I am facing a rather strange situation. I have setup an enviroment with a
couple of servers one of which is acting as a file server. It is an HP
DL-380G4 with RAID5 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
The symptom is that even on the server console (since it is happening on the

First of all, I thought for sure I posted this question to this same
board last night, but can't find it anywhere. Forgive me if I double-
posted.  I did try to find it.
We are implementing a web app that users will be able to change their

Is there any difference when accessing folders by means of a mapped
drive and going all the way through My Network Places? I'm just
wandering as I have a strange problem with some of the users in our
network. Basically from time to time some of them and in practice

I am trying to setup roaming profiles for my users and using folder
redirection to help reduce long logon times.  However, I  have some
people with gigabytes of music and videos that I don't want roaming
with them.  I want to be able to have their My Documents and Desktop

Is there a recommended or suggested max no of disks that should be placed in
a single RAID-5 array. Recently a SAN engineer suggested that up to 9 is
optimum and that as well as increased risk of multiple disk failure in a
single set,  performance is also affected.

I installed SP2 yesterday, and a whole bunch of features have stopped
working. Help & Support, Search, and Run when selected from the Start button
do not function (I get a message saying "Windows cannot create a shortcut
here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop ...

I reinstalled windows xp media center 2005 after installing a new hard drive.
After doing so, the information balloons in the taskbar don't appear, just
get popping sound. For instance, when using the safely remove hardware, I
don't get the balloon stating it's safe to remove. Only ...

I am getting crazy. We connected our Windows 2008 to the domain. We made
share, give share  rights to everyone and in security added users. When
we try to connect to the share by:
\\Ipnumber\Share$

Take into consideration the following scenario:  I have a Windows 2003
domain with a member file server.  I have a share on this file server
and the Shared permissions are set to Everyone - Full Control.  I then
have NTFS permissions set to local Administrators on the member filer

I'm running a Server 2003 network in a school setting where I'd like things
to be pretty locked-down.  I use both mandatory profiles and group policy to
lock down user accounts.  Lately I've had consistent errors when all users
load the mandatory profile.  The error message ...

Good morning,
Running in a Win2K3/R2 (64-Bit) I'm seeing some very weird things happening
with file permissions and ownership.  I've got about 3TB of storage with
multiple shares and I'm seeing entire file systems become owned by a random

Server 2003 R2, also 2000 SP4.
APC Back-UPS 650/750, USB signalling lead.
No specialist software, standard Windows power-management settings in use.
Both of these servers have shown problems with intermittent rebooting since

I'm setting up a MOSS07 database server which will be Server 2003 Enterprise
R2 SP2 64 bit (x64). However, when I access the MVLS site to download that
product under terms of Volume Licensing, that OS does not appear. The only
choices are Server 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2 or Server ...

We have some users who mainly work on the road and rarely come into the
office.  The user logs in cached and then will vpn to the office if required
for network files, etc...  Mail is connected via Outlook RPC.
If we enable password policy for these users, they will get a message ...

I've installed RD client on one of the 2kpro PCs on the network and
when I try to use it co connect to other computers it works just fine.
The problem is when I go the other way round so connecting say from
the 2003SBS to that 2kpro machine. I'm getting a message saying that I