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Can you try ftp Passive mode - sometimes called 'firewall friendly' ? Have seen similar issues in the past, due to the way ftp works with both a command and a data port. Sometimes the network connection can be killed as there's no traffic on the command port whilst a data transfer is going. The hash command can also be useful, by creating extra data on the command port.

+1 for the PIRs. This is a fairly standard method in large data centres, lights come on and follow you around - spooky at first, but really simple & efficient in operation

IEAK ? when creating an MSI of internet explorer to distribute, you can include connection settings.

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FITS ?

Try this ..? SCHTASKS /Query [/s system [/u username [/P [password]]]] [/FO format | /XML [xml_type]] [/NH] [/V] [/TN taskname] [/?] Description: Enables an administrator to display the scheduled tasks on the local or remote system. Parameter List: /S system Specifies the remote system to connect to.

Is the 'remote registry' service running on the clients ? I had to set this to automatic via GPP, control panel, services for Sophos to install.

CPC usually have a selection

Try using seesaw.com ?

Also, check you've got a sensible, working printer set as your default - it can go a bit la-la otherwise, guess it's trying to work out page size etc.

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smoothwall express as a transparent proxy - then update client with this as the default gateway.

Ditto - has a stone 2 weeks ago where the onboard NIC was just going crazy. Disabled and stuck a low-profile card in, now fine.

This gives you an IP--MAC listing netsh dhcp server \\SERVER-NAME scope XX.XX.XX.XX show reservedip and netsh can do loads of stuff, just not too friendly about it

Can be awkward to get at depending on the laptop, but it has occasionally brought machines back to life for me !

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freeocr.net has worked well for me in the past.

Definitely - add new subnets into AD S&S, I couldn't browse mapped drives until this happened.

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look at USBDLM ..

Just check that keyboard / mouse are working - have had fujitsu machines fail with beep codes before due to this.

+1 oldcmp

Sounds like proxy, you probably won't have one set as administrator - use group policy modelling to check what settings a specifuc user/machine get, it'll show you where they're coming from as well.

look for 'GPMC sample scripts', downloadable from microsoft - one of them will do what you need ...