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Thanks People I will give then a try

Anyone know of tool to import students names from a (for example text file) in an OU in Active directory? Cheers

Had this one loads of times Numebr of fixes that I have found 1. Reduce the hardware graphics acl on the display properties or 2. turn off overlays (click on blank screen, options, advanced) and Update the display drivers also had this with a green blob being displayed in media player the above fix also worked

I've the Promethean support very good though you can useally guess that they want to you to install the older v3 driver and reboot the system every other mouse click. Which is a change from a year ago then its was "have you got the latest driver and software patch" and i'm not going to help you until you have. It would be nice to have the firmware updates for boards avaiable for download, and 3 year warrenty on the power packs.

Thanks it sounds about right, can't try till back on site

Recently our windows 2000 server went wrong, and after much hammering at it, got it working again using system restore from the CD and backups. The server is the DC and also runs ISA 2004 (which is why I didn;t just start again with it. But since the restore windows dos not display it controls propery - example - tick boxes are back squares with a squigle teh min/max/restore buttons for windows control are {} t and f I've resinstalled the latest service pack and all the windows updates are installed any ideas (display driver also updated) screen shot attached

Only one switch at the site which is on a different IP range to the computers. the subnet is fine - have only about 20 clients and DHCP has loads of spare address's. I've checked both the client and server event logs and they are both fine. The clients will have entries for when they are first booted in the morning, and then nothing until they are rebooted.

Windows XP sp2 ipconfig (I've hashed out the full IP address, but the xx are the same though out) Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : CLASS04C Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : LEA.local Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : LEA.local Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection #3 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-13-20-8D-07-0F Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : xx.xx.xx.63 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : xx.xx.xx.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : xx.xx.xx.2 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : xx.xx.xx.2 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 27 November 2007 14:58:52 Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 28 November 2007 14:58:52 ========================== I've got to leave the site now (sorry to say, dislike leaving stuff half finished). But if you have any more ideas or comments they are very welcome!!

Nope just tested and that hasn't fixed it (I was being over optmistic) sorry if it confused

disabled firewall disabled power save on the nic updated to latest driver feeling happy that the solution was found netdiag result ...................................... Computer Name: SERVER DNS Host Name: server.LEA.local System info : Windows 2000 Server (Build 3790) Processor : x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel List of installed hotfixes : KB911564 KB921503 KB925398_WMP64 KB925876 KB925902 KB926122 KB927891 KB929123 KB929969 KB930178 KB931768-IE7 KB931784 KB931836 KB932168 KB933360 KB933566-IE7 KB933729 KB933854 KB935839 KB935840 KB935966 KB936021 KB936357 KB936782 KB937143-IE7 KB938127-IE7 KB939653-IE7 KB941202 KB941672 KB943460 Q147222 Netcard queries test . . . . . . . : Passed [WARNING] The net card 'Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller' may not be working. Per interface results: Adapter : LAN Netcard queries test . . . : Failed NetCard Status: DISCONNECTED Some tests will be skipped on this interface. Host Name. . . . . . . . . : server Autoconfiguration IP Address : 169.254.113.67 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway. . . . . . : Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : Adapter : Curric Netcard queries test . . . : Passed Host Name. . . . . . . . . : server IP Address . . . . . . . . : XX.XX.60.2 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.128 Default Gateway. . . . . . : XX.XX.60.1 Primary WINS Server. . . . : 127.0.0.1 Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 127.0.0.1 AutoConfiguration results. . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . : Passed [WARNING] At least one of the <00> 'WorkStation Service', <03> 'Messenger Service', <20> 'WINS' names is missing. WINS service test. . . . . : Failed The test failed. We were unable to query the WINS servers. Global results: Domain membership test . . . . . . : Passed NetBT transports test. . . . . . . : Passed List of NetBt transports currently configured: NetBT_Tcpip_{C0F656BC-0C6B-41F2-9157-8DF9F89D219B} NetBT_Tcpip_{17A5FE4B-7AEA-4377-94AD-CC14C296129D} 2 NetBt transports currently configured. Autonet address test . . . . . . . : Passed IP loopback ping test. . . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . . . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . . . . . : Passed [WARNING] You don't have a single interface with the <00> 'WorkStation Service', <03> 'Messenger Service', <20> 'WINS' names defined. Winsock test . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed [WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the name 'server.LEA.local.'. [ERROR_TIMEOUT] The name 'server.LEA.local.' may not be registered in DNS. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '127.0.0.1' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. Redir and Browser test . . . . . . : Passed List of NetBt transports currently bound to the Redir NetBT_Tcpip_{C0F656BC-0C6B-41F2-9157-8DF9F89D219B} NetBT_Tcpip_{17A5FE4B-7AEA-4377-94AD-CC14C296129D} The redir is bound to 2 NetBt transports. List of NetBt transports currently bound to the browser NetBT_Tcpip_{17A5FE4B-7AEA-4377-94AD-CC14C296129D} NetBT_Tcpip_{C0F656BC-0C6B-41F2-9157-8DF9F89D219B} The browser is bound to 2 NetBt transports. DC discovery test. . . . . . . . . : Passed DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed Trust relationship test. . . . . . : Skipped Kerberos test. . . . . . . . . . . : Passed LDAP test. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed Bindings test. . . . . . . . . . . : Passed WAN configuration test . . . . . . : Skipped No active remote access connections. Modem diagnostics test . . . . . . : Passed IP Security test . . . . . . . . . : Skipped Note: run "netsh ipsec dynamic show /?" for more detailed information The command completed successfully

Its difficult to say how many PCs as I'm only on site once a month, and the responce from staff differs. (I was told it was all ok this afternoon first system I used promptly hung - the one next to it fine) They are all on a sinlge switch, getting netdiag now

For thouse of you following this with baited breath..... I was able to log on to a pc with a local user, but could not release or renew the ip address, or access the firewall settings from control panel. I could ping the server and ping google, not not access the website or ping the client or other clients. Attempting to stop the windows firewall service did do anything I'm currently disabling windows firewall.

More info just discovered that I can not ping a client PC while it is at the logon screen or hung waiting for me to login. Its listed in DNS and DHCP. EDIT: the PCs was networking quite happily (internet and network drives) before log off) Still on Sophos 6 going to 7 soon - I hope its not doing anything like that

Have already The event view has nothing relevant and is DNS quite happy

All profiles are local just noticed it also takes a while at the log off screen (before closing network contections) We use Sophos v6

Thanks

Quick question If I update the schema of a windows 2003 server to windows 2003 R2 do I have to purchase a new licence?

It appears to be all users, everywhere. Its being very ahrd to diagnose, as rebooting the system fixes it for a day. then its goes wired again. APPDATA?? - do you mean the appdata folder in the user profile - can you explan please.

Windows 2003 DC with XP clients all about 2 years old and fully service packed and updated, on a single site. When you attempt to log on to a PC, i enter the account details, uname and password click ok, the box goes gray and the pc appears to hang if left long enought..20minutes you either get a blank screen or it goes back to the login screen. Restart the PC and it will log in fine. Also when attempting to access a network resource the client will hang. The above happens at random on random PCs there is nothing in the event logs thats relevant on the server or the clients and DNS appears fine. The network traffic on the server does seam very heavey (but this may be a red herring) Does anyone have any ideas??

At one point I required a similar solution, the best one I found was to a use DHCP option to tell the client PC to look for a proxy config script for the proxy information. I only designed the above and never actually tried or can remember the DCHP option to set, but google should resolve that. The best thing was when on site the DHCP did all the settings and when at home the users router did all the config. not need for log on or off scripts.