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Ahh, the Navy. I haven't heard "PX" since living in GTMO...

OK, scratch that, I found a better combo: P4 1.7GHz-M 128MB 266DDR-RAM (getting another 512MB from Crucial, and the unit can go to 1GB, vs. the 2650 being capped at 512MB and used 200MHz DDR) 40GB HDD (free upgrade from 30GB HDD) 32MB GF4 440 Go Internal NIC/Modem Free spare battery 15" UXGA display (1600x1200) And this one was $1369.

I have only seen this if explorer crashes and restarts. Sometimes the icons disappear but their processes still remain running.

I didn't see anything about it not supporting partitions, so I went ahead and tried it on my workstation and it works fine. The only "quirk" about it is that when I went from "D:\test" and copied that to "E:\", it only copied the *contents* of the test folder and not the folder itself. However, if you make a folder on the new partition and copy to that, it will not only copy over the contents but it will apply the ACLs from your source directory to the target directory. So, the command looked like this: Code: C:\Documents and Settings\clutch>xcopy d:\test "e:\new folder" /e /k /o And resulted in this: Code: D:\test\test.txtD:\test\tada\New Text Document.txt2 File(s) copied It then changed the ACLs on "E:\new folder" to match those of "D:\test", and the subdirectories of "tada" and "another test" were both copied and retained their own ACLs (which had inheritance removed, as you tend to see that in larger deployments). So, was this what you were looking for? It also worked when I copied from D:\ to C:\, where D:\ is the first partition of a 100GB ATA drive and C:\ is the 70GB partition of a RAID 0 SCSI stripe set.

I liked the physics in Quake better than in Q2. They just seemed smoother and made more sense. Then again I'm also one of the few people that like the physics in Q3 and UT2003 as well.

OK, really vague reference to memory here, but I thought "robocopy" from the NT resource kit would do that. However, here's a link showing how to do with with Xcopy: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q323007& HTH

$1375 + shipping and tax. I couldn't even get a refurb for that cost. Dell has promotions for some universities, and they had a special for University of Wisconsin (where I'm going in January).

I just ordered a cheap Dell laptop for school. P4 1.7GHz 256MB RAM (going to 512 as soon as it arrives) 32MB GF2Go 8X DVD ROM 15" SXGA display Onboard NIC and Modem 30GB drive All the software is getting canned and replaced with Debian/KDE (maybe Fluxbox).

OK, I can see limiting backward compatibility, however it's a bit odd that this would *only* work on Win2K SP3 and WinXP as those are the ones using the spiffy new EULA permitting more information about a system to be captured by MS. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-963777.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed The anticipated time is somewhere around next summer, which is fine as I will be completely on Linux (Debian/Red Hat) by then. However, for those of you out there that might have *questionable* licensing practices anyway, I would suggest that you move to OpenOffice.org and then gradually move into Linux that way, so you will at least have a familiar platform to start with, and then a familiar office app when you go to Linux.

You can also apply Group Policies to the workstations that can control many aspects of the systems. That's much easier to do through AD than editing them on each station (I am not sure how a workgroup config would work with it, if at all).

OK, what have you actually done with AD? You can push out applications with it, such as Office, that use MSI files. That's a pretty big plus. And personally, I have never really care for workgroup setups, as their security management has always been poor. But then again, the last time I even bothered with workgroups was with Win9x using an NT 4 server. So, does that answer your question?

AD shouldn't be too much of a major hit, and it's easy to manage. However, AD doesn't normally like being alone in the sandbox, and might throw out stupid sync errors (DNS/AD) even though it knows damn well that it's the only box out there. Normally, even on small networks, I still use 2 servers and make them both DCs as one is a file server and the other is an Exchange box, and either could host SQL, IIS, etc. Then I can have DDNS setup on both and not have issues. This is something that MS generally recommends, but you should still be fine with a single AD server.

Well, I haven't seen those errors, and I don't use RPMs unless there is absolutely nothing else available (and even then I just convert them to .deb packages with Alien for Debian). So, I would *strongly* recommend that you give punk's first link a shot, which would either work or at least give us a better error to work with. Also, make sure that you have the proper kernel headers installed for your distro and kernel level (or the full blown kernel source if you roll your own) and either have it in /usr/src/linux or have the directory for the headers/source (usually /usr/source/kernel-headers-<version>/) symlinked as /usr/src/linux.

