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Can't you simply use the /norestart switch when invoking msiexec.exe?

@bossman: I was wondering if that message might have some relevance, I'll try rebooting the servers tonight and see if the problems go away. Any idea why a laptop would try to become the master browser? All my curriculum laptops have identical (RIS'd) setups and that one's the only one doing it.

Cheers Geoff, I'll make sure to remember that if/when I do that exam (assuming SMT approve some funding for training). Other than client's XP firewalls, the only firewall I currently have here is protecting the webserver (naughty I know), there's no routing I'm aware of, and VLANs are something most of our hubs/switches don't support.

We've got a pair of PowerEdge 2800's and I love em

DCDiag Domain Controller Diagnosis Performing initial setup: Done gathering initial info. Doing initial required tests Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\THOR Starting test: Connectivity ......................... THOR passed test Connectivity Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\ODIN Starting test: Connectivity ......................... ODIN passed test Connectivity Doing primary tests Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\THOR Starting test: Replications ......................... THOR passed test Replications Starting test: NCSecDesc ......................... THOR passed test NCSecDesc Starting test: NetLogons ......................... THOR passed test NetLogons Starting test: Advertising ......................... THOR passed test Advertising Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders ......................... THOR passed test KnowsOfRoleHolders Starting test: RidManager ......................... THOR passed test RidManager Starting test: MachineAccount ......................... THOR passed test MachineAccount Starting test: Services ......................... THOR passed test Services Starting test: ObjectsReplicated ......................... THOR passed test ObjectsReplicated Starting test: frssysvol ......................... THOR passed test frssysvol Starting test: frsevent ......................... THOR passed test frsevent Starting test: kccevent ......................... THOR passed test kccevent Starting test: systemlog An Error Event occured. EventID: 0x00002F1D Time Generated: 10/02/2006 12:42:55 Event String: Session from user "le" was timed out and An Error Event occured. EventID: 0x00002F1D Time Generated: 10/02/2006 13:03:26 Event String: Session from user "le" was timed out and ......................... THOR failed test systemlog Starting test: VerifyReferences ......................... THOR passed test VerifyReferences Testing server: Default-First-Site-Name\ODIN Starting test: Replications ......................... ODIN passed test Replications Starting test: NCSecDesc ......................... ODIN passed test NCSecDesc Starting test: NetLogons ......................... ODIN passed test NetLogons Starting test: Advertising ......................... ODIN passed test Advertising Starting test: KnowsOfRoleHolders ......................... ODIN passed test KnowsOfRoleHolders Starting test: RidManager ......................... ODIN passed test RidManager Starting test: MachineAccount ......................... ODIN passed test MachineAccount Starting test: Services ......................... ODIN passed test Services Starting test: ObjectsReplicated ......................... ODIN passed test ObjectsReplicated Starting test: frssysvol ......................... ODIN passed test frssysvol Starting test: frsevent ......................... ODIN passed test frsevent Starting test: kccevent ......................... ODIN passed test kccevent Starting test: systemlog ......................... ODIN passed test systemlog Starting test: VerifyReferences ......................... ODIN passed test VerifyReferences Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom Running partition tests on : Schema Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... Schema passed test CrossRefValidation Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom Running partition tests on : Configuration Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... Configuration passed test CheckSDRefDom Running partition tests on : stowmarketmiddle Starting test: CrossRefValidation ......................... stowmarketmiddle passed test CrossRefValidation Starting test: CheckSDRefDom ......................... stowmarketmiddle passed test CheckSDRefDom Running enterprise tests on : stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk Starting test: Intersite ......................... stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk passed test Intersite Starting test: FsmoCheck ......................... stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk passed test FsmoCheck NetDiag PDC Computer Name: THOR DNS Host Name: thor.stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk System info : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Build 3790) Processor : x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel List of installed hotfixes : Q147222 Netcard queries test . . . . . . . : Passed Per interface results: Adapter : Local Area Connection Netcard queries test . . . : Passed Host Name. . . . . . . . . : thor IP Address . . . . . . . . : 10.163.4.105 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0 Default Gateway. . . . . . : 10.163.4.1 Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 10.163.4.105 10.163.4.106 AutoConfiguration results. . