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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?

Hi all, I have a DVD (school excercise) that the whole school needs to access across the network because I dont want to burn 25 copies of it only for them to end up cracked, scratched, lost or otherwise rendered unusable. So I made a nice neat .ISO image of the dvd and used a batch file (as below) to call Daemon Tools to mount the image to the virtual DVD drive...all good so far...however I am having trouble getting it to autoplay. When the shortcut to the batch file is clicked the image mounts great but the user would then have to open My Computer and double click the virtual drive to get it to play, great for us but not for teachers or reception children. I need it to open up and play in either Media player, Nero showtime or Powerdvd when the batch file is run. Ive tried adding various switches to the end of line7 to no avail. Batch is as follows:- @echo off title TAKE Aerobics "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe" -unmount 0 "c:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe" -mount 0, "\\server01\media\Videos\TAKE_Aerobics.iso" "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" any ideas?

I have a "Belkin Net Series 1000VA UPS (with AVR) " connected to my win2000 server. Over the last couple of nights I have come in to find that the server is off and so is the UPS, by pressing the "on" button on the UPS power is restored and I can then power up the server again (by pressing the button on the front of server) Should the UPS restart the machine automatically if power is restored to it? Do you think I may have a knackered UPS or perhaps we had a power cut during the night that I have no way of knowing about.... How do I tell if this is a legitimate shutdown from the UPS or the UPS has failed and the server simply went off. Thanks for any help

will try that out and let you know how I get on

I know this has been discussed at length and I have spent some time going through the threads to find the answer...no luck yet... I have redirected desktops (win 2000 server) through GPO to a shared folder on the server, this all works great, users login on workstations and get whatever ive put in the folder. Just to help things out further I made the folder read-only and now they cant add or take away icons...(disabled right click too, that should stop em changing things) My problem is that as well as the icons in my shared desktop folder appearing all the icons in the local "All Users" folder appear on that particular workstation, so instead of everyone having exactly the same icons some have duplicates and some have additional icons. How do I stop this from happening I want everyone to have whats in the shared desktop folder ONLY no exeptions.

Thank you for your help, think I will try that out on a test server before trying it for real on the DC...cant afford any silly mistakes and dont need the stress of restoring from backup...just in case!

Its made up of 1 system drive containing 2 partitions c: containing the O/S and d: containing data files. Im going to add a second drive of same size and use dynamic disks to mirror them, Ive done this before and all works great (no format or reload of o/s required (only req for hardware raid)) the only difference this time is that there are 2 partitions so when i mirror will both partitions be on the mirror?

I have a windows 2000 server with c:\ drive being made up of 2 partitions (C:\ and E:\) if I add a second hard drive of equal size, make the primary drive and new drive dynamic then mirror (raid 1) them will it keep a mirror of both partitions c: & e: on the new drive? Thank you.