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one thing you need to take into effect is your hard drive speed for reading and writing data. Unless you have a very high performance raid. Standard 7200 rpn hard drives will only give you 100mb/s read/write capibilities where as say a 10,000 rpm sata drive will give you 1.5gb/s. Then it also takes into account whatelse is going on. if you are reading and writing to the same hard drive that your operating system is on, this can decreas performance especially if it is trying to run a paging operation. To make your stats more valid, find out how fast the drives are and what their capibilites are and add those to your equation.

by the looks of it.. and correct me if I am wrong. but i see that you are connecting to hnbdc1.homeip.net in your last statement there. and in your first statement you are trying to send to ****@homeip.net which would be incorrect.. I use no-ip.com for my dynamic hosting and when I was using their free domains, I made a similar oversight. your email that you need to send to is ****@knbdc1.homeip.net and not ****@homeip.net. if you ping the 2 addresses, they resolve to different addresses, which would be why it isnt working. you are able to send because your root domain is the same and other email servers do not care what subdomain it is coming from as long as it can resolve the root, but going back.. if the recipient is not part of the domain specified at the end of the address, it will fail. Change your recipient policy to reflect your actual domain name that way you will send addresses as ****@knbcd1.homeip.net instead of ****@homeip.net, that way when you reply to an email, it will resolve to your ip address.

specifically what return message are you getting? can you see anything in the smtp logs that might show where the communication ended. There are the obvious reasons why dns would be your issue. but there is one way to find out if that is your problem ... in the returned faild delivery message it will give an ip address of the server it tried to contact, verify that this is your server.. are there any other things that you may have done to your server.. for the most part.. setting up exchange is as easy as installing, port forwarding and updating your recipient policy.

no, dsl uses a hardware level point to point protocol. End to end termination. you would need a second phone line.

have you ran bootvis to see exactally what is happening during the boot lag? http://lazynetworkadmin.com/component/opti...,fileinfo/id,3/

UPHClean should do the trick for you. Another thing you can try is to just recreate your profile. alot of times the OS is still fine you are just having a user profile issue. Restart your computer log in as admin rename the profile folder under documents and settings log off admin log in as your username copy over your desktop, favorites, start menu, and My Documents folders change your theme and background now unless you have done major customization to your desktop, this will fix your problems with slow profiles

I actually do already have a VLAN setup on the switch between the same terminal server terminal server in question for our Database for the accounting people. I do not see any of the terminal server to DB server traffic(and I really really shouldnt becasue they are on seperate vlans). The type of traffic that is beign spotted are TCP packets on port 3389(Terminal Server to remote computer) and TCP packets on port 445(SMB traffic from Terminal Server to file server). I am seeing other broadcast traffic(browser announcements and hello packets but those are few and far between. And as far as packet sniffers.. I have been using either packetmon(analogx.com) or Ethereal and I am seeing the same results. There was an error detected on one of our ports but it was our battery backup which i simply removed it from the switch.. ... jftuga just out of curosity... your dell switch doesnt do what mine is doing right........?

Here is my problem, I am encountering slowdowns on my network when someone runs a search from our terminal server to our file server. I can tell this because I run a packet monitor on my pc and I see roughly 1500 packets/sec going from the terminal server to the file server. The other servers get far less traffic but I do see traffic from those occasionally also. My question is.. WHY AM I SEEING ALL TRAFFIC. I dont have port mirroring enabled or any sort of promiscuous mode running on my machine.. I ran the packet monitor from 7 different pc's and i still see all the traffic My guess is because I see all the traffic, this is the cause for my slowdown, but why is a switch showing all traffic. I shouldnt be seeing this traffic because it is a switch and not a hub. I have already reset the device to factory defaults and I still see the same results. Please anyone with switching knowledge, I am 100% fluent in Cisco switching.. (hence the reason my cisco switches arent doing this) but am newer to Dell switch configurations.. anyone with any ideas?

also check your smtp logs. One thing I have found helpful is hotmail normally sends back a quasi smtp status upon failure. check your logs for that email address(which I would turn to a fake one in your post so he doesnt get spam) and check and see if hotmail leaves a status. That will tell us weather or not you are resolving hostnames and communicating with their email servers.