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . : Passed WINS service test. . . . . : Skipped There are no WINS servers configured for this interface. Adapter : Local Area Connection 2 Netcard queries test . . . : Passed Host Name. . . . . . . . . : thor IP Address . . . . . . . . : 10.169.194.253 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway. . . . . . : Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 10.169.194.253 10.169.194.106 AutoConfiguration results. . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . : Skipped [WARNING] No gateways defined for this adapter. NetBT name test. . . . . . : Passed WINS service test. . . . . : Skipped There are no WINS servers configured for this interface. Global results: Domain membership test . . . . . . : Passed NetBT transports test. . . . . . . : Passed List of NetBt transports currently configured: NetBT_Tcpip_{8136B2A3-1DEA-4BD8-A887-A66795869A0A} NetBT_Tcpip_{ABBEEF9C-7701-4C04-9673-B9B72653CF60} 2 NetBt transports currently configured. Autonet address test . . . . . . . : Passed IP loopback ping test. . . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . . . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . . . . . : Passed Winsock test . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.163.4.105' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.163.4.106' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.169.194.253' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.169.194.106' 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_{8136B2A3-1DEA-4BD8-A887-A66795869A0A} NetBT_Tcpip_{ABBEEF9C-7701-4C04-9673-B9B72653CF60} The redir is bound to 2 NetBt transports. List of NetBt transports currently bound to the browser NetBT_Tcpip_{ABBEEF9C-7701-4C04-9673-B9B72653CF60} NetBT_Tcpip_{8136B2A3-1DEA-4BD8-A887-A66795869A0A} 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 NetDiag BDC Computer Name: ODIN DNS Host Name: odin.stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk System info : Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Build 3790) Processor : x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel List of installed hotfixes : Q147222 Netcard queries test . . . . . . . : Passed Per interface results: Adapter : Local Area Connection Netcard queries test . . . : Passed Host Name. . . . . . . . . : odin IP Address . . . . . . . . : 10.163.4.106 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0 Default Gateway. . . . . . : 10.163.4.1 Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 10.163.4.105 10.163.4.106 AutoConfiguration results. . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . : Passed WINS service test. . . . . : Skipped There are no WINS servers configured for this interface. Adapter : Local Area Connection 2 Netcard queries test . . . : Passed Host Name. . . . . . . . . : odin IP Address . . . . . . . . : 10.169.194.106 Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway. . . . . . : Dns Servers. . . . . . . . : 10.169.194.253 10.169.194.106 AutoConfiguration results. . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . : Skipped [WARNING] No gateways defined for this adapter. NetBT name test. . . . . . : Passed WINS service test. . . . . : Skipped There are no WINS servers configured for this interface. Global results: Domain membership test . . . . . . : Passed NetBT transports test. . . . . . . : Passed List of NetBt transports currently configured: NetBT_Tcpip_{E3D517D4-C5B7-44A0-8C37-BADC77FAD83E} NetBT_Tcpip_{4C8D7A04-C66A-452F-8549-07F7849DB5CE} 2 NetBt transports currently configured. Autonet address test . . . . . . . : Passed IP loopback ping test. . . . . . . : Passed Default gateway test . . . . . . . : Passed NetBT name test. . . . . . . . . . : Passed Winsock test . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.163.4.105' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.163.4.106' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.169.194.253' and other DCs also have some of the names registered. PASS - All the DNS entries for DC are registered on DNS server '10.169.194.106' 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_{E3D517D4-C5B7-44A0-8C37-BADC77FAD83E} NetBT_Tcpip_{4C8D7A04-C66A-452F-8549-07F7849DB5CE} The redir is bound to 2 NetBt transports. List of NetBt transports currently bound to the browser NetBT_Tcpip_{4C8D7A04-C66A-452F-8549-07F7849DB5CE} NetBT_Tcpip_{E3D517D4-C5B7-44A0-8C37-BADC77FAD83E} The browser is bound to 2 NetBt transports. DC discovery test. . . . . . . . . : Passed DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . : Passed Trust relationship test. . . . . . : Passed Secure channel for domain 'STOWMARKETM' is to '\\thor.stowmarketmiddle.suffolk.sch.uk'. 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

