Recent content by Xtremetechie

Do any of you guys work in IT or build systems professionally.........if you do you can get $10,000 in microsoft app's for $300 a year!!! Totally legit!! Check this out You will get 10 XP professional licenses and a whole lot more.....I ordered it and it rocks....and they send you...

Go Gigibit if you can afford it, you will notice a speed increase, however with macs in the mix I think your major bottleneck will be the windows server. Windows has to reverse the bit order for all file transfers to and from macs, this is a significant speed bump. Mac to Mac file transfers w/...

What DNS server are you running, Are you clients successfully registering their connections, If its 2K is it Standard Pri. or AD integrated?

Dudes, Dont make the mistake of trusting NAT for security it is not a robust solution, even for the home DSL/CAble user. this link illustrates this point well Heres the conclusion from that link: Conclusions "NAT, in and of itself, is not a security strategy. Sure it helps by hiding all...

3com are the most compatible nics's in the world, from my experiences(Only because they intergrate with app's like ghost really well), intel are pretty good too, I like the ability to team two nics to the same "virtual adapter"with the Intel proset drivers, however dont team a nic if a Mac needs...

get those 120 day eval student copies that come with the microsoft press books. Works fine for a while.

I have a dlink access point, works like a champ from half a block away, Has been tiptop for over a year now. never misses a beat.

Here's a thoguht, go to the 2k print server boxes, under printers right click on the printer go down to properties, you will see a bunch of choices including sharing, click the sharing tab, you should see a box called additional drivers, click there and you will see a list of drivers and OS's...

Sound like a mapped drive is attempting to reconnect at logon, if so try deleting the mapped drive, remap it, during the mapping process unclear the check box that says reconnect at logon. This should prevent this from happening in the future

You can learn a lot with one machine, however two is ideal. I went to a few neighborhood computer stores and bought 2 old Pentium 233's for around $50 bucks a piece, they make great domain controllers for a home lab and they didn't break me. This really helped, however I already had 2 monitors...

a logon script would work great

I support 50 graphic designers who work in Illustator and Photshop all day, they all use and swear by these The 6"x 8" intous 2 being the most popular

Sounds a bit like overkill, but hey 8 speakers is a lot of sound, Brings up some interesting possiblities for multiroom audio.

Dude, You must of had a "DU" error on your linksys router, thats why you couldnt game. thats "Defective User" and that person is you sir. Secondly r u saying that this user should run no firewall or any sort of security provided by most broadband routers today. Get a clue pal.

Oh well, It was worth a shot, maybe next time. Cheers