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I'll be building a new peer-to-peer network in a couple of weeks, using 3 new PCs with WinXP Pro preinstalled. Since I haven't used XP yet, are there any gotchas I should be aware of? One that comes to mind is that each machine might need to have a local user account for all of the users in order for them to share freely - is that the case? The users are complete neophytes with no computer skills beyond finding the power switch, so I want this to be as idiot-proof as possible for them. Also, I will be linking them together with a Lucent RG-1000 wireless Residential Gateway using ORiNOCO USB clients on each machine, and using the RG-1000 as the shared Internet gateway. Has anyone had any experiences with these units? Any tips to share? Thanks!
<marquee>"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Same Username and Password is required for all machines to be able to share data freerly. Of course you can connect to a share using a different username and password, however, these would need to be provided each time you start the computer.
You know that, all machines need to belong to the same workgroup, and of course same ip class, and same subnet mask.
Haven't incurred any problems, but yet I have setup WinXP in a P2P network, only once!
Roger Wright wrote:
Also, I will be linking them together with a Lucent RG-1000 wireless Residential Gateway using ORiNOCO USB clients on each machine, and using the RG-1000 as the shared Internet gateway. Has anyone had any experiences with these units?
Not with these units, however used SmartBridges wireless kit. Pretty cool, although only work up to 11 MB/s  . Had some problems detecting it through WinXP, but sorted now (Read the manual!)
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Venet wrote:
Same Username and Password is required for all machines to be able to share data freerly
The Admin account will, of course, be the same for all machines, but for users I'll need to use different accounts. I'm thinking that it should be simple enough to add three users to each machine, since there's so few of them, and give rights to the Local Users group on all. They don't need much in the way of confidentiality.
Venet wrote:
Pretty cool, although only work up to 11 MB/s
Considering that now their rate of data transer is limited to how fast they can carry a floppy disk between ofices, this should be a great improvement!
Venet wrote:
Read the manual
Always good advice!
Thanks for your thoughts...
<marquee>"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Roger Wright wrote:
I'm thinking that it should be simple enough to add three users to each machine, since there's so few of them, and give rights to the Local Users group on all. They don't need much in the way of confidentiality.
Or you can setup a file server and map a drive on each machine that points to the shared space.
Roger Wright wrote:
Considering that now their rate of data transer is limited to how fast they can carry a floppy disk between ofices, this should be a great improvement!
lol
Roger Wright wrote:
Venet wrote:
Read the manual
Always good advice!
Well, actually that's what I did myself to sort out the problem.
If everything else fails read the manual
Regards,
Venet.
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Venet wrote:
If everything else fails read the manual
Having spent most of the morning trying to get the manuals off their website without success (server not found), this may be a challenge! I even tried to sneak in by signing up as a reseller, but the email generated by filling out the online form was returned because the server doesn't recognize that user I'll bet they lose a lot of resellers that way!
<marquee>"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Badly managed company then ?
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Make sure you set all the passwords to never expire for all the users on all of the machines.
I had this problem with my housemate's PC. I initially created a useraccount for him on my PC, and one for me on his, using the same passwords as we use on our own machines. The problem was that these accounts expired on each other's machines. We both got notified to change our own local passwords, but the mirrored accounts just got left in limbo, meaning shares stopped working
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Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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And Tick "User cannot change Password"! 
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Hello everyone...
I got a question no one seems to know the answer in the place I am working in.When I send a ping to a machine X ,I got TTL = 128 , and after I optimized the machine X and I "ping" it again I got TTL = 56.
I know for sure that this machine X is connected to the internet through ADSL , and I am pinging it from a local network.I also know the machine X could have any of the MS system , but definetly not Linux or Mac OS.
I don t understand how the packet size (MTU) could affect the number of router it goes through (TTL) , so please help me with it ..
Thanx
ZhErHo@@7o
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TTL field is set on the originating machine, so changing MTU on another machine, has nothing to do with changing the TTL value on the originating machine.
zhero70 wrote:
after I optimized the machine X and I "ping" it again I got TTL = 56.
zhero70 wrote:
I also know the machine X could have any of the MS system , but definetly not Linux or Mac OS.
Sounds a bit strange, that you've optimised machine X, but don't know for sure what OS it is running!
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Ok...
I rephrase my question so I ll get better answer than this one...
Some friend told me he got Windows XP connected to the net with ADSL.He also tell me his I.P. address , and ask me to ping his machine and tell him what I got.I noticed I got a TTL value of 237 ...(My friend was interested in the request time in ms and not the TTL I got)
The next morning , the same friend ask me again to ping his machine , and then I am suddenly suprised to see his TTL changed to 56 !
