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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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backing up a windows box with system rescue
by Dave 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hello, With my ongoing saga of the laptop i'm now having to back it up prior to a reinstall. I've got system restore which has mounted both the laptop's ntfs hd and an external usb hd also ntfs read/write using ntfs-3g. We're doing a cp -R source destination. My problem that i just thought of is that some of the files and folders the microsoft ones under documents and settings have special characters in them, braces. I need a complete backup of this system, so am thinking this copy is eventually going to error out. I need an alternative. Suggestions welcome! Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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2003 group policy and windows update services?
by Dave 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Hello, I'm getting in to group policies on a domain basis in server 2003. I've got two questions, first can i set a consistent user background for all users in the domain without having to resort to active desktop? The background i want to use is a standard windows background and using it outside a policy does not require active desktop. Second, does anyone have a simple step by step procedure on setting up a windows update server? I've read the MS-doc on the subject, but am not sure it applies to the current version of server update services and was hoping for something a little more concise. Thanks. Dave.

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Automated Password Software
by Vita Zavoli 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi, Can anyone suggest an accessible software program that allows users to change their own network passwords? I would need to review the logs with either JAWS or Window-Eyes. Thanks. Vita Vita Zavoli User Support Specialist Information Technology Department Call the Service Desk at: (212) 502-7666

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Windows Home Server
by Ryan Shugart 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi: I'm thinking of purchasing a Windows Home Server machine, probably the HP Media Smart Server X470 or something similar. I was wondering if anyone else on the list has played with one of these machines and has any comments. I've heard the management tools can be made accessible but you have to go about it in an odd way and you have to use Window-Eyes to do it, which for me is fine. I think at its hart WHS is just Windows Server 2003 with some customized software preinstalled. The full PC backup interests me, and I've heard you can get some add-ons to integrate it with internet offsite backup. Any comments on this system? Anyone using one of these now? Ryan

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jfw with advanced active directory permissions, server 2003
by Dave 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, I'm trying to modify special permissions in active directory. I've got a user, added to a group, go to properties of the group, add in the user, go to the advanced button, uncheck the inherit permissions button then i tab to the list of permissions that one can set. All i hear is something like allow this object and all child objects repeated, arrowing down repeats the same information, visually i've been told that arrowing from item to item changes the display as the items are arrowed over. Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment
by Angelo Sonnesso 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

It is supposed to but I have my doubts. I will try it as soon as I can. Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. Social Worker for the Blind -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:49 AM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi, So does this include sound support? I thought the PE environment didn't work with sound - not because of the driver issues, but because some of the other components to provide the sound output are missing. That is what I read in some of the forums anyway last time I tried this. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Angelo Sonnesso [mailto:Angelo.Sonnesso@pcdss.com] Sent: 23 October 2008 15:41 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Importance: High Add NIC and Drive Controller support for virtually every piece of hardware under the sun to your BartPE CD, here's how: First, get the latest collection of drivers from the DriverPacks project.(http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/) Download the LAN DriverPack and unpack it into the Drivers\Net folder in your PEBuilder directory. Download the MassStorage Driverack and unpack it into the Drivers\SCSI folder in your PEBuilder directory. There are a few drivers that have .inf files with quirks that cause errors and warnings when building your disk. To fix the issues, find the folders that seem to have missing files buy browsing the error log. Most of the missing file errors can be corrected by making a copy of a file already in the driver directory and renaming it. (For example, there are numerous instances looking for bdco1ins.dll and the actual file is named bdco1.dll.) The remaining missing files are ide/atapi related and can be fixed by copying files from your windows\system32\drivers directory, or extracting them from cabs. Once completed, PEBuilder will automatically incorporate all of these drivers into your build, giving access to virtually all hardware in existence! Well I will let you know I will get to it this weekend. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:03 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi: Does Bart PE use Windows PE as its core OS or is it really making a bootable Windows XP? If the latter then I don't see why you couldn't incorporate any sound driver that works with XP. I've heard rumors that someone managed to make a bootable Windows XP using Windows XP Embeded, a version of Windows XP used in set top boxes and the like, and managed to get full sound and speech working on that. I didn't learn anymore, and I have no clue how one gets their hands on Windows XP Embeded. I have MSDN and just don't see it listed there as available to download. I'd be very interested in such a talking bootable environment as well, a lot of tools are moving or have moved from dos boot disks to Windows PE boot disks. I've used GRML, and its certainly usable for what it does, but for a primarily Windows environment having Windows tools would be nice. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of White, Matt Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:45 AM To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Importance: High This is the approach that I thought would be most likely to work--just haven't had the time/inclination to make it happen. With some sort of USB sound integrated in, something like NVDA would probably work--at least that is my pipe dream. Matt On Thu, October 23, 2008 09:39, Angelo Sonnesso wrote: > You can add a driver directory to the Bart PE environment. > If I can find a USB headset. I will try to make an disk image. > > > Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. > Social Worker for the Blind > > -----Original Message----- > From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of > Andrew Hodgson > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:19 AM > To: blind-sysadmins; dave.mehler > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hi, > > I don't believe there exists such a thing as an accessible PE > environment, as I don't believe any sound is an option in such an environment. > > The only thing I would try is to get an accessible Speakup disk from > somewhere and boot off that, but you would be issuing commands in Linux. > > Someone a while back gave me a Windows 98 disk with NTFS support on > the disk (this was sort of not fully legit), but I did think if this > could work, and we could either get a dos screen reader or JFW > installed in that environment with software speech, it would be very > nice. However, it didn't come with any sound drivers enabled out of > the box, so it would have to be customised for the PC you were using it with. > > Andrew. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave [mailto:dave.mehler@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 October 2008 14:03 > To: 'Blind sysadmins list' > Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hello, > I'm trying to clean off a laptop that has been infected with a trojan. > It's > an xp machine, and the trojan has replaced the lsass.exe program along > with another .dll file in the windows\system32 directory. I was > wondering if anyone had either an accessible copy of WinPE or BartPE > environment or a way i could make it work with speech? Or, any other > alternatives, a reinstall is not an option for this situation. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > -- > allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, > Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. > Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. > > Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. > Website: www.allpay.net > Email: enquiries(a)allpay.net > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is > addressed. 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