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Thanks, everyone. Already been looking around for solutions; just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious.

You are correct; my mistake... Was stressed, excuses, excuses, it's an old Seagate BlackArmor 400 and some of the knowledgebase articles I was reading refer to NFS and CIFS as file systems :) Regardless, I can see the disk and the partitions, but not the filesystem.

Pretty much what the title says; had a RAID-1 array in a NAS, pulled (and replaced) one of the physical drives, lost the array (much later; unrelated), trying to recover data from the pulled drive. Filesystem is CIFS, NAS doesn't recognise it, can't seem to mount it in Windows or Linux... Help...

Worked! Thank you!

See title. Error message: 0x80004005 - 0x20004 The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during INSTALL_RECOVERY_ENVIRONMENT operation Can't figure this one out. Searches mention hardware incompatibilities (fingerprint scanner, etc...), but no documented solution seems...

ImgBurn is your best friend; CDBurnerXP is also good; windows' built-in stuff is capable.

SBS 2011 domain + 2008 R2 w/SQL server, experiencing intermittent network connections throughout the building; Outlook clients briefly losing connection to Exchange server, third-party client/server software losing connections, etc... Not noticeable when web browsing. Suggestions? Thanks.

Just a heads-up, Sysinternals'/Microsoft's free Disk2VHD utility has some pretty gaping holes in its functionality, and you have to pay for a software bundle just to get their SCVMM if you want to fill those holes; seems to be an issue with disk controller drivers... Luckily, Citrix's free...

We recently migrated from SBS Premium 2003 to SBS 2011 Premium Add-On. When planning the migration, my manager wanted to opt for a single physical machine that would run SQL Server 2008 R2 on the same box as the domain controller; not recommended, I know, but supposedly possible. Now I'm...

We have an 1841 (only one WAN port installed) on the T1, but it's the ISPs; we don't get access to it.

We're moving our database server offsite, and we currently have a DSL line and a T1. We want the T1 to be used exclusively for database operations (likely Citrix clients from our site accessing the remote database) and e-mail (we run a local Exchange server). The DSL line is to be used for...

Again, I'm pretty confident that the auto-redirection of My Documents folders to network resources is not relevant here, as the document was saved to the desktop. Anyway, it looks like the computer was trying to perform some automatic updates and ran into bad sectors on the hard drive; that...

That's what I figured... I was just wondering if this was a somewhat common occurrence and if there was a way to recover such data. I know, but that's not the case here; she saved the document to the desktop.

Windows XP laptop on an SBS 2003 domain. User logged-in to the laptop, using her usual username and password, while disconnected from the network; error message was displayed, but user cannot recall details; user was presented with a fresh desktop (only "All Users" icons were present), opened...

Yeah, that's the obvious final step if I can't get things working otherwise, but the current changes alleviate huge amounts of stress on our already overworked server. I was mostly just wondering if I was missing a step, like having the filtering service add their own DNS server IPs to some kind...

All mail is routed through a smart host run by the external service. The first warning shows-up when trying to send from our server. Both warnings are coming from our server.

We're running Exchange Server 2003 (SBS) and have an external spam filtering service. All server traffic is over our T1 line; all workstation web traffic is over a separate DSL connection. Two common error messages have started popping-up recently: 1 - <domain.tld #5.5.0 smtp;550...

An update: I set-up FreeProxy on an old tower we had lying around, and pointed it at OpenDNS. Then I put together a GPO for the restricted accounts that set IE to use the proxy server, removed the "Connections" tab from "Internet Options", and blocks (by way of path rules) the users from...

Yes, that's what I initially tried... Either I've done something wrong, or it just doesn't work. As for the log-on and log-off scripts, that idea seems to be a bust. I've written a script that will change the settings, but the user needs to be a local administrator for it work; because the...

Heh, I would, but this is for a 12-computer lab with zero budget at a community centre. The issue is that they use it for employee training as well as after-school programs.

