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Actually, rapina, a page back you were mentioning that Linux did in fact "rock" as a desktop OS. As for the topic being changed to whether Linux was a good OS or not, well that was brought up merely because someone stated that there were drivers for 3DFX products in Linux. So, scream if you must...

ZoneAlarm and Black Ice Defender are decent little firewalls. I believe they allow for both inbound and outbound reporting (who's knocking at your door) and port control. I guess they could be considered "amateur" level packages, but they do work well for small networks. They are much better than the "built-in firewalls" that some consumer level routers claim to have. Those are, in fact, NAT (Network Address Translation) devices and just by virtue of design have the side effect of obscuring your systems behind one IP. I have heard that Norton has a decent software package, but I do know that Checkpoint puts out top-shelf packages for commercial level protection, and Cisco has nice units (like the PIX 520 that I work with) that are hardware devices with proprietary software running them.

The A+ cert has been overhauled, but I don't take it too seriously myself. I have my MCSE and MCP+I in NT 4.0, but I don't know if I have the drive to upgrade to the Win2K track. If you can pull it off, check out the Cisco certs and get your MCP in Win2K Server. Either of those would be worth a lot more.

I understand what you are saying, and it sounds a lot like the "chicken and the egg" (which came first?). Well, in general companies can't and won't wait for software houses to create applications to take the place of Windows-based apps just so they can "support" them later on. The applications have to come out and be viable BEFORE many companies will look at them. It may seem like a catch-22, and to some extent it is. However, when you have a platform that's as dynamic as Linux with so many vendors putting out a great many versions of the OS, it's hard for software companies to treat it with the respect it may deserve and actually develop enterprise apps for it. Many people like to badger MS for being a monopoly, but they did do one great thing for PCs: standardization. They put out an OS, it made it's way to just about every desktop-class PC out there, and now everybody develops for it because they want to make money. I think once Linux development starts to setttle down a bit and become more stable (distros become more alike, development releases become more regular) popularity of the OS will grow even more. And therefore, more choices for software to run on it.

Could you please post the specific fix for it? I remember it somewhat vaguely, but now I am at a loss. Did you just update it?

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I remember something about an issue like this a while back, and it had something to do with Netmeeting. I can't find the article, but you may want to start looking there.

Well, load-balancing works fine in servers, and is an installable option on Win2K Advanced/Enterprise Server and Windows 2000 Server if Application Server is installed. However, the general idea is "why bother?" when this is applied to workstations. Also, some applications may not take kindly to NLB, so this may still not be such a hot idea. Basically, go Giga-bit.

The Kyro is a good idea, it's just that tile-based rendering doesn't lend itself too well to games that were not designed for it. Matrox had this cool little add-on card that would run next to your video card (Mystique? I can't remember it's been so long ) and was based on the same technology developed by NEC as the Kyro. Evidentally, it ran GLQuake really well, and was generally a good little card. Pretty cheap too, around $99 US for it and would work with just about anything. ATI's Radeon runs with a similar quasi-tile rendering scheme to speed up processing that I hope they stick with a polish up some more. I was really hoping Matrox would come out the gate screaming with another gaming card, but that has never really been their bag anyway.

I use this to copy shortcuts for out ERP system to each client at via SMS: xcopy "\\server2\apps\qadsetup\8.6D MFG_PRO Client\*.*" "%userprofile%\..\all users\start menu\programs\8.6D MFG_PRO Client\" So, I would imagine that something this would work out: copy \\<servername>\netlogon\normal.dot "%userprofile%\application data\microsoft\templates\" The only reason I have the last "\" in there is because using batch files to do the same thing in SMS occasionally causes a problem where the system doesn't know if you are copying to a folder or a file. I know, odd but true. Also, the quotes are there because some of the folder names have spaces in them.

It sounds like you used my directions from the previous post to make both machines members of the same workgroup, is that correct? Follow kgeissler's advice and map the admin share for full drive access on both machines, then use TweakUI to create the Autologon keys in the registry that will allow you simply boot up and be ready to go. However, I don't know where you can get a copy of that wonderful utility anymore, but I am sure someone else here knows.

I have had terrific performance from Intel Pro/100 Management Adapters, whereas I don't care for the drivers of 3Com NICs. Different people, different equipment.

Who's fighting? If someone tells me I'm wrong about something, I would just like them to be clear about what it is.

Quote: hehe clutch how wrong u r voodoos are supported by XP after all go and check live update oh u r an nvidiot u can't see them. How wrong I am? About what? That XP doesn't support the Voodoo series cards? I never stated that it didn't, only that nVidia shouldn't waste their time on a card that doesn't make them any money. So, why don't you tell me what EXACTLY I am wrong about.

The switches would maintain 100Mbs per port anyway, so that wouldn't make any difference. Plus, NICs rarely hold their rated bandwidth anyway. That's mostly due to the OS though.

