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    Huge headache with AD, DNS, DHCP, Server 2003

    Ahhhh, THAT could be it! So one of those routers does one-to-one NAT or whatever they call it? It's just a really old setup.
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    Huge headache with AD, DNS, DHCP, Server 2003

    I know the title isn't very telling, but that's how vague and weird this little group of problems is. Here's the layout of the network. We have three public IP's from our ISP that are routed through an older sonicwall router using one-to-one NAT. We'll call them .241 .242 and .243. The...
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    Issues with VMware, a virtualized Windows NT server, and bridge networking.

    So set up the NIC on the host box as DHCP, and then set up a static IP on the virtual machine? I think this is where I'm most confused....
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    Issues with VMware, a virtualized Windows NT server, and bridge networking.

    That's correct. The host machine, running XP, is assigned to 192.168.1.106. I want to make the NT VM 192.168.1.3. Basically I want it to look, on the network, as though it's just another physical machine. But I'm just stumped here. I've done this before with hyperV and it was never anything that...
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    Issues with VMware, a virtualized Windows NT server, and bridge networking.

    Yes, I'm running vmware workstation 7.0.0 build-203739. The problem is that it seems like I'm assigning the right adapter to it, but it just doesn't seem to work. In the virtual machine itself, since it was created from a hard drive install rather than a clean install from a CD, means that it...
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    Issues with VMware, a virtualized Windows NT server, and bridge networking.

    Hi fellas! A client of mine has a server they use for their business, (and yes, NT should be upgraded, but this isn't an option so please let that argument die). It was running on a pretty robust Dell server, but I wanted to virtualize it as to make it hardware independent. I ended up...
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    "Outlook could not create the work file." error. All settings look good, any ideas?

    Yeah, I've uninstalled/reinstalled office completely, installed all the right service packs and all that. Nothing in the event viewer I could find. Just really frustrating that I'm checking what that error is supposed to be referencing, yet the info is correct.
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    Alienware laptop won't boot. Shuts down pretty quickly.

    Out of warranty in 09. Weak eh?
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    Alienware laptop won't boot. Shuts down pretty quickly.

    Er, yep. GPU is shot. I didn't realize it's got a secondary if you yank it. I yanked it and now I'm running off the other display adapter. Anyone know a cheap place to get a replacement? I got ztronics.com from the alienware people but they're out of a direct replacement for this one...
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    Alienware laptop won't boot. Shuts down pretty quickly.

    Alright, I was able to take a photo of the BIOS screen before it crashed and noticed these blue dots all over the screen. I don't know if that's normal or not because I've never looked at this particular bios before. Anyway, if that's not normal, I'd guess that's a pretty good indicator that...
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    Alienware laptop won't boot. Shuts down pretty quickly.

    No, like completely shutting down. Literally the exact same thing that happens if you yank the power cord without a battery in. At first I thought it might be a driver issue with windows or something, but then I noticed that it started doing it even more often, and I can just leave the BIOS...
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    "Outlook could not create the work file." error. All settings look good, any ideas?

    Hi everyone. Got a laptop here running windows 7 home premium and office 07. Outlook is just checking a simple pop account, but occasionally (maybe one time in 7 or 10) when outlook opens, it'll pop up this error "Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment...
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    Alienware laptop won't boot. Shuts down pretty quickly.

    Hi everyone, I have this alienware m15x-r1 laptop here. Recently it started shutting down randomly and now it's at the point where I can't even keep it going for more than 13 seconds. It's nothing to do with windows, because it'll crash in the BIOS. I'm assuming it's some sort of...
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    Setting up RDP for LAN computers in Win Server 2003

    I was looking around in the KB about RDP and all that stuff but I couldn't find anything relevant about how to set this up. Additionally, when I do what you say on the local network there (server name is fsexchange so it'd be http://fsexchange/remote) I just get this stuff: It really...
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    Setting up RDP for LAN computers in Win Server 2003

    I don't really like RDP because of how it always logs people off and all that stuff. Normally I just use Radmin on all the client computers as well as the server, but I only open the port main port (4899) to the server, and then direct all the client computers through the server. So I'll double...
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    Setting up RDP for LAN computers in Win Server 2003

    I guess I should explain the current situation. This is a friends company and they just ditched their IT guy. I know quite a bit, but I'm not super familiar with Windows Server, and I know nothing about RDP. The guy that was there has it set up so that it works for people, but it's just this...
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    Setting up RDP for LAN computers in Win Server 2003

    "Microsoft Windows Server 2003 For Small Business Server" Is what's listed in the properties of My Computer on the server. I'm guessing that's SBS. Here's the thing though, I open up MSTSC on my computer at home, input the public IP at the office, and it only gives me the option to log into...
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    Setting up RDP for LAN computers in Win Server 2003

    Hi guys, Never really played around with windows RDP stuff but I have a client who likes it and I have no idea where to begin. Any good article on how to set up RDP for client computers on a Windows Server 2003 domain? Right now when I open up mstsc and input the public IP at the office...
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    getting mac's to work off an FTP server reliably