Two interesting ideas... I'll look into them. Thanks!

Luckily, this user account only needs to access one network resource; a single shared folder, and that can be mapped using an IP address, so that's not a big deal. That's why OpenDNS is a feasible solution in this situation. I've also considered looking into editing our login script for this...

...But GPOs have "User Configuration" sections and can be filtered on a per-user basis, so I was being hopeful.

Loopback mode? Perhaps I've misunderstood your recommendation, but I want to filter content (i.e. no pornography), not block web access completely. OpenDNS does that nicely, but there doesn't seem to be a way to modify DNS settings on a per-user basis... At least not one that works. As for...

Free web content filtering... OpenDNS, to be exact.

We're running Windows SBS 2003, and would like a specific user account (which happens to be a restricted user) to have specific DNS settings, regardless of workstation. That should be possible via GPO, but isn't working. DHCP seems to be workstation-specific rather than user-specific, and...

Thanks! I may go ahead with such a project when I can find some more spare time, but for now I ended-up going with one of these: http://byteccusa.com/product/adapter/UPS-102/UPS-102.htm While it doesn't give me video-only switching, it does free from having to rely on any kind of PS/2...

Unfortunately, those look to be prohibitively expensive. You sure there's no simple way to hack something together to provide power over one of the PS/2 ports? Like an existing device that might do the trick? I guess it's research time for me... Thanks for the input!

I have a D-Link DKVM-2KU KVM switch (VGA, PS/2, USB), and it will only work if at least one of the PS/2 cables is connected to a computer that is powered-on. Furthermore, if one channel is only connected via VGA and USB and neither of the PS/2 ports are being used, then the device will not...

Really? Installing a dedicated server just to filter Internet traffic on a handful of our workstations? There's gotta be something less drastic...

I need to: Block Internet access for all users on certain workstations on the domain Allow certain websites to be accessible Allow same users full Internet access on other workstations But... Setting a fake DNS server breaks access to domain resources Setting a fake proxy server...

Just had our second DLT VS80 tape drive die on us. I can get used external DLT 7000 drives for $30 each (which would allow us to continue using our DLTIV tapes; our current backup is under 25GB), but finding the appropriate cables locally is kind of annoying (we only have VHDCI external on the...

I must be missing something obvious here, but bear with me; I have little practical experience with VPNs, and the reading I've been doing on the subject is raising more questions than it's answering. At the very least, I want to connect to the server and access shared folders. If the remote...

Trying to get a basic VPN set up from an SBS 2003 machine. Everything works, but there's a catch; my predecessor designed the network to use 192.168.1.x as the internal IP range, which causes a problem if the client's home network is also on that range (a.k.a. if the client is using any consumer...

I've built and rebuilt a couple of RAID 1 arrays on that PERC 4/SC without issue, though I do prefer to do things from the controller's boot-time interface... Or whatever's the proper term for it ;)

It's been a while since I installed it... Can't remember the specifics off the top of my head, but these might help: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/en/enterprise_videos_list Specifically, "How to Download, Install, and Set-up OMSA"

We're running a PERC 4/SC with Windows SBS 2003 here, and Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator software seems to do the trick... It's a free download from dell.com.

Just want to be sure (since I can't seem to find a comprehensive answer anywhere), but Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002, 2003, and 2004 use interchangeable product keys (such that I can use a 2002 key to install 2004, for example), but 2005 uses its own set of product keys, correct? Thanks.

Agreed. Otherwise, yeah, welcome to present :) You're spot on in many of your observations, but then XP x64 and all flavours of Vista have been perfectly usable for quite some time now. If you do your research on things like hardware and software compatibility before you go buying new parts...

Those old Porteges are bitches for this kind of thing. Forget booting from anything other than the internal hard drive without your model's specific port replicator. Oh, and the two PIII models I have (3440 and 3480, IIRC) use PC100 MicroDIMMs... Good luck finding those ;) I was finally able...