We have Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controller. we are facing some problem with CPU utilization. When I captured to traffic using sniffers I figured out a portocl called SMB which is freqently used by clients to communicate with Domain Controllers. I am wondering what is this SMB protocol? ...
So where do IT professionals go for support? I would like to hear about your favorite online resources. Discussion groups, knowledge sharing, quality forums, sites for specific areas like tcp/ip or management or security, etc. For example I belong to the British Computer Society and keep a...
My company presently occupies 2 buildings in the same city with a third smaller building on the same lot as the main office. The main office houses 51 XP workstations networked through Cisco switches on static IP addresses. We have 2 databases that interlink for maintaining customer data and...
I work in a 3rd party call center and would like to start a new business which is INBOUND but i don't know the process. I am going to have a business presentation with client very soon. Hope you can share with me the process.
What or how is the best way to present a single pool of storage to Mac clients using AFP, Windows using SMB/CIFS, and Linux/Unix using NFS? The ideal solution would be users to access all of their data whether they bounced from a Mac to a Linux workstation and then to a Windows system. Basically a...
Hi! I'm the Sys Admin for a small (50 employees) company. We're currently running off of a couple of Dell 2850s, a 6600 for SQL and a few other various machines for web server, intranet, etc. We recently partnered with a new company. They are pushing me to setup a blade server (mostly because they...
can anyone recommend a book, website, magazine, anything that shows the general time frame of netwoking a small business?
I would like to know how to setup windows 2003 server for a small office that does architectural design. and needs to access their files from a simple share drive. any thoughts on this?
I've been asked to set up a Linux build in our 2003 server network to run and test open-source applications that will rival and outperform other applications for their cost. This linux box must serve a small handfull of users in Los Angeles and Europe and my network is in Phoenix Arizona. Will a...
My company occupies a small self-contained, single-story business unit (of which they are the sole occupants) which is part of a larger business park. They employ 24 staff comprising of a CEO, 5 administrators, 2 business development managers and 16 specialist consultants. The administrators and...
When viewing Hummingbird (an eDRMS) traffic I notice that the appliation generates 7.4MB of traffic to the Home drive on the network for a 20KB word document. Hummingbird apparently uses the office defaults for temporarily storing the file. The payload of the packets is 11% and there appears to be...


