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We have 3 3comSuperstackII switches with a fiber connection backbone serving about 20 nodes per switch. the average response times are 30ms, 35ms and 14ms. the problem is, I dont know if those are acceptable response times. people are complaining that the network is slow but i dont know if it is...

I have just spent 2 days on the phone with symantec trying to get backups to work. We have the Exabyte VXA Autoloader that has the built in barcode scanner. first off we could not get the backups to run with out moving the tapes to a new media set. it kept saying to put in overwriteable media...

Got it sorted with the help of microsoft support. basically it is just the matter of opening the right ports here is a summary Here is the port query tool that we used. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89811747-C74B-4638-A2D5-AC828BDC6983&displaylang=en Here is an...

No the preferred DNS server is pointing to the DNS server on the DC.

I have that port open as well still no luck. I can ping the ip address fine, but i cant type in the server name and have it resolve.

I have a watchguard firewall that seperates 2 of my subnets 10.1.1.0/24 TRUSTED and 10.1.2.0/24(DMZ) I want to add a server on the DMZ to the domain. I have dns, kerebos, smd and rpc and Ping opened on the firewall but the server still can not resolve the dns name to join it to the domain. any...

We are using source safe 2005 and 2003 with Visual Studio 2005 and 2003. I got the whole source code on to my laptop then after a few small changes to a file I checked for differences now all of my resx files are showing up as changes. when i try to view the changes it says the files have...

Does Symantec scan thumb drives once the are plugged in? I have a user that wants to plug in the thumb drive to transfer documents from a pc to a laptop. I want to make sure the virus scan software catches anything when the user plugs it in.

Thanks, I got that working but now I need to get it set up on the IIS web server. i want to show our default web page to anyone that comes in using a wildcard host. I add *.domain.com as a host header but it only works if someone enters "*.domain.com" in the browser

Can someone show me how to set up a wildcard domain in windows 2000? I want anyhost.OURdomain.com to resolve to our web server. even if the host exists or not. also are there any risks in doing this?

I am creating a search application that searches files and returns the article the hit generated from and the number of hits. I get the name of the article and the number of times it was hit from a stored procedure. Now I need a drop down list as the third column in the data table that will give...

The data is of type varchar but the data i need is not the same for every record. I would need it to say get me all the data from all the rows between <name> and </name>

I need to retrieve text from a field like this <Name> DataIneed </Name> How can i do this in SQL 2005?

Does anyone know how to show a report services report in ASP.NET without any of the toolbars. I have a bar graph that I want to display on a web page but I don't want the navigation bars parameters etc to show up. However I still need to be able to pass in a parameter...

I am trying to compare one users total orders with the average of all users orders per project type. I have the query that gives me the data i need for the firs user but i need to somehow get the average of everyone else I then want to display that data in a chart using reporting services any...