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Wireless LAN roaming

I need to set up a wireless LAN (ADSL router with 3-4 access points). The client wants to be able to move between the access points without being cut off from the internet. Which products will do the job? Any special design considereations?

View Answer   |  May 21 2005  1:48 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, Third-party services
asked by benbje

  0 pts.

Recommendation of Win2k srvr HDD perf monitoring

Can anyone recommend what Performance Log Counters they would configure their Win2k server to monitor its disk, RAID controller, and other hardware / software settings that supports a server?s data storage and transfer of data (e.g. SCSI card, Hard Drive, Paging, I/O, etc.)? I have to set up a...

View Answer   |  May 16 2005  11:15 AM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by KeithD1967

  0 pts.

temporary internet files

I have many PCs throughout my network that have multiple users logging into them. Therefore I have MANY profiles under documents and settings. I have so many that I am now seeing 40Gb hard drives getting eaten up with temporary internet files. In particular I would like to delete the following...

View Answer   |  May 13 2005  10:01 AM GMT
Tech support, Windows, Storage
asked by Carl0s81

  0 pts.

slow pc

hi i have Pentium-4 processor with 128 MB RAM .I have a dual boot system with Windows 2000 Proffessional and Linux AS3.0.My system was working fine but since few days it has bcome very slow.what shd i do to improve speed. thanks for any help.

View Answer   |  May 10 2005  2:33 AM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Storage
asked by redrose

  0 pts.

router#tftp error

hi all i have a cisco 1721 router connected through consol to my pc.i downloaded solarwind tftp server.when i try copy flash tftp;it gives error %Error opening tftp://10.14.11.24/c1700-y-mz.123-1a.bin (Timed out).tftp server is running but not shown in task manager. any help ...

View Answer   |  May 10 2005  2:26 AM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Networking
asked by redrose

  0 pts.

Internet Explorer with 2 NICs

on a server 2000 machine with 2 NICs, is there a way to point internet explorer at a particular NIC?

View Answer   |  May 5 2005  4:24 PM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by zzegri

  0 pts.

internet connection through local subnet

I would like to set up a windows 2000 server with 2 nics so that the subnet attached to nic 1 could access the internet connection of the subnet attached to nic 2. I only need access to the internet connection, but NOT to the nic 2 subnet. I presume that NAT might be a good idea but would like...

View Answer   |  May 3 2005  10:22 PM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by zzegri

  0 pts.

Internet Explorer vs. Firefox

Hello, I'm the Assistant Editor on SearchWindowsSecurity.com. I'm looking to start a discussion about what browser people are using and why. Also, is anyone considering switching from IE to Firefox, or are your plans to stay with IE? Here's some food for thought... As of Feb. 2005, an...

View Answer   |  Apr 15 2005  2:14 PM GMT
Security management, Tech support, Administration
asked by LMullen

  0 pts.

Help needed researching sys admin careers

Hi! A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com reader sent us the following question. Can anyone out there help? Thanks! "I am a student U Mass Lowell, USA. I am researching for an MIS project on Windows vs Linux. Can you provide any information (proferably statistical data/percentages) of the number of System...

View Answer   |  Apr 14 2005  3:30 PM GMT
Windows, Linux, Implementation/Management
asked by AmyKucharik

  105 pts.

Choice of Operating System for SAP

We are planning to implement SAP modules in our Company (one of the leading industries in Pakistan). Presently we have two options with reference to the selection of Operating System for the server. One is Windows and the other is Linux. Presently we have equally good arguments in favour of and...

View Answer   |  Apr 11 2005  3:48 PM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by asifnakhuda

  0 pts.

trojan horse downloader

hi i have a win NT4.0 sp6 server.its a DNS and web server. from few days the IE was redirecting the sites to some search engines.when i scaned with AVG it detected some trojan horse downloader.i healed the trojan and restarted the DNS.the problem was solved.but after some hours the problem...

View Answer   |  Mar 31 2005  3:57 AM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, Hardware
asked by redrose

  0 pts.

Need one WinXP PC not change Daylight Savings in Win2k Server domain

I know that this sounds strange, but I have a requirement for one WinXP PC to NOT change their time when our Win2k DC?s change their clocks to reflect daylight savings. Bottom line: When the servers change from Eastern Standard Time to Eastern Daylight Savings Time, I have one PC that must...

View Answer   |  Mar 28 2005  9:39 AM GMT
Hardware, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by KeithD1967

  0 pts.

Help required in configuring ISA server 2000 firewall

Hi all, I have some queries related to Microsoft ISA server 2000. First of all I want to provide some info about my network. In my network most of the systems are using different flavor of MS windows and one computer (call it server1) is providing internet access to all the other computers...

View Answer   |  Mar 28 2005  4:34 AM GMT
Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 Server
asked by Iazher

  0 pts.

W2k machine does not allow assigning of default printers

The machine in question has two printers installed. One network printer and a local printer on the LPT1 port. When the machine is logged into a specific profile it will not allow any printer to be assigned as the default. Both printers work (can print from word, and test pages) although most...

View Answer   |  Mar 20 2005  10:40 PM GMT
Windows
asked by TechMonkey

  0 pts.

migration from 2000 to 2003 using ADMT v 2.0

We have multiple forests in our organisation.We are now planning to consolidate them into a single forest and a single domain.We have more than 200 different sites spread all across the world. We have now upgraded all our domain controllers to 2000 and 2003 servers.We have a proper test lab being...

View Answer   |  Mar 16 2005  6:32 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by ambarmoorthy

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Slow performance when trying to save documents or even accessing W2K servers from WinXP WS's

Hi, I have a mixed Windows environment with Windows2000/2003 servers, and Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP workstations. When XP workstations are accessing the W2000 server shares it takes app. 10 sec. before they are available, especially if they try to for instance save documents. When...

View Answer   |  Mar 16 2005  5:04 AM GMT
Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows
asked by Antila

  0 pts.

Windows XP Home, Plug and Play, DSL internet connection (have an issue!)

Has anyone ever seen this message: "Cannot disable at this time, you may be using one or more protocols that do not support plug and play" I get this message when trying to "Disable" a DSL internet connection. I am connected to the internet using an Ethernet cable. I can connect using USB also....

View Answer   |  Mar 14 2005  10:19 AM GMT
Windows, Desktop management applications
asked by Crabby4

  0 pts.

"There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper"

Small system - 2 Windows 2000 servers (PDC and Sql Server) and 2 Windows 2003 servers (2nd DC and print server and 2nd SQL server) - 50 clients Windows XP Pro SP2 and 6 still Windows 2000 Pro awaiting conversion. All patches are up to date. Using DNS and active directory, NetBIOS is deprecated and...

View Answer   |  Feb 28 2005  2:44 PM GMT
Tech support, Help Desk, Windows
asked by Howard2nd

  0 pts.

Internet Explorer will not open from any shortcut, .exe, and just stays minimized on the tool bar

Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) 1.8G CPU, 512RAM, 40G HD NAV 2002, recentently ran Ad-Aware & SpyBot with minimal results I/E will not open from any shortcut, .exe, and just stays minimized on the tool bar. Have tried numerous...

View Answer   |  Feb 26 2005  10:48 PM GMT
Windows
asked by turkeyboy

  0 pts.

MoveFile() API reporting failure

We have a problem with the MoveFile() API called from C++ reporting failure, but actually working! We have a C++ Application which reads Data from a file, moves it to another Folder using the MoveFile() API and then updates the Time Stamp using the _utime() API. This works fine on my Laptop (W2K...

View Answer   |  Feb 24 2005  9:45 AM GMT
Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003
asked by HenryKafeman

  0 pts.

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