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Cool, I thought that it was just me. I have had repeated timeouts from work (not so much as an "official" timeout as IE just hangs forever when loading the page) on a dial-up. I wind up trying to post what I remember to from home because I have ISDN and I seem to be hitting at off peak hours. I only started having this problem like a couple months ago I guess. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I figured that since there are a few people that might not have a firm grip on what TCP/IP is, I would put up some links for them to get the info that can help them in the long run. I found this one this evening while trying to find some PPTP/VPN info for someone else on this forum (whom, by the way, seems to have a good conceptualization of network functionality ). Here is the first one; I found it on Technet. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/deploy/tcpintro1.asp I have some others that I used to get my MCSE/MCP+I certifications. If I can find them, I will put them up here as well. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Here's another link for TCP/IP info. This one contains a listing of available ports. I thought that this may help some people out there. http://www.mcseinfo.com/mcse/docs/port-numbers.html ------------------ Regards, clutch

I had this from a couple of years ago, so I retyped it (as I lost the email). Hope you guys find it as funny as I do... http://www.driventechnologies.com/techsup.htm ------------------ Regards, clutch

That's cool. I actually meant that I had apps running locally and networked that were 16-bit and ran on NTFS (some old crap that carried over from DOS like PLC and phone programming software). But I never saw an app that refused to run due to NTFS. ------------------ Regards, clutch

If the app relies on incoming info on a certain port, then your documentation should state what you are looking for. However, if you just want to know what the majority of your system is using for ports, then go to the c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\services file. This will show what port is mapped to what function (see example below). ftp-data 20/tcp #FTP, data ftp 21/tcp #FTP. control telnet 23/tcp smtp 25/tcp mail #Simple Mail Transfer Protocol time 37/tcp timserver time 37/udp timserver rlp 39/udp resource #Resource Location Protocol nameserver 42/tcp name #Host Name Server nameserver 42/udp name #Host Name Server This is a sample of what is setup by default with Win2K on my system. Now here is what I had to do to connect to our ERP system; 011gui 5627/tcp # inserted by MFG/UTIL 11/17/98 011cfg 5637/tcp # inserted by MFG/UTIL 11/17/98 011play 5647/tcp # inserted by MFG/UTIL 11/17/98 011prod 5657/tcp # inserted by MFG/UTIL 11/17/98 011mfgtrain 5667/tcp # inserted by MFG/UTIL 11/17/98 The names "011xxx" match with databases in our test environment. When we connect to a database, we just use the "service" name (name mapped to a given port in this file). Once you know what port you have this traffic on, you should be able to go into your router and define the port number to forward all traffic to your PC's IP. Bear in mind that some apps won't list (and don't need to) what port they use in this file (important ones like Q3A and UT come to mind ). This should give you a good idea of what traffic your machine requires. In addition, some apps will work fine without port-forwarding from your router (like web browsing and FTP client usage). HTH ------------------ Regards, clutch

Hey SHS, could you follow that up with an example? I was under the impression that the OS handled all the I/O calls to the HD (as Bursar stated). If this were the case, then wouldn't 16-bit apps not work on NTFS partitions as well? I have numerous 16-bit legacy apps on my network that run on machines with NTFS partitions. ------------------ Regards, clutch

I only have a couple of suggestions. How is the CD? I would imagine that if you are working with Win2K AS on a desktop, that you might be using an evaluation/MSDN/burn of it. I had something similar happen with a bad disc. Also, you could try using a different reader. Another thing to look at is the hard drive. Have you run check disk on it? You may have a few bad sectors on it. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Stability is relative to the user. So many people like to point out that Linux is sooo stable, and that every (or almost every) MS OS is not. Most of the instability can be attributed to user error. If you haven't noticed, the experience of the average Linux user is far greater than that of the average Win9X user. In addition, you can further enhance the stability of a given OS by using properly tuned drivers and stable applications. They go a long way to "making" the OS stable. Most will admit that these drivers and apps have been a long way coming, and that most are tweaked by the Linux community, a league of seasoned power users, to get the performance that they require. I know that when I was setting up a Linux box on my home network, I was using Samba (2.0.5a I believe), I had a helluva time getting it to communicate with my NT Server due to the password encryption implemented ever since NT SP3 and Win95 OSR2. I did get it work with encrypted functionality, but I did notice quite a few people recommending that you *disable* authentication encryption (not a good thing). Another time, I tried to change the monitor on the machine (Mandrake 6) and I wound up trashing the install trying to update the sync settings. With Win2K/NT/9x, changing monitors isn't even an issue, all you need is desk space. Does this "functionality" compromise driver stability in Windows? Is this possible compromise worth it? Well, I would rather have the option of crashing a machine, then reinstalling the driver than having to go through a ton of documentation, compatibility charts, and 4 other newsgroups just to see if someone got my monitor to work with a similar hardware combination. NT/2K and 9X OSes are much easier to maintain at all levels of the spectrum, period. Eventually, Linux will be up there too. But at what cost? What about all those "features" that Windows users take for granted? Like plugging in a different monitor (plug and play) and having it work without a bunch of configuration? Will those things make the Linux OS a little more fragile in the quest to be more like Windows? Only time will tell. ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 21 August 2000).]

