ryan_powell

Hi, first of all i appologise if this is more of a security question that web development... I've got an asp page that will run an LDAP query against our PDC to list all the pupil users in school. This works lovely at home over a https connection back into the Intranet at school. However if i run the query at school using plain http via the Intranet the query will fail. Is there some code I need to add to the query or something I need to alter on the page to allow me to access LDAP without using SSL? If this isn't possible, am I able to have two seperate SSL certificates on one IIS server that are linked to the hostheaders to allow SSL traffic on both the internet domain name, and internal domain name. Source code is available on request. Many thanks Ryan

Hi, I have been opening password protected access 2003 databases with ASP / ADO for years now. However now we have updated to office 2007 everything gone bottoms up. I have an access 2007 database (newly made, not converted from 2003), and a fresh asp page. I've gotten the new connection string information for Access 2007 from the internet yet the page cannot open the database. connection string being used: When I try to open the page the error i get is - "Not a valid password" - 80040e4d. I'm 100% sure the password is correct, the driver is right (the server has office 2007 installed, and the new access driver from the M$ website). Every page i've seen on the internet says that the code I'm using is correct, yet asp still can't open it. If i remove the password from the database it opens fine, so it's not a corrupt database, or bad path in the code. If you can shed any light on my problem I would be eternally grateful - been working on it for hours now! Many thanks Ryan

Hi, sorry for the slow reply but I'm in the process of defragmenting our ghost server and it's proving to be a slow process. I'll let you know how I get on with the allowing IRC after the defrag completes. I've had a look around it turns out that Win Media Player 11 (and probably older) can recieve multicast streams, could it possible that media player is either intercepting or some how blocking multicast packets? Also had a look at our managed switches and there are some multicast filtering options enabled which i've now disabled. I'll report back once the defrag completes. Thanks

Thanks Timzim, do you know what the ports are that Ghost uses, I'll check it against our firewall and sophos AV. Thanks

No the only new network component added is the USB wireless print server which we've now turned off to see if it causes the problem.

Hi guys. Ok we've been working on this all summer and I've noticed other users having simiar (although not exacty the same) problem. We've been using GhostCast server 8.2 for many months with no problems, ghosting on average between 1 and 12 computers at a time and taking between 10 and 20 minutes to complete. Recently however things seem to have gone bottoms up. At first the speed shot up taking 2 or 3 hours. Now Ghostcast wont send an image to any more than 1 pc at a time. The clients can boot into PC DOS and access the session and join it, however once the required number of clients connect they just report "waiting for GhostCast Session to start..." but nothing actually happens. On the server it says "GhostCast in progress" but again nothing happens, no files are transfered and the percentage bar doesn't increase at all. Possible causes: > New USB wireless print server added to the network > Dodgy windows update? > Damaged network card / cable / switch > Wrong driver > Wrong HDD type (IDE / SATA) We've investigated all these possibilities and have ruled each 1 out. Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks.

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Hi, I have a string that on an asp page that stores the forename, surname and year of a list of pupils; each bit is seperated by an _ and each individual person by a |. For example Bob_smith_7|john_jones_8. Using the split function I've seperated each person into an array: MyArray(0) = Bob_smith_7 MyArray(1) = john_jones_8. This bit works fine. However when I come to split forename, surname and year it up I get a subscript error. The code is basically doing a For Next Loop for Each person in the Array, splitting their details into a second array; MyArray2 = Split(Myarray(i)), and then printing the forename and surname on the page. If i do for example: response.write MyArray2(0) i get a subscript error. However if I do ---- For i = 0 to ubound(MyArray2) response.write MyArray2(i) Next --- This works. What's causing the error when I try and access an element in the array directly, but doesn't cause the error when being done in a For Next loop? Hope this all makes sense, and if you want to see the propper source code view the attached file. Many thanks. Ryan split_error.txt

I've just had a look at setting those registry values - once set they open a window between pressing ctrl + alt + del and the logon dialog box appearing. I was hoping to avoid this becuase we use Net Support School for remotely logging on multiple workstations and this doesn't work if the this legal logon box comes up. I've attached an example of what i'm trying to achieve if it's possible.

I wasn't actually planning on altering the images used accept possibly to add our school logo to the default images. As far as legality goes - i visited a university a few weeks ago that have edited the msgina.dll file to add there own "legal announcement" so i'd have thought they would no whether it was legal or not to do so. Microsoft themselves have some articles regarding editing the file. I've been playing with it this afternoon and still can't get the "Optional Legal Announcement", 2400 to display. Thanks

Hi, i'm in the process of customizing the XP professional logon screens that are stored in the msgina.dll file. In this file I have found the string "Optional Legal Announcement" within Dialog\1500\1033. However when I edit this and save the file the announcement isn't displayed. I know by default it is hidden but how do I make windows display the message? If i alter the controls ID from it's default 2400 to something else, e.g. 1510 it does display the message but the logon dialog box stretches larger than the monitor height and the username / password boxes are off screen. To use the file I'm editing the registry key GinaDLL in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\winlogon and using a customised copy of the default windows dll not the original. Am i missing something obvious? Thanks

