RobEubank

Another thought is XP is on the NT Kernal. Make sure you've created an account for both your XP box AND your XP user on your NT or 2000 server. An authenticated box and user should solve your issue.

I understand the migration. I just want the horror stories. I'm building a worst case scenario. I've already built the test network but want to be prepared for the unforseen.

I'd like to hear "true" horror stories about actual NT4 --> Active Directory upgrades and migrations.

To answer the original question, converting over to NTFS and adding lots of memory had the biggest performance enhancement for me.

Video Card Drivers are are a great place to start but not the only limitation. If the monitor drivers are Standard VGA, the operating system will limit you to16 bolors. Make sure the monitor is listed as Plug and Play Monitor or better yet by appropriate Mkae and Model for best results. Since you stated that changing monitors started the whole issue I'd be willing to bet you need to properly identify your monitor to your operating system.

Norton Personal Firewall and Symantec Desktop Firewall both work on Win2K Pro, Server and Advanced Server. You'll have to rewrite the default rules as they tend to contradict what a server is there for. The Symantec Desktop Firewall doesn't seem to save logs or provide a web history for some reason on the server versions but the protection is there.

After several attempts, I have to admit this is beyond me. The sector by sector dies at 42%. The only way I've been able to replicate this disk image is using a hardware RAID to mirror the disk and then run newsid.exe.

Unlike in the past, the newer versions of Nero and Roxio are quite a bit more intuitive when it comes to getting the job done. The boot sector for the 2000 (.bin file)is only if you don't have it. I too have had mixed results in creating bootable CDs for several operation systems. The instructions I referenced above have worked for me every time so that's what I use. It is possible I'm performing some unnecessary steps but they aren't hurting anything and they work. (Just my 2 cents )

Thanks

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/morganpugh/mrp_tutorials/nero.htm has a pretty good guide on how to Slipstream SP 3 with Nero (If you don't want the integrated SP then skip those steps (4-8, 16-19) . Please pay particualr attention to STEP 28. It is a show stopper. Without that it doesn't work. Hope this is what you're looking for.

Unfortunately the user isn't an admin and thus the Winexit.scr doesn't work properly. I even granted full control of the "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version" subkey to no avail. The only way it works as advertised is to make the user an admin and that's not an acceptable solution. Any other suggestions would very much be appreciated. BTW, If you have the screensaver set to password protected, Winexit doesn't work at all. It just locks the screen like any other .SCR.

That's definitely a start in the right direction. Thanks.

I need to configure a couple of workstations (Win2k - SP2) to reboot themselves after the screensaver has been active for more than 30 minutes. The screen saver is password protected. I need to log out the user, and return the computer to a usable state for the next user "without administrative intevention". Is there any way to tweak the power management settings to completely reboot the machine or at least log off the active user after a specific period of inactivity? The problem I'm attempting to work around is locally authenticated users on these systems typically leave without logging out and forces the admins to log in or reset the machine. I also plan to change the shut down routine for non admins to reboot instead of shutting down. (This I can do through policies)

I'll give that a shot. I think I did try it before but have since reloaded the server.

I have several workstations that due to software compatibility issues are required to be dual boot. Win 98 and Win2K. I have the machines configured with 98 on the C (FAT32) Partition and 2000 on the D(NTFS) partition. Win 98 was purposfully configured to be without network capability. The machines are great and we've had no problems with them except --- When we went to pull an image from them Imagecast craps out. 8) The only way I was able to duplicate the drives configuration was to use a hardware IWILL RAID card to mirror the drive and then run newsid/rename etc. I'd love to be able to blast an image because as it is right now whenever I need to rebuild one of these machines, I have to take my home server down to use the RAID card.