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That's helpful - at least it identifies which file is causing the problem. That assumes, of course, that XP uses the same filename.There is a dialup connection defined, though unused - the current connection is DSL via a USB interface. But I can start by deleting the DUN connection, then removing DUN from the control panel. Rather than messing with the Registry (at first) I should be able to remove all networking components in Add/Remove Programs, then reinstall them. Good clues, Michael - thanks!
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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A followup on the damaged XP PC: After cleaning the thing up and restoring its normal speed I still couldn't make the connection to the DSL router. Everything I could find pointed to something bolluxed up by the phone company. The customer called them and sure enough, their line was screwed up. It took them two days to do repairs on their own gear, and they sent him a new router (it was damaged by whatever did in the line) but he still couldn't get it working and called me back out. I found a WinsockXPFix.exe program on their website and ran it to clear any corruption of the TCP/IP stack, and it worked perfectly in a few minutes.
He then had me set up restricted accounts for the kids and password protect his admin account. His teenage daughter hates me now...
Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...
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Thanks for your help - things are becoming much clearer now!
Roger Wright wrote:
Given the difference in needs, you've got quite a deal going to split the T1 cost 50/50 - nice work!
Yeah! Actually, there's a lot more "business" behind this decision, but I really only care about the network. I just let the important folks puchase all the toys for me to play with!
Roger Wright wrote:
Let's start here. Internet packets don't arrive willy-nilly looking for port 80. Each is tagged with a port number, an IP address, and a protocol. You don't have to worry about redirecting them, as each host on the network will have a different IP address. Only the server with the correct IP address will respond to a packet, and then only if it has a service listening on the same port and watching for the same protocol as matches that of the incoming packet. No worries there.
As I said, most of my knowledge comes from my little home network and D-Link router, which only allows a port to be forwarded to one internal address, regardless of external IP address. I guess more sophisticated routers allow different port 80 requests to go to the correct IP internal IP address.
Roger Wright wrote:
Your preferred approach - separate servers and domains - would be my choice, as well. I've worked with workgroups (though never two interconnected ones) and found them to be a pain to administer. Having a domain and a domain controller just makes life nicer, and admin costs are lower. A server for your needs ( and the other company's ) needn't be a large expense. My primary PC is a Win2K Server system, for reasons that made sense at the time, and it cost me less than $1800 to build from scratch including a 5-user OS.
Yes, I think a domain controller + a handful of XP Pro clients would be quite a nice set up too. The concern is that we will become responsible for the other company network and have to add new users, manage profiles, policies, software installation and all that sort of thing. Since the other companies staff only needs to access one website for their entire job (this will probably be locked down somewhere, most likely in in the router), they don't (and apparently never will) use email and their computers really don't need to talk to each other, a peer-to-peer network with no authentication is being suggested as an alternative.
My thought is that since we will be installing a web server for the guy, we might as well use it as a domain controller too. (Of course, we will have to upgrade the clients from XP Home to Pro). I think that a little bit of extra effort now, while we are still planning the network, will pay off in the long run. What do you think?
Roger Wright wrote:
Each office should be assigned a different IP address segment, and all the hosts in each connected to a hub or switch - those are cheap (< $100). Each hub is then connected to the router that handles the T1 connection. The router should be configured to sort out incoming packets from the Internet and send them to the proper hub. This is where I get fuzzy; I don't know for sure that your ISP will assign multiple addresses to you. Talking with them should clear that up, and router suppliers will be happy to assist you in configuring their products to accomplish what you need to do.
I believe we are getting multiple IP addresses, although I cannot say for sure how many. I've also been recommended a couple of routers for ~$300 that should serve very well.
Roger Wright wrote:
Assign one company to 168.192.0.0 and the other to 168.192.1.0 and you'll each have room for 254 hosts eventually
This is an excellent idea! One question though - how will a DHCP server deal with this? Or should I just use static IP addresses?
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Miszou wrote:
how will a DHCP server deal with this? Or should I just use static IP addresses?
In your DHCP server you can set more than one Scope, each with a different address pool, then assign clients to use one scope or the other. Be sure to note Michael's correction to my address range selection - 192.168.x.x, not 168.192.x.x. Never attempt to answer technical questions until after the first cup of coffee.
From that you've added here it sounds like the other company doesn't need a server of their own. Win2K Server w/ IIS 5.0 can host more than one website, each with its own IP address. You can also make them members of your domain so that your PDC is their domain controller also. Keep them in a different Group or Organizational Unit from yours, and use permissions and Policies to keep their fingers out of your machines. You can also give them FTP access to their website so that responsibility for managing and maintaining it is their problem.
