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David, I have just had a look at HAP+, from what I can see its for remote access to files through a web interface. I would have thought (but may well be wrong), that the logon tracker section would track the logons to the remote file service? I used to have a set of logon and logoff scripts that wrote a CSV file to a hidden share on our file server, whilst this was a rather crude method, it did work reasonably well to give us an idea of who was logged on and for how long. Perhaps if I can dig up the old scripts these may be of use to you? Alternatively if you are fairly comfortable setting up a MySQL server I can give you the scripts that we are currently using that uses MySQL to store the timestamps of logon/logoff/shutdown/startup events, although to extract the data from this would require some coding experience as I haven't yet got round to completing the back end for it. Ash

David, No problem, what did you want to know? I have used several methods over the years, currently using a combination of VBScript and a MySQL database with a php back end for us to search etc. Ash

Well I have my Raspberry Pi and an xibo server set up. I only have an 8Gb SD card at the minute though and I keep filling it up. When my bigger SD card turns up I'll make a concerted effort to see if I can get the pyclient up and running on the pi. Ill post my findings here when I have had chance to try it. Edit : Sorry, I have just realised I might have resurrected a seriously old thread. Ill post my findings here anyway..........

I did look at the DRBD within openfiler but to build redundancy into it fully required lots of addon packages. Also, due to it being open source rather than a purchased product there is no real support that goes with it. As I am still reasonably new to implementing and supporting SAN I would really like a product that can offer after sales support while I get to grips with it fully. Does anyone have any experience with IBM SAN technologies. In particular I have been recommended an IBM V7000 to support redundancy and virtualization. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Many thanks, Ash

I couldnt find any threads similar to this one. Our storage server is well out of warranty and we have decided to upgrade it. What I would really like to do is put either iSCSI or FC SAN in place (to allow me to cluster Hyper-V) and so that we can scale up and down without all the rig ma role of dropping services. I'm a complete noob when it comes to SANs, I understand the most basic concepts but the most I have ever done regarding them is implement a test deployment of both openfiler and freenas. Can anyone either point me in the right direction of a "complete beginners guide" so to speak, or tell me what equipment I will need to get it fully implemented. I would ideally like the cost to be as low as possible (< £15,000) and am open to all suggestions. But the biggest importance is that Hyper-V can use some of the storage for clustering, and there should be some redundancy in there. Any help would be much appreciated, all the guides I find assume a reasonable level of knowledge of SANs already and I have tried playing with openfiler and the iSCSI target for Win 2K8R2 and neither seem to have the option for redundancy reliably. Thanks, Ash

or Powershell scripts. (stop-computer -force -computername "COMPNAME") set as a scheduled task? you can build a list of computers in a text file and use Stop-Computer -force -ComputerName (get-content "Full Path to computer list.txt")

The two things I can think of are.... Is there a firewall running on the remote server? and if so is it set to allow WMI queries through? And also try setting the impersonation level for authentication on the remote server. I have a script that gets the current user of the remote machine that works using WMI. Dont know if it will help so I will paste the appropriate piece of code below. Function GetLocallyLoggedOnUser(strComputer) Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colComputer = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") For Each objComputer in colComputer 'WScript.Echo " " & objComputer.UserName GetLocallyLoggedOnUser = objComputer.UserName Next End Function

Good good. Glad its all working. Keep an eye on any errors within DSFRS (eventvwr) though as I would hazard a guess that the error originated from there somewhere.

I would probably be inclined to start looking at DNS for a solution. Active directory uses file replication itself as a way of replicating changes to the directory and to the SYSVOL shares. If replication is failing then the chances are that policies will not be updated on all other servers when changes occur. take a look at the technet site here for some ways to troubleshoot the first error you posted. In particular from the technet page, try nslookup on "yourdomain.local" and check that it returns an IP address of a domain controller. This event usually appears as a warning (if I remember correctly), and usually isn't something to worry about. Its just information to say that the domain controller is now up and running.

Are there any error events for replication on any of the domain controllers (something along the lines of replication failed/paused)? Can you ping all of the domain controllers (by FQDN) from the client/clients in question?

I have had it where some of my clients get strange DNS addresses. I figured out that it was due to a rogue device dishing out DHCP requests on my VLAN. The only thing that I can figure was happening was that the correct DHCP server was responding in time for the IP to be assigned and then some how the other server's response dished out the DNS. Check that DHCP isn't enabled on any other device on your network. First place I would look would be your gateway as its where you have seen the IP for those DNS servers before. Things like Internet Connection Sharing on a client will set up a crude DHCP server on that client. Alternately depending on your standard lease time from your DHCP you could temporarily stop the DHCP service. Then run ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew on a client and see if it still gets a response (if it does then the IP of the DHCP Server will be your culprit)

I have that problem too. Its really annoying. I would have fixed it but its on my ever extending "to do list". I believe it is something to do with trusted sites etc (as your opening a link that resides on a network location you have to tell the clients to trust that location). Worth starting there.....

There are two locations to apply the permissions. You have the share permissions which should be set to Everyone - Full Control (Dont worry you will actually lock the permissions down with NTFS). Then you have the NTFS permissions which should be set to allow admins and system full control and the approved users/groups Read&Execute. I have found an extract from a site about folder redirection which may help..... Here. Its actually aimed at Terminal Services and uses 2003 but the principles are very similar. The bit that would most apply to yourself I think will be....

Have you checked the permissions on the share that you are redirecting to?

Cheers for the replies guys, I'm only trying it at the minute to see if it will do what we want. So I'm installing the technet eval. I have finally managed to get it installed on a physical machine instead of a Hyper-V machine. The only reason I am looking at it really is because I want to get a new method of deploying software. Currently we have to re-package everything into MSI format to deploy via group policy software deployment. I had a look at wpkg but it didnt seem very friendly and easy to manage. (I need something that is friendly for my colleagues to use). So far it seems ok. A little bit fiddly for the config and the setup of the system but the software deployment (that will be used by my colleagues) seems very user friendly and simple.............. so far. Ash