Recent content by wcoutts

Thank you to both of you bcastner especially, A lot of my clients, are small onesy twosy shops, They don't own a server, and could'nt figure out a use for one if they did. As they would see it a wasted machine sitting there doing nothing. I am continually having to do the downloads whilst...

I have an XP pro laptop, compaq Presario 3045 US, need to load 2000 server as a second OS for dual boot. I am a consultant and many times a customer wants his or her machine to have the latest windows updates, but only has a dial up link. I want to run the SUS app for 2000 server, in a dual...

You can also try spybot 1.2, get it from downloads.com. I run it every time I visit a questionable site, you never know what they try to plant on your machine. Wayne Coutts

I resolved the issue, the customer had loaded the symantec personal firewall on all lan machines, useless piece of software on a LAN, should use a firewall. Turns out file and printer sharing is blocked by default for any netbios compatible protocol. After permiting netbios in the firewall...

Yes the Microsoft client for windows is the only login loaded.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sus/default.mspx It only handles 2000, 2003 and xp, but as 98 has been phased out, we should be thankful for this

I believe MS already has one, I will check with my MCSE instructor for the exact app, but it used extensively in corporate america, to stop every machine in the company hoaging te internet link, you can download it free, I will get the link. Wayne Coutts

My customer has a simple network, One Win 98 Box running a DOS Billing app, and two windows XP machines at the other end of a wireless bridge. On the win98 box, one share, called PTOS, the billing app. 2 users created, simple 4 letter user names and no passwords. I created the PTOS Share and...