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Try Winbolic Link. Their example specifically shows creating a link to a mapped network drive.

Well...I finally shutdown the server tonight to check this out. Turns out my suspicions were correct...in my haste to get the new controller setup I'd left the jumper on the 7200.10 drive that limits them to 1.5Gbps. BUT...the story doesn't end there. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise. While I was in there I noticed things were a little...warm, specifically around the Visiontek GeForce 4 Ti4600 video card. Turns out the fan had died on it and things were getting VERY toasty inside the case. I happened to have a BFG GeForce FX 5200 Ultra laying on the shelf so I swapped 'em out. Man was it ever warm inside that case. I'm really surprised the Supermicro utility didn't pick up the warmer temps.

1. The two black ports are "slave" ports designed to be used for optical SATA drives (DVD burners). You can, however use them for hard drives if you need to. 2. Intel doesn't include PATA (aka IDE) support in their southbridge chips anymore so motherboard manufacturers have to add one on in order to have a PATA port. Asus usually uses a controller from JMicron. The particular controller they use is a combination PATA/SATA RAID controller. The port that's seperated off from the rest of the SATA ports is one of the JMicron SATA ports. The other JMicron SATA port is added to the board in the form of an eSATA port. 3. Yes, but with Intel Matrix RAID you are limited to a maximum of four drives per array (so you can't have one large 6 drive RAID5 array). I would caution against using RAID5 from an onboard solution though. RAID5 requires a lot of overhead for calculating the parity data and since onboard solutions aren't full on hardware RAID solutions, it'll use the system CPU to calculate those values. If you want to do a four drive array, I'd recommend getting like four 500GB or 750GB drives and doing a RAID10 setup. See this thread for more information. If you have questions after reading that...ask away.

As far as I know, there's no functionality built into Windows for what you want. It does make sense that it should be an option though. Something we've done is force a common screen saver on all of our users. Sure, they can have their own wallpaper because they have to look at that. But when the workstation is locked they're likely away from their desk. We just used the marquee screensaver with our motto. I have my logon script setup to detect the resolution size and adjust the font size accordingly (higher resolution gets larger font size).

Here's another utility (now owned by Microsoft): http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...k/Junction.mspx Also...see the note on that page: That's probably why your command wasn't working. You have to create the junction to a mapped drive. So you were doing this: linkd D:\data \\myserver\globaldata Where you should've mapped \\myserver\globaldata to a drive letter (such as G: for example) and used the following syntax: linkd D:\data G:\

Too many arrows? That's the built in search function for the forum. You probably searched on too many terms. I believe I simply searched for "windows setup usb floppy" or something to that effect.

Errr....500 what? 500 of anything hasn't been mentioned before now. Are these devices inside the nework or will they be connecting from an external source? A little more explenation is probably required for me to understand that correctly. But...and this is hazarding a guess...you probably won't be using VPN connections for that. Those will probably be routed through the firewall. The VPN connections would be strictly for users connecting to check email, work on documents, etc (basically anything they can do in the office could be done over the VPN connection if the PC was configured with all of the same applications). You may also be misunderstanding the VPN connections as well. PCs inside the network won't use a VPN connection. Again, that's strictly to allow people to connect from a remote site to the network and do work. For external devices connecting to an internal device you would simply open a port on the firewall and allow that particular external source IP to access a particular internal destination IP on a given port. Also, just to be clear, the one you linked to is the wireless version. Personally, I would get the non-wireless version and add a seperate wireless access point (but only if you need wireless connectivity).

First...it's tuner, not turner. As in "tune in next week when Robin says 'holy cow, Batman!'". Stick with Hauppauge. You certainly won't go wrong with them, that's for sure. It's good to see that they're finally putting out a PCIe card. You'll probably end up waiting a bit on a PCIe sound card. There's very few, if any, available right now. Creative says that PCIe 2.0 (which the X38 has) fixes whatever issues they were having with creating PCIe sound cards. Of course, I do realize they're not the only sound card maker...

The P5B line is awesome. I have a P5B-E (slightly lower variation of the P5B Deluxe) and it's one of the best boards I've used in a long time.

No, forget the Terminal Server. You do, however, need the "Watchguard Firebox X55e Edge Security Appliance - Unlimited Node" device I mentioned in my recommendations. That device has built in VPN capabilities that will allow users to connect from home (or anywhere really). If you're not familiar with a VPN connection...basically once they connect to the VPN it's as if they're at the office physically plugged into the LAN. The speed will largely depend on what kind of internet connection you have at the office.

Did you even look at the specs of the motherboard when you ordered it? There's your answer. You already have a good onboard RAID solution so you don't need to order a controller.

