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Set up routing and remote access on the server and configure it to do lan routing. Point the lan workstations to the lan ip address of the server or Get a firewall and hook it up to the internet then point your server and workstations to the lan ip of the firewall The second one is my recommendation.. i never like having servers be the first entry point into my systems.. make the firewall the first entrypoint

yeah no kidding.. I am actuall interested in this. how bout a link man.. over 600 posts.. you would think that he would know how to be helpful by now

Just a couple of things to verify can you ping smtp.gmail.com can you ping pop.gmail.com in your outlook configuration the pop port is changed to 995 in your outlook configuration the smtp port is changed to 465 in your outlook configuration you have checked the "This connection requires an encrypted connection (SSL) box for both POP3 and SMTP In your outlook configuration make sure you have the my outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked and the "Use the same settings as my incoming mail server" is selected in your outlook configuration make sure your username is your name@gmail.com I just configured my outlook 2003 to gmail doing the above stuff and all worked well. Hope it works for you

go to start -> run -> cmd In command prompt -> type ipconfig /all write down this information Go to the Network connections folder under control panel and double click on your Lan network adapter. Select TCP/IP and select properties the Automatically configure is probably checked. you want to check the comfigure manually and add the ip address information you wrote down in here.

what options does it give you when you right click on it in disk management?

if you remove the gateway from the lan nic you will still be able to communicate on the lan because you are on the same subnet. the gateway is used when the computer is trying to access something that is not on the local subnet example: Server Lan Nic = 192.168.1.10 .255.255.255.0 Lan Subnet = 192.168.01.0 255.255.255.0 Client Lan Nic = 192.168.1.20 25.255.255.0 Internet Address = google.com = 216.239.37.9 if your computer tried to access client lan it is going to look at the Ip address and say.. hey.. this address is local to my subnet.. lets send it onto the network and let it receive it. If your computer tried to access google.com it sees that it is not on the same subnet it knows what the ip address is but it has no idea how to get to it so it send it to is default gateway and lets the router find the address.. Communication on the lan needs no default gateway.. if you are trying to acccess information on a subnet other than the one that you are on you WILL need a default gateway. now.. you probably have it configured 1 of 2 ways.. either you have the lan nic pointed to the Wan gateway or the lan nic pointing to the lan gateway.. both ways will not work since you are not routing on the server and the server cannot determine which interface to send it out. SO.. what your computer is doing is it is sending out its request to google.com to your lan and therefore getting nowhere. Hope that makes sense So yeah.. remove the Default gateway on the lan nic

does it give you an option to initilize or lable the drive

on the second nic on the server( the LAN nic) remove the default gateway) if you say this is already done.. go to the command prompt and type route print this will display your routing table you are going to want to see close to the very top 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 default gateway internet nic ip

sall good.. I was just being sassy.. I am just gonna read off a couple of steps here and you let me know which one you missed Set static ip address on Server Lan adapter promoted Server to domain controller Installed and configured DNS Joined workstations to the domain restarted the computer selected the domain name from the dropdown menu typed in a valid username and password ensuring that the "Log on using Dial up connection" is NOT checked for some reason your computer is trying to dial when logging on.. atleast that is what i am gathering from your question and responses

You really got my wheels turnin on this one.. you could use Webmail 3.6 from http://iisworks.com I used to use this over a year ago or so (with mailenable free version) to get a web interface for pop mail. Back then you could specify to only download headers (not full message) Now I am reading on theri website that a new feature in 3.6 is the option to "Sync with pop3 server" When I was messing around with this.. it was only 2.0 but it worked good... you could run the page on an internal weberver(the script is pretty lightweight) to save bandwidth then sync it will the pop mailboxes.. now you are still gonna be accessing the internet with this script.. but you would have to mess around with it to see if it will work for you. but already just by hosting it inside you are getting rid of tons of ads and extra graphics.. you just gotta hope that they dont download large attachments. Doing this plus adding a web cache proxy should free up enough bandwidth. Other than this.. unless anybody else has any good ideas.. if your infrastructure supports QoS, you could prioritize your network traffic.. I wont get into this if you dont understand it.. it wont be something you will just learn and configure.. its not that easy. Then a major extream would be to rent Terminal Server access from a terminal server hosting provider. you have more than enough bandwidth to send TS images across the net.. this way everything is out on the net and never downloaded into your network. The old company that I used to work for hosted Terminal Services. As much as I hate to pimp my old employer.. it is a good idea.. now this may not work for you.. maybe find a local provider or maybe not.. your call.. here is the url http://bluerocktech.com/BlueRockHosting.pdf

right you cant log in to XP home under normal mode. you said that all 4 users have admin rights.. log in as one of them and uninstall software and clean the computer as you would if you were to log in as "Administrator"

so you can see it in device manager but not in Disk Management?

