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Can someone smarter than I am explain to me how this service needs to be configured? My server has a fixed IP from my ISP, and it is the top level in my registered domain. The registration is maintained by Register.com. When I installed it, Win2KS established a default configuration in its DNS with my address as the SOA, and appears to be attempting to serve as the DNS authority for the entire subnet I'm on. I'm getting notices three times a week that the event log is full, and they're almost all caused by DNS. Obviously I've got something set wrong, but I can't figure out what it is!
I don't want it controlling the subnet - that belongs to my ISP, and I try to be nice to him. Does anyone here have any experience in setting this up properly? Any clues would be most welcome
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After the few attempts I made at trying to configure the Win 2K DNS server, I gave it up and am now happily using bind that comes with Debian Linux. With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains.
With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway. You need to give it some other DNS addresses and this will kinda act as a stupid dumb DNS proxy so to speak.
Nish
p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free?
It's seven o'clock
On the dot
I'm in my drop top
Cruisin' the streets - Oh yeah
I got a real pretty, pretty little thing that's waiting for me
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Thanks for the thoughts, Nish. Considering that one of the wonderful advances that Micro$oft was pushing about Win2K was the death of WINS/ Long live DNS, you'd think they would make it easier to figure out!
I think that what I need to do is configure it as a secondary server with a SOA record pointing to the domain name registrar's DNS server, then add records pointing to my ISP's DNS servers as peers; it would be nice to have some confirmation of that from someone who's done it, though.
I notice that a lot of the errors I'm getting are cryptic references to ladp, kerberos, and such, and the problem is reported to be "server could not interpret format" or some such. No explanations, just noise... the usual.
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
With bind I dont need to point it to my ISP's DNS. It can resolve domain names directly from the root domains.
With Win2K's DNS it cannot do that or I couldnt get it to do that anyway.
It can, I have installed several Win2k DNS servers, and they work perfectly good.
Just install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine.
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote:
p.s. Why cant they provide one decent DNS server free?
It is a decent dns server, works perfectly
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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I believe you will find the answer in researching forward and reverse lookup zones.
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Install the server with standard options. Then go to the network config, and set the dns server ip address to the ip of the local machine.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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just on the off-chance someone knows this, I'm trying to config a Solaris box to lp to a Lexmark Optra 1855 with inbuilt LPD support...
one would usually use the construct :-
server!printer
to get to the LPD (printer could also be 'queue' .. the 'server' is simply the tcp/ip address on the Optra, or a resolvable /etc/hosts entry
on some LPD devices, printer/queue could be 'RAW' or 'TEXT' or 'PASSTHRU' - does anyone know the correct setting for a Lexmark Optra ??
regards, Garth
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Right click on any file in Windows 2000 NTFS and you get a summary tab.
In that summary tab, you can attach any number of attributes to the file including Author, Subject, Category, etc. You can do this to any file, not just compound document files. What are the Win32 APIs to programatically get and set these attributes in C/C++?
Michael S. Scherotter
Lead Software Architect
Tartus Development, Inc.
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Have a look at MSDN Magazine (online somewhere at Microsoft.com). There was an article about it a few years ago. There's also code from product support. Keywords might be "NTFS5".
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I've a video decoder (PCI card) with a 'Conexant fusion 878A' chipset.
It's impossible to find an appropriate driver to it for Win2k.
HHHHHEEELLLLPPPP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10x...
--BlackSmith--
"With the help of all mighty", 2001, Me.
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ONLY in the Factory Site....!!!!!
Regards....
Carlos Antollini.
Sonork ID 100.10529 cantollini
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I am using the SMTP server that comes with Windows 2000's IIS pack. But I find it pathetic at times. Sometimes when the attachments are huge, it rejects them. Sometimes I manage to send them after zipping. The file size does not matter. It might send a 5 MB attachment without hassles but will then reject a 2 MB attachment. I believe certain kinds of files actually manage to crash the thread.
What would be an alternatice SMTP choice for me?
Free ones preferred!
Nish
My most recent CP article :-
A newbie's elementary guide to spawning processes
www.busterboy.org
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You have got all the latest service packs?
Why don't you use your ISP's SMTP server?
Have you looked at http://www.tucows.com. Do a search for SMTP server, it might have something you can use.
You could always try Exchange 2000
Michael 
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I had the same problem. I spent weeks playing with various other servers and decided that XMail was probobly best. You can download it at:
http://www.xmailserver.org
The server is a little fiddly to setup the basics but it doe's everything i can think off.
Hint: download the additional GUI based admin tools they make basic admin much easier.
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You can turn off the size restriction, or you can just increase it.
Jon Sagara
What about ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) ?
Sonork ID: 100.9999 jonsagara
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Jon Sagara wrote:
You can turn off the size restriction, or you can just increase it.
It's not a size related problem.
I can send a 5 MB file with no problems.
But sometimes a 2 MB file might not go through.
If it is a size problem I'd have got some message like, "The smtp server has rejected the message or something"
Here, my error is something like the "smtp server has stopped responding" or something like that
Nish
My most recent CP article :-
A newbie's elementary guide to spawning processes
www.busterboy.org
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Weird. I've never had a problem with it. Did it just start happening, or has it always done that?
Jon Sagara
What about ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) ?
Sonork ID: 100.9999 jonsagara
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Jon Sagara wrote:
Weird. I've never had a problem with it. Did it just start happening, or has it always done that?
I just discovered my size limit per mail was 2 MB and per session was 10MB.
But I distinctly remember mailing 5+ MB mp3 files across our local intranet!!!
Nish
My most recent CP article :-
A newbie's elementary guide to spawning processes
www.busterboy.org
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How can I restart Win2000 computer from batch file/command line?
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I don't remember ever seeing any direct way of it - however if you check out http://www.gavintaylor.co.uk/downloads you should find at the bottom of the page a file called 'Reboot', run this from the command line / batch file and it will reboot the workstation / server. I use it all the time for updates on live servers using the NT scheduler.
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These should still work:
- rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
- rundll32.exe user.exe,restartwindows
- rundll32.exe user.exe,exitwindows
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