Mainly to make sure it has a valid time source for it to sync against. The rest of the domain sync's against it. See the article I linked further up for more information. You can do it with scripting but it'll be a NIGHTMARE because you'll have to keep a list of all users and what their primary PC is. Is there a reason for making them an Admin on their local workstation? IMO that has the potential to do more harm than good. And please don't tell me that "application X requires admin privs to work properly".

Everyone, except of jcarle, missed the point of the question. He wants to change the wallpaper while the computer is locked...not while it's logged off. In a logged off state, you're all correct that the settings are stored in HKU\.DEFAULT. However, when it's locked it uses the current user settings so whatever wallpaper the user has is what's displayed on the "This workstation is locked by Joe User. Only Joe User or an Administrator can unlock this workstation." screen. The only way know of to do it would be to force the same corporate wallpaper for all users (and this can be done with a Group Policy).

I'm not overthinking it at all. I understand that he has a client-side application that looks for files in D:\data on the client. What he wants to do is have all of his users share the same data, but all of their workstations already have D: partitions. There's only two ways that I know of to fix it in that case: 1. Login to every workstation and change the drive letter for the second drive/partition to something else, and then map a network share to D:. or 2. Create a junction point at D:\data that points to a network share. To do this you have to use something like Winbolic Link because Windows doesn't come with a utility to create junctions (also known as symbolic links in the *nix world). I think I recall there being a utility in one of the Resource Kits to create junctions though. I'll check on that later.

Quite simply, yes. The answer is indeed 42. I know because all of my computers have come up with the same answer. That belongs in the great list of "IT related things to live by"...

I'm sure you meant 320GB. Considering that two 320GB drives in RAID0 is 640GB...uhhh..yeah, that's WAY more space than you'll ever need for an OS/application drive. I've got two 250GB drives RAID0'd for my OS/application drive and I'm using less than 100GB on a 500GB array. I'm running XP Pro, Office 2007 Pro + Visio 2007 + Sharepoint Designer 2007, Adobe Creative Suite 2 (the entire thing, not just Photoshop), a TON of games installed plus all of my scripting utilities and what not. You'd be hard pressed to use much more than I am if you keep it just for the OS and applications. As I said, important data should go on a RAID1 array (2x500GB should be plenty for that). I can't wait to see some reviews on those 7200.11's to see if they're as fast as Seagate claims. I thought they'd be available by now though.

Well...if he's running VPC's for learning SQL and SharePoint services then he's likely a developer or IT professional. Regular users don't just run those type of things just to "learn the ins and outs". Based on that knowledge I'm willing to be he'll be upgrading more than just RAM over the next 4 years.

Woah.....let my eyes recover for a second. You need a better backdrop for your pictures than that rug. Get yourself a solid colored sheet (or a table) and lay the parts out on that for pictures. And I'm with Zxian...definitely get a RAID0 setup for at least your OS drive. Since you have enough room for drives you can add a RAID1 setup for important data (MyDocs, pictures, etc).

Just print out the thread and let him read through all of the information. RAID isn't about how much the drives are worth, it's about how much your data is worth to you. The more your data is worth, the more you'll spend on a good RAID configuration.

This should've gone in the Unattended XP forum... But, try changing line 29 to this: ComputerName="Donnie Darko"

Did you have the same computer 4 years ago that you do now? Somehow I doubt it. Something tells me that your 4 year old computer didn't even support 2GB RAM, much less 4GB. 4 years ago I was still using a P4 2.26GHz Northwood with 512MB RAM. The Asus P4B533 motherboard I was using only supported up to 2GB...and 4GB certainly wasn't something I was thinking about for a desktop system. My point is that with the current growth rate of CPU and RAM usage, RAM isn't the only thing that'll need upgrading in 4 years so your comment is invalid.

No, you're right...it should be sync'ing automatically. And are you sure your logon script is working? Like I said, it won't work unless one (or more) of the three situations I mentioned above are true. Have you checked the Event Viewer on the PDC operations master or any of the workstations for any W32Time entries?

That's so wrong I don't even know where to begin. It has nothing with limiting how many devices you have on a single network. The limit is there to prevent more than 10 connections to a single computer, period. The limit is intended to keep you from using a Windows XP machine as a file and/or print server on a network with any appreciable amount of devices. You can have as many XP machines on a network as you want without having a file/print server, or even a Domain Controller. You just won't get more than 10 connections to a single XP machine.

Hehe...I'm glad you found a way...but seriously, the Search does wonders. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=89 nLite was mostly created from suggestions, requests and questions from the MSFN community.

Just go with 4GB (4 x 1GB) of DDR2 800 and be done with it. Seriously, the price difference on a 2GB DDR2 667 kit and a 2GB DDR2 800 kit isn't that much. Just get two 2GB kits. That should be plenty for the single user testing you'll be doing. Allocate 1GB to each VPC and that'll still leave 2GB available to the host OS.