I use it in a school that I manage in the computer lab.. As with anything.. there are ways around things.. but this one works rather well. In my testing.. i removed as much of the registry that I had permissions to as the limited user.. restarted... back to normal.. NOW.. with administrative privledges.. i tried the same.. the computer didnt come back up.. so.. with that being said.. DeepFreeze PLUS tight security.. it is a good product. Edit: Whoever posted no.. please give a reason so we have a fair review for our user...I too am curious of your opinion

Agreed with InTheWayBoy.. it sounds like the information didnt get removed from the users registry. Reapply the GP to the users affected and make sure that box it checked.. log the user on.. make sure it redirects there.. (install a program or whatever to see that it writes to it) then remove the policy.. this should take care of it.

1) make sure you have all necessary drivers for your system 2) go to device manager and uninstall USB root hub 3) reinstall USB root hub. (replace drivers) let us know if you are still having the problem

Geez.. you only give people 2 hours to respond.. most people are probably busy at work when you posted this stuff. For starters.. and I think this will help solve most of it.. you say you only have one icon in your network connections folder which is a virtural private connection. you will need to have a network card installed and not just a modem vpn.. you will not be able to log on this way.. (not entirely true... but it doesnt seem like you have that extent of knowledge). Lets get you to log on to the domain on the same LAN first then we can move to l2tp. so yeah.. get a network card installed on your client pc then connect it to the server via a switch or a hub. Make sure something is running dhcp or configure the adapter to the same network as the servers lan adapter.

Unfortunately I will not have a post for this until it is out in production and i start deploying these systems.. then over time when they start to slow down or fail i will be able to see them at work. Right now.. I only have a test box that I test general software installs and compatibility with systems/software that I manage. It will be some time before I get a review on this unless my test box that I use for about an hour or 2 a week.. then format and reinstall when the new version comes out... craps out.. here is what MS has to say about what this feature is all things considered.. XP's help was supposed to be state of the art troubleshooting.. and how often does that give us the answers to our problems.. only time will tell how useful this feature will be. Hope this helps..

yes.. definately a spyware problem. I would also recommend running MS antispyware... I have had great success repairing a damaged IE with MSAntiSpyware

The accounts that are in the administrators group can install applications and it is the same thing as the administrator user. I would install all appliations as an administrative user. you do not need to go into safe mode for this. Obviously I would not keep all 4 users administrators. I would designate one of them the administrator and the rest limited. This way only the most tech savy person has the rights to do stuff. as far as different problems with each profile. I would (while they are all still local admins) to run the big 3 anti spyware, and virus scan Then obviously update to the latest windows Make sure they have a firewall.. weather or not it is windows firewall or not.. just get them a firewall.. this should run as every user.. administrative or not Yes.. if the program is written the way it should be then if you uninstall it from one it should uninstall it from all. I have ran into programs where it doestn remove icons from other usres folders.. but those are few and far between.

Try this http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/GmailConfig.exe or do it manually http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer....3276&topic=1556

yeah.. you will just have to create a domain policy and use security filtering to to apply it to just the DC.

Does it show up under disk management? alot of times with removeable disks.. if a drive letter is assigned to it... ie: e: and when you plug it in and you already have an e: drive.. it will show up in comp management but not in my computer until you assign a new drive letter to it.. and not it isnt a security setting.. i have a 250 external firewire on my 2k3 box as we speak

The thing for vista is it will automatically detect and repair operating system errors, hardware/disk errors(if supported) but not if a program wont come up. This auto repair is strictly operating system. I havent seen too much of this new technology working on my beta machine.. we will soon find out how reliable it is or how well it works and exactally what it does fix and how good it is at fixing it.

by the sounds of it.. your server should have 2 nic's One for your internet and one for your lan. the internet nic can be dynamic.. that is no problem.. the lan nic should be static. as for your error you are getting.. it sounds to me like you are trying to log onto the domain using a dialup or vpn connection which you havent specified weather or not this is what you are trying to do. if all you are trying to do is log on to the domain. you should not be getting those errors. Have you installed Active Directory yet? Have you joined the computer to the domain yet? Are you trying to log into your domain from across the internet?

Well Xp was not meant as a server function and it has remote desktop. I dont know the real reason why they left out this functionality but my guess is that it wasnt in high demand to remotely administer client pc but was in high demand to administer servers remotely. I know some people used vnc apps to remotely access a pc but the demand from what I can remember was not overwhelming like it was when XP came out.