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I'm having issues with setting up a host with two DNS servers, primary and secondary. I have two DNS server, one being the same as the DC, this DNS works fine...A second DNS server also works flawless but when I configure my hosts to use both DNS server, only the primary works and not the secondary. What am I overlooking here?

One more thing...Before you take the computers off the domain, make sure you know the local user login credentials.

I don't know if there's a simple way to automate this process but it is quite simple...just right click My Computer -> Properties - go to Computer Name tab (assuming these are all Windows XP boxes). Left click on the "Change" button and click on the "Workgroup" radio button, Name the Workgroup whatever you want and click okay. It will require a reboot. Once the system comes up, login locally and move the user's domain profiles to the local account. You can do this by going right clicking My computer again and going to Advanced tab, click on Settings under user profiles, select the old profile and move it to the new local account. Doing this should move all their settings.

This seems like a security feature but it's very annoying and it's starting to get on my nerves. I just installed a new software on a test server and installed the client edition on a workstation. Problem is that when I open the program from the workstation and click on the help content, the window opens but I only see the menu on the left. I researched and found out that this was a security feature and the work around is to right click on the .chm file and click on unblock. Well, I don't have unblock icon when I right click and go to properties. Anyone know of another solution?

Follow this thread for powertoy. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry680062

If you're running McAfee firewall then you should disable the XP firewall. You can do this through a Group Policy as well. You can take control. You have to click the "take control" button on your end (it's at the top of the Remote Assistance window). The user will have to click on "Yes" to allow this, but once they do you'll have full interaction with their session. This is by design. As far as I know, there's no way around this. Any time I use RA I'm usually on the phone with the user. I just instruct them "ok, you'll see a dialog on your screen in just a second...click Yes when it appears". Thank you...that solved all my issues.

I configured the group policy via AD and yes, Windows firewall was the culprit. For some reason windows firewall had precedence over my McAfee firewall. two new issues...even thought I have Remote Assistance setup to allow me to connect and take over, it still only gives me the view only mode once a connection is created. I can't click anything from my machine, I can only view. Secondly, user interaction is required to create a connection. The user has to accept the connection from their end. Is it possible to do without any user interaction. What am I overlooking?

Remote Assistance is not working for me. I edited the GPO to enable Remote Assistance, then I rebooted one of my workstations. Went back to the server and run the above target. I get the window to type in an IP or Computer name. I did and it returned "The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable" What am I missing here? The workstation I tried connecting to is on the DC.

I just tested out RealVNC and it seems to be a good solution. I have to deploy the installation to all my workstations via GPO which shouldn't be too bad. Thanks guys

Do I need to install VNC Server and Viewer on the client machines?

Funny, I was just looking at that. That let's you login remotely without logging the current user off? Keystrokes can be seen on the users screen?

Let's say a user calls my desk and reports an error or problem that needs my attention. At the present time, I walk over or drive over to that building to take care of the issue. I'm looking for a better solution. I know I can use Remote Desktop to log into the workstations but that logs the user off their machine. I've also head of remote assistant but that requires a .NET account which I don't want to use. So what's the best solution for me? What will allow me to log into any of the workstations on my DC without logging off the current user? I also want the current user to see what I'm doing remotely on their screens. Thanks

Not enough storage? I think 900GB is plenty for what they use it for. I believe they are only using about 300GB which span from 5 years ago. I wasn't saying that RAID5 wouldn't provide enough storage. Quite the contrary actually. RAID10 will provide less storage space so I didn't know if you made your decision based on the amount of data that was going to be put on the array. If they're "only" using 300GB I still have to recommend a RAID10 configuration, which will give you 600GB of space. My only concern is that if they're doing a lot of file writes that RAID5 would hurt performance. RAID5 is really only good if you're doing a lot of file reads. While RAID10 is fast for both reads and writes. Thanks...I really appreciate your input...I will talk to the boss and see what he wants to do. I'm sure he'll be all kinds of confused after I setup a RAID 10 and all he saw was 600GB instead of the 1.2TB he purchased. Thanks again.

Well, for one I'm a Unix/Linux Admin who knows enough about Windows to Administer windows boxes. We have a Unix admin and that's all he knows so I do the Windows stuff to help out. If I ask a windows question that might seem simple to you, it's because I haven't tackled that task on a windows machine before. 3TB of data is what the Windows users have and need...All other data is collected on the Unix side, sorted out and sent to the windows side for the NT users to do their work.

Not enough storage? I think 900GB is plenty for what they use it for. I believe they are only using about 300GB which span from 5 years ago.

I think Raid 5 it is... Scenario is this. I have about 40 users on DC1 (I don't have any control over this DC) and I have about 60 users on DC2 (I have full control). My file server is on DC2 so I have full control over it. It is setup with RAID 10 and has over 3 TB of storage space (mostly shared drives). DC1 users currently mount the shared drives on DC2 but we don't want that anymore. We want to setup a couple of shared drives on this new server, move DC1 user shares to it and add the server to DC1. Speed is not really a factor here...I think my main goal is to get DC1 user shares off my server. Advise to put the OS and Applications on another drive is greatly appreciated. I still have the two original 80GB drives I can use for that. Last question. Since I'll be using hardware Raid instead of Windows 2003 built-in software, what tool do I need to complete this setup?

That's much appreciated guys. I do have 4 300GB SCSI drives so now I have to figure out which would be the best for me, Raid 5 or 10. I've heard one good argument from nmX.Memnoch. Who else wants to chip in?

I have an old server in a rack i'm interested in using to setup a couple of shares for our users. The server has a couple of removable/swappable drives and I'm interested in installing about 4 drives in the server. My question is, how do I set it up so I can combined 2 300GB drives to show as 1 drive and also is it possible to use something like RAID 5 for redundancy? I don't plan on backing up this server so I need to be able to remove one of the bad drives and replace it with a new drive without losing any data. Help! Can someone move this to the server 2003 forum for me?

Why didn't I think of that? Of course that worked. So is this really how i's supposed to work? Isn't there a way for me to type the username and not have to type the domain name as well? Seems like something that should work on the fly for a Windows box. This ftp server is on the domain as well so I don't see why it can't authenticate to the domain users. Thanks

I recently installed and configured IIS and FTP on my file server. I have a site called experiment for my ftp. On this site, I have a directory pointing to an experiment directory on the server. However, when I type the ftp site in my browser, I get a login screen. Problem i'm having is that only the local administrator account can successfully login. It doesn't matter what group I add to the security tab on this directory...Administrator is the only one that can see the site. What am I doing wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I should add that the groups I'm adding to the security policy are on an Active Directory server.

Is it possible to edit the context menu for the desktop? That is, When I right-click the desktop and go to New, I get the list of new file types I can create. How do I delete some of the file types on this menu. I have some file extensions I can't seem to recall adding. This causes my New menu to take about 3 minutes to pop up. Any help on how to edit this menu will be greatly appreciated.

Got it! Thanks.... Anyone know of a script out there I can use?

I'm a little confused (what else is new). - Create a global group in AD - Make all workstations a member of this group? - Add the users to the global group as well? Please clarify.

Where in AD's GPO do I grand domain users admin rights on any workstation they log onto?

I know of one application that most access from one of the network shared drives but at least 20 people use this application on a daily basis but this user is the only one with a profile on the server.