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Hi, I have 2 domains, an NT4 domain and a win2000 AD domain. A 2 way trust exists between the two domains. I also have a user account in each domain using the same username, same password, and it is in the Domain Admins group for each domain. Now when I log into the account on the win200 domain (It is a mixed mode, not a Native domain in case that matters), I do not have any rights in the NT 4 domain. I can go into the NT4 domain and assign the user account to specific resources, but I can not get it into any of the groups. So I need to explicitly set permissions to this account everywhere on the nt4 domain, and can not do many administrative functions like accessing a workstation C$ share. I must have missed something as it should not be this difficult to do this and I'm sure others have done this as well. I appreciate any advice you can give. If it helps, the 2000 domain is in mixed mode, I'm accessing the NT4 domain from a 2000 pro workstation logged into the win2000 domain, No hardware is between the two domains, not having any problems with DNS, I can resolve everything I'm looking for. Thanks, Ry

Hi all, I had to re-format, and I lost a program I loved. It was free, and added unzip to the context menu. It zipped and unzipped, but no adds, no naggs, no registration reminders, etc. It also was full featured with unzip here, unzip to folder (same name as zip file) or unzip elsewhere, make zip to an exe, everything. It zipped and also I think RAR. Anyway I loved it, and before re-formatting I thought it was stuffit, but I was wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Ry

Anyone know how to implement secure FTP using iis 5? Is it possible? If not any suggestions? Thanks, Ry

Anyone offhand know where the autocomplete info for passwords and such is stored for IE6? (the same stuff in the content tab in the internet options) In the past I checked the box to not remember passwords for a few particular sites, and now I would like to enable those without purging all my existing ones. Thanks.

ZA will turn off the XP firewall by itself when installed, and if you uninstall ZA, the XP version of the firewall will automatically be re-enabled. Because of this I would not recommend disabling the XP firewall. Just let Zonealarm do its thing. -Ry

You said you have 512 MB of ram, is that 1 stick or 2 256 sticks? I had an extremely similar situation happen. I swapped out one ram stick and the problem got much worse. Then I took out the stick I left in, and replaced with the one I originally took out. Not a problem at all after that. So basically it was a bad stick of ram. I hope you have the luxury of being able to try that out. Of cource what I should have done from the start is run memtest. If you have a cd burner, try this app out: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.1a.iso.zip If you want a floppy version, http://www.memtest86.com/memt31a.zip These links are from www.memtest86.com , and I found it a great memory test program. Set it to a continuous run, and watch it for the first time through. If you have no errors on the first run, let it continue for a few hours to be really sure. At the least, it will rule out one possible issue.

If you go into the event viewer (right click on my computer, choose manage, then expand system tools and expand event viewer. Choose the application log from the list). Do you see an event, most likely a warning numbered 1517 or 1524 with a source of userenv? If so there is a file on MS's site... actually a service that may help. Let me know if you have that error and I'll hunt down the link to the file. -Ry

Perhaps you could give a little more detail on exactly what happens when you plug in the flash drive. Does XP recognize it at all? Do you have "support" software on your machine? Do the machines at your school also fail to access it? I will assume that since you didn't mention anything below, that when you inspected the connector on the device you didn't see any physical damage or noticable dirt on the contacts. I had some software that did diagnostics and encryption for my usb flash drive, that worked right until I put on XP SP2. Did your drive stop right after a patch like this? If so you might have to remove the software or look for a patched version. -Ry

Sorry, but that was tough to follow so if you tried this, again I'm sorry. Quote: Swapped out MB , P3's & SDRAM. Substituted Supermicro Dual 3.066GHz XEON's w/2gb (per spec) SDRAM I swapped out my mobo that had a VIA chipset for one with a Sis chipset. I had similar problems. I ran the XP install CD, chose the repair option, and it was working. Granted this is very risky if you have existing data, but it might be your only choice. In my case, the workarounds you mentioned did not help me. Hmm, after another read of your post, what does Disk admin say when you open it? (after using one of your workarounds) Does it give any errors, allow you to change drive letters, etc? -Ry.

I installed XP on an 80GB HDD with 2 partitions. Many months later I got a great deal on another 80GB drive, and I installed it as a slave drive. Periodically I use ghost to image from one drive to another so I always have a current backup. Now I noticed that XP's disk management shows the primary partition of the first disk as active and the first partition of the second disk as the system partition. This prevents me from moving the drive letters around. I unplugged the second drive (it is a backup anyway) and the system runs but it does not list a drive letter in disk management) I'd like to fix this as I really do not know what the long term effects are of running XP like this. If it helps, I'm on SP2 and it is a basic, not dynamic disk. Thanks.

Well, I made a new ghost of my system, then with only one drive plugged in, I ran the RC's fixboot. No luck. Then I ran the fix mbr. Again no luck. Basically If I open up the disk management, it shows the drive, and the first partition is shown as active. It should also show as system. Now right clicking on that partition and choosing change drive letter+ paths brings up a box that should show it as "C". The second partition should also show up as "D". There is nothing listed when I go in here. The OS does recognize these as C+D drive letters. Granted I can change the drive letters around, but it still will not show the drive letter in that app. Right now the PC runs fine, however I'm afraid down the road I will have further problems. That is why I'd like this fixed. Any ideas would be great. I really want to avoid another OS reinstall. -Ry

Quote: Is it not as simple as right clicking your 'blank' partition/disk and clicking 'Change drive letters and paths'? I wish it were that easy. Unfortunately the system partition does not seem to be changeable. I'm not sure what made it switch from the main drive to the new one, but somehow that is what happened. As far as Disk commander, does it have the ability to just set the system partition without doing anything destructive? The disk that I want to use as the system partition has a valid copy of ntldr, boot.ini, ntdetect, etc. -Ry

Hi all, Is it possible using xp's firewall to add a port range? If I have 5 ports in a row I want to use, I need to add 5 entries into the firewall settings. Am I doing this the hard way by adding each individually, or is this correct? This existed with sp1, but since I upgraded, I'm hoping for a sp2 compatible solution in case it differs. Thanks, Ry

Originally posted by jimbo: Quote: Then, on the server, in server manager delete the accounts (I know you did this already but please do it again). Then wait at least 15-20 minutes (the server can take that long to remove the machine accounts fully). You can also resync the domain to make this part MUCH faster (depending on network size). Just select the pdc in server manager, then the option will be available.

