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Bebo seems to go for the more "down to earth" touch than MySpace whom opts for the more corporate style. However I'm just going from what I've been told here, my source as you might say could of just not liked Rupert Murdock owning them LOL I'm not sure either, I just call them whatever description fits at the time. "Wannabe Gangsters" for example

Our AD domain is actually completly different from our public one but I don't think it matters much I'm not all that crash hot at Active Directory and DNS but all the same I'll try to help you When your workstations request to go to intranet.ad.myhome.com what IP is the internal DNS server giving them? the internal IP or the external? Because I my initial suspcician is it's giving it the external IP which might be confusing it somehow. (with my setup for example I just send it to the internal IP) Also which DNS server are your workstations configured to ask? And lastly I suppose are all your workstations able to get to the intranet site by simply going to the IP address (and appropriate folder name etc) of the webserver?

VLANs is one way to segregate network traffic logically and also isolate it from other traffic as entry to the VLAN can be controlled by the router. Access Control Lists on a router can be used to setup rules and what not, you won't necessarily need VLANs as the ACLs can work by IP or groups of IP addresses etc

We never had any luck with Windows XP Professional so I'm picking no However the freeware VNC utility should work nicely for this

I think you can also force a browser election by entering net stop workstation, and then net start workstation

The DNS client service is enabled isn't it? What did the ping results say?

Hmm, I do have one idea that might stop it Have you tried opening a command prompt and performing a ping of say www.google.com, if that works then it's the Internet browsers that are flakey if it doesn't (and you can ping google from a working machine) then the prob is lower than that. Also try a ping of 66.289.89.99 (Googles IP) those results will also give some info as well, i.e determining whether it's simply a DNS fault or the whole thing is having trouble If pinging Google works then have a look in the Internet browser and see whether the proxy has been changed Firefox is Tools - Options - Advanced - Network IE is Tools - Internet Options - Connections - LAN Settings If you're not sure what they're meant to be, just jump to another PC on the same network and compare

I think it's pretty good myself, they've finally given it an overhaul. On the surface it seems as if nothings changed but if you dig deeper into it you'll see that it's a considerably big change from XP. The networking stack has been rebuilt, all those free TCP/IP registry tweeks etc are no longer necessary as Vista performs all that for you. The SMB protocol is now updated for the 21st century. It's a lot easier for enterprise to deploy as Vista and BDD2007 give HAL independent imaging. The BitLocker drive encryption is good, and even better since the passwords can be stored in the domain. As a bonus the imaging technology is included in Vista Ultimate (but for the price you pay for Ultimate, so they should) The new help facility actually shows you what buttons to click (i.e. greys out the desktop except for where you should be clicking). It's not for every help tutorial but we were shown it It's an operating system built for Joe Public In my opinion Linux flavours are not yet for the masses, Ubuntu and the like are getting very close but Microsoft are good at making things easy for Joe Public. As an example, setting up a Wireless NIC to a network is very easy with Vista (and XP sp2) but a colleague of mine had a considerable amount of trouble getting the same card to work with Ubuntu linux, whilst he is very proficient with Linux (he's a fan of open source) he wasn't impressed about the amount of time and effort involved in getting it to work. But to be fair SuSe on the other hand handled it fine.

Open question, How intelligent is malware these days, in that if you set the hosts file to be readonly would it be smart enough to change the permissions or would it simply just attempt and fail?

Yes well, but when I look at that picture I'm not seeing some Cisco device with individually configured ethernet ports, i'm seeing a simple home network using a switching configuration and of course two different subnets. What I'm trying to say is of all the ADSL routers I've seen (ADSL being is the most common here), they simply include a built in switch, no multiple networks

Thanks for the diagram, Easiest way would probably be to change the IP address of your PC to 192.168.10.11 That way all three devices (PC, router, laptop) will be in the same subnet

Well what you could do is put the gnatbox on the internal network give it an internal address and turn NAT on the router so you've got Internet - Router - Gnatbox - LAN

What you're after is a standard setup, it's just connecting with a static IP I haven't really dealt with static IPs with xDSL routers so am not really too sure as to what's expected in the configuration. That aside I would of thought that any standard DSL router would be able to do the job, are you able to post up the model number of the router and/or screen capture of the appropriate page? (blank out the login details of course) You mentioned it worked using a second public IP, what was different about the second from the first? Anything in the configuration or was it just a different number

Sorry but your post is confusing me You have a static IP given to you by your ISP (generous of them) and you want your PCs on the network to all use it, or to all have public static IPs? If your ISP is giving you a static IP then you wouldn't need to ask them for a DHCP reservation? And since they said no, i'm wondering whether the IP they give you is a dynamicly assigned one. It could be because the IP address you're setting isn't recognised by your ISP. So you either aren't getting a static IP or the static IP is automatically given to you by your ISP and there's no configuration required on your router Failing that of course, the address you're setting is it's internal address which puts it out of whack with your home network Anyway what's wrong with using DHCP/local static IPs for the local network and using port forwarding for any servers you've got running?

