Windows 2003 Server
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Ntdsutil running error
by Guest Gaurav- 3 replies
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Dear Folks, When I am trying to run ntdsutil on command prompt it is showing following error:- “'ntdsutil' is not recognized as an internal or external command, Operable program or batch file.” But this ntdsutil.exe file is at the path %systemroot%/system32/ dllcache & if I go into this path it works successfully. I want to make this file available at any each prompt despite of this where ever it is physically saved. HOw can I do this .....? Thanks in advance With Regd, Gaurav Mathur
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Problems migrating AD PDC
by Guest Paul Chow- 13 replies
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I am trying to migrate from an old W2K3 Active Directory domain controller to a new one. Eventually I want to remove the old server from the network. I have never done this before and it is a little bit out of my league so I Googled, read and hopefully followed several articles that I found, but am still getting some errors logged. The list of AD users, computers etc replicated over to the new server, but when I turn off the old one no one can log in and there is no Internet access. I think both of these problems are due to DNS (which I really understand about 1% of). There are no errors in the DNS log though (just info that the service started). Most of th…
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cannot telnet in a VPN tunnel, why?
by Guest Michelle- 2 replies
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Hello, I have set up a VPN tunnel between 2 Sonic Wall routers. From location A, I can access network shared drives located at location B. But from location A, using a Windows XP computer, I cannot telnet to any Solaris UNIX workstations located at location B. Whenever I use telnet, I get error about cannot open port 23. Does Sonic Wall lock out port 23? Any suggestions how to fix this problem? Thanks.
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Windows Server 2008 - How do I determine the current Activation Hardware Tolerance value for a MAK activated machine? TIA!
by Guest eddy.haskel- 1 reply
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Windows Server 2008 - How do I determine the current Activation Hardware Tolerance value for a MAK activated machine? TIA! Hi all, I would like to find out how I can find the current value of the "Activation Hardware Tolerance" variable on a MAK activated machine. A few of the hard drives have been swapped and I'd like to take some RAM out of the machine. I assume this action will change hash value and therefore the AHT value... is there an slmgr.vbs command to querry this? Thanks for any help!
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NTBackup Alerts
by Guest AU- 2 replies
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Hello, I am running NTBackup on Windows 2003 Standard Edition, can anyone tell me if is there is something I can configure whereby NTBackup will alert me by e-mail when the backup job has completed sucessfully or failed? Thanks,
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Services losing Login Info
by Guest Dragon- 2 replies
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We have some services that lose login information periodically and if we have to restart these services, we have to go into services control panel and re-enter the login information. Anyone has any ideas what might be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks.
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Unexpected 2003 server shut downs
by Guest derek- 3 replies
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I have a server that loves to shut down unexpectedly, What are my options for trouble shooting this the shutdown log folder is empty and my event viewer only says that my server had an unexpected shutdown Tools, Logs, Debug I can set up? Spam me with helpful ideas:) Cheers
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wbadmin
by Guest Ole- 2 replies
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Hi everybody, I am trying to set up a scheduled backup. I will use wbadmin and not the graphical interface, because the interface does not allow to backup to remote servers. I have created a command like this: wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\SLH\BackupWin\YODA\Montag\ -include:c:,d: -noverify -user:Administrator -password:mypw -vssFull -quiet Now, it would be nice to replace the part '\Montag\' with every day of the week. Is there a function to do such replacement like %DAYOFWEEK% or something similar? Where can I find documentation about such functions? Thanks for your time Ole
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Task Scheduler IGNORES duration
by Guest createwindow@gmail.com- 19 replies
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OK, I have a sched. task in Windows Server 2008 64 Bit RTM Enterprise, that fires (sorry, I mean sexy new term "Triggers") on second Thursday of every month, then repeats every hour. However, although I ask it to stop after 6 hours,it keeps going & going up to 8 hours now and counting!!!!!! I am seeing posts on this in Vista groups also (no surprises there - same kernel). So, can MS admit this is a bug and advise when this will be dealt with please? Oh the pain, the pain. (Dr. Smith) Thanks.
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Server 2008: Downgrading to SMB1
by Guest Ole- 2 replies
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Hi Everybody, I have a set of PDC and WTS running on Server 2008 (Enterprise x64). I have problems accessing files that seem to be SMB related. Server 2008 uses SMB2. Somebody told me that I could activate SMB1 on those servers. I have created a 32Bit DWORD called SMB1 in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrenControlSet\LanmanServer\Parameters and set the value to 1. (on both servers) This did not have any effect, netmon still reports SMB2. Can anybody help? Thanks for your time Ole
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Copying files with long paths
by Guest Harrison Midkiff- 1 reply
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Hello: I need to copy several gigs of data from one server to another. In the middle of the copy I keep getting an error saying the path is to long and then the copy crashes. I have looked at some utilities for this but really do not want to buy something. Does anyone know what I can use? Harrison
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x64 Process using x32 Dll
by Guest Jackson- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a requirement to allow a 64bit application running under Server 2003 R2 x64 to call a 32 bit dll. (The dll is from a third party so I'm stuck with 32 bit). FRom what I've managed to find the way to do this is by adding a COM wrapper around the 32 bit dll. Is this the best/only way to achieve this? Any pointers to documentation for Server 2003 that describes this would also help. --------- Regards Jackson
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force a 'pause' or 'sleep' between print jobs
by Guest dave- 0 replies
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Hi All, I am involved in a project where we need to have cretin print jobs sent to specific trays. If these print jobs are sent individually they print to the correct trays. if they are sent together, that is in quick succession, they print to the wrong trays. we have found that if we send these jobs together and pause the print queue and pause each individual print job the release each print job separately from the print queue they print fine. Is there a way to setup an automatic 'pause' or 'sleep' between print jobs? Windows Server 2003 R2 multiple printer type but all HP's Thanks in Advance
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Is there any advantage to Using Wins?
