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How can i force a user to save all his/her files to a specific folder on the machine?

How can i force a user to save all his/her files to a specific folder on the machine? Clients are using: XP, Vista, and 7 Thanks
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Share Exchange Calendar Outside Organization

I'm trying to figure out the best way to meet a user's (Corp-A-User) request to share their calendar with someone at another company (Corp-B-User). We're running Microsoft SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007 ...
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Share Windows XP internet connection through multiple LAN [closed]

I have dial up connection in my XP tower with a few ethernet ports. How can I share this internet connection to more than 1 computer via the tower's ethernet ports (without router/switch/hub)? And ...
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Sharing printer with laptop in Windows [closed]

There is a computer with Windows XP machine and a printer is connected to it. The computer is connected to a router (I don't know if wireless or with cable). I'd like to share a printer with laptop ...
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Best but cheap way to provide internet to a multi-let student house?

I manage a student house with 10 bedrooms spread over 4 floors (basement, ground, 1, 2). There is a single ADSL line coming in to the basement. Currently I have a modem/router (provided by BT, my ...
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Server 2008 r2 can't access to my sharing from 2003 server

I have 6 virtual platform of 13 servers. On 5 of them, I have a Windows 2003 R2 AD/DNS server and the rest of the servers are on Windows 2003 R2 as well. On the 6th platform, I have a Windows 2003 ...
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Best Way to Share VPN Connection Among 10 Workstations

I currently have 10 windows workstations setup that establish a VPN connection each to the same server and then each establish a RDP session. I would like to share a single VPN connection between ...
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How to share video file (DVD) in company's network to employees without them being able to take it home?

I have small network with 50+ users with SBS 2003, MOSS 2007 and File server (all Microsoft software). We've got some video's that we want to share with users without them being able to save it and ...
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Networking + File Sharing

My newly created normal users in domain can't access the sharing and security on the right click menu in explorer, but the admins can, what's the bug?
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EC2 - Shared Storage - S3FS or EBS?

Building my web service onto EC2 right now and have a single instance behind a load balancer. I will of course cater for multiple instances. My initial idea was to run all the instances a dumb ...
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How do permissions work once a sharing layer is involved?

I have a fileserver running OpenIndiana, and I have multiple clients of all flavours. Windows, OSX and Linux (mainly Ubuntu). I share out some ZFS filesystems over AFP, CIFS, NFS. I understand the ...
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sharing an ext3/ext4 partition on external drive

is there a way of sharing an ext3/ext4 formatted partition on an external USB drive between different users (uids) on different Linux machines without creating a group for this purpose, setting the ...
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50 workstations, 1 .bat file on a network server, will it work?

I have a .bat file to perform maintenance on machines. I put the .bat file on a network attached server for all workstations to access it. If I were to use the windows scheduler to make that .bat ...
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Domain Admin has no permissions to copy files onto domain share

I stumped by a problem I'm having properly accessing a domain share. Server1: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise + the latest SP/patches. -- (Domain Controller) Server2: Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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Sharing distfiles between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Gentoo

Currently I have a few FreeBSD servers with one of them acting as build box sharing its /usr/ports and /usr/ports/distfiles (as separate file systems) through NFS. Recently I've added OpenBSD and ...
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Where do you share or find useful powershell, bash, batch, vbs, scripts?

I just wrote a quick little powershell script to make my life easier for a task that I was facing. I thought it would be nice to put it on the Internet, where someone else may also find it useful. The ...
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Scripting access permission to Mac OS X 10.6 managed services

On Snow Leopard, I can give access to services like SSH only to specific users by using the "only these users:" option in the sharing tab of the System preferences. This is bothersome to use when ...
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Knowledgebase/file sharing web application

looking for an opensource project similar to OWL (http://owl.anytimecomm.com/) What we need is an online app to allow for file sharing and collaboration. We need an application to replace current ...
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printer sharing in a work group

Only administrator password can get print.how to enable print for user in a work group? i used net use in command prompt command to enable the printer.printer is shared in the administrator ...
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Can someone explain the behavior of the Printers and Faxes share?

In most cases, navigating to \\%hostname% will show a share called "Printers and Faxes". In some cases, I've found that this share does not appear. Under what circumstances does this share exist/not ...
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On RHEL 6 or Fedora 14 is it possible to share or take over a graphical session without interrupting processes?

What I'm trying to do is come up with a way for a user to take over another users local session on a linux box. For example userA logs into a RHEL desktop and starts a process that lasts several ...
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sharing an IMAP mailbox

How do you keep a mailbox available to a group of users, while making the mailbox behave like a mailing list? I mean, when a user reads a message, this should be not marked as read for anyone. This ...
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File-sync server software

We are currently using Dropbox in the company and running out of space lately. I'm wondering if there any similar software that we could use on our own server? I've looked at pogoplug, but I'd like ...
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Bandwidth Sharing & Accounting for large networks::Best Practices

I have a large network with more than 1500 PCs and 9000 user accounts in a university. We have classified users in 5 groups and are sharing bandwidth among them using MikrotiK's hotspot with NTTAC ...
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Set up for inter-continental database sharing and access

We have 2 offices, one in Europe and the other in South East Asia sharing a common Microsoft AX database (MSSQL). The database server is in Europe and any query done is unbearably slow. I think one ...
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Internet connection sharing windows server 2008 R2

I have one windows server 2008 r2, and that server has 4 network interfaces (3 private, 1 internet connection). I would like to share internet connection with other 3 networks. Windows server firewall ...
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Can't browse computer via nlb cluster name

I have a fileserver nlb cluster, currently set to single affinity, made up of 2 2008R2 servers. We switched the primary node today. Now our Windows XP workstations can't browse to the cluster name ...
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I have problem sharing files between ubuntu-server and Windows XP machine using SWAT

I installed SWAT with its wonderful GUI (with all of its 8 buttons)on my ubuntu-server machine the other day. I have a small network of 4 machines at home. In addition to my ubuntu-server, a windows ...
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OSX: See bonjour computers through VPN?