Did your friend not use his account for some time... like 3 months? If he has the free service, then there is nothing to stop yahoo from deleting an unused account and making it available. If that did happen, at least your friend does not have someone looking at his e-mail, as yahoo would have deleted it. Read their policies on that to see how long it is until an account is removed and made available. Now if someone got his password, either from a sniffer, from guessing it, or a malicious program, well then he probably is out of luck. There are programs to allow you to download your mail from yahoo to outlook, or other clients. That will not help him, but it is good advice for anyone that wants to at least backup their mail.

Hi all, I subscribe to several publications that "should" give quick e-mail alerts about nasty viruses, worms...basically any major internet issue. The problem I have is that I don't get the info fast enough, or don't even get it at all. I use sites like sarc for virus info, cert for security, etc. There must be better, and based on my departments budget, I really can't go for a pay service. Anyone want to share some good info places? Even a decent web page that I can set as my homepage will do quite well. I'm just tired of hearing about things a day later. Thanks, RY

My Guv, Turn off vpu recover, Turn off fast writes, --those 2 are in advanced video options. Make sure you have the 3.10 drivers from ATI, they work well with COD. In COD, look in the sound options and make sure it does not say eax 1,2, or eax3. Then if that works, enable ONE of those options you disabled. If it works, enable another. Keep doing so and you probably will find your problem. -Ry

Hi, Just got the 3.10 drivers for a new radeon 9700 pro, nice upgrade from the 7500 I had. I had been using the 3.8 drivers as many gamers said the 3.9 were quite bad. In fact many said that they went back to the 3.7 drivers. So with a new card I really can't compare the new drivers. Anyone have problems that older drivers fixed, or are these keepers? As for me, they seem to work great, but then I only played COD with them so far. -Ry

Quote: Did you know, with a firmware upgrade, you can change a 9500PRo into a full, real, 9700 pro? Do you have a link to anything about that? I heard about a flash that will allow overclocking the 9500, are you simply saying it overclocks to the speed of a non overclocked 9700 pro, or is it the same card, just the 9700 pro is designed to higher tolerances... which allow it to be pushed faster?

Quote: Sometimes OEM cards ship with lower clock speeds, for the memory and core. However, if the speeds are the same, buying OEM will save you a fair amount of money. In rare occasions, OEM models sometimes have different memory bit paths, eg. the ATI Xpert 2000 PRO oem came with a 64-bit data path instead of 128-bit, but I don't think that is the case with any Radeon today. OK, dumb question, but how do you find this out? Is there a utility that will tell you what the memory bit paths and clock speed is?

My cousin had that problem, I turned his sound down from Creative EAX 3.0 to a lower one (not sure which I chose, might not have even been a creative labs one). That fixed the problem right away. I think he has the Audigy soundcard. -Ry

Have you tried using norton's speeddisk? You should be able to get a demo of it from symantec.com. First try to find a demo of norton utilities. Norton systemworks already has norton antivirus in it, and it might cause a problem with your full version antivirus prog.

Hi, Has anyone had experience migrating a NT4 manditory profile with custom policy restrictions (cant enter task mgr, no using registry editing apps, etc.) from an NT workstation to a 2k pro station? I will be doing a fresh install of 2k pro, then I would like for it to take in user manager (nt4 domain) the same profile path \\server\share\userprofile . The profile is both mandatory and also roaming. Without using AD and group policies, the local policy editor in 2kpro is limited and does not restrict all the things I need. Hence why I would like to use the existing nt profiles. Is there any compatability issues I should be aware of? Can the user log into an nt4 station also and get their profile after I do this, or will I have to restrict those who are upgraded to the same OS until I fininsh my upgrade of the whole company.? Thanks, Ry

Thanks DS3, I actually forgot about this thread as it has been a while. Perhaps it is of little use to anyone, but just in case others who are reading can benefit, I did successfully implement this. The 2000 pro stations took the old NT4 settings pretty well, still some minor adjustments needed to be made. Using 2 separate profiles is a must due to the slight differences in the OS, hence each of my users is either 2000 pro or NT, but not both. Your article seems to confirm that, however I guess that util might have saved me from the minor tweaks to get it going. Granted they didn't take too long to implement. -Ry

Hi, running 2000 server with terminal services in remote admin mode. This mode only gives our it staff 3 logins, 2 terminal over the web using tsac, and 1 console. When I'm logged in over the web connection I can open the terminal services manager to see the other logged in user on the web. At the console I can't. We ran into a problem where one admin did not disconnect and could not see who it was from the console screen. If I had logged in using the other web connection I would have been able t see who was on but can't access from inside our network (firewall rule). Even tried the command line util query server to see if I could find that user. Wound up waiting for the idle timeout, but would like a better solution. Any advice? Thanks, Ry