Quote: thats why we should be using less M$ junk, and start using Linux, so it will rock as a desktop OS(it does but... oh, well), besides, Linux is inferior to freeBSD as a server crap, if u really knew about servers, u should be using freeBSD not Linux... Or, just run Solaris 8 since it's free as well. Most people looking for free stuff find Linux to be fine. As a desktop OS for the enterprise, it doesn't cut it yet. Admins don't have the time to retrain every user just to use the OS, let alone the applications that would perform differently on it. I use NT and Win2K, and I don't have any reason to look at Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/etc. for a long time to come in my company.

I have: 1 4-port 10Mb hub 1 5-port 100Mb switch 2 4-port 100Mb hubs 2 8-port 100Mb hubs They have all worked fine for me.

Well, using multiple NICs in that arrangement would be "Load Balancing". As for the 2 switches part, why use 2 switches? If there are 2 PCs using load balancing, and they wanted to connect to each other, just use a switch that has at least 4 ports plus whatever other ports you need for the rest of you network (such as "uplink" to another segment or device). However, I don't know if this is available for Win2K Pro since it's the workstation version of the OS. With ISDN, it's called "Channel Bonding" and is a built-in function of the protocol. "Multi-link" or the trade name "Shotgun" protocols were to act in a similar fashion with POTS modems and would theoretically double the available bandwidth.

Autosense does work on a crossover cable, so you should be fine there. One thing that you could try it using just the Netgear card on one PC and the other PC would still have the Realtek card in it. The Netgear will drop to 10Mb auto-magically, so you would be fine in that sense. As for peer-to-peer networking with Win2K, the easiest way to do it is have one PC join the other PC's domain. When you setup Win2K for the first time, it will create a domain (or workgroup, it's been a long time since I haven't had to join an external domain ) with its own user account structure. If the other PC is using Win98, simply go into network properties>client for MS networks and set it to join an NT domain. At that point, use the domain name of the Win2K box (such as "MyW2KBox" or whatever the name of the PC was during setup) and enter it. It will ask for admin credentials of that domain, so at that point you enter them. Once you do that, all you have to do in Win98 is logon with a username and password from the W2K box and from then on you wont need to repeatedly enter user info for file shares, or enable that dipsh*t guest account. If you have any issues with this, let me know.

I think one of the biggest problems people are having with AD is the lack of understanding what name resolution is. People easily acquire Windows 2000 server, and automatically want to see what Active Directory is all about. When I say "easily acquire", I am not just talking about pirating software, I am talking about small companies that pick Win2K server for about $800 US for the full version and just slap it on a box. The average NT admin that I have worked with (and a great deal of consultants for that matter) have no idea of what AD is or what it can do. I was learning it myself, and the best thing that I could do with it was search the tree for "color printer" so I could map it. The first time I got a real idea of what it could do was when I setup Exchage Server 2000 on my test network. Then, you can easily see the relationship between user objects and all the metadata attached to those objects (like titles, departments, phone numbers, etc). If you are somebody that stuck with NetBIOS broadcasting over IP (or didn't even know what WINS was) and static IPs for your NT domain, then you better start reading a bit first as AD will be a bumpy ride for you otherwise. If you understand DNS, DHCP, WINS (you prolly wont use it, but it gives you a good idea of what DDNS is), and directory services like Exchange 5.5 then you will have a good shot at getting AD off the ground with some whitepapers on the subject.

Nero wont do it in NT/2K for me either (though it worked in Win98SE on the same machine), but Adaptec EZ CD creator works on the fly. Generally, if I am limited to just 2 IDE channels and I have a CD-ROM and CD-R/RW in the same box I will put the CD-ROM on the same chain as the HD. I will usually install stuff from the CD-R/RW since the read speeds are about the same, and this allows for on the fly copying in pretty much anything.

It's a Pentium 200 with 160MB of RAM. You can pretty much count on it being slow. If it's still slow with the new CPU, post again about it.

PM5 also supported NTFS, but Win2K is using NTFS version 5, so PM5 isn't fully compatible. In reference to Dynamic Disks, the do tend to be the default for creating partitions from within Win2K, but they can be converted to Basic Disk mode. Dynamic Disk mode allows for software RAID use, and also allows for mounting other disks/partitions as folders onto a current partition. For example, if you have a disk with 4 partitions and the first partition is in Dynamic Disk mode, you could mound the other 3 as folders named "Partition2", "Partition3, "Partition4" (or whatever else you like). That way, there are no drive letters that would change, and you have a simple single-partition directory structure even though there are 4 partitions.

Now, would that *really* be an "upgrade"?

Every DNS server knows to go to TZO.com for the tzo.com domain name. Since you are a sub-domain of tzo, all the requests are handled by tzo.com name servers. Those name servers know your IP since the client on your machine updates once every few minutes. The same process goes into effect when you have your own domain name hosted by them.