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It's located at the root of your system drive. You can open a command prompt and type %systemroot%\boot.ini to open it up. If you can't see it, go into your folder options and uncheck the box to hide system files, etc. :)

Drive mappings are session specific. Try using the AT command to launch a command prompt under the local system account. Map the drive in that command window. Drive mappings done under the local system account are created in the global namespace and are constant for all users (your...

Actually, browsing has nothing to do with DNS at all. It's purely a broadcast/WINS implimentation. Assuming the WINS servers are configured correctly, you can browse anywhere you like (it's just slow as hell in a large multi-domain environment).

If you have ISA, you can do some fun things with client/destination sets. Nothing more fun than redirecting all clients that aren't part of your set to a website of your choice. :)

If you're using XP Pro, turn off simple file sharing. Simply go to the security tab of the folder you want to protect and remove the groups you don't want to access the share, add your login account with full control and be done with it. If you connect from another machine, you'll be...

"It emulates the HTTP protocol as a local connection." Not to be picky, but it doesn't emulate HTTP, it uses it. RPC itself isn't a transport protocol, it always uses an underlying transport (TCP, Named Pipes, HTTP). The nice part about this solution is that you don't need to open a ton of...

How many people are you talking about here? If you truly want to manage the bandwidth and split a single T1 between 3 companies, you might want to go with something like ISA... that way you can set up caching (faster for all 3 of you) and control bandwitch. Just set up client sets to...

Awesome. :)

How is each machine getting it's IP address? Do you manually configure the IP address (for example, 192.168.1.1) or do you get one automatically via some hardware router? If it's automatically, they should all be in the same subnet. If they are all manually configured (or maybe one is, and...

Is this environement at work or home (basically, domain or just workgroup). Are all the machines on the same subnet? It's odd that you would get an Access Denied on a browse attempt via \\computername but be allowed if doing \\ipaddress in a workgroup environment. If the error was...

control panel, security center, firewall settings, make sure it's On and the checkbox for "Dont' allow exceptions" is not checked. Click on Exceptions and make sure that File and Printer sharing is enabled, and hit edit, followed by change scope to make sure it's allowed for the correct...

Yeah, our stance is that if you are going to image machines, you must sysprep them first. If you choose not to sysprep the machines first, all support is best effort only and we guarantee nothing.

You mean the volume label? That thing you can set by right-clicking a drive and going to properties? Absolutely not. That's in no way guaranteed to be any more unique than a computer name... users can set that to whatever they want. It's not used in any form of local or network IO...

Oh wow... someone promoting NetBEUI as a good replacement for TCP/IP. Do you troubleshoot by fondling chicken entrails and drawing mystical vodoo tattoos on yourself in charcoal ... just waiting for that solution to appear in a vision?

Both printers attached to your machine and shared? Network printers? How is this network set up... Are all the machines running XP SP2? Can all the machines browse, or just yours? When you say they can't get to the shares on your machine, do you mean they get "Access Denied" when they...