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Not sure how well everyone has been in keeping up with the story so far. So I will provide a cheat sheet.
A customer has previously been rorted by their IT company and as such had the following hardware and software in their office.
Compaq Proliant 400 (Pentium III 500 64MB) running Windows NT 4 Server PDC
Celeron 600 128 MB running Windows 2000 Professional
Pentium III 450 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation
Pentium 166 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation
Pentium 133 64 MB running Windows NT 4 Workstation
All of this setup in the last 2-3 years. I have been onsite a few times putting out fires and installing a Pentium IV 2.4GHz 512MB running Windows XP Professional.
This customer is not frightened to spend money if he feels he is getting something worthwhile for it. Unfortunately we ran into a few teething problems getting the new to play nicely with the old. He was pissed off and calling us all the names under sun until the QuickBooks bloke came onsite to install the 2003 version. It blew up cause the systems weren't up to minimum requirements except for the Win 2k ans XP machines.
Consequently we are supplying him with 3 new XP machies and after a RAM upgrade the server is to be upgraded with Windows 2003 Server as I believe Windows 2000 Server is no longer available.
Problem is the closest I ever got to installing Windows 2000 Server in the real world with Active Directory and all was 3 weeks. That is how close I was to being the Australian Domain Admin when my last company was doing the worldwide rollout but I was given the arse.
So I obviously don't have a spare copy (or any copy) of Windows 2000/2003 Server lying around I can install and experiment with.
So does anyone have any idea how I can figure out what I need to do to get all this to work? Theory only isn't ideal, but I don't seem to have any other option and I don't want anyone else in to do the job. I want the experience and more importantly I want the money for doing the job.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end."
- Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I have a copy of Win2003 Server RC1 sitting on my shelf here. How big is your inbox?
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long
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2000 Server is still available, but obviously it's closer to the end of its support lifecycle (by three years).
Server 2003 I've not yet really used 'in anger', as it were. Installation was no harder on my old PII-300 than any previous version of Windows, really.
You're upgrading a PDC. I'd recommend backing up the server before you begin - but then you should do this when upgrading anything. On upgrading an NT 4.0 domain, Server 2003 will start off in Mixed Mode on the domain. To migrate to Active Directory is a bit more painful.
You can get an evaluation copy of Server 2003 from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/evalkit.mspx[^]
I suggest reading the upgrade notes at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/upgrading/nt4/default.mspx[^].
Hope this helps.
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Not long got home (02:15 02-Aug-2003) from installing the server. Fresh install not an upgrade. Back there in about 7 hours to finish configuring the clients and connecting them to the domain. After that copy all data back to the server and new clients and install a bit of software. Sunday we take them from my company premises back onsite reconnect and hope all is well.
Windows Server 2003 (as David Stone told me it was called) installed OK. But the wizard that set the role of the server bit me. I took the typical settings as it was my first time through and it was getting late. Bad move as it created a DHCP server, didn't want it as we have hardware doing it elsewhere. Removed it, activated it and updated it. Looking good so far.
Thanks for your reply.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end."
- Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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How can i let my system need password when delete a file(not folder)!
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login as adminstrator, set the file access attributes, logout and login as user for example....
just asking for password is not possible as far as i know!
Don't try it, just do it!
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i mean the file opertions hook which i can use in my code!
and for example the shell programming(copy hook handler) just can handle folder,but for file,it seems not work any other suggestions?
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sorry ,my english is poor,the copy hook handler can handle the operations of folds,but cant useful for files,i just want the file's operations 's hook
thanks
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use a file system filter driver!
Don't try it, just do it!
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shall we discuss it more in detail?please mail to me:yanyuejin2003@hotmail.com
i dont know the detail ,i need your help ,My dear sir!
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Has anyone ever, or know how to set up Windows Media Services to serve content from a capture card such as ATI TV Tuner?
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
Signiture 2.0 Coming Soon!
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I figured out I needed Windows Media Encoder to create a live stream. That caused a problem with CPU usage would be equivelent to powering the space shuttle with the engine out of a Geo Metro.
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
Signiture 2.0 Coming Soon!
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I have error message "Apache.exe: module "mod_jrun20.c" is not compatible with this version of Apache (found 20020329, need 20020903). Please contact the vendor for the correct version".
/* I downloaded the last version */
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apache 2.0.42 is not the lastest version!
Don't try it, just do it!
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I was downloading some MS stuff the other day and was informed my 'activation profile' had been collected.
what the H is this?
Is it what I think it is ?
Regardz
Colin J Davies
* WARNING * This could be addictive The minion's version of "Catch "
It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox
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It's simply a file that contains every email address you've ever saved, all your passwords, a list of all the hardware and software on your machine, your credit card and bank account numbers, and the URLs of all the porn sites you have ever visited. Don't worry - it's only accessible to the Marketing department. Perfectly harmless, it says here on the label.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long
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Does anyone know what this file is?
It magically appeared on my desktop.
peernet.exe
Tony
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If you don't recall downloading it, I wouldn't advise executing it. I've never heard of it, but it might be worth your while to run a google search on the filename. There is no magic in computing, unless you count a Windows server running for three straight days without rebooting magic. Things that magically appear on the desktop are almost always the result of somebody's mischief, which is rarely directed to your benefit.
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long
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It turns out that it's a peer to peer blocking util, the strange thing is, I don't remember downloading this. this is some weird s**t !!
Tony
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I know I've posted about this before, but as I learn more I'm hopeful that my question will become more refined. Bear with me...
When I registered a domain name through Register.com, they set up a SOA record on their nameservers as part of the deal. I later installed Win2K Server here at home, used Active Directory, and since that requires DNS, allowed it to set up the DNS Server for me. This created a bunch of records for DNS as well as a Default-First-Site-Name section in Active Directory. The defaults are not working well, resulting in a constant flow of errors in the System Log, which fills entirely every two days with Error 5774s. None of the articles in the Knowledge Base comes close to resolving the problem, and a few have actually made it worse.
In the DNS console I find that a SOA record was automatically created, and I know that only one SOA should exist for a domain. Would it be safe to delete the local SOA record and let Register.com handle it, or should I remove the remote record and let mine be primary? What else am I missing here? I do have a local network that I want to have the local DNS service handle, so I don't want to remove it completely... Any suggestions?
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long
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Roger Wright wrote:
Windows20000 DNS Server
I'd love to help you out but I haven't gotten my hands on a copy of 20000 server yet
Seriously though I'd try deleting the local record first and if you can't make that work try removing the remote SOA. I must warn you that I don't know much about DNS though.
Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179
"Jokes should at least try to be intelligent - this is just toilet humor" - Heath Stewart
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Can somebody please give me a quick tortorial to set up the IIS mail server so, that I can recieve and send email?
/\ |_ E X E GG
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specify smart host server in Delivery->Advanced if you aren't directly connected to internet.
Then using CDONTS connect to that mail instance and send your messages.
If you have your program/component running on that machine, then you don't need to do any connecting, just send and they will go.
Having message arrive is a different story because you need MX records specified.
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I've been running into this a lot in the past few months. On PCs with 128MB RAM or more, 5GB HD space free, and Win98SE installed the systems crash for lack of resources when only 2 or 3 apps are running. I can't figure out what may be causing it. I've read that earlier MS O/Ss had time bombs built in that cause them to cease working after a set date, but I've found no evidence of this in Win98. The owners of these PCs want to install more memory, but I think that's a waste of their money and I don't believe that lack of RAM is really the problem. I've tried to relieve the situation by clearing out the cache for IE and removing temp files, but it hasn't helped. Any other ideas?
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb; but the Lamb will not get much sleep..." Lazarus Long
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