someone moving or renaming their prefered background to match what your policy calls for? Saw a similar effect by renaming cmd.exe to logon.scr...
From a basic understanding of this problem, certain nics don't auto negotiate very well with certain switches / hubs. In theory as we all know,...
Make sure speed and duplex settings are hard code to your switch settings. i.e 100MB / FD. You can use netmon to capture a network trace of the...
When you copy files, NTFS obtains the permissions of the folder it was copied into. When you move files, NTFS maintains the permssions it had,...
Take it from experience, you can upgrade from NT4 to Windows 2000. But if your NT4 PDC has been up for quite some time, it has probably gathered...
You may try checking out the chipset vendor for a newer chipset driver for XP. I have several Dell systems and they ship with Intel based...
If you could, please capture the result of gpresult. GPResult is a program that will give you in plan English what polcies are set w/o you...
Find out the time of your domain controller, and then set the time in the BIOS of your PC to that time. It could be that one of them has GMT time...
No such thing. XP came into this world about over a year before Windows 2003 did. The code base is similar, but the server releases contain a...
There is a program called shutdown.exe that I believe is included with Windows XP. With this, you can schedule a reboot. C:\>shutdown Usage:...
You can place security on the folders that you don't want other people to access. The properties sheet of the folder has a security tab on it,...
Since that is not a normal Windows 2003 function, I would presume there is a GPO involved in the log off. I have several Win2k3 DC and I have...
Check your AD user properties for terminal services. You may not have the right to logon to a terminal service session selected.
Did you configure Remote Desktop or the actual termianl services? For Remote desktop, you can configure up to 2 administrative users to access...
It might be easier to configure Samba through the SWAT web interface. It configures the smb.conf file for you and is pretty easy to follow. You...
When you say that 1 of the processors goes away (sleeps), what does task manager report during this time? Task manager should show you all...
What does the profile path state in Active Directory users and computers for the administrator account? It should be a network path, (it can be...
The event log should report which driver or service failed to start. You can either load a newer driver to correct the problem or if it's a...
This is an Active Directory Policy that need to be assign via a domain GPO. You also need to configure your domain for smart cards, (certificate...
a Stop 0x0000001E is caused by an application that uses a lot of open handles, but never closes them. Since your system seems to do this with...
Separate names with a comma.
