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Thanks for the advice. But After trying several boot disks and drivers (and failing), i left the room and came back in to see it had managed to boot correctly !!! While it was back up and working I copied all the files off !! Cheers Tim

hi all, As you guessed our Lacie Ethernet NAS disk crashed today and now wont boot back into its Win XP Embedded OS !! Its a LaCie Ethernet Disk 19” RACK NAS I Windows® XP Embedded 2TB http://www.lacie.com/imgstore/product_large/hd_ethernetdisk_2.jpg Its has 4 x 500gig Sata Drives for the main storage that making up one single 2tb disk. Lacie suggests using a recovery image, but unfortunetly that also recreates all partitions! I need to get the data off the drive/s. I have made up a BartPE boodisk, but with this i cant see the Scsi array, I can only see the C drive. Would someone be able to please suggest a way that they would recover the data? Preferably over Ethernet etc but i can also copy to USB HD. Am i going about this the right way, by using a bootdisk. Im guessing i will need to load the scsi drivers? Would i be able to maybe find them on the C drive? Thanks in advance!

Just Realised that when Staff - Deny permissions are set, click "defaults" in the libraries menu now does not recreate the share to the public folder I guess i need a way to have the "default" run on log in, or the "c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries" files deleted on startup

Im having the same problems here. Everything would be fine if the C:\users\public wasnt linked by default. If I run the reg fixes to disable the libraries I aslo lose all links to the Documents/Music/Pictures on the start menu. If there a way that I can remove the libraries and then re-add the 3 links to the profiles? Also I cannot seem to remove the link to "Personal Folders" Ive found the key in the reg, but cant seem to apply it: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_ShowUser"=dword:00000001 If anyone could please help ? 1) Remove the Personal Folders" link on start menu by GP 2) Remove the default setting adding "Public" to all users libraries. 3) Add the normal links back for My docs / pictures / music Any help would be greatly appreciated! For now i have denied access to "C:\user\Public" to staff.

Are they bolting / secured into the plastic quick release cradle at all mate? I can easily see someone unplugging and popping one of these in thier bag?

Thats what im running at home in the living room, runs xbmc and plays 1080p media perfectly. Im dual booting with win7 which i rarely use for web browsing with a wireless microsoft media keyboard. Mine is also the R3600 which is single core and has 2gb ram. All good

hi, Yes sure, I will remake it as its using the older version of truecrypt and has mentions of you school in the installer etc, Will post a link when I have a second, And yes we do set up the mem stick for them, doesnt take long. Have not seen any lose files yet but I can see why that would happen!! Cheers Tim

We are having trouble with the annoying HSPERFDATA_Username folders that Java is creating and then deciding to remove the Admin Permissions on! We run Delprof on reboot and this looks like it is failing to completely remove the folder due to these folders. Every time the user logs back in they create a new local profile with USERNAME.001 , USERNAME.002 etc on the end I have this in a batch script, cacls "%temp%\hsperfdata*" /e /p Everyone:F this works fine but would prefer a VBS: on error resume next Set objShell = wscript.createObject("wscript.shell") wscript.sleep(10000) '1 second objShell.Run("cacls "%temp%\hsperfdata*" /e /p Everyone:F"), 0 Is there a way to reference the %temp% dir? as VBS doesnt seem to like it? Many thanks Tim

Great news ! Never used Pearl but im sure I could install no problemo !! Thanks all

Hi, thanks for this, yes papercut and PLP are the same, and do both do this. Im being lazy and would like to pull the data pulled into my network status pages instead of having to log in to PLP and check etc.

With SNMPWALK.exe I can pull through the max capacity and then the Supply level from the printers: (Browse net-snmp Files on SourceForge.net) really simple batch script: snmpwalk -O qv -v 2c -c public PRINTER_IP mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.1 snmpwalk -O qv -v 2c -c public PRINTER_IP mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.1 pause This gives me on this printer: max = 700 and level = 686 which = 98% (which is correct in the printers webmin) I dont have the coding/scripting skills to take this any further

I have found this script for Nagios? Could it work or be converted for IIS somehow? Looks like a BASH script? #!/bin/bash # #check_toner version 0.3 # #01-26-2009, Henry Franco # # This plugin will check the black toner level on a printer via SNMP. # The plugin returns warning and critical status when the toner # drops below $CRIT AND $WARN. if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: ./check_toner PRINTER_NAME" exit 127 fi HOST=$1 INK="Black ink available:" CRIT=5 WARN=10 STATUS=0 # GET THE MAXIMUN CAPACITY VALUE FROM SNMP max_level=`snmpwalk -O qv -v 2c -c public $HOST mib-2.43.11.1.1.8.1.1` RES=$? # GET CURRENT SUPPLY LEVEL FROM SNMP current_level=`snmpwalk -O qv -v 2c -c public $HOST mib-2.43.11.1.1.9.1.1` RES=$? #BAIL OUT IF ANYTHING WENT WRONG if [ $RES != 0 ]; then INK="Toner Unknown - SNMP problem. No data received from host."; echo $INK; STATUS=3; exit $STATUS; fi #CALCULATE TONER LEVEL result=$(echo "scale=2; $current_level / $max_level;" | bc) #ACTUAL VALUE OF TONER SUPPLY percent=`echo "$result"*"100"/"1"|bc` #CHECK WARNING AND CRITICAL LEVELS if [ $percent -le $CRIT ]; then echo "Toner Critical - "$INK $percent"%"; STATUS=2 elif [ $percent -le $WARN ]; then echo "Toner Warning - "$INK $percent"%"; STATUS=1 else echo "Toner OK - "$INK $percent"%"; fi exit $STATUS