Sorry bud, by PPTP is not my strong suit. I am forwarding this thread to a web admin friend on mine who it just so happens to be working on a similar setup for his company. If he tells me anything, I will post it. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Generally, if you can see all the shares on the Win2K box from the other clients, then they should be able to see the printer share as well. Make sure that the printer is shared out and that it's set to "everyone". Also, try logging on to the WinME box with the same account that you log on to the Win2K box with. Also, are they in the same domain/workgroup? ------------------ Regards, clutch

Sorry bud, by PPTP is not my strong suit. I am forwarding this thread to a web admin friend on mine who it just so happens to be working on a similar setup for his company. If he tells me anything, I will post it. ------------------ Regards, clutch

NetBEUI is a broadcast-based protocol, so that's why you get better browsing through the network neighborhood function. File and print sharing works fine through TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and IPX/SPX in the Windows environment. Check out the "network woes" thread, it may help to clear up the situation for you. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Have you run ipconfig after it stops to see what the output is? What protocol(s) are you using? What other machines are you connecting to? If you are using TCP/IP, can you ping the loopback (127.0.0.1)? Need more info. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Actually, using the 192.168.x.x set is what I recommend for normal home and small business use. It's a Class C license, and works fairly quick as far as resolution (less complicated with a smaller host ID). Not to mention, if you are going to use a 10.x.x.x set, you will want to go with a Class A subnet mask (255.0.0.0) and not vary the mask from that setting unless you are subnetting the network to reduce traffic. If you are having machines that appear then disappear on your network, make sure that they are all on the same mask if they are to be on the same subnet. In addition, if you have multiple machines battling for browse master, that will be a problem too. There are a few things that can be done to resolve this; 1. Establish a browse master for your network. MS operating systems vote for browse master by senior-most OS version (Win2K DC, AS, Server, Pro, then NT Servers and WS, then the 9x versions- this includes service packs too- SP4 is senior to SP3 and so on), then by time on the network (booted for 28 hours vs 2 hours). If you disable the master function of all the machines but one (usually a machine that will be on all the time, as you would be defeating the purpose otherwise), then you wouldn't have the machines voting for browse master and consequently losing the data that the voted-out machine would have collected. 2. Use the hosts/lmhosts file to resolve names against IPs on your network. If you use DNS ("dot-coms") in your machine names, then use the hosts file. In turn, if you use the traditional netbios names (john's pc, pc2, etc.) then just use the lmhosts file. It would be in the c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ directory. It will have all the directions that you should need. Use this only if you have statics IPs though. 3. Scrap network neighborhood and just type the UNC to the target machine. I usually don't even bother with network neighborhood as it can be a misleading as to the state of a given network (a machine can crash and the browse master will not be notified of the pc being gone, thereby letting it "show up" on browse list). You can go to the machine in question by typing \\computername in Explorer or the "run" prompt (Start>Run). You can then click on the shares of that given machine. Sorry to be so long-winded, but it's good to have options... ------------------ Regards, clutch

Mine worked fine. I could even overclock it... BTW, I would recommend the 5.22 or 5.30 drivers as the TNT2U will lose steam under the 6.x drivers. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Try this, get rid of all your protocols and just use NetBEUI. It's a broadcast based language and shouldn't give any issues with browsing. One thing to note about browsing is that a network would normally have a "browse master" (senior-most machine on the network) taking requests for clients on name translation. Straight NetBEUI should bypass most of the protocol delay for you. In addition, you could have problems with the NIC/IP stack on the machine that cannot see its peer on the network. It sounds like you switched out the cable and still had no luck, so just go NetBEUI-only. Sounds like you have some time to kill until you get the hub anyway... ------------------ Regards, clutch