by Guest steve- 7 replies
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I have win2003 server with about 15 XP clients. We use dhcp from a router. Is there any advantage to setting up wins on the server. It is my understanding that it is used for netbios clients. We dont install netbios on any of the computers. Would it be a waste of time to set up the wins on the server. Or does it do more than that. Would it help our network function better. If you ask "if it aint broke dont fix it" . Well the network does act up sometimes. Im wondering if this might help a little. Regards
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NTBackup
by Guest AU- 3 replies
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Hello, I am running a simple NTBackup on a Windows 2003 server, the backups finishes sucessfully without any errors and everything is fine, but the tape does not eject? I remember when I configured NTBackup on another machine it auto ejects. What's Up?
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Can't access server via remote desktop connection
by Guest Mark Christensen- 17 replies
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I have an XP machine that I use to remote into our server that's located in another part of the building. The server is running Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2. The server is set up to accept remote connections. Usually I can get in to it fine, but then every so often when I open the Remote log on box on my PC and click connect (after entering the log on info like normal), the Remote log on box just refreshes and won't let me connect to the server. Our fix for this has always been to reboot the server, then I can log in fine, but this doesn't seem right. Is there something wrong with our server? Or a setting that needs to be changed on it so I can …
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Reserving a Port in Windows 2003 server
by Guest Saral6978- 2 replies
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I need to reserve the UDP port, 53, for one of my DCs due to a recent DNS update to see if this will resolve the issue I have with DNS not starting and hanging my server on reboot. I have the instructions on how to do this from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812873/ (Original problem describing update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956188) It says I must enter the port # in the format of xxxx-yyyy. If the port is only 2 digits, do I just enter in 53-53 (just need to reserve a single port) or do I enter 0053-0053? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just want to make sure. Thank you!
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Screensavers
by Guest seriousws@googlemail.com- 1 reply
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Do they get saved anywhere? A temp folder?
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Re: Screensavers
by Guest seriousws@googlemail.com- 0 replies
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Re: Screensavers On Sep 19, 1:25 pm, seriou...@googlemail.com wrote: > Do they get saved anywhere? A temp folder? Sorry, obviously meant screenshots!
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Licensing
by Guest Flaps- 0 replies
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Hi all, At the office we are getting a little confused with CAL's. Basically we have bought a new site and are creating a trust between our domain and theirs. Will our CAL's allow us to access not only our servers here, but the servers we are creating a trust with. Will they also be classed as our servers? (We own both servers) Regards
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Hot Swap with USB REV35 IOMEGA
by Guest Hubert Rétif- 0 replies
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Hello, I have an USB REV35 IOMEGA connected to a 2003 SP1 Standard server. I use it for Backup purpose. Every day of the week are the disks swapped. It was working without problems about 2 years. Now I have the situation where each time the eject button is pressed, the server startet immediately a reboot with error codes: 0x0000000a (0x00000000, 0x0000001b, 0x00000001, 0x8082947b) And this, since I have updated to the newest driver and firmware (before reboot was sporadic). I don't know where I could begin to look for... Perhaps has someone an idea? More generally, I am wondering now whether this backup method is the right one. Removing a disk …
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Audit when a user copies a file
by Guest Gatsu- 3 replies
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Hello, can I audit when an user copies a file from the fileserver? I'm using Windows 2003. Thanks! JD
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Cannot copy <filename> path is too deep
by Guest AU- 1 reply
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Hello, I am experiencing this problem on a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server, the file/folder character length are less than 255. The clients OS vary from Windows XP to Vista, if I am on my domain controller and i try to move a big file to my storage server (the one experiencing the problem) I get this error. This is happening every time and to everyone, files can vary from 30MB onward. Any idea why guys?
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Changing time in windows 2008
by Guest IT Staff- 1 reply
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Machine is part of domain. We are testing a application with an old license key. We attempt to change the time backwards, but it revert back to today's time. Windows 2003 can do that, why not 2008 ?
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Save user/pass Mapped Drive
by Guest AU- 1 reply
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Hello, I have a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 server which is stand alone on our network, I want to use something like a robocopy to automate the process of moving files from that server to our file server which is on the domain. I create a share on the file server and specfiy that only the domain admins can access this share. I then go to the server which is stand alone and map a network drive z to the share, I specfiy to connect with the domain cretionals and I save the user/pass. The share connects and maps fine the first time but everytime I restart I have to constantly keep puttign in the domain user/pass even tho I have it set to save it. Why is this…