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Glad to hear you got it solved - however, just note that this is expected behavior in safe mode, as no drivers or non-Microsoft services will start during safe mode. This is by design, and why you'll have no network connections (unless booting into safe mode w/ networking), services started, etc - it's SAFE MODE .

This is caused either by a LAN driver or controller driver issue. Are you sure that you've integrated the proper NIC and controller drivers into RIS? Actually, if the flat image is XPSP2 and the domain functional level is 2003 native, you can do it in a flat image . It's not guaranteed to work from riprep though.

There is real danger if you are running Exchange, otherwise a domain rename is relatively painless. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads...mainrename.mspx

What does your WindowsUpdate.log (or Windows Update.log) say on the client?

Do the problems occur when you boot into safe mode?

Does your session disconnect as well, or when you reconnect do you go back into the same session you were working in?

Was it the only DC in the site, or in the domain?

If it's XP Pro, you should first make sure that people aren't running as administrators, but limited users. Then, use NTFS permissions to specifically DENY access to list files and folders to everyone but your user account - since deny permissions take preference over allow permissions, a user would not be able to see or use files and folders they have been denied list and read access to.

If the server held all of the FSMO roles, this will happen (and thus you should always have FSMO roles spread out when possible, and also have multiple copies of the GC in a domain as well!!!). You'll need to use ntdsutil to get the roles seized onto another server.

Most of the kernel is already loaded into RAM by default when you boot your machine, with only a few kernel executables possibly not loading into RAM and getting paged out when the system is very busy. You can make a registry change to prevent this from happening, but I suggest against it as you can then actually run out of RAM and crash a box under heavy load (not probable, but possible). If your box seems slow, I would run perfmon to determine whether everything is performing normally or not, and where you may need to make some upgrades, rather than focusing on the kernel. The kernel is pretty optimized already.

Wouldn't just having the files on a share accessible by other machines suffice? Or are you looking for some sort of GUI front end other than WMP/WinAmp/iTunes/etc?

USB adapter: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/produc...php?productid=8 Using drivers from: http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm It's an RaLink RT2500 chipset, so the drivers for said chipset from the above page work great. Plus, since it's USB, I use it on both my desktop and laptop without issue.

What did the vendor say? You only need port 1723 and 47(GRE), so if it's not working, I'd get a network trace on both the client (outside the firewall) and server (inside the firewall). I'm betting packets come in, but never go out...

You should probably post this in the RIS forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=127

Fixmbr would work, but not sure about fixboot. Fixmbr simply clears the MBR and reloads it with Microsoft goo, but fixboot does attempt to replace system files and check things like boot.ini, so I'd do this with an SP2 CD if at all possible. If you do fixboot with an SP1 CD, I'd suggest running sfc /scannow as soon as you get back into the machine.

You'll also need to install the proper HAL via computer in the device manager. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q237556/

Note you're running CMD.COM, not CMD.EXE - XP doesn't contain a CMD.COM file, so I don't know what's going on there. I'd delete that file, because cmd should run cmd.exe, not cmd.com.

By crashes, what do you mean? Does it hang up, or does it bugcheck?

It's the same in most countries - you must contact the vendor of your PC (if the OEM software came with the PC) for support, not Microsoft.

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1018/

Avast and NOD32 are good free clients, whereas the big players also provide non-free x64 versions of their A/V products as well. Note that AVG provides a free 32bit version, but the x64 version is not free.

First, XP can address 4GB of RAM (unless you're speaking about process address space, which is 2GB by default, 3GB with the /3GB switch in the boot.ini file). Second, what kind of applications are not running on a 64bit machine? Most applications should run fine, but there are some apps that will not run or install on 64bit Windows - 16bit installers and programs will not run, and 32bit antivirus and antispyware programs will not install or run either, to start with some obvious x64 incompatibilities.

It is supposed to be Directory Services communication on port 445. If the traffic isn't destined to or from one of your clients or servers, it is something to worry about (blaster worm, possible DoS, etc). It is normal to see that sort of traffic on a Microsoft network running AD, though, so try to determine the source and destination of the packets to determine whether the traffic is good or bad.

One other thing - if you have the Automatically Restart option enabled, you may actually be crashing, and Windows restarts dutifully after the crash. I would suggest configuring your machine to do a complete memory dump on crash, and not automatically reboot - you may actually be getting a bugcheck and a reboot, not just a reboot. Since this doesn't happen in safe mode it is going to be a driver or startup program/service causing this, but the bugcheck will likely give an idea of what's actually happening.

Here's a quick question - what happens if you run an RPC ping (start > run > cmd > rpcping) from the DC at site C to the DC's at both site A and site B?