Two LAN cards in one PC
how can i use 2 lancards on 1 pc for internet shearing in windows 2003 server  

Answer Question   |  December 17, 2010  6:29 AM
Internet, Internet Connection Sharing, LAN cards, Windows Server 2003

Making Virtualized Physical Resources Portable
Suppose I have a datacenter with a number of vitualization and cloud-based solutions running at the same time – KVM, VMware, Xen, etc. all of which have type 1 hypervizors and demand the undivided resources of a single physical server. How can I port physical servers from one environment to another without rebuilding from scratch? [...]

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  10:48 PM
Data Center management, Data Center Virtualization, Hyper-V Physical Server, KVM, Virtualization, VMware, VMware administration, Xen

IP unnumbered
How to configure ip numbered in MLLN

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  9:27 AM
Bandwidth management, IP configuration, Ip unnumbered, Managed Leased Line Network, MLLN

What is the best way of providing remote users with a desktop?
What is the cheapest way to give remote users a desktop without having a monitor-less PC under a desk somewhere for each user?

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  12:19 AM
Citrix, Desktop, Remote access, VMware, Windows Operating System

AS400 FTP Issue
Hi, We are using a tool (Viscom) which will read the ftp scripts from the QCTL (Another tool where FTP Scripts will be stored) and transfer the files to different ftp/as400 servers. We are trying to connect a FTP site from AS400 using the password as “acvy_p” and password as “10qp!)QP”. When this command was [...]

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  9:45 PM
AS/400, AS/400 FTP, FTP, FTP Error Codes, QCTL

Creating a bonded T1 for our data center
We have two T1 connections coming into two cisco routers. The lines are from different providers. Can we make them into a bonded t1 for our data center? What equipment will we need and what configuration?

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  9:43 PM
Cisco Routers, Data center design, Data Center management, Router configuration, T1 line

Changing to only one DHCP server and the other to a failover
If we have two offices connected via sonicwall vpn how can we make it so we only need one dhcp server and it can fail over to the other one if necessary?

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  9:41 PM
DHCP server, DHCP Server Configuration, Failover, SonicWALL, SonicWall VPN, VPN, VPN design

Blocking remote connections to other computer from our network
How can we block users from any remote connections to other computers from our office or laptops? We want to block logmein, remote desktop etc for our windows 7 machines.

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  9:38 PM
LogMeIn, Network security, Network Security Management, Network Security Policies, Remote connection, Windows 7, Windows 7 security

Roaming Profile with Wireless Connection
On our school network we have wireless access for the principal and the teachers who use laptop computers. The server runs Windows Server 2003 and all clients run Windows XP Pro. The school is in two different buildings and the principal and computer teacher both travel from one building to the other with their laptops. [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  8:32 PM
Linksys Routers, Roaming Profiles, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, Wireless, Wireless roaming

lsdisk( command for a local wrklnk folder on the iSeries
I need to save a directory listing of a local wrklnk directory on our iSeries to a file, much the same way LSDISK( saves the names of files that live in a remote directory to a file. How is this done? Thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  8:31 PM
FTP Automation, iSeries, iSeries Commands, WRKLNK

Quad NIC Port Sequence.
On a 4-Port (Quad) NIC, how do you determine which is Port #1 vs. Port #4?   Do all manufacturers use the same numbering sequence, or will if vary by make & model.  Does the first port start w/ “0″ (zero), or is it actually “1″ (one).  Thanks….

Answer Question   |  December 3, 2010  8:02 PM
NIC Ports, Routers

Can VLANs communicate with each other and still block broadcast traffic?
Can VLANs communicate with each other if necessary and still block broadcast traffic from the same machine because it’s on a different subnet?

Answer Question   |  February 25, 2011  6:04 PM
Network security, Network Security Management, VLAN, VLAN management, VLAN Setup

SSL with a proxy server
hI, My first pasot here so id like to say hello to everyone Our company has recently purchased a Data Loss Prevention server and it is my job to implement it , one of its tasks is to act as a proxy sever for all HTTPS traffic, I have done this but every time I [...]

Answer Question   |  December 7, 2010  2:06 PM
Data Loss Prevention, Data Loss Prevention Products, Network security, Network Security Management, Proxy Server Configuration, Security, SSL, SSL certificate

Windows 7 antivirus to prevent access
Can the Windows 7 antivirus integrate into the system to block internet or network access upon detecting a virus or threat that could not be contained?

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2010  10:01 PM
Antivirus, Network security, Network Security Management, Virus detection, Virus protection, Windows 7 antivirus, Windows 7 Networking

Open IT Forum: What are your favorite network security tools?
We want to know who and what you trust with your network security needs, from products to software. Had a less-than-stellar experience? We want to hear about that, too! The best stories get 100 points that’ll be mighty helpful in our Xbox 360 contest!

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2010  8:42 PM
Network security, Network Security Management, Open IT Forum, Security products, Security software

Interconnecting UPS devices for redundancy in our data center
In our datacenter we have 22 separate rack mounted apc ups devices all power comes from a single source. How can we interconnect the ups devices for redundancy?

Answer Question   |  January 5, 2011  3:07 PM
Data center design, Data Center in 2010, Rack mounted servers, Redundancy, UPS, UPS maintenance, UPS system

Monitoring server and networking health for clients
We have a data center with 25 racks and cabinents. They are all owned by individuals or other companies. It is not our equipment but the racks and the network is. Long story short how can we monitor server and network health monitoring for our clients?

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  3:04 PM
Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Network Monitor, Network monitoring, Network Monitoring Tools, Server monitoring

Seeing Network shares on domain with Windows 7
I have a domain that has 5 servers.  Two of them are Windows Server 2008, I can see these servers from my Windows 7 machine.  The other servers are Server 2003 and they do not appear when I go to map a drive.  I can still manually put in the path (\ServerShare) and access the [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2010  1:47 PM
Networking, Windows 7, Windows 7 Networking, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008

Recommend Cisco Home Lab
Please give me your thoughts on the best way to setup a Cisco home lab. Although I need to re-certify my CCNA my focus is to take a deep technical dive and master Cisco before going on to next level(CCNP). I work with Cisco but want my own lab to experiment and try different topologies [...]

Answer Question   |  February 7, 2011  1:43 PM
CCNA, CCNA Certification, CCNP, Cisco, Routers, Switches

Forgot password on Excel
In LAN environment, is there any way to find out forgot password that I set for excel spreadsheet?

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2011  5:48 AM
excel, Excel 2010, LAN, Microsoft Excel password protection, Password cracking, Password recovery, Windows XP Professional SP3