So I asked him what is going on ?
And I get for answer :"I install a reg patch from "speedguide.net" to optimized my machine , to change its MTU".
Is it possible that changing the size of a packet can actually change the time it's travelling through routers ?
Wise answers only , please..
ZhErHo@@7o
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zhero70 wrote:
Wise answers only , please..
How do you mean wise ?
Your question was a bit stupid really. You said that you have optimised a machine and don't know what OS is it running on !!!!
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Is anyone knows what does Event Viewer Event ID 27 means.
I get an Exclamation box , on the windows , and when i look at the event viewer i see that the event for this erro is 27.
Thanks guys.
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Event Viewer doesn't keep a database of Event IDs that are associated with an error message. It's up to the application that generates errors, to regitster Event ID's and associated error messages.
Error ID 27 could mean anything. This is relative to the application itself, not the actual Event Viewer.
Usually whenever an error ID is not registred, Event Viewer will give you some more information about the error itself and usually the app. return code.
I suggest look at that string again and see what app. is generating it.
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Hi all,
I want to upgrade my PC from Home WinXP to professional WinXP.
I wonder how to install WinXP professional so that I don't lose any data. Any help or pointer to help will be appreciated.
Further any pointer where I can find the difference between winXP home and winXP professional.
regards
/rsasalm
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If I leave my XP (professional version) alone for a few hours, the HELPSVC and SVCHOST processes start up and start eating megabytes of RAM (500MB+). How do I stop this? What's going on in the background?
It doesn't seem like XP is a very stable platform for long-term usage, like a server app. Should I be using W2000 server instead?
Thanks,
Marc
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Have you reviewed your Event Viewer?
Could be that some service is failing and svchost trying to start it up again over and over.
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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Thank you for the suggestion. The problem appears to coincide with this message:
"The COM+ Event System detected a corrupt IEventSubscription object. The COM+ Event System has removed object ID {71EDA56F-317A-11D2-98A9-00C04F8EE1C4}-{41E90F3E-56C1-4633-81C3-6E8BAC8BDD70}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The subscriber will no longer be notified when the event occurs."
Any ideas? I'll have to root around now that you've given me a clue.
Thanks again,
Marc
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Okay, I got over the LILO problem in my last post, but I've got another problem. The genius that is the Windows installer has made C: my system partition and D: my boot partition. I need to make C: my boot partition as well (cuz D is beyond the 1024 cylinder limit of LILO). How do I do this? Simply copying ntldr and company doesn't work.
Thanks.
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Ok first of all, it's a bad idea installing LILO on your MBR, as I'm sure you've found out yourself.
sultan_of_6string wrote:
I need to make C: my boot partition as well
You can have only one boot partition, can't have more. To make a partition bootable, use fdsik. Make a Win9x boot floppy and copy fdisk.exe in there. Start your machine from the disks and run fdisk. It will give you the option of making a partiton bootable.
The best (that is, safest) way to go, is to install LILO on secondary partition and copy the first 512 bytes of the second partiton to the first one. Add an entry to boot.ini file to point to this new file of 512 bytes.
And that's it.... 
Regards,
Venet.
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Thanks for the response. You seem to know about this so could you help me out here?
I've read about this stuff of copying the first 512 bytes, but it doesn't seem to make sense. Won't it corrupt my NTFS partition? If you could give me a few points or link me to a decent article, it would be great.
Plus, I got the strange feeling I'm posting on the wrong website... any suggestions?
Thanks.
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sultan_of_6string wrote:
I've read about this stuff of copying the first 512 bytes, but it doesn't seem to make sense. Won't it corrupt my NTFS partition?
Nope, it won't. You are copying 512 bytes of secondary partition.
To do this:
boot up in linux. If you're running X-Windows open console (as root) and type
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/tmp/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
(provided /dev/hda2 is your linux partiton, if you have separate hard disk, it might be /dev/hdb1)
This will copy the boot sector of the linux partition.
Now, copy this file onto a floppy disk
Provided that floppy disk is mounted in /mnt/floppy execute the following
cp /tmp/bootsect.lnx /mnt/floppy or
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
if floppy is not mounted.
(in here make sure /mnt/floppy directory exists)
Boot in WinXP
Copy bootsect.lnx from floppy to the C:\
Open boot.ini file.
It should look something like:
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional"
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Add this line to the end of boot.ini
C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux Rocks"
Save and Close.
That's it, reboot your WinXP and there ya go.
Note: This assumes that you've installed lilo on your secondary partition. For how to do that, you might want to read lilo man page.
Regards,
Venet.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.(Steven Wright)
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