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RD talks on port 3389-so you need to forward that port to the box(s) behind the router. I'd also check that Remote Desktop is allowed as an exception in your software firewalls. I'd guess that the firewall on B is blocking outbound traffic....but there are plenty of network geeks here that no doubt will be able to give better guidance.

When you're browsing the network using UNC paths you need to specify \\computerrname\sharename-just \\computername won't work, e.g. \\P51DMustang\c$ will take you to the root of my gaming boxes' c: drive. BTW, on the check the simple stuff first premise, I forgot to ask if all computers in the same workgroup? Vis a Vis the hosts file entries referred to by ironfist241: just browse to the directory provided and open the file in Notepad. The hosts file itself will give you the format to use The host name is the comp you want to connect to, e.g. 10.102.1.125 P51DMustang #Gaming box @ironfist241 You're correct that common usernames/PW's aren't required-it's just a convenience and lessens the load on my last remaining brain cell. Trying to remember account info on the gaming box, the work box, the wife's comp, the grandkids' box and the guinea pig box got to be a PITA a long time ago..... they do say memory is the first thing to go...

The first thing I'd check are the share & file permissions on the directory you want to be public. Do all 3 machines have a common username & PW? @nakatomi2010 agree most strongly-UNC is way cool!

Search for "COUNTIF' in the help-there's a boatload of examples to get you started.

Have you checked this one? sp2 & VPN connects

Has SP2 closed a needed port? Does the Windows firewall block outbound traffic? Sorry I can't be much help-I've been behind a hardware firewall for so long I can't recall the default behavior of the Windows Firewall...I just shut it off and forget about it...obviously.

Short answer: Computers have a sometimes distressing tendency to do exactly what I tell it to do. Long answer: Open nView Disktop Mgr Run the display wizard 3-4 windows into the wizard is the display mode setting "DualView" is what I wanted-2 1280x1024 displays I had selected "Span", however which is why it made one display of 2560x1024 My hubby just surprised me with a second LCD so I'm learning the ins & outs of multimon displays....guess it pays to keep the wife happy

Mornin' folks! The WPI window attempts to center itself on my dual monitor dispay-I'm set for 2560x1024 for my pair of 17" LCD's. Is there a way to left justify the WPI screen? I'm using an nVidia 6600GT and the nView applet to set my display properties-does any other nVidia user know of a way to force the application to be drawn on the primary monitor only? It may well be that I'm fouling up the settings in nView..... Any thoughts most greatly appreciated. Once again, many thanks to the devs & maintainers of WPI, the king of app install tools!

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IIRC it's asking you to choose USB 1.1 or 2.0. Click the advanced button, there should be a USB tab where you make your choices. The arrow keys and tab work fine though-the interface is pretty simple to navigate by keyboard-I've been known to forget to set it to load the USB drivers...... I haven't had probs with it not restarting, so I can't comment on that. I've been using Ghost 2003 & Ghost 9.

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I had the same symptoms on one of the boxen at work. Somehow, a couple of semi-colons were missing in the path, e.g. PATH=C:\WindowsC:\Windows\System32 vice PATH=C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32 The user swears they were'nt diddling around....since it was my CFO I didn't argue

@Master After you've installed VPC & setup a virtual comp, install the Virtual Machine Additions (Action|Install VM additions). I then share a folder on the physical comp (Edit|Settings|Shared Folders). You can also drag & drop to your physical machine desktop.

Here's a free trial for MS Virtual PC. If you run the Office Shrink on the virtual machine, you can avoid having to rebuild your work comp. MS Virtual PC That said, having an nLited, RyanVM'd, Bashrat the Sneaky'd unattended CD, with WPI for post install of applications takes a lot of the pain out of a system rebuild. Thanks guys!

I punted and just mapped a drive letter to my WPI folder on the server.

