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Roger Wright wrote:
I've ordered Windows.NET RC1, but I'm not sure if I'm gutsy enough to risk the farm again by installing it... We'll see.
Yeah, I've got that. Still trying to decide if I want to install it.
Any idea if it'll coinhabit on the same machine with Win2K (I'd be installing it to its own drive, but want to keep 2k as the main OS)
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benjymous wrote:
Yeah, I've got that
Huh? It's not due to start shipping until 8/16!
I have no idea if it will cohabit safely, and I'm not about to be the first on my block to find out! But I do plan to install it on my venerable Pentium Pro to see just how far I can push the poor old beast If it doesn't work, I've still got the Win2K Pro CD to recover with.
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Hmm. I guess it's an older beta version then. I haven't got it to hand to be certain
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Partion Magic 7 works fine for me resizing partitions etc... It's the easy way out but it's fast and easy. I've never lost any files.
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
"It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9
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A commercial package such as Partition Magic will let you resize your existing partition then you can create a new partition in the unused space.
I believe there are some shareware/freeware tools that can do this as well.
Elaine (fluffy tiggress emoticon)
Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Is this possible? I've seen articles at MSDN describing how to do this for individual users but I would like to change this location for all users in one go. Is that possible?
With best regards,
Daniel
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I have the same problem....
Sergio Bertini
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I don't know if this will help but check out the registry, especially
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders"
bibamus, edamus, cras moriemur [eat, drink, for tomorrow we die]
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I'll be building a new peer-to-peer network in a couple of weeks, using 3 new PCs with WinXP Pro preinstalled. Since I haven't used XP yet, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? One that comes to mind is that each machine might need to have a local user account for all of the users in order for them to share freely - is that the case? The users are complete neophytes with no computer skills beyond finding the power switch, so I want this to be as idiot-proof as possible for them. Also, I will be linking them together with a Lucent RG-1000 wireless Residential Gateway using ORiNOCO USB clients on each machine, and using the RG-1000 as the shared Internet gateway. Has anyone had any experiences with these units? Any tips to share? Thanks!
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Same Username and Password is required for all machines to be able to share data freerly. Of course you can connect to a share using a different username and password, however, these would need to be provided each time you start the computer.
You know that, all machines need to belong to the same workgroup, and of course same ip class, and same subnet mask.
Haven't incurred any problems, but yet I have setup WinXP in a P2P network, only once!
Roger Wright wrote:
Also, I will be linking them together with a Lucent RG-1000 wireless Residential Gateway using ORiNOCO USB clients on each machine, and using the RG-1000 as the shared Internet gateway. Has anyone had any experiences with these units?
Not with these units, however used SmartBridges wireless kit. Pretty cool, although only work up to 11 MB/s . Had some problems detecting it through WinXP, but sorted now (Read the manual!)
Regards,
Venet.
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Venet wrote:
Same Username and Password is required for all machines to be able to share data freerly
The Admin account will, of course, be the same for all machines, but for users I'll need to use different accounts. I'm thinking that it should be simple enough to add three users to each machine, since there's so few of them, and give rights to the Local Users group on all. They don't need much in the way of confidentiality.
Venet wrote:
Pretty cool, although only work up to 11 MB/s
Considering that now their rate of data transer is limited to how fast they can carry a floppy disk between ofices, this should be a great improvement!
Venet wrote:
Read the manual
Always good advice!
Thanks for your thoughts...
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Roger Wright wrote:
I'm thinking that it should be simple enough to add three users to each machine, since there's so few of them, and give rights to the Local Users group on all. They don't need much in the way of confidentiality.
Or you can setup a file server and map a drive on each machine that points to the shared space.
Roger Wright wrote:
Considering that now their rate of data transer is limited to how fast they can carry a floppy disk between ofices, this should be a great improvement!
lol
Roger Wright wrote:
Venet wrote:
Read the manual
Always good advice!
Well, actually that's what I did myself to sort out the problem.
If everything else fails read the manual
Regards,
Venet.
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Venet wrote:
If everything else fails read the manual
Having spent most of the morning trying to get the manuals off their website without success (server not found), this may be a challenge! I even tried to sneak in by signing up as a reseller, but the email generated by filling out the online form was returned because the server doesn't recognize that user I'll bet they lose a lot of resellers that way!
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Badly managed company then ?
Regards,
Venet.
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Make sure you set all the passwords to never expire for all the users on all of the machines.
I had this problem with my housemate's PC. I initially created a useraccount for him on my PC, and one for me on his, using the same passwords as we use on our own machines. The problem was that these accounts expired on each other's machines. We both got notified to change our own local passwords, but the mirrored accounts just got left in limbo, meaning shares stopped working
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And Tick "User cannot change Password"!
Regards,
Venet.
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Hello everyone...
I got a question no one seems to know the answer in the place I am working in.When I send a ping to a machine X ,I got TTL = 128 , and after I optimized the machine X and I "ping" it again I got TTL = 56.
I know for sure that this machine X is connected to the internet through ADSL , and I am pinging it from a local network.I also know the machine X could have any of the MS system , but definetly not Linux or Mac OS.
I don t understand how the packet size (MTU) could affect the number of router it goes through (TTL) , so please help me with it ..
Thanx
ZhErHo@@7o
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TTL field is set on the originating machine, so changing MTU on another machine, has nothing to do with changing the TTL value on the originating machine.
zhero70 wrote:
after I optimized the machine X and I "ping" it again I got TTL = 56.
zhero70 wrote:
I also know the machine X could have any of the MS system , but definetly not Linux or Mac OS.
Sounds a bit strange, that you've optimised machine X, but don't know for sure what OS it is running!
Regards,
Venet.
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Ok...
I rephrase my question so I ll get better answer than this one...
Some friend told me he got Windows XP connected to the net with ADSL.He also tell me his I.P. address , and ask me to ping his machine and tell him what I got.I noticed I got a TTL value of 237 ...(My friend was interested in the request time in ms and not the TTL I got)
The next morning , the same friend ask me again to ping his machine , and then I am suddenly suprised to see his TTL changed to 56 !
So I asked him what is going on ?
And I get for answer :"I install a reg patch from "speedguide.net" to optimized my machine , to change its MTU".
Is it possible that changing the size of a packet can actually change the time it's travelling through routers ?
Wise answers only , please..
ZhErHo@@7o
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zhero70 wrote:
Wise answers only , please..
How do you mean wise ?
Your question was a bit stupid really. You said that you have optimised a machine and don't know what OS is it running on !!!!
Regards,
Venet.
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Is anyone knows what does Event Viewer Event ID 27 means.
I get an Exclamation box , on the windows , and when i look at the event viewer i see that the event for this erro is 27.
Thanks guys.
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Event Viewer doesn't keep a database of Event IDs that are associated with an error message. It's up to the application that generates errors, to regitster Event ID's and associated error messages.
Error ID 27 could mean anything. This is relative to the application itself, not the actual Event Viewer.
Usually whenever an error ID is not registred, Event Viewer will give you some more information about the error itself and usually the app. return code.
I suggest look at that string again and see what app. is generating it.
Regards,
Venet.
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