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Hi, I'm following a recommended way of repackaging Sophos for deployment through tools like Zenworks and SCCM which uses WinRAR as its method of compression and setup. Within the SFX comment file, you launch setup.exe with some default command line switches e.g. Setup=SAVSCFXP\setup.exe -mng yes -ni -s -crt R -updp c:\temp\savinst\SAVSCFXPXML\ -G "\sophos\Group" The -G bit I added as I want the installer to put the machine into the right group once Sophos installed. Problem I'm having is that we have about 15-20 groups, so 15-20 installers; this means ensuring that each RAR/SFX file is pointing to the right group. Is there a method in WinRAR that allows you to pass a command line variable to the setup string in the comment file? For example: c:\temp\savinst.exe NEXTGROUP Having NEXTGROUP pass through to here: Setup=SAVSCFXP\setup.exe -mng yes -ni -s -crt R -updp c:\temp\savinst\SAVSCFXPXML\ -G "\sophos\" & %VAR% ending up as: Setup=SAVSCFXP\setup.exe -mng yes -ni -s -crt R -updp c:\temp\savinst\SAVSCFXPXML\ -G "\sophos\NEXTGROUP" Thanks for any thoughts.

I've just tried changing the Network Access: Sharing and security model for local accounts from Guest Only to Classic, but on reboot even that setting changes back. I am an administrator of the machine so in theory I should be able to change that setting. Would an AV like Sophos prevent the change?

No, not in a domain. We're currently in a Novell Network (I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll change soon!). I've just tried the fix and it failed.. It's really odd!

Hi, I'm having some issues with Windows XP's Simple File Sharing. We need to have it switched off so a third party power management tool can connect to our machines, however we've been having issues turning Simple File Sharing off.. I've followed the usual root to folder options and switched Simple File Sharing off there; I've also changed the ForceGuest option under LSA in CurrentControlSet, ControlSet001 and ControlSet003 but everytime the machine is rebooted, SimpleFileSharing is re-enabled. There are no policies in place that would do this and there are no scripts that run to change this setting either. Has anyone every come across this before? Neil.

Cool, cheers for the Dell links; they are slightly more affordable! Think is shows that consumers in general don't seem to care that what they are buying is a step back from the CRT days.. same story with LCD TV's... some are really awful! But hey that's probably another thread somewhere else! Thanks again for the info, it's been most useful.

Thanks for the info... as I thought. Colleague of mine has just pointed me to LaCie! http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11093 Better start saving!!

Hi, I've recently bought a Samsung 22 inch wide screen monitor for my partner who is trying to start up a web design company and am a touch disappointed with it.. One of the things the monitor was bought for was to be able to design logos etc, but we've been noticing that colour gradients in particular aren't displaying as they should. I've yet to calibrate the monitor with a screen spider, but if that fails to improve the picture, would a new graphics card help? There is currently a fairly basic Intel onboard graphics card in there at the moment. Neil.

Hi The Internet WiFi router is 192.168.30.20 and DHCP is off. The server is assigned 192.168.30.30 (netmask 255.255.255.0); any further WiFi devices are using addresses from 192.168.30.21 - 29. The server distributes DHCP via a switch addresses ranging from 192.168.30.31 - 99 with netmask of 255.255.255.0. The server shares the internet with the clients on the switch via the Remote Access / VPN server role (RAV); this role is setup to use the internet with the 30.30 address with the WiFi router (30.20) as the gateway and the netmask of 255... The RAV role also managed a NAT firewall, but switching this on and off made no difference. Neither the Wireless devices nor the Wired devices can see each other. This is my current topology: My colleague has just suggested something interesting though. I have an old Netgear ADSL router at home that he suggested I use. He thinks I should continue to serve the internet to the server via the internet router but then have the old router plugged into the switch, receiving a DHCP address from the server and distributing DHCP addresses (either from itself or from the server) to the Wireless devices. He also suggested that because the server is receiving the internet on one card and connecting to the switch and it's clients on another, there might be some issues there.

Hi Got a networking problem that I just can't figure out! Network setup as follows: LAN: Internet -> Router (static IP via WiFi) -> Server 2003 (DHCP via wired) -> Switch -> LAN Clients WLAN: Internet -> Router (static IP via WiFi) -> WiFi Clients (Laptops) (Router is same for LAN and WLAN) The LAN server is in my home office and is acting as a File Server and NAT server to the clients in the office via the switch. Trouble is, the LAN clients can't see wireless network and visa versa, so the files on the server are inacessable to the wireless clients. Any ideas on how to get the networks to talk? They cant even ping each other. Server setup as follows: File Server role Remote Access / VPN server role (supplies internet to office) DNS Server DHCP Server (supplies IP's to office) WINS Server What puzzles me is that the server uses the router for the internet, but can't ping it, or the clients on the WiFi.. Thoughts? Neil.