I was told that one could control, or turn on and off automatic updates for MS Office (2003) by doing it through policy editor. Is this true? and if so where in policy editor can I find the whatfor to do it? Or where do I go to turn it off?
I use batch files to map drives when a user logs into our Windows2003 domain. Each user has their own POP3 email account in Outlook (XP), so the PST files are on the individual workstations. I need to back them up daily to the network and do this by calling a separate batch file from with the login...
I installed a new server: Windows 2003 Server, using Active Directory. Clients are all WinXP Pro. At each workstation, I mapped drive P: to point to the accounting data on the server. Everything was working fine. A few days later, I did the Symantec Client Security upgrade as a managed system with...
Anyone who has done a change on trunk protocol in a live 24/7 environment. My main question is if all trunks will go down during the change? The net consist of 7 switches and on one of them is an tftp server from which I hope that I can download the configs needed. If all switches are in a long...
we have a winserver 2003 we use a 16ports vpn linksys router switch, but the autentication period is to long over a minute, how we can fix that? we had other routers and is the same problem with out autentication to the server the workstations log on in less than 10 seconds, and also after 8 hours...
Hi Everyone, My name is Maricel, I work for an IT Infrastructure Consulting company and I am responsible for putting together Educational seminars for our clients who are IT/Facilities Professionals. I want to make sure our upcoming seminar focuses on issues that IT Professionals are faced with in...
Hi. I am running a network, and have setup a small room with 12 PC's. The room is gonna be used for research, but there is only 1 network port coming in (10meg. So, i have a 8 port hub, and a small switch. 8 of my PC's are on the network,, on the hub, but the other 4 are not. I get a link light on...
I am trying to connect to a Win 2003 VPN server from a PC running Windows XP Professional wired to a Linksys WRTP54G router (Vonage voIP) and cable modem. On Thursday, January 5, I got the VPN connection working fine. I used it multiple times including rebooting the PC. That night the automatic...
One of my customers wants to use a software vendor who insists on having the IP address of the server which will host his software. he says this is so he can apply daily updates to the software. I am not comfortable exposing the IP addresses of any machine of the network and need some assistance in...
I am looking for information to help me decide whether to buy a larger Switch or larger Router? I think I need to get all equipment on the same device? I have a small business network with 2 desktops, 3 to 4 laptops, 2 multifunction Printer/Fax/copy/scanners via USB dedicated to PC?s; 1 USB Photo...
Hello, Can any one explain me what is NMAP , how NMAP works and how to use it. Kind Regards, Gopal.
Dear Sir's, I have two wireless bridges. Master and Slave which are 800 ft apart and two high gain antennas are attached to these units. I am finding a disconnection problem with these bridges. It works for a while but gets disconnected and after doing powercycle on the slave end the...
dear sir, I am looking for a load sharing solution between 2 leased lines for 2 different ISPs the diagram goes lke this: LAN-->Cisco Pix-->Router-->2 leased lines. can load-sharing be done at the router without extra configuration at the providers side? can CEF (cisco express forwarding)...
Dear All, i want to set up a Remote Syslog with MySQL and PHP on system with whitebox linux,can some tell me a step by step on how to install and configure this,also the requirement needed to complete the task Regards Edwin
I have a Compaq EVO n1020v notebook. This works fine in our office LAN and soemtimes it does not at all. Office LAN is a workgroup with ICS enabled in win 2K server. If I check the IP of the notebook it shows the IP of the LAN but never connects to the internet, can't access LAN...
Good Day All I wondered if anyone knows how to remotely access and control RS23 devices. I will give you my example. I have a PC which is attached to 2 RS232 devices. I would like to have some form of control of the devices attached to the PC from a remote location, like a PC in another room or...
on layer 3 switch (3com 4900).. I added 3 ip interfaces,one interface defined for each vlan with difrenet subnet. without enabling any routing protocol ,I achieved a communicattion between two pc's that belong to diferent vlans . is there any internal routing between the ip interfaces on layer3...
My company is looking to purchase a new router, we are looking at expanding our cable tv division down the road with video/ video on demand and need to upgrade our current router due to bandwidth constraints, my question is does anyone have a different router good or bad. All answers are welcome...
We would like to have remote ip telephony connectivity for our office so that it will be helpful for our remote users and our Royal customers to have ip soft phone which will be connected to our network through VPN tunnel to our IP PABX and dial out locally. We are having ADSL modem connectivity...
How does ARP work with layer 2 broadcasts? What I mean is, if an IP address is not yet in its cache, ARP broadcasts an ARP request in order to discover the corresponding MAC address, right? Does that mean that the hardware address of the Ethernet frame that encapsulates the ARP request is...


