Elij

How do I browse an active directory under windows xp, similar to how you do under windows 2000 with my network places... I can search the active directory under windows xp, but can't find where I can just browse it

NTFS disks created on another PC (or installation of windows) need to be imported. Right click on the foriegn disk, and choose import -- u may need to reactivate it after. This is NTs way of mounting a partition/disk FAT32 disks are found straight away and show up as a drive

use disk management under computer manager to import forgien disk

Which 3rd party software can I under windows 2000 to change the static ip of a system on the fly easily. I have two ip addresses I need to use, but its slightly tedious to enter different gateways, sub net masks everytime I need to switch network. If its possibly under windows that would also be great to know thanks in advance

Well, as the network admin at work says... Quote: I hate it when people ask, 'is the network down?' Is the network down... -- no all servers are working. Why do you think its down? I can't browse the network. Have your drives mapped? are they working? Yea my drives are here and working -- Then the network is working! ) He basically believes the idea of browsing is flawed -- you can't browse a network, like you can't browse the internet. You can search internet databases, this is where the AD comes in, and microsoft are moving over to this mentality. I mean, sure -- it works great -- I agree whole heartedly, browsing 2000 netbios names IS pretty pointless.

reason I was more determined than most to find a solution, was due to the fact I disabled netbios and any sort of wins resolutions, so the old way of browsing a network wasn't avaliable. I have it setup as just dns and AD -- now with this, I can publish everything needed to the AD so it can be browsed, this was all fine with win2k -- but XP didn't have this option. If I didn't find this fix, would have meant me making loads of shortcuts on the xp machine. And btw, it does work fine -- it works flawless infact, just as well as windows 2000.

ok active directory browsing is disabled by design under windows XP. you can add browsing support if you get win2k version of dsfolder.dll (sp2 or higher) and put it in system32 and then register it (regsvr32 dsfolder.dll) maybe someone won't have to go through what I did to find this out.