Windows 2003 Server
Windows 2003 help and discussions.
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External Storage Drive Access Issue
by Guest DJ- 2 replies
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I have been using a Buffalo LinkStation Pro LS-250GL High Speed NAS Wireless External Hard Drive and all of a sudden I can't network with it. It has worked fine for over a year on my primary XP (SP2) laptop, and 2 other laptops I own (both XP SP2) have no problem accessing the hard drive and its files. Now - although I can access the hardware through its web interface and can log in and change settings, it won't let me access files. I have been in contact with BuffaloTech support as well as Symantec/Norton and both insist that something changed in Windows to cause access problems. I have disabled and re-enabled Norton Antivirus and uninstalled and…
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Cannot copy <filename> The path is too deep
by Guest IT STAFF- 1 reply
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Does anyone encounter this ?
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dead
by Guest Johan deheugden- 2 replies
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does some1 how how to report a dead link to microsoft? i tried to contact them trought e-mail,but i think micro$oft is afraid of their customers cause i after going thorugh a windows or 20 i still didnt get an email addres... the deadlink is a 2003 vhd http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/bb738372(en-us).aspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=77f24c9d-b4b8-4f73-99e3-c66f80e415b6&DisplayLang=en
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File Path Limitations
by Guest Bart Perrier- 5 replies
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We are getting ready to migrate about 1000 Home Directories to a new location on the network and I have my strategy/plan ready to go but I have been noticing something that I am hoping I can get around. I have some users who are very, very organized and very beautifully create folders with excellent names for everything. The problem is, eventually the complete path of the folder, even with a mapped letter drive, becomes too long. What is the character limitation for the path to a file? I was under the impression is was a lot longer than a user could conceivably exhaust, but I am mistaken. Below is an example -- I have removed the username and replac…
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Recovery Console Starts Without Prompting for a Password
by Guest Plumdre- 4 replies
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Hi, I have windows 2003 server RC2 that crashed which I am having a problem resolving. When the computer boots up a get a black screen that says: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM I ran the recovery console and ran fixmbr and fixboot but that did not help the issue. Being a novice to recovery console I did not think much of the fact that it never prompted me for a password. I know now that it should and this probably means I have a corrupted registry (? not sure). I found the article that Microsoft says the lack of prompting is by design however I need to recover this computer as it…
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Windows 2008 server bizarre folder behaviour
by Guest Aart Jansen- 3 replies
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OK I tried to think about it logically I searched MS site, and google. but maybe its just me. Standard win2k8 install C:\User C:\documents and settings both exist, and are linked (c:\users\public = c:\documents and settings\all users AFAIK) Lots of little user folders have a the shortcut icon, most of these aren't viewable folders because of permission denied (EVERYONE is denied some special permission) a) My symantec backup exec 12 is failing to backup when it encounters these 'default' permissions b) It's $^ annoying when I set a permission I want to be inherited by subfolders to find they don't inherit and that the crappy deny permission is …
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NETLOGON
by Guest boba- 2 replies
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When I logon to one of our servers I get error message: can't import \\dc1\netlogon\cookies.reg: not all data was sucessfully written to the registery. some keys are open by the system or other processes. On all other servers I don't get any error message. How can I fix this problem? Thanks!
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File Server Resource Manager question
by Guest steve grosz- 7 replies
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I'm feeling a little dumb about this, but how do you get the File Server Resource Manager to show up in the MMC for Windows 2008??
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WHS2008 PROBLEMS
by Guest DevlshOne- 3 replies
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1) I have noticed that my WHS2008 hard drives are CONSTANTLY spinning, even when not being accessed by any of my workstations. I have made sure that no backups were in progress. The problem does not resolve when I reboot. 2) I continually have problems with the Windows Search service. Error Log says that it needs to be deleted and re-indexed. How do I do this? 3) It runs miserably slow with an AMD 64x2 5000+ and 2GB of Dual Channel PC3200. What gives? 4) My network health is in a constant state of YELLOW as it is complaining that there are files conflicts in the Windows Fonts folder. How do I remove this warning or fix this conflict? 5) It is compl…
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Server2008's Hyper-V is great! But how do I read/write to the host's drives?
by Guest Mindy Dyson- 1 reply
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Hi guys! At the university, I was issued some statistical software that will run only in Windows 2000 and XP. This WAS a problem, since I have Server2008 installed on my work station. The software installed in a Hyper-V virtual machine by using the media/DVD/Capture pulldowns. The Hyper-V virtual machine is using XP/SP3! :) Now, I need to read over 70 gigs of text data zipped for analysis. It will expand to almost 800 gigs of text data. I see how I can get it in the virtual c:\ and d:\ drive(s) using my browser and FTP from the original publisher, and how to get it via the DVD drive. But this data is already on an HDD on my work station outside of my…
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How to manually create a custom event log in *any* category?
by Guest future2Bunknown- 1 reply
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I am testing monitoring software therefore need the ability to generate event logs. Please note that I want to generate all possible event ID's from all possible sources. There are a few tools or APIs that let you create event logs - with certain limitations - e.g. only in Application Log, or only from undefined sources, etc. So answers such as logevent, eventcreate, won't be accepted.
