Tech Newsgroups: Windows Server Networking

Please help me Urgent

Mohamed - 30 Sep 2006 8:10 AM - 2 messages

I had recently add a Windows Server 2003 web edition to my network. Its runnign a Proxy Server program ( Wingate v6.4) for Internet Connection Sharing over my LAN. It also runs an Email Server (Mdaemon v9.0. And I already have a Windows 2000 server which is running a Dhcp ...

Mirroring Drives

George Schneider - 29 Sep 2006 8:10 PM - 2 messages

I was setting my disks in Device Management. I had mirroed both the data and OS drives. I receive a warning message that I have to modify the boot.ini file in order to boot to the mirroed drived. How can I do this? ...

DOS 'CD' utility that accepts UNC?

Rick Charnes - 28 Sep 2006 2:01 PM - 2 messages

In a Windows networked environment, is there a command-line utility similar to CD (Change Directory) that supports UNC paths? ...

using Strict route with ping

Perdition - 28 Sep 2006 12:39 PM - 3 messages

Hi everyone, I'm interested in making a program, be it a batch/C/VB or what not, which receives a list of IPs and a destination and sees if it is possible to send a ping through that route. ...

How to detect "Who set the DNS settings" ?

se2946 - 28 Sep 2006 5:51 AM - 4 messages

I need a script which have following function. Check the DNS setting which is configured via manually setting or it is provided by DHCP Server. I want to check for Windows 2000 and XP. ...

File Replication Service - Replication Pro/Cons

Gabe Matteson - 27 Sep 2006 8:49 PM - 2 messages

Does anyone use DFS and FRS to provide fail over data protection? In case the main file server goes down, users can be redirected over to the backup file server which will have an exact copy of the data from the main file ...

DFS FRS

Gabe Matteson - 27 Sep 2006 7:12 PM - 2 messages

How does FRS handle opened files when replicating? Does it use Volume Shadow Copy if it's Windows 2003? Thanks, - Gabe ...

Networking access is slower than expected

JeffH - 27 Sep 2006 3:34 PM - 4 messages

Hi, I've had this problem for some time and I was hoping that someone might know a solution. I have mostly Windows 2000 Pro machines in my office but I have a few XP boxes as well. On some machines a simple network process like ...

Force password on next login causes errors

E.M. Snyder - 27 Sep 2006 2:19 PM - 3 messages

Hi all, I have a W2K3 domain w/ XP pro clients, and all seems to working fine. Users can log in, get shares, printers, etc. But when I set the flag on an account to force users to change their password on next login, things ...

ICS client not connecting

yb - 27 Sep 2006 12:22 PM - 3 messages

Hi Just finished reconfiguring my network. Now have main network on 192.168.1.x, and ICS on 192.168.0.x. All working fine - Thank you very much. You have fixed in 1 day what I have been stuffing around with for ...

Network Connections

liulangzi - 27 Sep 2006 9:37 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I had a 2000 server, when i restart the server, after i log on, it will stay to the blank blue windows screen, it takes around 10 to 15mins to load to desktop. After i log to desktop, everythings seems ...

ICS client not connecting

yb - 27 Sep 2006 12:37 AM - 3 messages

Hi My setup has an ADSL wireless router (Billion) setup as DHCP with 3 PC's connected using CAT5. I wanted to setup 3 more PC's at the other end of the house without wireing. So - setup one PC with a wireless network card and second std card ...

SBS 2000 Advice

chad - 26 Sep 2006 8:50 PM - 2 messages

Hello all, I really need some help. My network runs SBS 2000 with the 16GB mail limit. Users get TONS of email, and want to keep them all. What advice would you offer? Upgrade to SBS 2003 with a 75 GB limit, ...

cals

chad - 26 Sep 2006 4:33 PM - 2 messages

I have no paper CALs. This network was setup by some network integrators that gave us nothing, and never return calls or emails. ...

DHCP + NAT port forwarding = does NOT work ??

Wolfgang Hercker - 26 Sep 2006 6:39 AM - 2 messages

As far as I know a LAN with a DHCP router AND NAT port forwarding does never work. For NAT port forwarding rules the router need to know to which target computer (=target IP) he should forwarding incoming requests. Because of DHCP the target computer can be assigned ...

Unable to start local security authority subsystem

engineguy - 26 Sep 2006 3:22 AM - 2 messages

I am unable to start the local security authority subsystem on my windows 2000 PC. The error message I get when I go to Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services -> Local Security Authority Subsystem -> Start is: Could not start the Local Security Authority Subsystem service on Local ...

Help with internet connection please....

amerar - 25 Sep 2006 7:05 PM - 3 messages

Hi All, At my other job, the ISP was complainint ab out one of our boxes doing acans on ports 139, 137, 145 or something like that. The box is running Windows 2000. At any rate, we found some info on this site and followed the ...

School 10.3

school - 25 Sep 2006 2:01 PM - 3 messages

Windows 2000 is outdated ...

Order of local area connection

Vic - 24 Sep 2006 8:44 PM - 2 messages

I have to change IP addresses a lot which requires me to go to Internet Protocol(Tcp/ip) in the Local Area Connection properties. With Client for MS, Wireless Connection Agent, File & Print Shar, OsA packert scheduler, etc, listed in the properties, I always have to ...

How to release and renew ip address remotely(by passing administrative credentials)?

parikhhiral@gmail.com - 24 Sep 2006 7:23 PM - 3 messages

Hi Is there any way/script to release and renew ip address of multiple machines remotely? Details: We have around 40 machines in a LAN. Every day, at a particular time, these machines are used by different user, for different kind of work so we have to switch these machines' vlan ...

15% of maximum, is that all Gigabit offers?

stevenfitzy - 24 Sep 2006 3:44 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I have two Belkin Gigabit NICs and a Belkin gigabit switch, I found that when I try to transfer 4-6GB files between them, I get an absolute maximum of 15% of the 1gb bandwidth (150Mbps). I'm using high quality CAT6 cables, running alone on the switch, I've ...

NAT in Windows 2000 Server

Monsolo - 24 Sep 2006 3:20 AM - 3 messages

Let me see if I can describe this accurately... I have a Dell server with two NIC cards. One card is for the Internet connection and has a static IP, DNS server numbers assigned, etc. The server sees the Internet just fine. ...