I can only speak about the Cisco CCNA certification (because it's what i've done myself) but I can give you an overview of what it entails. It involves 4 semesters, each semeseter focuses on a particular area CCNA 1, Theory, the groundwork; you learn about cables, horizontal and vertical cabling, network troubleshooting steps, OSI 7 layer model, number systems, subnetting, routing vs routed protocols etc and of course diagnosing network problems CCNA 2, Routing, goes into routing on a more practical basis starting you off with the basics RIP and IGRP CCNA 3, Advanced Routing and Switching, moves into your more advanced routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP), the different types of switching technologies, broadcast storms (and how to prevent them. i.e. STP), VLANs. Not to mention variable length subnet masking CCNA 4, Moves into WANs and the different types of WAN technologies available xDSL, Cable, ATM, ISDN, Frame Relay, as well as learning about DHCP and NAT/PAT. Finishing off with an Introduction to network administration Naturally you're learning to use Cisco equipment but because protocols are protocols and there is plenty of foundation knowledge in the course you can apply it to working with other brands of routers and switches And of course, when doing the tests "the right answer is the Cisco answer" I.e. the one they recommend BTW you do have to complete CCNA 1, before you're eligible to take CCNA 2 etc

Bit sluggish at the moment, normally sits around 2mbps. ADSL, My theoretical max is apparently 4mbps, though I've never seen it. Perhaps if I kicked everybody off the exchange

My Internet is so slow the postal service once beat it in race

Currently using Royale Noir at the moment, previous to that was Royale Blue

I'm inclined to agree with Br4tt3, the way I've worked it is to let the unattendxml file do its thing with the LH-Random computer name and then let a script tidy things up. Since I'm hopeless with VBS I use a program called WSName which does all the renaming for me, including deleting any existing duplicate computer name

Wsname, an automated method to change a workstations computername (including computers joined to a domain ) Get it here [under 1MB]

Only thing I can think of would be to rig a netdom command (or equiv .vbs script) into the workstations login script. If the machine is already joined to the domain then it will simply error out but if it wasn't joined then it will join

B. An item dealing with the Vista UI Having to type out the domain login (if you've got more than one domain) or computer name (you can't expect people to know the .\ shortcut) for the splash login screen can get pretty cumbersome. Why not show the available options/domains to the user E. An item dealing with Vista anti-piracy/activation The KMS is too silent for my liking, you're not sure whether it's working or not working unless you visit a client machine and see whether it's "Genuine". I'd prefer to be able to sit at the KMS and see what's going on, sure scripts are good but i'd like a GUI as well. D. An item dealing with Vista networking features I don't like the way Vista doesn't tell you that the DHCP has timed out and you've lost connectivity, with XP you had a hazard icon and a bubble saying what happened, with Vista you don't get anything. This has caught a number of tutors and students out where IE/Firefox would simply hit an immediate "page not found" and scratch their head wondering why (it was there a second ago). XP was very good at IP address renewals, this is much worse and really unacceptable UAC is there for good reason, we all want Windows to be more secure but we b***h and moan when they try to do things to make it more secure. Linux users have enjoyed this feature for years and many enter SU without even thinking about it, oddly enough I've seen a couple Linux users who b***h about UAC but have no problem with SU??

Yeap you can, 64bit CPUs are good like that they slip into 32bit mode. Even though WDS requires separate configurations for x86, x64 etc CPUs they can both link back to the same 32bit PE image

Actually Vista's firewall does differ from XP's. It now blocks both outgoing and incoming traffic whereas XP's only blocked incoming. Granted it's not user friendly (and probably built for enterprise users familiar with Group Policy) but it has changed

I was actually meaning this domain account "Vista" whether it had the permissions to allow joining to a domain Good you got it sorted though. And yes, sorry I'd completely forgotten that for whatever reason you needed a local account as well (I did as a backup in case the domain joining fails) and you're locked out. Actually I wonder you need a local because the Administrator account is disabled