Recent content by Micronaut

That is "not" true. Dual-Raptors will give you NO real world performance gain at all - and in some cases, less. (already tested by Anandtech) It also doubles your chance for drive failure. Get 2 drives and RAID1 the bastages.

What OS are you running? Windows 2000 & XP Pro only allow 10 connections, XP Home allows 5. I don't know that this would count, because you're using an APP and not standard printer/file sharing. Use perfmon to measure your RAM, Paging/sec, Network send/bytes/sec... see where your bottleneck is.

I have a client that was running Quickbooks 2003 on TS (not many simultaneous however) without issue -- and they've just recently moved to Quickbooks Enterprise 5.0 ($3500!).

I recommend Trend Micro's AV solutions or AVG. I'm not a fan of software firewalls on workstations (I deal with domains a lot).

Joe Power User shouldn't be touching Advanced Server. No, it wouldn't surprise me, but then again I'm not your run-of-the-mill joe. (mcse:security)

That's the easiest way for sure, but not the fastest.

Lots of RAM... about 256MB for the server and 96-128MB for each concurrent user (I know that's not the offical specs, but it works out nicely).

That's far too much for what you really need to do. We do this on a regular basis and it's far easier than that. But others have it mostly covered.

Anywhere in the world? Windows 2000 - Terminal Server enabled. (I'd go with 2003 if you can get it for the same price). Enforce strict password policies (length, complexity, time, remember passwords, & lockout policy) Then be sure to password protect your Quickbooks stuff.

Or you can run hijack this and post a log. But I dont think that's a network question. It would likely be better served in a different forum. That RPC/shutdown in 1 minute is Blaster virus. Probably got in before you got SP2 loaded? You're not using a public IP are you? You should be...

Uhh.. workgroup is nothing but a name for machines to associate themselves with by default. there's nothing to config. Unless you mean the 'other' workgroup is on a different subnet. And I've never seen Windows be wrong about duplicate name on network errors.

I'm no SQL specialist. But I do know that you can harden a 2000 or 2003 server very easily. And it doesn't make it unusable. And the user base that's familiar with Windows is about oh, 1,000 times larger than that of non-Windows.' IIS has great logging, if you enable it and know where to...

So let me get this straight... You're getting an IP from the router. You can get to the internet Assuming you have 2 other machines on the network, can THEY ping each other? Print out an 'ipconfig /all' from both machines and paste it here.

What Thriemus said: 10.x.x.x (10.0.0.0/8) 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x (172.16.0.0/12) 192.168.x.x - 192.168.255.255 (192.168.0.0/16) That's it. If that's not enough - you're on your own. Use whatever block of IP's suits your fancy (from the above options). If you're talking about the...

Yes, three's too many. It's actually 2 too many. 1 hardware (blocks incoming usually - for residential routers) 1 software (to control outbound software as well, but XPSP2 doesn't do that - it just looks like it does). Usually 1's enough if you surf carefully. Use 2 if you surf pr0n...