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Ive now found the issue. The NetBoot service hadn't started properly. Thanks Anyway.

its none of them

The network point is definatly live and getting a dhcp address from our windows server as ive test a windows client. the netboot service is ticked on the Xserve

Does anyone know why i can boot to netrestore on any Mac? I press n on bootup and the globe appears for roughly a minute but it then boots up the the mac os. Thanks

Im Now getting this error. As before its every 5 mins. The error seems to point to the Default Domain Policy. I check all the setting as seem to be fine. So will the command above work? what does it do? Thanks

So what folder would i deploy the PRF that i have made?

So would this mean i could do BIOS updates to Multiple HP machines at once? or is it just altering the bios settings?

Is anyone managing desktops/Laptops with Intels VPro Technology? We have just bought 120 HPdc7800 USFF desktops with VPro but haven't got a clue how to manage them with this feature. If anyone is using VPro, what software do you you use? Im not sure if HP have software or if its free. Thanks

Im also looking at this in the very near future possibly for admin stations. Let me know how you get on!!

Im also having a problem connecting to ntp servers. Which would suggest to me that the swgfl is blocking it. How does anyone over come this? would you send a request to get this port unblocked for the domain controller? or set it up just for internal use? Thanks

That guys. Thats where i was going wrong. The location of the bmp was on a network share hence everyone was trying to use the same file.

Thanks Guys i will give it a go!!!

Thanks Michael so will i have to copy the BGinfo files to the netlogon folder? And the then when this script is run it will copy it to the local machine, run the bginfo.exe and the finally apply the .bgi settings from the Netlogon folder of the server? Initally i done it so that it ran completely from the server but it caused problems. Thanks

Hi Im trying to implement BGinfo and tried to do it by running it from a shared. This worked for half the students when logging in but the other half it didn't. Also some students had a different name on the screen to what it says on the start menu. Im now trying to Run BGInfo by copying the files into c:program files\BGinfo and a login script GPO which is: @ECHO OFF REM * Sets Background desktop * C:\Program Files\bginfo\bginfo.exe /iq "C:\Program Files\bginfo\student.bgi" /timer:0 /nolicprompt But this doesn't seem to work. Am i doing anything really stupid? Thanks

Thanks Ric So would i have to do this on every mac?

I have just had a room of new iMacs installed and none of them show up in DNS in Windows 2003. Any know know why? and how i can get them to appear? Thanks

Does any one on this forum use the Systems management appliances from KACE? I just purchased the systems deployment KBOX 2000 and systems management appliances KBOX 1000 from KACE and are excellent, so it would be good to share any other hints and tips from people who use them, Thanks

Thanks Guys!!!!

ive tried a couple of these but dont seem to work. The problem is the USB Drive askes to be formatted when you insert it and Theres definatly data on there (supposedly!)

Does anyone know of any free data recovery software so i can retreive data from a USB Pen drive? Thanks

Maniac, Is it possible i can have copies of what you done? I'm Looking at Ranger at the moment to possibly install in the summer but if yours does a similar thing then brilliant!!!!!! Cheers!!

Does anyone know a way of being able to select a printer like something similar to RM's Printer Location Awareness box that comes up when you log onto a laptop? I currently run a vanilla XP 2003 R2 network and dont really want to install lots of printers on each laptop