Hey guys My network's developed a slight problem and I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction for fixing it. All was fine until last week when I started getting reports of inaccessible internet and error messages during login on multiple machines for multiple accounts (but not all, I can't recreate the error on any of my accounts, but I've seen it on others). Internet Explorer branding is failing, I've done a Group Policy Results check using the GPMC which is showing a warning, the event for which is: The only other error present in the event log is: Which is appearing fairly frequently (much more frequently than I'm happy with). The login errors are coming from my global login script, specifically line 42: #39 ' Use the NameTranslate object to find the NetBIOS domain name from the #40 ' DNS domain name. #41 Set objTrans = CreateObject("NameTranslate") #42 objTrans.Init ADS_NAME_INITTYPE_GC, "" #43 objTrans.Set ADS_NAME_TYPE_1779, strDNSDomain #44 strNetBIOSDomain = objTrans.Get(ADS_NAME_TYPE_NT4) With an error of: As the log messages are damn near identical, I can only assume they're symptoms of the same problem, which my limited knowledge of Active Directory suggests would be a DNS error, however both my Domain Controllers are accessible, and they resolve using nslookup. There are no errors in the DC's DNS logs, the only errors listed are: [*]PDC/Application: An ASP error I could care less about. [*] PDC/System: MrxSmb 8003 Which is odd as that machine is a curriculum laptop. [*] BCD/System: MrxSmb 3019 Which MicroSoft says I can ignore (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q267934) [/list:o] Oddly this only seems to be affecting staff accounts, students are unaffected, even though all accounts use the same logon script. Any help you can give in tracking down this problem (and it's solution) will be greatfully recieved.

Well, I was nearly right

%windir%\system32\runas.exe /user:[email protected] /netonly explorer \\school_serv\teachers Should do the trick (Although I havn't tested it)

@Pear: That may be true, but if they're logging on using an account other than their own then they are commiting an offence under section 1 of the computer misuse act (1990).

I use shutdown.exe /s /m \\%Computer Name% running from a scheduled VBScript which pulls computer names from AD. Option Explicit Dim objConnection, objCommand, objRecordSet Dim strComputer, strSourceOU Dim wshell Dim ArrOUs, strOU ArrOUs = Array("Room1","Room2","Room3","etc") Set wshell = CreateObject("wscript.shell") ' Link to AD Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2 Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command") objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject" objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider" Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection For Each strOU in ArrOUs ' Select all Computer objects objCommand.CommandText = "Select Name From 'LDAP://OU=" & strOU & ",OU=PCs,DC=example,DC=com' Where objectClass='computer'" objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000 objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30 objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute objRecordSet.MoveFirst Do Until objRecordSet.EOF strComputer = objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value Wshell.Run "shutdown -s -m \\" & strComputer & " -t 60 -c ""Shutting down for updates"" -f" objRecordSet.MoveNext Loop Next

How about setting it as a screen saver? A quick google brings up Web-Screen-Saver which claims to be turn powerpoints into screensavers. It's not free, but there seems to be a free trial version, and if it'll do, the licence is only $10. I've not tried it myself, but a screensaver seems the simplest solution to me.

To install a Firefox extension globally: I've not tried it with themes, but it definitely works with extensions.

Right in the middle of half-term, that'll make attending easier ^^ Anyone else from the east planning to go by train (Norwich - Liverpool St line)?

http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_me.jpghttp://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2006/08/language/php.jpg Is what I was hoping for, but I got lumbered with http://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_95.jpghttp://www.bbspot.com/Images/News_Features/2006/08/language/javascript.jpg I can accept Win95, but JavaScript? :x

What a coincidence, we've got something similar, although it only seems to be affecting Office. My Documents links work fine in all programs except MS Office 2003 where we get We can bypass by going 'My Computer' > 'U:\', but it's more a temporary workaround than a permanent fix. Any others having/had this problem?

I'm with you on that. I've just cancelled Sky as there was never anything worth watching on it.

