Recent content by nicksheppard

Hi folks, Dropping this into the exchange forum as that seems like the best place. We're using exchange 2010 We're running mail merge from word with excel lists and producing emails which are fine and that process is working ok. However the emails send immediately. In the end I created a fake...

Tried to find a way to do the following but without success.. We have a load of junk mail that comes in. We reckon a business we dealt with was compromised as all the junk comes to three specific addresses that were only given to this one business. i.e. junk email with three given recipients...

Hi there, bit of a puzzler. Ok windows xp client connecting through windows vpn to a windows 2003 remote access vpn server, pptp based vpn forwarded through a cisco router from a single static public IP. No problems connecting, authenticating or getting IP address. Sometimes.. it works fine...

Just a few suggestion to get you started. Check whether this is DNS related. Can you access the systems using just their IP addresses. If so you should check into the way DNS services run. e.g. \\172.168.1.1 at the run box does it connect and give authentication. Remote desktop to an IP, does...

Hi Peter, Afraid you've misunderstood what the vpn can do for you. The restrictions you mention are going to be a result of controls on the work network that you are connecting to. Changing the type of vpn isn't go to do anything about those restrictions. The question should be 'what can you...

Check on the systems with ipconfig /all and confirm on one 'working' and one 'non-working' system that they show the same IP for the DHCP server. This is to see ..... Is it possible there's a server DHCP and a router DHCP both running but with different gateways configured? When IP addresses...

One thought I had.... What IP addresses are the client systems showing? 169.254.x.x addresses mean they can't contact the dhcp server Anything else and they're getting an address from somewhere. ipconfig /all will show the source dhcp server There's an outside chance the router has dhcp...

Hello, Ok, think you've misunderstood the basic vpn concept. Typically a vpn will be used in two situations. 1. A site to site vpn exists between two sites who wish to be securely connected (usually branches of a single company) The site to site vpn means that when users in one site contact a...

Hello world, Looking for some vpn hardware and wondered if anyone could make a suggestion or feedback. The client has some very specific requirements. 1. There's 3 sites in total 2. Each site has two different adsl lines for vpn (prime and backup) 3. They want a single hardware unit per site...

Hi all, This is a request for any suggestions or recommendations on a proxy for the following: There is a small classroom with five machines with static IP's (members of a domain) We've already set up a physical link to a firewalled router so internet access to the whole room can be switched...

Thanks for the update but the StorNext file system is specifically designed so it can support both Windows and red hat hosts with simultaneous mounting on the same LUN (at least according to StorNext tech support). But it costs about 2000 per server and there's 13 servers in total. I'd had a...

Hi and thanks for reading. We have a multipath fibre channel SAN which is being broken into 3 areas. One area is being used by Oracle (running on red hat) and this has its own file system so no problem there. The second area is used to store virtual machines and will be using VMWare VMFS...

Hi, Having inherited the most convoluted network arrangement (3 sites, about 15 routers, watchguards and netpilots, vpn failovers and other over engineered solution) a new internet line is being installed. There is a range of public IP's and we need to assign public Ip's to a watchguard, a...

Hi, Having inherited the most convoluted network arrangement (3 sites, about 15 routers, watchguards and netpilots, vpn failovers and other over engineered solution) a new internet line is being installed. There is a range of public IP's and we need to assign public Ip's to a watchguard, a...

Hi to all, Problem: XCOPY failure from a batch file (I suspect this is an active directory security/policy issue which is why this is posted here) 1.We have an XCOPY batch script to copy a bunch of directories and files. 2.It's trigered manually 3.It uses a mapped drive (S:) to copy source and...