and i plugged my externeal usb drive to it and it will not recognize it...it shows it in the disk management but it will not shot up in my computer. the only problem I have is that it shows the drive as empty in disk magement, i was reading the groups and it said all you have to do is assign it a drive letter...ok but if i do that will i loose all the data already on my drive????
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sort causes page faults on server machine
by Guest JÅns MÁrtin SchlÁttÅr- 5 replies
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We have a win 2003 server which is accessed by multiple clients (around 10) by RDP. The machine has 4GB memory. When we start a SAS sort, the performance monitor shows a lot of page faults, but the machine has still 2GB memory available. Why does a process experience page faults when there is plenty of memory free? Martin
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NTbackup
by Guest Dan V- 1 reply
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I use ntbackup for my backups. I have 5 scheduled tasks running 1 for each day so that i have a full weeks of backups. I radomly test the backup files by doing a restore of a few files. My problem is that when i go to restore i see all the backups that were done since 2003 and takes forever to find the backup that im looking for. How can i delete those old links cause the files dont exist? Also if a folder gets deleted the entire backup will fail cause the bks file has that folder in it. Is there a way to prevent this? Here is my friday backup (for example) command that i have in the task scheduler. C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\BackupS…
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Windows must be activated.
by Guest Ray234- 1 reply
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I have a user that was trying to open their PST file in Outlook, and it was showing that it could't be accessed. I tried to RDP to the server, and it gave me a message that "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can login... Do you want to activate now?". I clicked cancel last week when it happened, and it rebooted the server. All was fine after reboot. I clicked No today, and it logged off the RDP session. The user still can't access the PST file, and I can't RDP to the server. It is several years old, so it's not a new installation issue. Any ideas?
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Permissions error - Windows Server 2003 R2
by Guest Mike- 3 replies
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Hi folks, I installed a Windows Server 2003 R2 a few weeks ago onto our network/domain, and all went fine. It is not a DC, it is a member server. I'm not trying to install Symantec AV Server on it via a unc path from another server and got the below error, and when I copy the downloaded software onto the desktop and click on the setup.exe file, I get the same error message: "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I'm logged in as the domain admin, and this is the only machine I am having this trouble with. Any ideas? Thanks, Mike
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Remote Access to Windows 2008 Server
by Guest Patrick- 0 replies
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We just install our first Windows 2008 Server. We find that when we use RDP to access it, it works as remote access (we haven't used /admin option). From the web, we learn that Windows 2008 supports 2 active session if TS is not installed. If it is true, we wonder why RDP session is a Console Session. Your advice is sought.
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time synchronisation in windows 2003 server
by Guest saujan- 1 reply
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i want to synchorisize the time of all the personal computer in my domain with the clock of domain controller. can anyone suggest how can i do it. first i would like to know how can i make the windows server 2003 as a time synchronisation server and then how to add the clients. plz help -- saujan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saujan's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/saujan.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-server-help/1042913.htm http://forums.techarena.in
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Rebooting a Vista laptop crashes domain controller!
by Guest Qu0ll- 6 replies
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I am not sure if this is a Vista problem or a W2K3 problem so please forgive the cross post. I have a laptop running Vista SP1 and a domain controller running Server 2003. Everything works just fine until I reboot the laptop at which point the server freezes completely and needs to be rebooted brutally. There are no relevant or interesting events in the event logs of either machine and in fact the laptop goes on functioning normally with no apparent problems (except of course that it can't access files on the server etc.) after such an event. This is new behaviour for about a month now and was not apparent before then. There have been numerous changes (up…
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Internet Explorer can't use proxy server on windows 2003 R2
by Guest James Matthews- 2 replies
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Hi We have just installed 3 new Windows 2003 R2 servers with all the latest patches but we are having a problem using our proxy server via internet explorer. The servers can browse the internet when not connected to the proxy (when we open the firewall rules) but when we enter the proxy IP address and port into IE all access fails. Other servers in the same subnet can use the same proxy server and it is working correctly for all other machines. You can telnet on port 80 to the proxy and get the correct response so routing and firewall connections are working correctly. Any ideas as to how we can resolve this?