Human Space Invaders Pac-Man

@glensc: That's a very interesting point. The document server is certainly using HTTP1.1. Running SmartSniff while doing a (successful) connection test gives the following. On the client: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Server: MS .NET Remoting, MS .NET CLR 1.1.4322.2300 Content-Length: 611 true On the server: POST /DocumentServer.rem HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0+(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 6.0.5384.0; MS .NET Remoting; MS .NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032 ) Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" SOAPAction: "http://schemas.microsoft.com/clr/nsassem/SIMS.DocumentServer.IDocumentServer/DocumentServerInterfaces#Ping" Content-Length: 572 Expect: 100-continue Host: odin:8080 That might explain that oddity

@bossman: OK, so it seems my assumption was a little off. I didn't have the 'pleasure' of pre .Net SIMS. Renamed to .old, no difference. @DMcCoy: The Document Manager is running, the connection test returns 'OK' when used with the hostname, but fails when using the IP (one of the biggest mysteries thus far) Havn't tried the DB diagnostics, and I'll hold off on that until I speak with the LSU again. We can add to the list of attempted fixes: * Uninstall and reinstall the Document Server

MRBS is what you'll need http://mrbs.sourceforge.net/

It's set as ServerName=ODIN\SIMSas the old one was ServerName=PC-SERVER\SIMS Having never even touched SIMS before doing the server replacement, it seemed safest to simply swap out the netbios names. I don't think the bat is being run by anything (I have no machine named station.04, and I suspect it was meant to be used as a TS logon script to get SIMS working on a Mac), but I'll try renaming it anyway. It could easily have been 3+ years ago as SIMS was running on the old server for 8 years. @NetworkGeezer: Yep, everything else works perfectly, we can put data in, it's just a pain to get it out again

No problem, I've been there before myself. A few weeks back I found myself at a local themepark looking after half of year 8. I've just run a search for the old server name (pc-server), nothing found on a client, but on the SIMS server (Odin) it appears in some log files from March (during transfer), some logon scripts in the SYSVOL that havn't been touched since 2001, and S:\SIMS\system\STATION.04\SIMSMAN.BAT @echo off SET LANID=2J \\ cd \\PC-SERVER\F$\CAPITA\SIMS SIMSMAN.EXE %1 %2 which is a file I've never noticed before, but I'm guessing (Due to the Set Lanid) it's from when my predecessor was trying to get SIMS working over Terminal Services. The same search on the PDC (Thor) has returned log files from 2005 (when I believe Thor was installed) and the same logon scripts in the SYSVOL. I trawled the DNS when removing the old server to check it was removed properly, but I've gone to double check and I've spotted a reference in Reverse Lookup Zones/4.163.10.in-addr.arpa where it's listed as a Name Server (Odd as the pc-server wasn't in that subnet). I'll remove the reference and see if it helps. EDIT: Nope, no change. I'd search for the IP address too, but I've actually forgotten what it was ^^; @Steve & Bossman: I've checked the connect.ini and sims.ini files and there's no reference to the old server:

@ChrisC: I havn't tried uninstalling a client, but I have installed the client on a couple of spare machines that have never had it before, still no joy. @Steve: nslookup odin gives the expected IP. TCPView: When running SIMS .Net TCPView shows 6 connections from pulsar.exe (local ports 1324-1329) connecting to the server (port 1171). When opening the Import Report dialog, pulsar is also connecting to port 8080 on the server. Even though the error claims 'the underlying connection was closed', TCPView is displaying all connections as established until SIMS is closed. Smartsniff shows that the client is definately contacting the server as it's getting a response from the Document Server (specifically HTTP1.1 100 and HTTP1.1 200). It has however shown up a slight oddity, there's a UDP packet being sent to the DNS server on port 53 which is referencing the old SIMS/DC/DNS server that was scrapped back in March. I'm now even more confused as i'm running this on a newly rebuilt machine, with a static IP, using a logon with a local profile. There's no way this machine should even know the old server's name, let alone be trying to contact it. TDIMon hasn't helped a lot as I've no idea what I'm looking at there ^^;

I posted this to support.capitaes.co.uk a couple of days after posting here, I've had no response at all.

I hate to resort to bumping, but this problem's driving me nuts. Does anyone have any more ideas, no matter how daft or drastic? I'm getting desperate enough to give damn near anything a try.