Are the DNS servers defined on your PC or are they dynamically assigned by your ISP ? If they're dynamic it may be worth statically assigning...
May be completely off beam but have you looked in your BIOS for a setting that says "Plug and Play O/S installed" and set this to yes ? I'd...
Just a followup to Newt's excellent advice: As the machines are 98 then NetBIOS names are likely to be the problem - have a look at LMHOSTS in...
DCPROMO runs a wizard but its slightly diferent from the Configure your server one as it allows some sensible changes (DNS domain etc) Dont...
This is the standard "Configure Your Server" screen ? If so you just need to select "I'll configure this later" and then put a tick in the...
There was originally talk of a registry hack as Pro and Server use the same code but never saw proof of this Put in Server and have done with...
VoodoU's reply is pretty much correct except that he misses out the important Caveat that the other box must be upgraded to a 2K DC first...
No (or at least you shouldnt unless it all goes horribly wrong) I'd do a full backup first though ! if you upgrade to 2K (ie have it as your...
System Volume Information is a directory to do with NTFS You must have converted this drive to NTFS ? Shouldnt make any difference though as...
Do you have SP2 applied to 2K ?
If the 192 network is only a workgroup it could be simply rights (as connectivity looks OK by PING) exactly what error message do you get when...
For clarification HOSTS under win 98 is in c:\windows Under a NETBIOS network you'll need the names in LMHOSTS anyway which is in the same...
If its an AD domain and 98 is working but 2k/XP are not then its probably that the PCs have not been joined into the domain Under 9x this is a...
It was indeed dodgy RAM Many thanks for all of your help guys
Definitely no Group Policies on the domain - its fresh installed Roaming profiles are on and I agree take longer to load but we are talking 4-5...
Ah yes , should have mentioned that i'd already tried that one as well... I'm thinking either HDD is goosed or IDE controller ditto ?
Logging Xp Pro machine into 2k server takes forever at the "applying settings" screen though it does eventually log in Connecting 2K Pc using...
Installing Win2K Pro onto PC. FDISK'd machine, booted from Cd and let Windows create partition and format it Once files are copied from CD and...
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