My mother board & CPU went south on me so I decided I would pull my 2 hard drives out of my PC and install them in external hard drive cases (which worked very well). I then set up a new Windows XP pc (my old one was 2000 running outlook 2003). The new pc recognized my external drives and I...
Somebody out there must have figured out a reliable method of replacing a dead motherboard without loosing installed XP or 2000. Preferably a way that doesn't include matching the old motherboard (or its chipset). I am tired of seeing the "blue screen of death" or the "NT loader not found" message....
I'm having a small problem with my roaming profiles. My profile will roam with regards to Outlook which is GREAT but some items don't; like my desktop (icons and background), ALL my start menu items, printers, etc. What am I doing wrong? I want to have a local system exactly like I need it then...
I have recently Changed My ISP. Previously we had a proxy Server which all the browsers where pointed to. The DNS Server on each machine was pointed to the Windows 2000 Server DNS. All Worked Fine. When We changed the ISP we removed the proxy server and replaced it with a firewall. I had to change...
I'm trying to setup roaming profiles for a couple of users. I have the documents and read on how to set it up, which seems real straight forward. I made a directory on the server c:profiles edited the user profile path in ADU&C to point to \myserverprofiles%username% setup a system that I want...
Hi, We are planning to migrate our NT4 server and Netware 4.1 server to a new Windows server 2003. Both servers are for file sharing purpose. We are going to migrate NT4 server 1st. Our plan is install AD on a new IBMx235 and migrate users & groups and files from NT4 using ADMT v3. The problem...
I have recently put windows XP on my old computer that was working fine, running well but when i put windows XP on i havent been able to install anything i had on the computer like openoffice, sims2 ect because it says files cannot be read from the media although the disks arent scratched.I have...
When running chkdsk /r, I get messages saying 'Windows replaced bad clusters in file ...', then at the end it says '0 KB in bad sectors'. Can anyone explain how this can be possible? How can you have bad clusters without having bad sectors? Regards, Bill
Howdy folks, Tryin to keep things going around here....need some advice. I have Win2003 servers and Active Directory.....single domain....approx. 100 client computers.....one location. Am upgrading all computers from Office XP to Office 2003. My project: Install Office 2003 and all updates...
i have a network of 10 computers . 9 win xp & 1 server 2003 . i have enabled NAT on server 2003 for the purpose of sharing internet on all computers. internet is running well but all the computers can't access the server 2k3 machine frm the workgroup. and all other computer are communicating with...
For some reason, at random, among 20 PCs on my network, in the morning or during the day, the network connection stops responding for both intranet and internet communications. The only solution thus far is to remove the NIC from the Device Manager, reboot the PC, and let Windows XP Pro find the...
Hello All! I've been noticing recently that certain USB drives have not been installing automatically to windows XP pro. I'm working on one right now and have not found a solution to it yet. A user needs to install a Sandisk Cruzer Mini USB Drive to her machine which uses XP Pro. Instead of...
Long story short, a windows 2003 system died with a bad hard drive. Hard drive has been replaced and I am installing a fresh windows 2003 onto the system. Everything is updated and it joins the domain fine. The problem is I cannot see any other systems on our domain. I can do a \stampy from my...
Hello All you techies, My company is trying to migrate domains with the ADMT v3. Everything seems to work fine but when I try to migrate the SIDS for user accounts thats when I get errors. The error states that the PDC of the source domain has not been restarted or that the TcpipClientSupport has...
Hello colleagues; I am trying to accomplish the following task 1) Avoid users to delete and move folders and files on a network share They should only be able to create, read, execute,write files and folders I have already created the group and deny delete and delete subfolder and files. This...
Hello Frnds, I am very new in this site. I have one problem while I am cpoying/moving the data from the server to the local machine or in the Local machine it self. The problem is that while copying/moving data sometimes is doesn't work due to long path name. Means that if path length is greater...
Hello, My PC, Win2k, SP4, will not read cd's from either drive or floppys or a jumpdrive. All devices seem to be recognized by the device manager and are assigned drive letters accordingly. The floppy is recognized and works if you insert a boot disk. The jump drive, when inserted, assigns a...
Hi, For designing AD,which of group policies force us to have more than one domain?(for example when we want to have two password policy we should have two domain) Could you please help me? Thank you. ---- Regards Mahnaz
I would like to switch the OWA IIS server from the main contraoller box in a SBS2003 network to a member server in the same network (currently being used as a TS server) What needs to be done and can it be done in this network environment? All help is greatly appreciated...