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Connecting to a server by name
by Guest Jasper Recto- 2 replies
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I have a Cisco ASA firewall that allows me to VPN into our company domain. When I'm in the domain, I can ping any computer or connect to it through terminal server by using the computer IP address. Is there anything I can do so that I can connect to computer by its computer name? If I try to ping a computer name, the DNS can not resolve it. Is there a host file I can edit that can reference the computer name and it's corresponding IP address? I'm on Windows XP. Thanks, Jasper
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All services on Windows Server 2003 box suddenly hang or stop
by Guest Chris Benton- 0 replies
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I'm running Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1 on an HP ProLiant DL380 server with 4 GB of RAM and an array of four 72GB hard drives. About two weeks ago, our server started randomly rebooting itself with the following message: "This system is shutting down. Please save all work in progress and log off.." etc. Shutdown initiated by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The specific error mentioned is: "Windows must now restart because the service services.svc terminated unexpectedly." Sometimes, the server does not actually reboot, but the services all abort, anyway. The only change to the server, apart from regular system updates, was the installation of Office 200…
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VSS writers problems backing up
by Guest Anthony- 17 replies
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Hi, Can someone please help? I have a Windows 2003 sp2 server running Backup Exec and my backups are failing with the following errors: Job ended: 23 May 2008 at 11:35:16 Completed status: Failed Final error: 0x80042308 - 0x80042308 (2147754760) Final error category: Other Errors and Backup - \\MERTEXSRVOFO: Initialization failure on: "Shadow?Copy?Components". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). VSS Snapshot error. Specified shadow copy not found for delete or query. I have tried everything I can find so far on the internet with no success, I have reregisterd the dll's updating patches all sorts to no av…
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changing an expired password
by Guest Owen@7- 3 replies
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We are running a 2000 sp 4 domain. Most machines have been promoted to 2003Server I still have 2 to promote then I will promote the domain. When users change their password (when it expires), users claim that they change the password, hit enter, and when they try to log back on, the new password does not work. What does work, is nothing or a blank password. Any suggestions?
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Scheduled task to defrag servers
by Guest paulreims@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Hello, I am using this small script to automatically created scheduled tasks via Group Policy on each one of our servers: Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim fso, d, dc, i, Command i=0 Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set dc = fso.Drives For Each d in dc i=i+1 If d.DriveType = 2 Then Return = WshShell.Run("echo ""N""|schtasks.exe /create /SC WEEKLY /D MON /TN Defrag" &i& " /TR ""defrag.exe "&d &" -f"" /ST 15:50:00 /SD 04/08/2008 /RU SYSTEM", 1, TRUE) End If Next Set WshShell = Nothing The echo ""N"" is necessary because on the second restart, Windows asks to…
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Scheduled task to defrag servers
by Guest paulreims@gmail.com- 1 reply
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Hello, I am using this small script to automatically created scheduled tasks via Group Policy on each one of our servers: Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Dim fso, d, dc, i, Command i=0 Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set dc = fso.Drives For Each d in dc i=i+1 If d.DriveType = 2 Then Return = WshShell.Run("echo ""N""|schtasks.exe /create /SC WEEKLY /D MON /TN Defrag" &i& " /TR ""defrag.exe "&d &" -f"" /ST 15:50:00 /SD 04/08/2008 /RU SYSTEM", 1, TRUE) End If Next Set WshShell = Nothing The echo ""N"" is necessary because on the second restart, Windows asks to…
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Adding Windows 2008 to 2003 domain
by Guest André vd Hoeven- 1 reply
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We want to use Exchange 2007 on a Windows server 2008. But we already have a 2003 domain (R2) is it possible to add the 2008 server as a domain controller.
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Windows Activation Problem
by Guest Ole Weigelt- 4 replies
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Hi everybody, I have changed my server's HD. It is running on Server2008 Now, my system tells me taht it has been deactivated due to HW change and I should reactivate. Reactivation results in error 0x004E003 which means that the key has been used previously. Of course it has! _I_ have used it before on the same machine. KB 931276 tells me to punch in the Key again, but I do not have that option. When I start slui.exe from the command line, it tries to activate, comes up with the error described above and that's it. Does that mean, I must not change HW without reinstalling and re-buying? Thanks for your time Ole
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Backing Up - does anyone use 2 identical servers.
by Guest ThomasAJ- 5 replies
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1 is the production and the 2nd. identical one is continually 'imaging' the 1st. I would think it would be at the hadware level. Maybe a card in each server connected via a cable. Production box goes down, the lan cable, any printers etc would be unplugged from it and plugged into the second and off we go. Or something like it. -- Regards Tom
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administrator password
by Guest boba- 7 replies
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How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? Thanks!
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ntp service
by Guest NewsGrp- 2 replies
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Is the ntp service running by default? can a windows machine run in a domain without it enabled? Rgards CT
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ntp service = w32time service
by Guest NewsGrp- 2 replies
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Doing a litttle research, Is this the w32time service in windows? Fred
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How to clone a windows server 2003?
by Guest Artificer- 1 reply
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I want to do some changes on a windows server 2003 but I would love to create a disk image before just to make sure that I can undo the changes if I need to. Any recommendation about the software that I should be using?
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BACKUP - cannot drill down to any files in BKF file.
by Guest ThomasAJ- 0 replies
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W2003, C: drive only, did ASR backup on weekend. I wanted to test restoring a single file. Attached the USB External HDD, started up BACKUP, went to Restore... tab, right-clicked on the BKF file that is in the left pane, clicked Catalog. There is no '+' on the C: drive to drill-down. (yes there is a '+' on the 'Backup.bkp created date/time' file which expands to 3 items being C:, C:, System State) When I hover the mouse over one of the items above, a tick/check mark appears - I presume to allow selection of the whole of the item but no drill-down. -- Regards Tom