dyson38

Strange one this.... I noticed recently that a bog standard windows folder on my server 2003 machine (happens to be my redirected desktop icons) has dissapeared from windows explorer. If I do a UNC path to it, it shows up just fine and I can open it. Ive done all the obvious like making sure that hidden files/folders is off and protected files but to no avail....any ideas? everything works fine from the folder so its not a huge problem, it must be there or I'd get no icons on my desktops I just cant see it!

Thank you, makes perfect sense now

I have the printer script below that works a treat in my school....I want to use it else where but theres one bit that I dont understand...What do the parts (1,1,9) (10,1,15) (16,1,33) etc do? Thanks FOR /L %%a IN (1,1,9) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="SLT0%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 FOR /L %%a IN (10,1,15) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="SLT%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 FOR /L %%a IN (16,1,33) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="SLT%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 FOR /L %%a IN (1,1,9) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="GPRM0%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 FOR /L %%a IN (10,1,15) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="GPRM%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 FOR /L %%a IN (16,1,33) DO IF "%COMPUTERNAME%"=="GPRM%%a" GOTO ICTPrinter02 :ICTPrinter02 cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -x rem cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -ac -p "\\%GPSSVR%\ICT01_Black" cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -ac -p "\\%GPSSVR%\ICT02_Colour" cscript %systemroot%\system32\prnmngr.vbs -t -p "\\%GPSSVR%\ICT02_Colour"

Just thought Id do an update on this problem...I got the server to recognise both the 1.5tb drives by creating the raid array (it took 32 hours to complete!) unfortunately symantec ghostcast could see the drive but came back with the error Drive too small! eh! its massive!...so I removed drive 0 and placed it into my XP desktop and did a drive to drive clone using the free seagate diskwizard, this worked like a charm, but when I put it back into the server the the O/S continuously rebooted. I switched off raid in the bios and all booted up fine. So now ive got two JBOD 1.5tb disks, ive lost RAID1 and cannot see a way of getting it back (dynamic wouldnt work, the option is there but it does nothing when I click it on the C: drive, but works on the second drive...strange) not the end of the world as I have a second server thats replicating the first and a NAS backing up all the data and system state, so i guess I 90% sorted the problem just lost RAID 1

Thanks for your advice...I put in the 2 500gb drives and went through the timely excercise of creating the array (took 6 hours) symantec ghost could then see the drives and I dropped the image no problem booted up and hey presto perfect!! Now im gonna try the 1.5tb drives have done exactly the same thing started building the array at 8am this morning its now 6:30pm and its up to 80% lets hope that symantec sees them after this.

Interesting...Spent the last couple of days trouble shooting this, thought I'd try a new 500Gb drive to see if it could see that (im connecting it to the second SATA port, with the original 250gb o/s drive on the first) the o/s boots fine but still I do not see the second 500gb drive so I tried a 160gb drive (original drives were 250gb) surely it would see this but NO its still not there. I can only guess that I need to install some kind of driver for any new hard drive installed. The bios see's all the drives and they all appear in the raid config CTRL (A) but win ser 2003 see's none of them...this has got me stumped ! do the drives need to be partitioned/formatted first? (Ive never done that before, windows simply shows the drive initialisation wizard or I do it manually from the disk management tools) I'm thinking I may have to install both 1.5tb drives sycronize them (raid 1 mirror) in the raid configuration then install windows 2k3 pressing F6 to install sata drivers, this presents a major problem for me (if it works) as I wanted to transfer a ghost image of the original 250gb drive so I dont have to reconfigure the 100's of users and all the 100's of software titles and scripts which is pretty much impossible unless I take a fortnight off! what can I try next?

Its about 3 years old, the disk i took out was a seagate and ive replced it with the same make but larger

I have just bought a 1.5 terabyte hard drive to replace the 250gb in our Dell SC420 server. The drive is recognised in the bios and clearly shows the drive ID and capacity as 1.5T, however when I boot into windows server 2003 they are not in the device manager, or disk management. I have changed the jumpers to reduce the speed to 150 but still no luck. was thinking of buy a new raid PCI card to see if that works any ideas?

I have a windows 2000 domain controller and want to add a new workstation which will be windows 7 wud rather win xp at moment but cant get one (all others are XP Pro) will the GPO's like Redirected documents, no screensaver/backgrounds, and network maps work or will I have to do something to the server to make the GPO's work on the Win 7 machine? Thank you

Unfortunately the ctrl:shift:print option is out of the question, some of these kids are only 5 years old, this need to be totally automated when the user logs in and logs out. As for the registry hack, I found this one before i.e. switch high contrast on or off but changing the settings Ive had no luck with.

I have a few pupils that are visually impaired, I have them in a seperate OU (server 2003) and wanted to change their desktops (XP Pro) to the colour scheme High Contrast Black option in Display settings. After some extensive searching it appears this cannot be done via Group Policy so I thought well maybe a registry hack that applies when a particular user logs in and reverts back when they log off (im yet to find one that works). Anyone have any ideas as to what may be the best way to do this without me walking round to 100 machines and configuring them seperately?

Just one more thing to note, when VLC starts up it give a network security screen..great for a single user but im deploying this to 100 machines used by primary school kids. I found various suggestions on changing and re-deploying the exe none of which worked, in the end went to old vesion 8.6 which doesnt have the network security screen. DVD plays perfectly on the click of the batch file with all original tracks and menus just as if it were in the drive. Thanks again

Thank you the last suggestion worked, needed a little tweak to get it to play the menu instead of defaulting to the first track, apart from that worked like a charm. Thank you all, much appreciated

you see I normally (when running an application) simply add the path to the executable at the end of the batch script, but because this is a dvd Video there is no EXE to call otherwise id create an Autorun.inf and call that from the script. I can of course add the path to the dvd player but that wont default to the virtual drive and play.

Thank you nice little app, but still cant get it to autoplay. I can get it to open media player or any other DVD player after mounting the image (as my original script did) but cannot get media player to automatically select the E:\ drive (virtual drive) and play the DVD. Am I missing something that this app does that my existing batch script didnt?