[Mysterious Account Lookout]

Try using lockoutstatus.exe. It will help you see bad pasword counts in real-time and which DCs the account is authenticating against

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

EDIT:

Another thought would be do you have any Macs in your environment using Entourage? As i know that caches credentials and is not very good at alerting you when it is using a bad password.

[Business On a Budget]

I must say this looks very impressive and although im not great on linux although i would be very keen to give this a try. What i will do is use Spambayes and if they are unhappy with it i will propose some investigation so i can look into this and see where it leads.

Thanks again for the help

[Business On a Budget]

Excellent info, thanks Cluberti il check them all out

[Business On a Budget]

Hi Everyone,

In my spare time i am taking control of a local business as the network admin. The only problem is they want to be as cheap as they can.

They have an SBS server and OEM xp boxes but everything else i would like to make opensource (And free).

I will be using Clamwin AV, Open Office and Windows Defender.

I am looking for an opensource Antispam solution and if possible i would like one server side and one client side.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank You

[How to forward a port for this router?]

Change it to this:

ID - 3

Public Port From - 10011

public Port To - 10011

Port Type TCP

Host IP Address - Your INTERNAL address

Private Port - 10011

That should work. Unless there is a section for NAT rules on that F/W

Thanks

[Vista Ultimate - What services to kill safely?]

shut down UAC! It has NO place on a home computer.

Thats your opinion and i respect that, but UAC is a long overdue feature. Windows should have had this ever since 95. It is one of the greatest security enhancements in windows in years. I can run as a standard user and yet access things that require kernel mode access with no problems i simply have to give the go-ahead. Quite brilliant if you ask me.... but thats my opinion

[Dead Computer]

What is the message? If you tell us we can better assist

[Stepping out of Vista]

my old DOS executables won't run in Vista(no longer supports Fullscreen apps), and I have to have them for record keeping. Any thoughts much appreciated.

Im suprised no one has mentioned virtualisation as a solution for this

[Your network setup]

+1 for Tomato, its is GENIUS!

[Print sharing and Logon Failure]

Ok, i didnt know that. Thats all i can suggest then im afraid if you are using Zonealarm. We know what needs to be done but cant do it because of ZA.... Il leave it with you

[Nvlddmkm.sys]

Hi everyone,

I was just on my computer, running 2 VM's a few apps and a video and whilst changing the Screen resolution in a VM and switching to full screen i got a nice blue screen with Nvlddmkm.sys named as the culprit. I am so fed up with NVidia's crappy drivers. What should i do with this? Should i report it to anyone? If anyone can suggest who i can moan to about this i will, because i dont know about you guys but when i spend over a £100 on a graphics card alone i expect the drivers to have been written properly!

Thanks

[Print sharing and Logon Failure]

you need to allow ports 137-139 i believe for print sharing through a firewall.

Thanks

EDIT: that should be 137-139 TCP

[Print sharing and Logon Failure]

If you get network path not found try \\IP\Printer instead of \\Name\printer and see if it works

[Print sharing and Logon Failure]

Put them both on a workgroup and creating a matching account, with a matching password on both machines. That should work.

Thanks

[What Anti-Virus do you Use/Recommend?]

now i'm using kaspersky and i think its doing a very good job.it has got very much options so that u can set it according to ur need....but if u prefer for a free one i would recommend avira antivir...

Good Man!

[Virtual memory problems]

32 bit applications have a maximum virtual memory size of 2GB, or 3GB with Physical address extension, So yes you are probably correct in that the 32bit apps are failing because they are hitting a resource limit.

[Oh deer! I can't disable the Windows Defender service]

If anyone has ever had the fortune of watching the sysinternals DVDs, if i remember correctly there is an excellent explanation of prefectch.

[Oh deer! I can't disable the Windows Defender service]

Windows Vista now seems faster after emptying the Prefetch folder and letting Windows recreate them, just like with Windows XP.

Oh man, that old placebo.....

[Chipset Choice]

Hi everyone,

Im 'speccing' a new computer for someone and would like some advice if possible. Would everyone agree that the P45 chipset is better than ip35?

Thanks

EDIT: Nevermind, iv just read that IP35 is the predecessor to P45,

Thanks Anyway

[What new computer piece do you spend the most $$$ on]

I spend the most on storage. I have loads of VM's and stuff, my entire life and my familys life in digital format and lots of movies and stuff. You can never have enough storage.

[Black screen of death]

Talk us through the boot process, at what point does it fail?

Thanks

[Joining Domain Error]

Try checking over the DNS settings of the machine as suggested, make sure you can resolve the FQDN of the server. For example Server.Domain.Com

95% of domain joining problems i have seen are DNS related.

Good luck

[Problem with Window Update]

usually when it doesnt work i just type regsvr32 wups2.dll at run and it works most of the time

[WDS Installation, Configuration and Simple Deployment]

Looks good! iv been meaning to test WDS with an ipv6 DHCP server for sometime so il follow your guide through as i do this and let you know if there are any errors

Cheers

[Networking question.]

As far as compatability goes, those Os versions should play nice; however since you have a workgroup environment you need to check a few things:

1) Both machines are on the same workgroup

2) Simple file sharing is OFF

3) you have a matching account with matching credentials on both computers (unless you dont mind authenticating everytime you connect from one to the other)

Research these things and see what you can do. If you are stuck feel free to ask again

Thanks