I use VPN to connect to my works network. Is there a way to see those computers through bonjour once I connect? Currently I need their IP to connect since I can't see them. Ideas?
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Sharing Mac OS X internet and pushing all traffic through a VMWare VM

Hey all, I have a Mac Mini connected to the internet via ethernet. I'm sharing that connection via the Mini's Airport (creating it's own wireless network). Computers can connect to the Mini via WIFI ...
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How to access files over a network using local accounts?

I have setup a small (wireless) home network comprising of 3 computers. Two with Vista and one Windows 7. There is no domain controller for this network and all accounts on all machines are locally ...
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Enterprise grade file sharing

Can anybody suggest any web based application ( enterprise grade) that will allow my internal users to share files with the outside world. Maybe something like yousendit, but I want to be able to host ...
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HOw to make two computers with different internet access each others network share

I have two different computers on is having ADSL internet coming from other company and i also have 2 LAN cxards on that computer. The other computer is getting internet via USB dongle. Now as they ...
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How to share ZFS features over NFS

We are planning to use some of the features that ZFS has, such as: Snapshots. Hierarchy of file systems (each user will have his own). Custom user properties. Clones. Is it possible to share all ...
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Permissions of Shared Folder on Windows Server 2003

I Have a VM of Windows Server 2003 running on Windows 7. On Windows 2003 there is a folder I have shared, how would I set up permissions to allow access of this folder in Windows 7? I am not sure how ...
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IIS 7.0 Session Sharing among different applications

We have created two web applications, one nested inside another(Our main web app is the outer one, and we have a cms inside, or below it). We're trying to get session sharing between the ...
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Is it possible to give public access to files in a folder within wwwroot?

I want to share some files on my computer using IIS within the wwwroot folder. I'm currently getting a 403 error when I enter the URL ipaddress/Folder. Is there any way to get rid of the 403 error and ...
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connecting usb printer to linux ethernet port

I have wireless router WRT 54GS with DD-WRT and USB printer. I was thinking about installing CUPS on my old WRT and using usb to ethernet converter to connect my usb printer to network. Only part ...
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Fault-tolerant network file sharing protocol

I have a server A which stores files, and a server B with an NFS-v3 mount to server A. When server A fails to respond for any reason, any read request made on B will hang during a long time (several ...
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Sharing a drive between Windows and Linux

The situation: I have these virtual machines that are used for building software, and I'm trying to keep all the builds on the same "disk", if you will. The virtual machines: 2 x Windows 4 x Linux ...
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File sharing/permissions scheme for students/teachers/staff?

I've recently inherited administration of an Xserve running OS X Server 10.5.8. I have a specific need for teaching staff to access the home folders of students via network shares. Ideally in groups - ...
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Centralized administration of campus (AD domain) printers?

I'm looking for the best way to centrally administer (and track!) printing for our AD domain. I know Windows Server can be configured to be a "Print Services" server, but it's my understanding that ...
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Share internet in Linux

I have an 3.5G USB Modem that I want to share its internet connection in Linux. I tried already, but only got having no internet on my own PC, still without sharing it. It's really hard to find some ...
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File property information (last write time and file size) in explorer out of date by hours over network folder share

An application is running on a windows XP prof machine picking up file from a network share from another windows machine. It detects that the file has been updated (by date and time or optionally ...
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Network Printer or Share Printer on Server?

Small office, <10 users. USB printer which also has a network port. Is it better to share the printer by plugging the usb into the sevrer, and do a windows share, or use the built in network port? ...
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VMware ESXi 4 On-Disk Data Deduplication - possible and supported?

Environment: We are running multiple web, database, and application servers which usually share a pretty common installation (gentoo linux) and similar configuration in VMware ESXi 4. The differences ...
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User unable to delete folder / files “File in use by another user” Server 2003

I am administering a standalone Windows 2003 Terminal Server with no domain membership. Occasionally (about once a week or so) a user will attempt to delete a sub-folder in a Shared folder and gets ...
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How can I preserve share paths when moving a share to a new server?

I have 2 servers and I just moved most of the shares from server1 (SBS 2003 server) to server2 (Server 2003 Standard). However, in sharepoint there are a lot of links that refer to the old server by ...
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Good practices for sharing files between virtual machines (Xen)?

I have a remote Xen server running some virtual machines and i want to share some files between them. Can you recommend a good pratice doing this ? Currently network setup is the standard Xen ...
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“Access Denied” on Vista shared folder from SBS 2003

I have Windows Server 2003 SBS and one user has Windows Vista installed. I have shared some files on that Vista machine and I'd like to access them from the SBS 2003 server, but I get an "Access ...

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