GoldenWonder

WOL is defintely turned on on both of the test machines. In fact all of our PCs wake up fine when the packet is sent from the XP machine. Just not when sent from the W7 machine. I think its Broadcom in the 'recipient' PC and Dlink in the 'sender'

I use Wake on Lan to remote power up our pcs - using a VB app and also Depicus WOL applications. This has worked fine for years across our subnetted network. Running the same apps on a Windows 7 machine doesn't work, running a monitor on remote machine shows that it doesn't receive the WOL packet. I've disabled the Windows 7 firewall yet it makes no difference. I know the routing is OK as it works 100% when run from XP or Server 2003. Is this just something else to add to the list of broken things in Vista, sorry I mean Windows 7!

Hmm, I haven't changed the Attachment management in any policies. After a little tinkering I've changed the group policy settings that Automatically detect intranet and also manually added the domain name into the Intranet Zones (sites to zones assignment list) and it seems to have worked. Odd behaviour as the problem didn't occur when running the apps from the original shares (which they effectively still are!)

I've got a DFS domain based share that merges a load of server shares into one common share (i.e \\domain.com\share) and users have a drive letter mapped to that share. I've done this because we use a whitelist Software Restriction policy and the list of shares was making the policy rather large! All of the seperate shares are integrated into the DFS share so I only have to unblock that pathname. Problem is, now when users run the application (pathname is using the DFS share drive letter) it runs OK, but they get the 'Publisher could not be verified' Security warning where you have to click Run or Cancel ('This file does not have a valid digital signature etc') I've set the group policy to allow apps to run on the Intranet zone but it still happens. is there anything else I can do to stop this message appearing when running an application across a dfs share?

Hmm I'm in NT as well and we haven't been told anything like that yet. As far as we know its business as usual but it was a long way off anyway

I can do that - I just thought the smartstart was designed to also do VMs! Edit: Sorry, just re-read my own post and I sound ungrateful - unintentional!

Well one step further forward, but I can't use the HP SmartStart disk to setup a Windows Server on the VM - "Unsupported model - installation not available" The server is definitely in the Vmware HCL and HPs own compatibility list. Has anyone else setup a VM using HP's SmartStart disks?

Its esxi 4.0 - and since I deleted the raid array, recreated it and reinstalled ESX all is working. Odd as I didn't actually do anything differently this time. (this is probably the 4th or 5th attempt)

Its a brand new HP server - drives are ok and its on the HCL. I tried following the manual partition instructions and seem to have created a partition now - but now I cannot delete it! I created it with a 1mb block so the maximum size iis 256gb, I need to take this to 400 so will have to change the block to 2mb or 4mb

Bit of a newbie question here. I'm trying to set up a test server using ESX4 and the free client so we can see how virtualised servers will work for us. Installed ESX fine on a server (with a RAID5 array of 500gb) Only thing is I cannot create a datastore - I can see a VMFS partition that the ESX installed must have created, but cannot use it. Whenever I try to create a datastore on this I get the 'Failed to update the disk partition information' error. Googling this error brings up a load of results but all seem to be manally hacking about the partitions at the command line. Am I missing something here but this seems to be nightmare to get setup, or is it just becuase I'm using the free version? Theres no options to create partitions during the install so I've got the ESX server and datastore(well if I could get it working) going on the same partition. Not a good start really, can't even create my first virtual machine!

Cracked it. The problem is a bit odd. The application that causes the error is held on a network share (\\server\share$) to which normal users have R/O access to the share and Read\Traverse folder etc permissions. Works fine with XP, but you have to give them Full Control on the Share for it to work under Windows 7 - leaving the NTFS permissions the same. Very odd but at least I've found a workaround - might affect other things in the future as well.

The odd thing about this problem though is the user can connect to the database ok (I even installed the SQL Management tools and used a restricted user account to connect) and this application works 100% in XP. What I can't fathom is what has changed in W7 that stops a non admin user connecting to a database through a program like this! Even when I make the restricted account a local administrator of the machine it still doesn't work. Yet they can connect with the UDL so it must be a permissions issue or something to do with W7 and ODBC connections. I'll have a look at the scheduled tasks - I didn't know there was a 'on logon' option. Cheers for the info Edit: This is more bizarre! I installed VB6 on the W7 machine and ran the app in debug mode, line by line. It worked fine. Compiled the app and ran that - the error came back straight away! There must be a permission somewhere in W7 that stops an app connecting to a database if you're not an admin. Found out something else today as well. The app is normally run from a network share (no problems there in the past) If I copy the app locally to C:\Program Files it then works.

