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the only pc that needs a static address is the one ports are being forwarded to. the other devices can have dynamic address's

oh i see so your not in a domain environment then. i think maybe a vb script would be better suited for this task.. as to how to do it though, you'll have to ask someone else im afraid, im really rusty on VB, havent looked at it in ages lol

can you update your xp at all? or is it totally unusable?

Hakeem, go to start -> run and type secpol.msc under securtiy options find the policy called network access: sharing and security model for local accounts. change this to classic. local users authenticate as themselves now you should get NTFS permissions in a folder you share. lock it down really well (i.e deny guest rights ect) and as long as an account exists by the same name and password on both machines you wont be asked to authenticate and shares should work fine, and everything wil be secure.

couldnt you have make.bat xcopy the other 2 files from a network share that everyone has access to? instead of it creating them?

whats wrong with forwarding protocol 47,and port 1723 on one of your guys routers and setting up on of your xp machines to accept incoming connections? that would do me fine.

or if its just the balloon thats annoying you, turn off balloon tips

how many client pcs do you have to do this for? one way i can think of is to not specify a DNS server on client pcs and give them 2 shortcuts; 1 for the intranet 1 for the news site (by ip address) the practicality of this would all depend though on how many clients you are doing this for thanks

Bezalel that is fantastic thank you! turns out i have a retail XP thanks for the help and the great utility

again not an answer to your question but rather a possible solution... try removing any hidden update folders from c:\windows and reinstall ie7, that should bring back your start menu i believe

hi all i have been given a pc that is installed with a perfectly legal copy of xp pro and i want to know if its using a VLK XP pro or Retail XP pro. if i right click my computer the product ID doesnt have OEM anywhere in it so i know its not that. can anyone tell me a way to find out which one it is? thank you

just a question for R600, how comes if you have 20 identical pcs (or any number for that matter) and install one, activate it and then ghost it to the others they dont have to reactivate? iv done this on loads of pcs before and its fine.

lol u smart a** il give it a go... \\127.0.0.1 hey it worked!! i can see all your shared folders lol

sure ok, if i knew an exploit for a paticular port that was forwarded to your pc, then your OS would be ripped wide open. but im not a hacker and dont know how to exploit other than by running scripts made by others. my point was it seems really unsecure. if you read up on NAT in ipv6 it highlights just how unsecure NAT in ipv4 is. EDIT: that would be a **** cool test to do tho lol, but u hope you can see were im coming from, and i totally respect your comments on what to do and not to do behind your router to keep you safe,

let me ask, you have only this hardware firewall? do you have port forwarding configured? do you have any other devices on your LAN? this to me sounds so unsecure its unreal, maybe your ports are stealthed but lets suppose someone finds out they are not, then what? straight through from the public internet to your pc with no firewall on? for the sake of an extra process running on my machine, i would rather run a hardware and software firewall together. just my 2 cents

enable hidden files and folders and check in your profile (start -> run -> %userprofile%) and see if the file NTUSER has the .man extension. if it does rename it (from another account as yours will moan its in use) to .dat if it is already .dat then im not sure

no it didnt, actually its from a raid 1 config but the raid card broke and is no longer available for use so im trying to recover the data. im using recover my files on one of the disks to get the data to see if that works anyway

Hi all, i have a disk that i plugged into a pc but in diskmgmt it asks me to initialize it. i realise this will format it, but i dont want that i want the data on it. can anyone suggest a way i can get the data off it please? thanks

use the /PAE switch and make sure that the /3GB switch is not in place. then reboot. check you bios and if it recognises all 4gb in there, then when the operating system comes up it should recognise all 4gb too. good luck

hi, not sure if ethernet over power will work with it being so far away but it may be worth a try

just noticed this thread and i was going to suggest looking for 0 byte files in system32 and also seeing if the sys32 directory was hidden, but it seems you found them. iv seen this before and as far as i rememeber it was nothing to do with corrupt files and was a virus of somesort, could just be coincidence that you installed that theme at the same time, or the theme itself may have had some sort of malware in it. just out of interest were you running anti-virus at the time?

thats awesome, too bad windows cant do seconds oh well, unless there is a third party time app somewhere that could help?

Hi all, does anyone know if its possible (probably through the desktop.ini file) to make a folder always use a certain view? i know xp can remember 400 by default and that this can be increased with a reg tweak but i would like to do it via desktop.ini if at all possible many thanks

i made this batch file.. time /T xcopy "C:\test.txt" "d:" /y time /T and dragged it into a command window and typed > c:\output.txt after it. in the output.txt text file it told me what time it started and what time it finished. so it does work but it doesnt tell you in seconds, only minutes

if you type in a batch file time /T and then run the batch file from command line outputting to a text file with > C:\test.txt i think this will do it