Miszou wrote:
What do you think?
I think that every hour spent on planning the network before you build it will save a hundred hours of finding and fixing problems caused by inadequate planning. Good choice.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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Roger Wright wrote:
192.168.x.x, not 168.192.x.x
Actually, I didn't even notice until it was pointed out! I use the same numbers for my home network, so I just kind of read them correctly.
Roger Wright wrote:
Win2K Server w/ IIS 5.0 can host more than one website, each with its own IP address. You can also make them members of your domain so that your PDC is their domain controller also. Keep them in a different Group or Organizational Unit from yours, and use permissions and Policies to keep their fingers out of your machines.
This is pretty much what I was thinking. Rather than have 2 domain controllers messing about on the same network, just use one and manage everything ourselves from one location. Create a couple of high-level groups with approporiate permissions and it virtually manages itself. Once they have the correct permissions set up, we shouldn't need to touch their accounts for months at a time (Excepting of course for new employees and things like that). In fact, if they really want "simple", we could just set up one account for his network and have everyone log in with the same account. This way, we wouldn't even need to add/remove employeees. Something about this approach just doesn't seem right though! 
Their website only served ~3,000 pages last year, so we really could just host it on our own server. It's not like it's going to hog bandwidth or anything!
Using only one domain controller and hosting 2 websites on it was my original plan. However, we really want to separate the 2 web servers into his problem and our problem, if you see what I mean... As you can probably tell, we're kind of going around in circles at work talking about this!
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Miszou wrote:
Something about this approach just doesn't seem right though!
No, it's not, but maybe there's a way ( I've never looked into it) to grant a user in their office and Group user management privileges for their Group only. Similarly, when you create a site on IIS you also assign an Admin for that site. You can stuff that job on one of theirs. Then the only responsibility you'd have for their website would be to keep your server up and running. I presume that's a fairly high priority for you, as well, so there's no conflict of interest there.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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Anyone know of a plug-in for Windows Explorer that would seek verification of drag'n'drop folder movement from the user. Our network suffers from users inadvertantly  drag'n'dropping folders into various locations that make finding them a task.
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Hi,
Is there a way to change the temp directory, either programmatically or through the UI? google didn't help much
Changing the TEMP system environment variable in control panel didn't help at all (old one was still preserved)...
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By commandline:
set Temp C:\Temp
If you wanna change the var into a application, you must set the variable %temp% to your new temp directory.
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Hi,
My PC is Windows is Windows XP 2002. I tried installing .NET version 2002.
The .NEt framework installed fine without problem. Here comes theproblem part when I tried to install the VS.NET. It created a errorlog, that I have pasted below. Anyone help.
[01/15/04,20:11:02] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper()
[01/15/04,20:11:02] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()<pre>
I was born intelligent<br>Education ruined me!.
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Can sombody help me?
I`ve read all postings but I can`t find something it helps me!
Why different the result of PdhGetFormattedCounterValue function(ex - "\\Process(process_name)\\% Processor Time") and Windows Task Manager?
O/S : Windows 2000 Server.
CPU : Dual-CPU
single CPU, Windows 2000 professional is no problem.
help me!!!
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have a problem and I feel for most of the PPL it is trivial but I have not been able to have a satisfactory solution to it despite putting considerable time .
PROBLEM:
I compile a simple program using visual c++
#include<iostream.h>
void main()
{
cout<<"Concordia";
}
If I copy its execuatable to linux or try to run in shell(it does not run or outputs some garbage with error message- I mean native code is not portable), I know the different platform will not run the exe complied at windows platform and vice versa.
My problem is I want to know the reasons/factors that contribute to the difference, (OS system calls etc , compiler issue I am not sure).
Any details or webPointers/explanations/chaptersInBook on this issue (why exe for one platform does not run on other platforms though the library calls are the same- issues involved etc ) will be of great help to me.
Thankyou very much for your time.
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A part of the problem, though probably not the whole problem, is that the file format of a .exe includes a header with non-executable information in the first 256 or 512 bytes of the file. This info is expected and required by Windows, but other OSs have different expectations. The actual beginning of executable code is located at some offset from the beginning of the file.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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It seems that backups for the firm I work for have slowly migrated into my responsibility. As well as files, exchange mailboxes, SQL databases, etc my boss would like to back up System State on each critical server (2000, SP3 or SP4).
The Windows Backup Utility can schedule this backup for each night, and we've now set our tape backups to backup this file each night after it's been created on each server. Cool, that works great.
