November 2008 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Server maintenance tomorrow evening
by Andrew Hodgson 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi, Unfortunately I need to stop the email feed into this domain tomorrow evening for probably most of the weekend. This is due to a massive upgrade here, including upgrading to some new Cisco kit, and upgrading our Exchange server to Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008! The MailMan web interface and archives will continue to operate normally as they are hosted on a virtual server elsewhere, its just that I pipe all the email through a scanner located in this office. Thanks. Andrew.

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Using the PowerVault tape library administration panel.
by Darragh.OHeiligh＠Oireachtas.ie 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello again, The backup solution here uses a number of DLT and LTO tape drives configured with Powervault T130 libraries. The software that we use is Symantec Backup Exec 11D. All but one of our servers is using Windows 2003. Unfortunately, one server that has yet to be decommissioned is running 2000. The small interface on the front of the powervault can be used for configuring the library. This configuration can also be done remotely via connecting to the RMU over the network. However, instead of displaying the menu items shown on this interface in text, the dell powervault interface accessed over the network shows it as a graphic. Therefore, I obviously cant read it. Is there any way that you know of that would enable me to read this interface? Any help would be appreciated. Darragh Ó Héiligh

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Using rack consoles.
by Darragh.OHeiligh＠Oireachtas.ie 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello all, Have any of you found a way of independently using rack consoles? The tipical problem is: You go to a rack, open it, slide out the rack and hit the print screen or the control key twice to bring up the menu showing each server. You can arrow through this menu and select your server. When the enter key is pressed, you are left at the standard prompt to press control alt delete. When you supply the username and password, you can log in, Most of the servers here have USB ports either on the front or at the back so with a bit of messing around, I could connect a Braille Display to the one that I need to use however my prefered output is speech. So, the problems are: I have no way of reading the menu for choosing what server to log on to. I've no synthesized speech when I launch Jaws on any of the servers. Of course, I can log in via remote desktop, but this isn't always possible. Any suggestions? Their dell racks and machines ranging from 2650 to 2950's. There are I'd guess a minimum of six racks in each server room and all except one of the racks are full. So, you can probably see why this causes a problem. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh P.S. This is the first of a few questions.

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Using the PowerVault tape library administration panel.
by Darragh.OHeiligh＠Oireachtas.ie 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello again, The backup solution here uses a number of DLT and LTO tape drives configured with Powervault T130 libraries. The software that we use is Symantec Backup Exec 11D. All but one of our servers is using Windows 2003. Unfortunately, one server that has yet to be decommissioned is running 2000. The small interface on the front of the powervault can be used for configuring the library. This configuration can also be done remotely via connecting to the RMU over the network. However, instead of displaying the menu items shown on this interface in text, the dell powervault interface accessed over the network shows it as a graphic. Therefore, I obviously cant read it. Is there any way that you know of that would enable me to read this interface? Any help would be appreciated. Darragh Ó Héiligh

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Using rack consoles.
by Darragh.OHeiligh＠Oireachtas.ie 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello all, Have any of you found a way of independently using rack consoles? The tipical problem is: You go to a rack, open it, slide out the rack and hit the print screen or the control key twice to bring up the menu showing each server. You can arrow through this menu and select your server. When the enter key is pressed, you are left at the standard prompt to press control alt delete. When you supply the username and password, you can log in, Most of the servers here have USB ports either on the front or at the back so with a bit of messing around, I could connect a Braille Display to the one that I need to use however my prefered output is speech. So, the problems are: I have no way of reading the menu for choosing what server to log on to. I've no synthesized speech when I launch Jaws on any of the servers. Of course, I can log in via remote desktop, but this isn't always possible. Any suggestions? Their dell racks and machines ranging from 2650 to 2950's. There are I'd guess a minimum of six racks in each server room and all except one of the racks are full. So, you can probably see why this causes a problem. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh P.S. This is the first of a few questions.

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GPO for consistent folder look
by Dave 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Hello, Does anyone have or know of a GPO perhaps in an administrative template for setting a consistent folder look? I'd like for all folders to be in a list view, not icons, and for some reason setting these properties manually doesn't stick even though i select apply to all folders. I'd also like classic features. Thanks. Dave.

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linux?
by Ibraam Wahib 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

hello lest: how's linux with screen reader? can i use it as windows? can i find screen reader read linux in a cli and a gui mood? am i learn it via vertual machine. thanks. ibraam

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favorites copy logon script
by Dave 01 Nov '08

01 Nov '08

Hello, I'm looking for a logon script that will copy a user's favorites folder from a server to their local profile at logon. I've already got one working at logoff, which copies from the local favorites folder to a server redirect. The nonworking script i've tried is below, if anyone has another i'd love to hear about it. Thanks. Dave. 'Created by Matthew Hull on 7/21/04 'Modified by Jason Purificato on 7/17/06 'This script will copy the users favorites to the users folder from the server. Option Explicit On Error Resume Next Dim objShell, objFSO, strHomeShare, strUserProfile 'Create the shell and file system objects Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") set objFSO = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'Use the Shell Object to retrieve system environment variables strHomeShare = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%HOMESHARE%") 'Remote strUserProfile = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%USERPROFILE%") 'Local 'Exit if the variables are blank If strHomeShare = "%HOMESHARE%" Or strUserProfile = "%USERPROFILE%" Then objShell.LogEvent 2, "Cannot copy favorites to the server" & vbCRLF & _ "Error Description: Environmental variables not set" Wscript.Quit End If 'If the Favorites folder exists on the server then backup the local favorites, 'delete them, then copy them from the server. If objFSO.Exists(strHomeShare & "\Favorites") Then objFSO.copyFolder strUserProfile & "\Favorites", strUserProfile & "\Favorites_back" If Err Then objShell.Logevent 1, "Cannot backup local favorites" & vbCRLF & _ "Error Description:" & Err.Description Err.Clear Wscript.Quit Else objFSO.DeleteFolder strUserProfile & "\Favorites" Err.Clear objFSO.CopyFolder strHomeShare & "\Favorites",strUserProfile & "\Favorites" End If Else ObjShell.LogEvent 2, "Cannot locate server version of favorites" & vbCRLF & _ "Error Description:" & strHomeShare & "\Facorites not found" Wscript.Quit End If 'Record status to the event viewer If Err Then objShell.LogEvent 1, "Cannot copy favorites from " & strHomeShare & _ "\Favorites to " & strUserProfile & "\Favorites" & vbCRLF & _ "Error Description: " & Err.Description Err.Clear Else objShell.LogEvent 0, "Favorites successfully copied from " & strHomeShare & _ "\Favorites to " & strUserProfile & "\Favorites" End If 'Close variables Set objShell = Nothing Set objFSO = Nothing

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