We currently have a page with all our network printers, reporting whether they are up/down etc: http://i45.tinypic.com/30ksk8i.jpg I was wondering if anyone had ever seen a script that could pull through the toner levels via SNMP? Spiceworks, Nagios and Print Limit pro manage it, but i would love to add it to our printer page, Print Limit Pro gives us: http://i47.tinypic.com/64p841.jpg So if I could code the script into our status page to look like this it would be awesome: http://i49.tinypic.com/9atg85.jpg Many thanks in advance

quick question, ideally, should i have a dedicated 1g switch for the hosts and the md3000 so the traffic doesnt go back and forth to the main switch ? Or does not much traffic really travel between the hosts? and only the external ethernets from the hosts connected to the main switch? TIA

Ok i think i understand, thanks Here is our current setup, the 1850 is connected to the MD3000 (DAS?, think scsi looking cables) and all the other hosts to the main switch via 2 x 1gig ethernet connections. All the VHDs are currently stored locally on the hosts, Surely something has to be changed if the MD3000 is used with LUNs to store the VHDs for the hosts. Dont all the hosts have to be connected to the md3000 with something faster than a 1gig connection? Thanks for the all the help guys: http://i48.tinypic.com/11j17gi.png

alot to read there thanks a million. Are you sure about the NAS ? ours is attached to the 1350 via 2 x scsi cables? like in this picture: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/md3000/en/1stGen/HOM/HTML/about15.jpg Wouldnt a NAS be connected via normal ethernet cables? also have this card in the server: http://img01.static-nextag.com/image/Dell-SAS-5-E/1/000/006/069/647/606964727.jpg Cheers Tim

Thanks mate, this would work but I would have to create/save one for every different machine.. BUT... just opened the saved file with notepad and removed the machine name from host: [connection] host= port=5900 proxyhost= proxyport=5900 saved it, and now when i click that it asks for the machine name to connect to, but not the password Cheers both

We are currently using UltraVNC (UVNC) on all our machines, I just wondered if there was an alternate VNC viewer.exe that I can have a stored vnc password? A little like Lanview does? getting tired of typing the damn password over and over ! Thanks in advance.

Not sure if this will help you, We have 1x MD300 connected with 2 iSCSI cables to 1x MD1950. The md3000 has 2 x virtual disks, which can both be seen on the 1950 Cheers

hey, Ive setup 3 x dell 2950`s dual quad cores with 16gb ram each. Each one is running 2008 R2 Enterprise, (1 full install, 2 Core installs) Ive got these 3 setup as hyper-v hosts, each host has 3-4 virtual servers running on them. Each virtual disk is running from the hosts local hard drives. My question: 1) Can I use an MD3000 to host all the virtual hard disks? Is that what is advised? Currently Its connected to a dell 1950 with 2 x iSCSI cables. Would it be too slow, would i be better off leaving them running from the local disks? 2) If i was to run from the MD3000, would i need to upgrade the 1950 from server 2003 datacenter ed to R2 ?? Thanks in advance

they dont need any as the drivers are allready installed. In the documentation it says that you need admin rights to use traveller mode, but once the drivers are installed once on the machine then any restricted user can use it. I think the only thing we had to do was add an "File Screening" exception for the exe on our on our Nas storage server.

I created an tiny MSI that simply installed the drivers alone. Then when setting up all memory sticks, make sure that Traveller mode is selected

Hi Sippo, They replaced this out of warrenty for you? Did you have to complain etc? Ours was out of warrenty by 2 months, they wanted us to also buy 1 weeks tech support (£49.99) to diagnose the problem. And then a replacement part from them is £124.90 Fair play if you managed to get this replaced out of warrenty! If you are reluctant to reheat one of these then i guess your lucky enough to have a generous repair budget

Recently we had a HP 2015DN fail, the paper jam light would come on straight away and it had no network connectivity. After doing some reading, we took the side off and pressed the "Test Engine" button. http://www.inkjet-laser.com/img/HP-P2015-laserjet-printer.JPG It printed a test page just fine (horizontal lines). This means that the problem is 99% the "Formatter Board" http://i48.tinypic.com/ayaiyg.png There are plenty of people on fixyourprinter.com saying that taking this out and sticking it in the oven, reflows the solder ball joints on the chip in the middle. After 9min at 185c, it was cooked http://i47.tinypic.com/2038ut.jpg Took it back to work next day, it has worked fine for over a week now. Thats saved us £68.80.... hope this can help others too NOTES: Peel the plastic material strip thing off near the RAM slot before cooking (as you can see I forgot) Place it on something to keep it off the metal tray Let it cool for 30min

SORTED !!!!!!!! thanks mate, was about to do something drastic!!! Even though this applied to XP i installed: Update for Root Certificates [september 2009] (KB931125) Now all SSL are working again.. Thanks mate, never had to manually do that before?