I ran it directly as a limited user and nothing happens. No error, no log entry and nothing appears in the event viewer. It uses SQLOLEDB to connect to the database and this seems to work OK as an admin, but times out as a non-admin. Putting some debug messages into the program shows that the database connection is timing out, but only if you're running it as a non-admin user. Bizarre - can't be a provider/connection issue then - but what policy setting would cause this!? And its not the firewall either, as I get the same results when the firewall is disabled. The program generates the error 'SQL Server not found or access denied' which is a pretty vague error meaning it couldn't connect. Think I'll have to call it quits on this one. Some bug within Windows 7 does not let a user connect to an SQL database using a standard connection string if its from within a program. If I use a UDL the user can connect fine so its not a connection or provider issue. Another nail in the coffin for W7 as far as I'm concerned. The list of unworkable problems is too long now!

Basically its a VB.exe that gets the username/PC name etc and writes it to an SQL Database with the time and date etc. The users that 'hang' on Windows7 are working perfectly in XP - the log records appear and the VB.exe takes around 1 second to complete!

Currently trying to create a Windows 7 image for deployment across some laptops. However I'm got a major snag where domain users face a 5 minute or more delay logging in or out. Admin users don't get this error. The only thing I can see is that an executable file is run at login and logoff for all users. This .exe creates a log record (I use this on our XP clients) and I can see that non-admin users are not creating the log record. In the event viewer I see errors like this: The winlogon notification subscriber took 302 second(s) to handle the notification event - which explains the 5 minute delays! Not sure what to do with this one. These users work fine in XP so its not a permissions problem to the script/exe. Yet W7 is now useless to me with this sort of problem. We need to run the script as the data is creates is used a lot. The script itself has been working in XP clients for around 5 years!

I tried Freenas but this seemed a bit awkward in setting up the shares. Might have to revisit it and try again.

To close this one off (and if anyone else is thinking of using OF in an AD environment - don't bother!) I got it working - sort of. But it stops working every so often (i.e the group list shows up empty and no one can access any shares) so I can only assume OF isn't ready for AD authentication yet. Shame really but this is what holds me back from using more linux based stuff here -theres always a catch getting it to work with existing kit!

Well I got a stage further. After a complete rebuild and reinstall I managed to get the OF box to see AD, and user groups appeared. However after creating shares and setting permissions I get variable results. I've given Domain Admins full rights and a staff group R/W rights. This generally either doesn't work and a Windows authentication box appears when trying to access the share (\\nas\share) or they get a Windows error saying that it could not connect to the resource (i.e as if the path was invalid) I noticed that when I expanded the Domain Admins group in the OF gui, it only showed users in the same OU as the group - some of our accounts are in a sub-OU and they weren't showing. It looks like OF is like a lot of other linux/unix systems that will only read AD if everything is in a single OU

I looked through and the 'bug' with the realm name seems to have been resolved. Either that or it doesn't happen when I used Firefox. Now I have no errors, but when I open group list its empty! I notice that although the guides recommend using the Join Domain option, my nas box still is not appearing in the domain. I guess this is part of the problem The only error I can seem to get is if I try to add a new user: Error adding new user. ldap_add: No such object (32) matched DN: DC=domainname,DC=org,DC=uk additional info: 0000208D: NameErr: DSID-031001CD, problem 2001 (NO_OBJECT), data 0, best match of: 'DC=domainname,DC=org,DC=uk'

Tried that excellent guide and configured as specified. Alas the user groups list remains completel empty no matter what I do!

I've been using FQDN for server names, and have tried the domain in Caps and lower case. I haven't tried using a different browser yet, might give Firefox a go once I've rebuilt it.

I've been setting the options for 'Windows domain controller and authentication' and Kerberos. I've joined lots of hardware NAS boxes to our domain before with no issues (except clocks being out of sync!) EDIT - its obviously goosed now, any configuration change I 'apply' simply results in a blank page being returned. FreeNAS anyone?!

Just about to give up with this on so any suggestions will be handy! Running Openfiler to create a NAS box, but cannot get it to authenticate via AD. Tried every variation on configuration but nothing seems to work. No errors, no joining to AD and nothing to hint at what is going wrong. Checked the usual like system clock and DNS resolving ok but I'm stumped. You don't seem to get any logging errors either which doesn't help.

When I said reduced, that was just me being hopelessly optimistic!

If Becta are getting the chop I can see BSF being slowed down at the very least. Until the massive debt is reduced then I'm sure the Tories will introduce a new similar scheme. This might take years though so I guess its only current phase BSF projects that might be completed.