Recent content by ikidd

I looked briefly at Stravis' link, and made a quick program with the C++ addin. It looks like it would work, but whomever wrote it wasn't too good at English and some of the functions are mispelled, so you have to get used to that. I tried the Rasdemo project in the link and it gives me a...

What router does he have on his end? Some brands, notably Linksys, had problems returning GRE (protocol 47) for dial-out PPTP users on certain flash versions. Update the router to the latest and see if that helps. The only forwarding you should need on your end is 1723 TCP. The passthrough...

The post dialup batch would work if it detects the new IP and uses it right away. Put up the batch file and someone might be able to comment it for you and explain how to use it.

Run a RAM diagnostic (or swap all the RAM), and maybe take extra hard drives off the system for the time being. I had an HP TC2110 running 2003 that would randomly reboot when I had a certain type of 36GB IBM SCSI drive on. Took it off, never a problem. Lockups usually end up being RAM or CPU...

You need to make sure your RRAS server knows the 192.168.2.0 is on the other side of that. That means adding a static route to RRAS. But that doesn't help if the IP assigned to the dialin user changes each time. The way around that is to assign an IP to the (unique) user in the User...

Just as a last thought, look into the con2prt.exe tool from the NT4 Res. Kit. We put it in the scripts directory with the logon batch and use it from there. It will install drivers if they're missing and set up the default printer if you need. This works great when you have many users on...

I'm trying to disallow printing to a 2003 print queue based on the computer account. For some reason, if I explicitly deny that computer account from printing, the user's permission to print (as part of Staff group), allows them to print. For some reason, even though you can add the computer...

I have a problem with the Listview control where if I open a program, populate a Datareader and then loop the reader into a Listview, it's very fast the first time (400 milliseconds for 600 items in 5 columns) and then if you click it again for a refresh where it re-executes the datareader, etc...

Check that you aren't in Release configuration. If you are, your breakpoint will come up with a ? on it while you run the program. Switch back to Debug mode to load the debug symbols.

I'm trying to create a VPN (PPTP) connection entirely in code, use it, and destroy it. So far, the only thing I've been able to find is references to RASENTRY, RasSetEntryProperties, etc for use in C++. Is this implemented in VB .NET and if so, are there any suggestions about how to go about...

When rolling through an event log using system.diagnostics.eventlog, I have to trap a System.OverflowException (Int32 too small or large) for what should be a string in an eventlogentry.message field that's defined as string. The problem is precisely defined in...

As Jasen said, WIN95(and 98 i think) won't do a net use to a sub of the share specified. It does work in XP and maybe 2000.

Are the BSODs doing it for a STOP 0X7B error? If so, this is often an IDE driver error. Certain brands like compaq and Dell have something about their IDE controllers that cause odd errors. Make sure you're on the latest service pack when you reinstall the machine (SP3). At this point, I'd...

I have a TS with several clients dialing in through RRAS on a modem bank of USR Sporsters. Occasionally, while most RRAS dialup clients work, one will connect, authenticate, and then drop after about 6 seconds and the event log logs "Error 20048; The Client was connected for 6 seconds...

If it's an XP client, run this reg key (copy into file named smb.reg and run on client, I also ran on servers): REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] "SMBDeviceEnabled"=dword:00000000 It seems to fix a lot of browse issues with XP. But...