My question is this. Say one of our server dies and we have this magical system state backup - what can we do with it? On a couple of our servers it's over 2Gb. So what's included in this huge file?
I take it that in a disaster we'd have to install Windows again on the original machine, or another identical one in order to use this system state backup. Once that's done (we also backup the registry - is this necessary if you have system state?) do we just restore the system state, or would we still need to install other software as well? Is the other software, or just the software settings, included in the system state backup?
Thanks for any information!
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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There's a description of what gets backed up and restored here[^], and more info on the process in the links on this page[^]. I'm not sure how much you can recover using this, but it seems to give you a huge head start. One thing I'd be curious about is whether, in the event you had to reinstall Windows and restore the state, the previously installed apps would have to be reinstalled. I think simply restoring the registry (assuming the application directories were not under the %System% directory where they get wiped by reinstalling Windows) most of the applications would be left intact and usable.
Rather than guess, if you have a spare (or non-critical) server box available, do a backup, delete a few critical files, reboot, and see what you can accomplish. Better to have experience before you need it, I think.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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Thanks Roger!
Apparently my dev box is going to be the guinea pig - make sure I have the proper motivation and all that
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog
Photography
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Hello ppl,
I want to use NTFS reparse points for my application using VC++. I want to move infrequently used files to remote storage and ve to create a link for that file in local volume. I got only documents regarding this not any implementation details or APIs. So plz if anybody know anything related to reparse points plz send me.
Valan
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can anyone tell me how i can query which is the currently installed anti virus packege in my OS[Windows 9x/2000/XP]
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My application needs to scan application files before it starts using them
So i planned that i needed to get the currently installed antivirus package n call createprocess
like some applications i could have the user input this manually in a cnfiguration dialog
i however have seen that microsoft office products word excel ppt etc
automatically do this when a doc is opened
so i guess the details of the current anti virus packege is stored in the shell of the OS somewhere like the registry
any ideas????
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Why not look at the running processes? You should be able to get the names of the different processes that run for each program if you spend some time on google. SO then you could have your app scan them and see what the user has loaded up, and advantage over this to is that you know that it's running and not just installed.
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what u r asking me is to keep a list of the proces names that will needed for differnt AV packages
the problem with this is that I dont know what package the end user will be using
for all i know he maybe using mcAffee or TrendMicro or some other obscure industrial AV solution
so i guess maintaining a list of the different processes is out of question
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I found out that in Nortons case the "Smart Scan" option has a list of filetype extensions in them
so as the NAV agent is started at startup itself
when the OS opens any file the AV agent immdeiately scans files if its extension is in the Smart Scan list
so that leasd to a conclusion that its not the Office application that calls the AV to start a scan but the AV itself that does this prior to opening the doc
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in which case there may not be any generic way to know which is the current AV package installed???
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Maybe I'm confused, But your trying to see what the users AV package is correct? So how would keeping a list not be able to tell you?
For instance lets say mcfescn.exe is the process that is Mcafee AV, so if you scan the running processes and you see that mcfescn.exe is in memory you know that the person is using Mcafee as their AV program.
I do agree that using a list is going to be useless if they are using an obsure package but other then asking them I don't see a way to do it..
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What is it that differentiates binary semaphores and mutexes in an RTOS, especially Symbian
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I've got an XP machine here at worlk with 2 NIC's in it. This is being used to share my internet connection with my participants without IT seeing computers on the network that are not connected to the domain.
I have the 2nd NIC connecting to a switch which then runs out to a small internal LAN. What I am finding is many participants are spending their time playing online games and instant messaging. My requests for them to stop is falling on deaf ears at the moment. So I have given them all only user access and have uninstalled all components I feel at being used.
I would now like to make some changes to my machine (the default gateway) so it doesn't matter what they do on their machines they won't get through. I have searched using Google but my keyword selection must suck big time as I am only making hits to weird and wonderful sites or expert exchange where they want me to sign up to get the answers.
Anyone have any recommendations of software firewall products or route tables entries or similar?
From the stuff I have found so far some programs use hostnames so I could use the hosts file and point them to 127.0.0.1 but some programs go directly to the IP Address which would require something like a firewall. All help appreciated.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I suspect I will be impressed though, I am easy."
- Paul Watson 21/09/2003
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Disable Internet sharing on your computer and set up a single connection for your use.
"Another day done - All targets met; all systems fully operational; all customers satisfied; all staff keen and well motivated; all pigs fed and ready to fly" - Jennie A.
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