adrianhall

I'm hoping someone can provide some words of wisdom on this. I have 2 XP machines connected to my Vigor 2200USB router/switch, I want to be able to boot one into DOS and map to a drive on the other. I have had this working but I can't find the boot-up disk I created and everything I have tried since hasn't worked (basically I want to be able to use Norton Ghost to save images on the other machine) I have created a boot-up disk using Ghost Boot-Disk wizard, using the drive mapping option. It runs through a couple of questions then creates the disk. When I boot up however, first I get prompted for a network name/password. I don't know if this is the Vigor combination, my other machines combo, etc, whatever username/password I enter it says I was logged on but not verified by a server. This used to happen previously so no trouble there. When it gets to the NET USE statement to map the drive, it says password is invalid, I'm prompted to enter one but it says invalid. If I try NET VIEW to view all machines in current domain I get an error 6118 (I think), NET VIEW \\machine-name doesn't work, so it looks like I'm not getting past the Vigor. I've tried 3 different DOS drivers for my NIC (3C905C-TX) in case it's that. I've tried using DHCP setting and manually setting IP addresses but still no go. Basically I'm stumped, especially as it used to work no problem - any ideas?

Just called it home. Tried logging in as Home\Administrator, the Christou boot disk error'ed every time with that.

Still no joy - I've tried every form of username/password from Administrator to <blank> but it doesn't work, just get error 5, access denied. The original boot disk I created was made with Norton Ghost boot wizard, which includes TCP and NETBUI protocols, NETBUI isn't installed on the other machine. I can ping the machine by IP address but the name isn't resolved. After failing this time with Ghost's disk, I created a disk using Nick Christou's v7.51 setup. Again, I can ping, if I browse for machines it even picks up the names of both machines. I get error 53 for the machine I'm connecting from and error 5 when connecting to my other machine. It also still can't resolve the name on ping, yet the name is displayed correctly when browsing the network. It wasn't this hard to set up last time - the only thing different on the XP box is SP1 is now installed, whether that has affected anything I don't know, but I'm not going to uninstall it, the machine is working nicely to disturb it

I've got a home network consisting of 2 machines, both running XP Pro and connected by a Vigor 2200USB. I've also got a works laptop running Win2000 with Novell Client. Question is, I want to use my main home machine (via the Vigor) to map to the C: drive of the laptop, but everytime I try it I get prompted with username/password. I enter my details but it doesn't accept it. I can map the other way, ie from laptop to either of my home machines. I've tried adding a new share, including permissions groups, etc but it doesn't work Is this Novell blocking me in some way ;(

Thanks for that - I used to have the practicallynetworked URL but lost it and couldn't remember the name so thanks for reminding me on it Quote: One thing about networking, is it is not HUGELY difficult in principle True, nothing too complicated so far, just as with anything a bucket-load of terminology and setups.

I'm learning this network lark as I go It's peer-peer I suppose, although one of my machines (mini-me) is also (loosely) a form of file-server. Both are connected via the Vigor router/switch to the world - I don't think this qualifies it as a domain, but feel free to enlighten me 8)

It was even easier than thet - should have been putting my username as 'domain\id' I'd been trying 'machine\id'

I'll give that a whirl when I get home - thanks

Is the error message something like Code 10, device could not start. I got that when I first got my GF4, then got rid of it again somehow, then it happened again when I installed Intel Application Accelerator :x Only way I permanently fixed it was to turn off Windows Prefetch (I'm assuming you're talking about XP here!!) - don't have the registry settings to hand but a search of the forum should turn it up

They wouldn't install. I completely forgot mini-me uses an SiS chipset when I clicked to install the last IAA set (not the beta ones posted the other day) - it just came up with a message that it's for Intel only. I've not run any benchies but I haven't noticed a great difference, I had to disable XP's Prefetch to stop my Geforce card displaying 4 colour 640x480.

I include my PC's in my sig not to show off, but to save having to itemise components when I post with a problem - luckily don't have too many problems I agree with using small size and line wrap rather than one line per component - a thread ends up being umpteen pages long with 2 messages on each page

Do a search on Google for "cardking sky" and look at the threads there - it's a scam

I've seen posts on Google about the blank screen with a variety of graphics cards. My old Radeon ran it fine, but both my PC's have the same problem. The only common link between the 2 machines is WinXP and Nvidia drivers, although each PC uses different driver sets. As it ran fine on XP with a Radeon that limits it to Nvidia, but like I said I've seen people with Voodoos complain about it, as far back as 98/99 so it's a long-standing issue. Shame, it's one of my favourites for just firing up and having some good racing fun when I've a few minutes to spare. Edit: Just had another look on Google, people reported problems with Matrox as well, so that pretty much rules out video drivers, Windows, DirectX versions. It's a game problem that Lucas should have sorted eons ago.

