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Gy, Have a look at this one as well.... Cheers, 10forcash

GyBear, How the devil are you? Have a look at this lt might help, if none of it applies, then i'd replace the HDD.... Cheers, 10forcash p.s. 'Dogwood' was great.....just great!

Tguy, Thanks -the links are ok, as verified by portqry - however... did a bit more work with dcdiag /e & nltest, it appears that the schannel was being ignored, due to a problem with the GUID at site 3 resetting the schannel appears to have cured it. For info the command is 'nltest /server:dc1 /sc_reset:mydomain\dc2' I ran it at both ends and forced replication, 12 hours later everything is running as it should do..... for anyone else that has a similar problem, nltest sometimes reports 'no logon servers available' and 'no such domain' if run on the FSMO, which can induce minor heart attacks! apparently this is a 'feature' - fanx Bill! Cheers, 10forcash

Mornin' ! I'm having problems with AD not replicating across sites, there are three sites in the domain, all running server 2003, site 1 is the central site and replicates without any problems to site 2, site 3 cannot ( or will not) replicate to sites 1 or 2. Yes, ive checked all necassary ports are open on the hardware firewalls using portqry and the RPC services are running on site 3's DC. AD sites & services appears to be set up correctly, based upon the topology of sites 1&2, all relevant subnets are listed and assigned to the correct sites. I've tried forcing replication from all sites, still with the same error... replmon can access all sites and confirms connections (and the errors!) All DC's were configured and AD replicated at site 1 before being physically and logically - within AD anyway- moved to their final locations All sites are connected by WAN links, using VSAT, all sites can see each other and logon using remote desktop and logon to http & ftp servers. I have four other domains using the same topology all with remote sites connected via VSAT and they're quite happy.... Any ideas? Cheers, 10forcash

You can always configure the GPO, either local or through AD -or- map the MAC adress in DHCP to a specific IP address Cheers, 10forcash

or use AD to temporarily add their account to the administrators group, then remove it once the problem is resolved -or- use remote desktop to resolve the issues yourself? Cheers, 10forcash

npqtplugin.dll is used by Opera... and others, it's a quicktime plugin extension Cheers, 10forcash

Forgot to mention the biggest security risk of all.... the 'enter' or 'cr' key.... work it out for yourselves (with a pencil) Cheers, 10forcash

Popular misconception: SP2 firewall protects you. Not true! SP2 firewall does not block any outbound packets, on any port, on any transport, to any address... Zonealarm, outpost - or any hardware firewall does make yer choice and live with it.... Cheers, 10forcash

You can also download the MS office GPO templates for a more granular configuration Cheers, 10forcash

'slayer'..... hmmmm, "analise" - sort of says it all really... Happy Christmas! Cheers, 10forcash

Dependent upon your mail server, configure his laptop to use SSL for send / receive on email, plus disable any shares (ie. 'simple' file sharing) on his laptop, simple, no VPN, WPA or any other on - site configuration to worry about, Cheers, 10forcash

Just use a switch - although it sounds like a bit of paranoia, if you're on a business network, check the AUP, it may allow 'them' to sniff the network, failing that, don't do anything naughty.... Cheers, 10forcash **god bless the UB40, USB, UAE...etc.**

The partner wasn't a yank was (s)he? - that would explain the spelling... Seriously, (as I can be after that...) considering the costs of solicitors, it may be worth making a realistic offer on the domain / passwords - at least it would be money well spent - unlike solicitors.... Cheers, 10forcash ps. lot of brits on here - Happy Christmas, wherever you may be ! especially fellow expats

Think of it this way, the cost of an extra stick of RAM and A/V software (or even just the RAM if you go the freebie route for A/V) is far outweighed by the cost in time to reinstall after a virii infection, plus the cost of dialup (if that's what you're on) to download all the patches after you reinstall a year or so old OS.... add all that up and even a processor upgrade looks cheap! factoring all that in is known as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), this even applies to 'home' users Cheers, 10forcash 'computers are for life, not just for Christmas'

Smartie91, have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...;305550&sd=tech Cheers, 10forcash

Well if you can't access the firewall, you're probably not the sysadmin, which means that a responsible adult has put some good rules in place to prevent you plagurising (sp?) other peoples work, i'm not going to help you. so there. cheers, 10forcash, ps. happy christmas - you sponger....

Don't want to worry anyone, but, a router will allow any traffic out, block inbound apart from certain ports. This does not block trojans, spyware etc. from operating as they are eminating from inside your network (neither does XPSP2) Zonealarm will prevent any malicious programmes from gaining access to the internet - unless you specifically authorise the programme (or the service it is masquerading as) My business networks utilise hardware firewalls and my home network uses Zonealarm, together with all OS patches - and a NAT router... Cheers, 10forcash

Firefox isn't compatible with SPS, as I operate several intranet servers running SPS, I have to allow IE to run, Firefox whilst installed on all boxes isn't used by many for internet access as thet're more familiar with IE. As yet I haven't found way of blocking IE at firewall or policy level for internet access but allowing Firefox - any ideas? Cheers, 10forcash ps. extranet access doesn't (and shouldn't) get onto the LAN, that's just asking for trouble.... so it shouldn't matter which protocol runs on your LAN, sometimes multi - protocols can cause real problems, IPX/SPX & TCP/IP for example. Extranet / internet servers should be in the DMZ or the Sysadmin should be hung - in my opinion...

failing that, you can alwats set it up in outlook as an HTTP account, although this is view only, not cached Cheers, 10forcash

Yahoo.co.uk still has POP3 access - even though 'those across the pond' lost it on free acounts over 2 years ago... Hotmail.co.uk, in the interests of a competitive market probably still does in the UK too. I don't use hotmail so I don't know the settings, try looking on the help pages for hotmail, or experiment with settings like mail.hotmail.co.uk or pop3.hotmail.co.uk, pop.hotmail.co.uk etc. Cheers, 10forcash ps. you could always set up a yahoo.co.uk account and forward all your hotmail to there, then use SMTP / POP3 for long enough until eveyone knows your yahoo.co.uk address..... or set up your own mail server!