If you can ping your loopback (127.0.0.1) and your static IP on each machine, then it sounds like your cable is bad. It would seem that you are getting an intermittent failure with it. There is one thing that you can try though, force your NICs to 10Mbps and make sure that you are using half-duplex. If this works, then bump up to 100MBbps. Now if that works, you can join the vast majority of other users that can't/don't have full duplex working. What normally happens is that if you have a hub, the card will easily detect what speed is max for the system in addition to determining if it can go full duplex. For some reason, your setup could possibly have both cards communicating, yet they can't agree on what settings to use. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, I don't use and kind of dial-up networking in Win2K (router or proxy based on both networks), but I do have a question. Is there a setting that you can toggle for "secure authentication" (or something similar) in your RAS parameters? Usually, a toggle like this will allow a user to either retain the user info, or remove it entirely for security reasons. In addition, if it were "set" in this manner, then a reinstall onto and existing installation would keep this setting in the new system. I will see what I can find on one of my NT servers at work (I have a couple with modems on them) and see if I can freshen my memory on this topic. ------------------ Regards, clutch

1) You may want to can OpenGL and just use D3D. I have used D3D with both my TNT2U and GeForce with great success. While the OpenGL driver for the nVidia cards has been great, the implementation in the Unreal-based games has been lacking. You will see this in the performance of your video which is... 2) Timedemo settings have no effect on gameplay whatsoever. It only gives you performance stats. A possible reason why you may see your performance as lacking is due to the way UT uses your system's resources. It is more CPU dependent than Quake-based games. You have a pretty high framerate (assuming that you set the minimum framerate to "0" for testing) for a system without a 3DFX card. The Unreal-based games run extremely well in Glide (3DFX's proprietary API) and do show higher framerates (16bit comparisons) than most of the other cards out there. The only cards that I have seen to hang with the Voodoo V5500 in benchmarks have been the GeForce GTS Ultra and the ATI Radeon. These cards have the high-res power to take on the V5500 on its home turf. This all leads us to... 3) I would think that a 933MHz machine would make anything run smooth, but I guess that isn't the case for you. Even though Unreal/UT rely more on the CPU than the video card, your card may still be holding you up. Try D3D and see if that helps you out. ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 19 August 2000).]

I don't have SMP, but to answer the GeForce question; yep, it works great in Win2K. I had a TNT2U in my main machine, and I got a GeForce SDR about 3 weeks ago. I used the 5.30 drivers with it, and now I use the 6.18s. My monitor wont go into "standby" (power down) mode without crashing, but I use the system standby anyway so it's not a big deal. With my config in Q3A, I would get ~52fps running 800x600x32bit, but now I get 92fps at that same res. I don't really use UT as a benchmark for my video card since it seems to have a higher CPU dependency, but it does run really well with the GeForce too. Basically, you can jump up a resolution or two with the upgrade to the GeForce and still get at least the same framerate (you may even get 32bit for free too!). Win2K Retail PIII 550@605 256MB RAM 25GB IDE HD (IBM) ASUS P3B-F Visiontek GeForce SDR (ver 6.18 drivers) SB Live! MP3+ Intel Pro/100 Mgmt Adapter Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive ------------------ Regards, clutch [This message has been edited by clutch (edited 18 August 2000).]

np. Just so you know, you can replace "computername" with "username" or "IP of computer" or "domain" (instead of domain, I just use * to send out a message to everyone on the network at that time). Ekstreme had it right, but I think that the "/" marks threw you off. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Well, just find out what his computer's name is, and then type: net send "computername" "message" like so... net send pc25 This is a test message ------------------ Regards, clutch

Have any of you had the same drastic drops in gaming performance as the ones listed in this article at "The Firing Squad"? http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/winmeeval/default.asp It is comparing the gaming performance of Win98 vs WinME vs Win2K using the 5.22 drivers across the board with a GeForce2 GTS card. I know that my machine didn't have these drops in performance when I was using Win98SE with my TNT2U, then switched to Win2K. As a matter of fact, the fps and overall "feel" of the game was better in Win2K than in Win98. I was just wondering what you guys have had for performance in Q3 and UT and if these findings are the same for most of you. ------------------ Regards, clutch

Big improvement for me. Went from ~80fps in demo001 to 92fps in 800x600x32bit. I was so accustomed to hacking the inf file, that I didn't check to see if the default refreshes in game would be 85Hz or better (I normally run 100Hz@800x600). Win2K Retail PIII 550@605 256MB RAM 25GB IDE HD (IBM) ASUS P3B-F Visiontek GeForce SDR 130/180 (ver 6.18 drivers) SB Live! MP3+ Intel Pro/100 Mgmt Adapter Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive ------------------ Regards, clutch