Quote: It will take you just as long to transfer files that you download onto your friends PC as it does for you to download them in the first place Even slower, transfer rate will be limited to the upload speed of ADSL, ie half the download rate.

Don't think that works I needed to do that for things to work through the XP firewall with a single machine, but when I used ICS it never worked. Since I've got an ADSL router all Messenger functionality works again (that wasn't the main reason for a router BTW ).

If you ever need more info, there's a Yahoo group been set up for Terminators, called asus-terminator (strangely enough )

Sure about that, My Dad's got a Mitsumi CD-R running on his Promise card?

It's not bad - I use it as my internet gateway and backup storage. Not much use for gaming - the onboard graphics can run Quake demo at 16fps at 800x600 16bit and it only has 2 PCI slots, no AGP. For what I use it for it's great though, small enough to hide out of the way and fairly quiet though not silent. I turned the big fan at the back so it blows inwards to keep things really cool - when I first got it I had it stood on carpet which blocked the air intake at the bottom of the bezel so the fan kept changing speed which got annoying. Turned the fan around and stood the Termi on my Java programming book, nice and cool now

Well, I got a ASUS P4B last year (there wasn't an Intel DDR solution at the time and RDRam was way too expensive) - system seemed fine, then I got my nice new GF4 Ti440 and saw absolutely no performance increase over my GF3 Ti200. So prices being what they are now I got a P4T-E (unfortunately with the CYP chips so can't o/c the living daylights out of it:() 3DMark2001SE up over 1200 points, 40fps more out of Quake 3 1.30 timedemo, etc. Windows seems snappier but that's purely subjective, could just be me wishing it. Can't comment on DDR performance, I decided on RDRam as that's what the P4 was designed to work with.

Well, i tried it. On reboot I was greeted with 4-bit colour at 800x600 8) and a Geforce4 that 'wasn't working properly' Thank the Lord for XP's System Restore, made sure to do a checkpoint before installing it. IAA is now in the old recycle bin!!

In a similar thread I started over at www.nvnews.net a guy was having exact problem. The prefetch thing king of fixed it for him, but he reckons he's now got it solved. After installing IAA and before rebooting, go into device manager and double click on each of ATA Controller (can't remember name, I'm at work), primary IDE and Secondary IDE and just o.k. each. Apparently something to do with not applying the update properly. Not tried it yet, not sure I'm going to. I didn't see any big performance boost although this guy reckons he's seen an improvement.

Spoke too soon. Turned off PC overnight, rebooted and it was back to 4-bit colour. Disabled prefetch again, left PC off for 20mins and it was o.k. but the negligible speed increase of IAA vs the negligible decrease of disabling prefetch probably means no speed diff at all!! System restore to before installing IAA and leave XP's default drivers, not worth the effort.

I've solved the problem - something to do with XP's prefetch, possibly also Detonator drivers as when I updated my Det's I got a similar problem (ie Code 10, device couldn't start - device being the graphics card). In that case I just re-booted and my gfx card was o.k. This time around I disabled prefetch in the registry, also cleared out the prefetch directory, then installed Intels AA. Rebooted and it was o.k. I've since re-enabled the prefetch and everything's fine so it's possibly more of a Detonator issue than Intel. Not sure if it's faster, boot-up is about the same, Windows use may seem a little more 'snappy' - just my observation though, no numbers to back up.

With mouseware, before any game I go into task manager and end the EM_EXEC task, all in game mouse functions work fine. Back to Windows I just Start>Run>EM_EXEC and I'm good to go again. Slight hassle but nothing too great.

Hauppauge WinTV remote works for me under WinXP Pro. I've gone back to using the W2K drivers as I got a couple of BSOD's with the XP drivers, plus CPU usage is way higher with the XP drivers due to using XP's desktop features for deinterlacing (XP, upto 35% CPU, 2K drivers never more than 5%) - other than that it works a charm.