Aaron

the extra network cards are HP NC112T PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter i have changed our main switch which the servers are all connected to the switch is an HP A5500-24G-SFP EI Switch thank you for your replies

hi yes the cards are identical except for the server internal network card which is a different make

thank you for getting back to me to try these different things i have check firewall settings but nothing has been changed from when it was working all firewall settings are the same. I will check and mkae sure that i do not already have z drive mapped but i am almost certain i dont have. i will try as you have said using the net use *

hi eejit yes thatss right i can get to it from \\servername\share but net use z: \\servername\share doesnt work for some reason i am getting login failure but i have started cmd with admin rights

Hi everone i have added additional network cards to my server to try and help with load balancing but how do set it so that the server can use these i have set different IP addresses for each network card is that all thats needed to be done its just ive noticed that in the event viewer for system there is an error: NetBT: A duplicate name has been detected on the TCP network. The IP address of the computer that sent the message is in the data. the computer name is the server which ive added the additional network cards to does anyone know how i could set the server to use these to help with load balancing but stop the errors from happening as well have i set something wrong

it seems if i create new shares it works fine sorry no tried again with a different share and it stopped working

it doesnt seem to be working if i open any window and type in the address bar \\servername\share it works if i open cmd and type net use Z:\\servername\share it says network name cannot be found

Thank you i will check and see if i can put the shares in using cmd the clients are all windows xp at the moment. when my users login they are not getting the shares available under my computer its just showing the c:\ and dvd drive but no shares are being mapped. I will try adding them on here manually to see if that works. Would there be any reason or any issues when i was moving from 2008 to 2008r2 i built one server so that i could transfer policies over from old server to new one i have been through every poilicy to remove any reference to old server and made sure they had new server which is fine. but is it possible that in doing this its conflicting at all? I did demote the old server before removing but i just cant think why when i am doing the same as i always have it doesnt seem to work. Ill post up shortly to let you know if adding using cmd worked ok. Thanks again for your help with this.

thank you just double checked security permissions and they seem fine the correct accounts are set on the security of each folder then double checked both computer event viewer and server event viewer but didnt find any issues to do with the shares

Hi Everyone Hoping that someone can help me with what i am doing wrong. I am trying to allocate shares using GPO for our staff i have done this before with no issues but for some reason it doesnt seem to be working anymore from i have changed from server 2008 to 2008r2. I have added the folders and shared they by right clicking and properties and advanced sharing, I have double checked under server roles to make sure these shares are available and copied the location \\server\sharename then gone into GPO and created a new policy for Shares. I have now added each share a drive letter and copied the location in and also run gpupdate /force on both server and workstation but everytime i log in or restart and login no shares are available. can anyone point me were i may have gone wrong please

Thanks guys for all your help all working great now at the moment what i have done is gone with the mobile home documents and set on the file server to locate to the apple mac server for there documents then set a share to the windows file server on the macs so that users can get access to windows files. It also means mac users on the windows side and get access to those files as well if needed. The normal windows users can log into the mac's now but save locally which isnt backed up whcih i dont mind because they would only be doing general searching really and I have left folder redirection on the windows side so that when the users log in they get there windows documents. Thank you very much guys for all your help really has been a great help to get me this far

at the moment now when a user logs into the imac clients at the bottom of the dock it shows documents which is from the windows side so this is great but when i open a new document or file and hit save it seems to save locally i would like to change this instead of saving locally to the machine it saves to the Mac server share for there documents.

hi guys from what i could see today when i have changed the folders on the main server this is now allowing me to login to the windows machines and pick up my documents and also now if i log into the mac its showing my documents from the windows side although if i save to the mac it is saving this locally. Is it possible for a share to be made on the mac server to allow instead of saving locally that it saves to the Mac server so that if the users need access to windows documents thats still possible but all mac saves go to the mac server.

i am now wondering should i just instead of seperating out by year group should i just redirect everyone to the same folder ie instead of \students\year group\%username% just redirect it to \Students\%username%

i gave the adding \documents onto the location a try but this doesnt seem to work because we use advanced locations for each year group so we specify each year group to go to a different folder and for some reason it always calls it my documents.

I was wondering is it possible now that the clients can use single sign on can i then seperate it further by saying that when a user logs onto a standard windows xp it picks the documents up from windows file server but when a user then logs onto the Imac clients can they pick the documents from mac but also have a link to the windows documents at all? this would then help with seperating out the documents folders so that i can use mac to backup all the mac work and the windows backup to backup windows work. what i am really wanting is that although the users can logon to any computer in school there documents for the mac side comes from the mac server and the documents from the windows side comes from windows server. Is this possible at all?

Got it sorted there just open ldapv3 and removed the server settings and readded the server and it worked first time added the machine to the Mac OD and was able to add this to the suite so now its just a case of setting the preferences to the mac. thank you for all your help

hi stevehp i have tried binding the mac clients to the mac server this morning but it keeps coming up with unexpected error has occured this action has been cancelled, not sure what is wrong here it is asking for the diradmin account to link the imac to the server which is diradmin and then the password this then brings up the error and then i try again at another stage and it asks me for the local admin account username and password enter in the info and the same error pops up. Have you ever seen this before?

ah right sorry so just make sure that the clients are bound to both no problem

If i unbind the clients does this stop users from authenticating to them or does the mac server still allow this to happen so that i am still able to use single sign on?

great ill give this a try tomorrow

thanks stevehp the clients are bound to AD it was one of the steps i went through so i just unbind them from AD and then bind them to the mac server instead?

did that work for both xp and windows 7? because i redirect to specfic locations ie. \\fileserver\year\%username% so do i just change this and add documents on at the end ?

Thank you James ill give this a try in the morning thank you

unfortuneatley that doesnt seem to have worked it looks like the imac is actually getting its policies from the windows side and isnt regestering anything on the mac side is there some step that ive maybe gone wrong with the server doesnt seem to see any connections on the server at the moment.