To shut down a remote computer when you are using Remote Desktop, press CTRL+ALT+END, and then click Shutdown or Logoff as you prefer. Or, use the shutdown command at a command prompt, see Start|Run shutdown -r to sutdown and reboot. For more info enter shutdown /? from a command prompt.

kelsenellenelvian, ol' buddy, ol' pal, I've figured out how to increase the font size on the main screen to accomodate my <ahem> less than 20/20 vision. What I'd like to do is to increase the text font size in the various boxes on the config screen. Given that I've got about 20 apps setup already , I'm paranoid about f'n it up at this point by blundering about in the configuration files.. Any pointers will be VERY greatly appreciated WPI is a sweet little app-mucho gracias to the developers/maintainers...

Sounds promising. How many workstations do you have?

We're thinking of building a new server box for a 15 workstation SBS 2000 network. I'm wondering if anyone has had expeience using SATA drives in a server environment. We are a small private non-profit corporation, so funds are limited. We have 4 workstations running Quickbooks & Excel 2002 on the accounting side; the rest of the workstations for program staff mainly use Word and to a lesser degree Excel. Outlook is of course the email client. <speculation> Our load on the server is relatively light-we have no heavy duty database apps for example, that would stress the network. Would something like an AMD x64 3400+, 3 Gb RAM and a SATA RAID 5 setup be able to handle the load? There's always the fallback position-if the SATA RAID doesn't work out, they'd end up in my workstation and we'd have to bite the bullet & go SCSI. Thoughts?

@TheJerk For info on setting up the answer file-winnt.sif , that is... MS's tool for building the answer file is Setupmgr.exe; it is contained in \Support\Tools\DEPLOY.CAB on your install CD. Extract DEPLOY.CAB to a folder of your choice & run the setupmgr.exe if you want to build your own answer file. Read up on the answer file in the deploy.chm file in the DEPLOY.CAB.

Epitaph: Sometimes I hate it when a computer does exactly what I tell it to......the .lnk behavior was from a regtweak I'd added. Still leaves the odd (to me) behavior of the allusers vs default user question. <Shrugs> Oh well it's working in any event.

VNC or RDP both work well for remote networking; it's my understanding however that both are susceptible to man in the middle attacks due to sending username and PW in clear text when initializing the session. My solution is to run Secure SHell for windows as a service at home & PuTTY (remotely) to establish a secure tunnel then use RDP or VNC through the tunnel. Yep, I am truly paranoid.... SSHWindows PuTTY A good "How To" link is theillustratednetwork

Thanks to nuhi at nLite I have enough room on one CD for several apps, including a shrunken OfficeXP (see Shrink Office). My cmdlines.txt & install.cmd are in the $OEM$ folder, alongside the $1 folder. What seems odd to me is that AIDA32, IrfanView, and PSPad install their shortcuts to the AllUsers profile, but 7Zip is installed to the Default User profile. Why the difference when they're all installed from the same cmd file at the same time? Another question is why the shortcuts generated have the .lnk extension showing in the start menu? Is the solution to delete the system generated shortcuts as at cleanup.cmd and make my own using shortcut.exe (Shortcut.exe)? CMDLINES.TXT [COMMANDS] "REGEDIT /S regtweaks.reg" "Install.cmd" INSTALL.CMD CLS @ECHO off ECHO................................. ECHO. ECHO Installing IrfanView Graphics Viewer ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\Irfanview\iview397.exe /silent /desktop=1 /group=1 /allusers=1 /VERYSILENT /SP- ECHO.................................. ECHO. ECHO Installing IrfanView Plugins ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\Irfanview\allplugins397.exe /silent Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing 7-Zip Compression Utility ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\7zip\7z313.exe -y /q /r:n Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing Acroreader 7 courtesy ryanVM at ryanvm.msfn.org ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\AcroReader7\Acroread701.exe Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing Java Runtime Environment 5.03 courtesy ryanVM at ryanvm.msfn.org ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\JRE503\Jre503.exe Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing PSPad Text Editor ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\PSPad\PSPad432.exe /verysilent /sp- Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing AIDA32 Diagnostic Utility ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\AIDA32\AIDA32.exe /verysilent /sp- Echo.................................. Echo. ECHO Installing Office XP ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-