There is technical staff. One school's is relatively new and the other schools are mainly computer technicians that only use AD to add users. All of the networks are in need of a new lease of life after years of neglect by staff and students! A VLE is also on the books, the plan is for us to write our own version for use with our Intranet system, email and curriculum shared drives. Thanks Ryan

Hi everybody. To cut a long story short... We are one of three schools all relatively close to each other. Anyway these schools are now collaborating in what it being called a "federation". The powers at be have started enquiring whether it possible for us to merge the three networks to allow file sharing and a single email system. My plan is to gut all three networks and start fresh. Although close the schools aren't close enough to cable a solid link between them; therefore I'm planning on using three ISA servers 1 at each site to allow VPN communications via the Internet between the 3 domains. The email system will be hosted on Exchange servers (again 1 at each site). I've never attempted anything like this before and as you could imagine have a lot of questions... 1) I'm hoping that this system will allow me to have three seperate domains joined by trust relationships. 2) I'd like each exchange server to have 3 global address lists. 1 for each school rather than listing all users in a single list. 3) whats the best Active directory method of linking domains. I.E one forest with three subdomains, 3 trees with trusts, or some other method? 4) Would I need to create three sepaerate sites in AD Sites and Services? Thats all for now. This seems like a big request but at the moment it's still all in the theoretical stages. Nothing definate has been decided. I'd just like to be ready. Thanks again! Ryan

Hi, we're trying to pull an image from a Toshiba Satellite Pro A10. The task initiates correctly from the Ghost Server and the computer reboots into PC-Dos. However once the Ghost Client splash screen appears (after getting an IP successfully) the computer just hangs there - no error message on the workstation or Task Log. We don't think it's a driver issue as we use the same driver on a Boot Floopy which successfully retrieves an IP address from DHCP. Many thanks

Hi. Is it possible to write a custom ADM template that will modify the hkey_users\.default string in the registry. I know you can do it for the local_machine and current_user hives but haven't seen anything about the default user. With the policy i'm hoping to set the reg value hkey_users\.default\control panel\desktop\background key so that I can change the logon wallpaper in window xp. Thanks

Ok, sorry if this should be posted in the web coding forum. Anway short and sweet. Is it possible to create an asp page that can access the SIMS.net database? If so is it easy to do, i.e. just the SQL connection like with an access database? Thanks

Hi, simple question that no doubt has a complicated answer. Is there a way to set IIS to forward certain websites / virtual directories to another IIS server that isn't directly visible to the internet. Similar to NAT I suppose. The plan is to make out Windows Software Update Server available to manage at home via a virtual directory hosted on our webserver. I've tried creating a virtual directory and setting it's home directory to the remote computer but when I try and access it from home it repeatedly asks for authentication which it doesn't accept. Hope this makes sense. Thanks

Yea thats what we want the staff to do, but the clever people save to their desktops or the local c drive of the laptop which aren't synchronised when they get back into school. The idea behind the wallpaper is for it to kick in when they're at home to remind them to save in my docs or risk losing their work.

At the moment when at home we get silly staff members saving work to the local c drive or their local desktop as opposed to my docs. Only my docs is synchronised to save time. The plan is (as pete guessed) is to remind them where to save their work by having a wallpaper display the appropriate instructions. How can i set a script to change wallaper depending upon server connectivity? Any examples? Thanks

Thanks plexer having a look at the file. We're also in the process now in cleaning out all of the offline files on all the laptops when they come in for service - as described in your 2nd post so hopefully we'll get it sorted.

is it possible to assign two wallpapers to a users depending if they're logged onto their laptop at home or online at school. We use the offline files so that staff can log on at home, work and then sychronise when they get back. We use the GP to assign a global wallpaper to all users when at schoo. But is there a policy or something similar we can do for if the laptop is offline to display another wallpaper. Hope this makes sense. Thanks?

Hi, i don't know if this question belongs in windows or networks, so sorry it it's in the worng section. Anyway, about a year and a half ago we upgraded to a new server running Windows Server 2003 from Windows 2000. The old server is now just a mere print server and has no dealings with the running of the network AD or GP. On the old network all of our staff synchronized their homespace to a share on that server (2kserver). The new server (cserver) now holds all staff documents and files, so they should be synchronizing there instead. However on the laptops they are still attempting to synchronize to 2kserver as well as cserver. This leads to error messages as the \\2kserver\homespace no longer exists. We've tried deleting local offline files but as soon as the user logs on again 2kserver is offline. Is there some kind of global policy I can use to delete all offline files except cserver? Or any other solutions that anyone can offer? Many Thanks.

Thanks BradP have made the reg files and will float it out on a test workstation tomorrow morning. Will let you kno whow it goes on. As fas as if we come to install adobe locally i'd just assume the adobe installer would overwrite any regkeys it needs to and would make itself the default handler so no harm should come.

nice idea but we have 100 or so workstations so i'd like to avoid having to log on to each computer and setting it in Windows itself, a profile or reg fix would be best i think if that's possible. Thanks

Hi, we have a server install of adobe reader which is accessible by kids. The problem being that the computers don't recognise PDF documents because adobe isn't installed locally. Is there a simple reg hack or profile fix I can use to register the pdf class and assign the server unc path to adobe reader to open pdfs? Thanks