    They're opening up by clicking "go" in the bar at the top of the screen, then selecting "connect to server". From there they just type in ftp://username : password@publicip:21. That opens up basically a window that looks like they're working on a local network share. I'll check that out...
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    getting mac's to work off an FTP server reliably

    Here's the way it's set up using the NAS The NAS functions as an FTP server as well as having windows and mac shares for the local network. Port 21 is forwarded on the router to the IP of the NAS. So to access the server, they just type in ftp://username : password@publicip:21. The same...
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    getting mac's to work off an FTP server reliably

    I thought it was a timeout issue as well and I set the timeouts as high as they could go but that didn't fix anything. I also thought it might be a permissions thing so I set them to have full access but that didn't work either. I know it's something to do with the way the Mac is talking to...
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    getting mac's to work off an FTP server reliably

    Here's the thing, I'm not a mac guy. I can get around them ok, but I don't know much about them. I just put together a server for this company the other day and most of the computers there are windows PC's, but the art department are all on macs, and they frequently work from home. They...
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    Crazy raid problem.

    That's exactly right. The thing is, when I just narrow it down to the highpoint raid and the motherboard raid, it still overrides it. So I guess it's just some sort of interference problem. Which sucks because I'd like to use both. Yeah, NVRAID to highpoint didn't work at all. I'm...
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    Crazy raid problem.

    Ok, lets try and break this down a bit. Lets say that I've got an OS on two drives that are in RAID 1. Lets say that RAID array dies and I can only get another raid controller. How do I get those drives to work on this new controller? When I just plug the drives into the RAID controller...
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    Crazy raid problem.

    Ok, here's the issue. I've got a server running win2k server and it basically functions as a humongous file server. It's got one PCI raid card for the IDE drives and the SATA drives (which are the OS drives) are RAID'ed through the motherboard SATA RAID. It's a DFI Lanparty Nforce 4...
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    Weird sharing problem on windows 2k server.

    ok, it's a windows 2000 server machine. Plenty of ram, and everything works great on it. The problem is that I can't seem to share any folders on the C drive. I can share other drives just fine, but when I try and share directories on the C drive I get this error when trying to access the...
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    Need to transfer info from one login to the next

    Any more detailed advice that that? I was under the assumption that tool was only used for moving user settings from one computer to another. Not moving settings from one user to another user.
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    Need to transfer info from one login to the next

    I've got a computer right now with someone who just divorced and wants to change their login. Their login now is jjones but now it needs to be jsmith. I've created the new user, transfered everything from "c:\documents and settings\jjones" to "c:\documents and settings\jsmith" and all...
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    Weird wireless network problem.

    Ok, I'll check it out the next time I go over there. The main reason I didn't bother to disable the security was because three other computers could connect to it just fine so I figured it had something to do with the computer itself rather than some sort of security configuration problem.
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    Weird wireless network problem.

    I have not tried it without security enabled. If it worked without security enabled what might be the fix for it then? And yes, all drivers are up to date.
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    Weird wireless network problem.

    Yeah, I've tried that. I had to enter the key multiple times after switching out the network cards. It's not a super complicated key or anything. It's WPA-PSK if that helps at all.
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    Weird wireless network problem.

    I went to a clients house a while back. she said she was having trouble getting any wireless signal in their house, so they bought a linksys WRT350N router and that helped out with the signal problem they were having. So I go over there, configure their router and get it all secure, but they...
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    weird vpn network issue

    Ok, we have a router-to-router VPN set up here, and I'm trying to connect to one other computer on the network over the vpn. At first, I can connect just fine, but then later I can't connect to the computer, either by typing in \\*computername* or \\*ip*. It gives me a message that says "Windows...
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    VPN setup with old router and new one.

    The title of this thread may be a bit misleading. Basically I have an old webramp 700s router in one location here in LA, and in our branch office I have another one. The vpn has worked fine for years. Recently the router died up in san jose, and I wanted to replace it with another (to...
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    How to set up REALLY restricted account in xp pro?

    oh, well that sucks. Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do or am I out of luck? This is just a home computer, not on any domain. You'd think that since they have restricted account settings in XP that you'd be able to edit *how* restrictive they are.
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    How to set up REALLY restricted account in xp pro?

    Ok, I've created the user. Michelle. I've created the group called michelle. I don't know how to apply GPO's to the group. Heck, I don't even really know what GPO's are. I was just using gpedit.msc to do all the stuff I wanted to do, the only problem is that I don't know how to apply the...
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    How to set up REALLY restricted account in xp pro?

    I want to set up an account on this computer that is super restricted. No task manager, no access to any administrative tools, no ability to install software, etc. Basically just an account that can run word and firefox. I have no idea how to do this. I have fiddled with the group policy...
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    smooth, lag free video from a webcam?

    I'm wondering if there's any way to get smooth video from a webcam. Whenever I view the video coming out of it using the software that came with the camera, the video has a lot of latency which sucks for what I need to use it for. However, when I view the video stream just by double clicking on...
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    Computer can't connect to the internet

    Ok, tried the winsock fixer, that didn't work. I'm in the process of installing SP2. Hopefully that resets it. If that doesnt fix it I'm going to see if maybe I've got another NIC laying around somewhere that I can try.