He sent me a PM about this, so I will post my reply here as well for anyone else in the same situation. Hang on there bud, there's a couple of ways to go about this. Now, what you "could" do (and this is the easiest) is simply have both sites point to the same IP and port (generally 80) and then use "host headers". What host headers do is read the incoming URL request for the desired TLD (Top Level Domain), and then brokers that traffic and sends it to the correct site. For instance, you host siteA and siteB: www.siteA.com www.siteB.com On the server, you right click on each site and select properties. Then, on the Web Site tab select the advanced button. Now you will see the entries at the top that the site will respond to. You can just add each name for that particular site there, such as: For siteA www.sitea.com sitea.com sitea (if using this on a LAN and you already have sitea listed in either the WINS DB or in your LMHOSTS file to point to the IIS server IP) For siteB www.siteb.com siteb.com siteb (same rules as above) Make sure to specify the IP (it can be "all unassigned" if you want it to monitor all addresses for these requests) and port that you want to use. Now, if you want to use IIS FTP, you will not have the luxury of host headers, so if you want to maintain these sites via IIS FTP you will need to create separate directories. You can even configure IIS to dump certain NT logons directly into their own directories on the server or on the network (like assigning home dirs in a normal FTP server). If this is needed, ask. Another option is to setup your own DNS box to answer name server requests. If, for some reason, you *need* to host your own DNS system, then this can be done in Windows 2000 (I wouldn't recommend it, as from what I have see it can get easily saturated with replication traffic if not setup properly and/or not on a fairly strong box). You would know if you need to do this if you asked the registrar to use your own server IP as the name server (normally this would be your ISPs or dynamic service like DNS2Go or TZO). Simply run through the DNS wizard and add your primary zone (and then you might want to add your reverse lookup as well), and then assign your DNS names for each box there. At that point, once each machine that needs to be listed (and has "real", static IPs to the Internet) has been entered, you can enter the respective site in there as well. You can enter "www.sitea.com", "sitea.com", and "ftp.sitea.com" if needed into the sitea.com DNS zone. You will have to do this for your other domain name as well. Remember, this is simply a gloss-over to give you an idea of what to do in this situation, but you should make sure to read over the documentation and make *ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE* that you are up to date on patches and security templates (such as using IISLockdown/URLScan on your IIS box and/or the hisec.inf template for your server). Many people choose Windows 2000 over *nix and BSD because it's easier to get started, but never take the time to actually learn what they are doing and get burned for it in the end. Here's one site giving a fairly simple layout of DNS for the entry level IIS admin. http://www.iisanswers.com/articles/dns_for_iis.htm Here's another link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q190008& Good luck, I'll expand up this later.

Follow punk's advice, and it should go smoothly. However, if you need more help with it, please post whatever errors you are getting.

Judging by the quotes and the port, I would say that's going to be the Quote of the Day Protocol (QOTD) at work. Just block that (and any other) unused port. Here is a list of ports and what they are (normally) used for: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

This is the private message that I just got from him: Awwww..... You banned one of a trillion IP Addresses I have at my disposal. If I wanted to I could take your sorry little board offline. Do not **** with me *******. Firstly, I didn't ban you, although I did ask for you to be banned. Secondly, if you plan on wasting your time annoying me further, don't. I am sorry that I even wasted my time on you then, and that I wasted the bandwidth of this messageboard on you. If you want to sit back at that temp agency you work at be annoying, I am sure there are many IRC channels that you can do that at and do it in real time. So, go on, create aliases to hide behind, because people like you just don't matter in either the real world, or this virtual one. Good Day Sir.

Well, at least he made a decent post that was pretty helpful . Of course, that was the worst abuse of frames in a single page that I can recall in recent memory...

You can just have the job run automagically as your backup account, or setup the scheduler service to run under that account in the services panel. It will not even need you to be logged in to run.

Get a CD library or one of those spiffy Lego Mindstorm kits...

If you have the money/resources to get one, you could build a server with a "lights-out" card that has a network jack in it and will allow you to shutdown, start, reboot, and do everything else with system as if you are there with it. All the card needs is its own power via an adapter. I have this on my Compaq DL380 G2, and it works great. However, this is an extreme option that might not be available to you, but I have seen others on this forum using fairly heavy-duty boxes as CS servers at home so you never know...

Ohhhhh...... Well, what diff would that be? What are you using (RPM/RPM-SRC, tarball) to install them with? How far have you gotten? What errors?

Check your application and system logs, but I bet that the credentials are no longer valid. Have you changed the password on the backup account recently? Do you *have* a separate backup account, and not bind that job to your own (or admin) account? That's usually the issue I have seen causing that problem.

We have been getting a fairly steady stream of these for a while now, and our McAfee SMTP scanner catches it on the edge of our network. One thing that I wish it didn't do was return the damn attachment along with the warning email to the offending mail server, as several times they have been Norton systems that bounce back a reply stating they got an infected email from us (which the infected email reads something like "we just got this infected email from you, please deal with it"). It looks like their systems are scanning incoming mail only, or the people are using other mail servers and have their work email addresses set for replying. Does anyone here know if that is how Norton works by default? I would have figured that it would scan both incoming and outgoing out of the box.

What's your hardware? You have to realize that you are adding another layer between your application and the OS. Hence, things that are native to Linux will run faster, while running through this filtering/translation layer will take a bit more overhead.