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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.

    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?

    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

    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

    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.

    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

    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.

    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?

    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

    this one has kind of stumped me. It's an older gateway pc with an intel pro 100 VE network card in it. I can ping my router, I can ping ip addresses on the internet, but I can't pull up web pages in IE or Firefox and I can't ping any domain names like www.yahoo.com. I thought it was a...
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    windows hangs after welcome screen

    A friend brought over his laptop and it's really annoying me. Basically it works just fine, however when you boot it up, it'll get to the welcome screen, play the usual windows startup music, and then hang there for a little bit. After a while of doing nothing, it'll just go straight to the...
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    Place to download the NVraid utility?

    I've got a DFI SLI-lanparty motherboard and I'm using the onboard nvidia SATA raid to mirror two 320 gig drives. I was using a silicon image controller card that went bad recently and I decided to just use the onboard nvidia SATA raid. The old Silicon image card had a nice little utility...
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    3 400gb drives in raid 5

    I've never done raid 5 before. If i take the 3 drives and make them raid 5, will the logical drive be 800gb or 1200gb?
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    Good remote printing software?

    I frequently access a remote computer at my office with Radmin to do work in quickbooks on it. It works great, but I'd really like to be able to print checks out from that computer to the computer I'm working on at my house. does anyone know of any decent software that does this? I know PC...
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    Raid array keeps dying.

    I'm using a raid controller with the SIL 3132 chip and one drive keeps dying in the array. It'll be fine for a few days, and then I'll look at it and the software that came with the card which monitors the array says that an "event" occurred and now instead of having two drives in a healthy...
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    Need to crack a password on a router

    We've had the same setup at our office for about 7 or 8 years now and everything has been working fine, but we're about to change ISP's and we're going to lose the static IP we've had for that whole time. The problem is that we've got an office in san jose that connects to our network via...
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    X-fi drivers missing equalizer?

    I just reinstalled windows on my pc and I couldnt find the driver cd that came with my x-fi card so I downloaded the driver from the creative website to find that it's missing a lot of the software that came on the CD. The driver on the CD had that sort of gimmicky mode changer that had the...
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    Problem setting up permissions for domain users

    I'm a little new to this active directory stuff and I'm sure there's just something really simple I'm missing. Create a group to give access to a folder to only certain domain users. I created a group under "users", then added all the users into that group. Then I created the shared folder...
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    USB Flash Drive just stopped working

    I've got a memorex USB flash drive that I've been using for a while, and just recently it stopped working right. Now when I plug it in it pops up a dialogue box saying "please insert a disk into drive E:" rather than opening the drive. Anyone know why this might be? Any way to fix it? Thanks
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    Trying to connect an HP Laserjet 4 via jetdirect

    Ok, i've got this laserjet 4 that i've had hooked up to another computer but that one isnt going to be a very good print server anymore, so i'm trying to hook it up to the jetdirect port on the back. We dont use DHCP here so I set up the printer with an IP address, subnet mask, and gateway...
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    VOB to avi or mpg?

    I need to convert a VOB file to avi or mpeg. Someone in another forum suggested that I just rename the file to mpg, but that doesnt work. I'm trying to edit the video in sony vegas, and when I open either the file as a VOB or renamed to MPG, I dont have any audio to work with. So does...
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    VOB to avi or mpg?

    I've got a promotional DVD that the company I work for made a long time ago, and the boss just told me that he wants me to take some clips out of it, and I realized I have no idea how to convert video from VOB to some other format. So does anyone know of a free program that will convert from...
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    Burned DVD's are unreadable, any way to recover data?

    So i've got this huge book full of burned dvd's, and after going through them all i'm finding that easily 80% of them are not fully readable. I've been trying to copy the data to my hard drive off them, but most all of them I get cyclic redundancy check errors and i'm not able to get the data...
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    Multi Threaded Apps?

    I decided to go with a dual core processor when I upgraded my computer yesterday, mostly because I do a lot of multi tasking anyway, so it would help out regardless of whether I use multi threaded applications. But I got to thinking, what programs are there out there that work better with dual...
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    Converting from nt4 server to SBS

    Ok, I've decided that I'm not going to migrate any of the settings from the NT4 box to the new SBS server, I'm just going to set up everything from scratch. What seems to be a problem is that I'd like to have everything be seamless for the client PC's, but when I set them up on the new...
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    Can't seem to create a BDC in SBS

    So i've got one sbs machine up and running, and I'd like to add a second domain controller just in case, but when I get to the part of the active directory installation wizard that asks for the "username, password, and user domain of an account with sufficent privileges to install Active...
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    Setting up a new server and I'm lost

    I just started a new job, and they want me to start working on the servers they have here which are a complete mess. They're all windows NT boxes, and there are about five of them which could be consolidated into one box. One that hosts quickbooks, one that is the primary domain controller, a...
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    Questions about VPN

    Ok, i just started working at this job last week and we're going to be getting new internet service cause they're being ripped off at the moment. I'm pretty sure everything will be OK on this end, but we have an office in san jose (we're in LA) that VPN's to this office to access an oracle...
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    Opening a mac external drive on a PC

    Is there any free program anyone knows that can do this? I've got a ton of photos and other files on an external drive that was used with a mac, and I need to transfer those files to my windows XP machine. Thanks
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    Better bandwidth control with a WRT54G

    The network at my house is around 5 or 6 PC's hooked up to a WRT54G which is connected to 6mb/768k DSL. The thing is, occasionally one of my roommates runs some P2P crap that hogs the bandwith and screws up my ping in games and whatnot. I've heard that there are some nice hacked firmware...
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    Will Emachines XP home cd key work....

    The title should be pretty explanitory. My girlfriend has an emachines PC with xp home on it, but it's completely messed up and I told her I'd just reinstall her OS for her. Only problem is she cant find her recovery CD. I've got a copy of XP home I can get from a friend, and her cd key...
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    Software RAID?

    Right now I've got all my MP3's and movies on one 300gb external drive, and I just found another one laying around that I'd completely forgot about. Soo what I'd like to do is basically make both those drives act as if they're in a hardware RAID 1 setup, only on a USB connection, not SATA or...
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    Temps too high on a 6800GT?

    I've had this 6800gt for a while now, probably close to a year, and I was previously using it with a 21inch CRT. It would get pretty hot while playing games, enough to pop up that temp notification saying it'd got as high as 120C. I ended up just opening the side of my case and sticking a big 12...
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    K8N Neo2 Platinum won't even power on.

    Ok, the thread title might be a bit misleading. I'm running an MSI K8N NEO 2 platinum, a gig of geil 3200, and an athlon 64 3200. The power supply i'm using is an enermax noisetaker 450 watt PSU. Anyway, i got windows installed and it's been running great, but OCCASIONALLY i'll turn the...
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    Promise controller prob....

    ok, still working on my boss's computer. now i cant get the friggin promise controller to work. it's really weird. here's what i'm seeing. http://www.actvsdei.com/~booshanky/promise.jpg ??? it does this regardless whether i've got the drive plugged into the ide1 or ide 2 (as shown in that...