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The store.exe is notorious for memory leakage. You can overnight setup a start and stop of the IMS which usually cures the error. also antivirus email scanning software has been known to cause this fault. Check with your AV supplier to see if any patches are available for this error. The...

Sometimes when we logon via our VPN client using windows 98 the system does not call up the Logon Box so the users can not logon to the system. Most of the time it works ok it just somnetimes seems to forget to call up the network logon box. Any ideas?

create a new account and make it a member of the backup operators group. the bassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

it will have to be rebuilt as a bdc and you cannot have 2 PDC's in one domain thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

you can use poledit to restrict what the users can do and run. thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

you will need to get the Norton regisrty fix from their web site to completly remove the program then reinstall. The uninstall option leaves things behind in the registry that if corrupted will not allow new installations to work correctly. Contact Symantec tech support they are very good and...

to create space and increase performance move your swap file to drive d leaving a 2Mb swap file on drive c. Ensure that the max and min settings are the same on drive d. They should be 1.5 * memory. thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

typing winmsd will give you your logon server (network tab) You could use the LMHOST file to pre cache the logon servers but this is not recommended. I cannot think of a valid reason why you would need to control the logons in this way. Thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

Be aware that if you have moved the entire paging file to the D drive you have introduced another problem wherby if the system crashes you can no longer write the system debug information. It is safer to have a very small swap file left on drive C and the rest on another drive. this also...

DHCP cannot give out the same address to two different systems. You must have a static or reserved lease on one of them. Check the reservations section in the scope to ensure that addresses in there are not included in the scope.

I would suggest using NTFS permissions, leaving share at full control. You can set the NTFS permissions using the CACLS command. You will be able to script this to speed things up. Thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

I seem to remember that there is a combination but I cannot remember it. Have you tried remotly editing the following keys HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices...

should be in admin$\system32

for the sake of you harddrives in the server leave it switch on anyway. Most failures occur on power down and up. thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)

can you ping the BDC by name and IP. Remember that it can take up to 45 mins for the Master Browser (PDC) to send the browse list to the 98 clients. THis does not stop you using the BDC's. Thebassplayer (MCSE, MCT)