Without looking deeply into it, my guess would be GFI MailEssentials. It blocks most everything that is spam.. spam is completely a non issue on my network. Without testing. GFI does read the mail headers.. I am sure there would be 1 way or another to configure this into it. Heck.. even if it doesnt find that header.. it will almost definatly catch it with one of its other filters it runs

also are you talking your internal dns not working or external dns not working... any more info on your problem would be helpful

any free opensource sip server and windows messenger.....not msn messenger.. windows messenger.. i think they are on 5.5 or somehitn like that.. infact .. i think they replaced that with Office Communicator.. still though.. you can either buy live communications server or any sip server and be able to connect to only those..

The group policies you are looking for are User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components->Windows Explorer and the values you want are: Hide these specified drives in My Computer Prevent access to drives from my computer Request credentials for network installations Then give them roaming profiles and redirect their user folders to the network I also agree with what fizban stated above, I have not thought about doing things that way but after seeing that I may start to... One thing though.. ... you say that they are not admins yet you say they can install stuff.. I have ran a few networks where I have just made all users part of the users group with no special permissions at all and tried to install programs with no luck.. If your users arent admins.. they should not be allowed to run any type of installation..

I actually had a problem with this about a week or so ago.. after i deleted the key under here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2 that was causing the problem and rebooted, all was well..

I went ahead and grabbed these files off a winxp machine and manually installed the inf files and devices using the driver files.. should work for you too bth.inf bth.PNF bthci.dll bthenum.sys bthmodem.sys bthpan.inf bthpan.PNF bthpan.sys bthport.sys bthprint.inf bthprint.PNF bthprint.sys bthprops.cpl bthserv.dll bthspp.inf bthspp.PNF bthusb.sys btpanui.dll fsquirt.exe irprops.cpl

Help and support service and Remote assistance and Terminal Services services should be all set to started on the pc you are trying to access help and support service should be set to started on the pc you are trying to access the other pc from

very interesting.. I just had this happen to me the other day too.. it was locking up MS Outlook/Word/Excel. I just thought her computer was going bad. That was the only PC to have the problem and seems isolated. But looks like I will keep an eye on things...

here is my 2 cents... At work we are working on a disaster recovery project which includes cold standby servers... Even though the cold standby servers are not turned on, used, or plugged in, I cannot legally have Xp installed on those second machines (I am using OpenVolume) unless I have purchased software assurance. If I has software assurance, that is covered under the license agreement. This came directly from a MS support rep that I called to get information. Now I know the situation is a little different than mine but i just figured I would throw that in there as extra insight

That was all the Unofficial SP3 was was a collection of hotfix's with an installer that installs all of them.. I myself do not recommend installing it as does MS, it contains hotfix's that may be unnecessary to install. You are better off using RyansVM Pack or any of the other ones that you can find by fishing through this site.... That and as far as I can tell.. that SP3 has not been maintained..it was a package that someone created but has not kept up with other hotfixes....

You would be breaking the laws of Network Address Translation.(NAT) Your only bet would be to have some sorta crazy reverse proxy directly behind the firewall that does the splitting for you AFTER it passes the router.. Other than that.. I dont have any other information. I was looking into something similar to this at one point for my own "Remote Web Workplace" type system that SBS2003 has but had no luck, however, in theory.. should work.

on windows xp pro.. if you install the adminpak.msi off the windows 2k3 sever or DL it from the MS website.. there is a mmc called Remote Desktops. in here you can define your remote desktop connections and ALSO check a box that says log onto console

You could use either Winternals live CD($$$$) or you can use BartPE for a win32 live CD. Then you will want to load the registry hive located under c:\windows\system32\config It should be either the system or software file.. Then you will browse to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, now find the Reg_DWord called fDenyTSConnections and set the value = 0 (zero) save and reboot the PC.. this should enable it.

I dont have any hard evidence behind this statement but I always shut it off that service on all my pc's and I dont get the "Send this to Microsoft" dialog box after an application fails on any of them.

The only way is to use a live CD and import the system registry and change the registry key to allow it. .. otherwise.. cannot be done

What you want is a macro recorder http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Search/...o_recorder.html