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Thanks, I've gone through the whole page and related links but haven't found something relevant to my prob. P.S this is a win2k pro box, the 'Direct Cable Connection' is not optionally installed as in win9x in 'Add/Remove windows compo' Thanks

Hi, When I go to "Network and Dial-up connections" --> "Make new connection" , the option "connect directly to another computer" is greyed out. Any idea?

Thanks for getting back, yes I've check the dependencies, the error message (when you try to start it) should tell you in fact if the services it depends on has not been started. I've been able to solve the issue meanwhile! This is due to applying a hotfix from MS. Sure MS has not been...

Hi all, I get the following error message when I try to start the service: The Remote Access Connection Manager service terminated with the following error: Access is denied.

Hi I've just reinstall winxp home on a laptop (Format the whole thing and clean install) since I was suspecting the laptop to have been infected by Trojans/Viruses. On top of winxp I've installed only the laptop drivers, utilities such as winzip, Acrobat Reader, McAfee Internet Security, HP...

Hi all! I have 3 PCs with exactly same configs in terms of hardware and software. Win xp Pro installed on the 3 PCs. I have installed the same model of 802.11g nic on each PC. The problem is that after some time the software for the nic start blinking but no error message is specified. This...

Sorry if my post is inappropriate here. I'm trying to setup a 802.11 LAN for PCs found in different rooms of my company. Will the network in fact be reliable? Any experience from someone here? Which is the best solution between a,b and g for my setup? Thanks

Thanks for your input, evry'thing went smooth

Hi all! I've got a connection to the net on 1 w2k pro box on 1 nic named 'out'. I have got a laptop connected on the w2k pro box thru another nic named "in" thru a cross-over cable. Is there a way to connect the laptop to the net as well? Should I enable ICS? If yes on which nic? Thanks

I'm sorry I think I have wrongly express myself, I need to know whether the client computers will be able to acces the NET thru the server only by doing some routing on the server.

Thanks but I already have done the setup and the server will be used as an application server at a later time. I know it's not a cost effective solution but I only want to know if it can be done.

Hi, this may sound silly to ya guyz but I really don't know the answer. Here goes: I have 10 win9x/2kpro/xppro clients and 1 win2k server box. I have an ADSL modem connected to eth0 of the server and its eth1 (The server has infact 2 nics) is connected to the LAN of 10 clients. The server...

Hi all, i've got a rh 8.0 box with a hp scsi internal tape drive with id 3. I've just gone thru some docs on redhat.com and have read that one don't have or can't mount a Tape Drive. What i actually do to write some logs: #tar –cvf /dev/st0 /var/log To read the written logs: #tar –tf /dev/st0...

Hi all, I have a laptop with blutooth and a desktop. If I purchase a usb bluetooth for my PC, will I be able to share files or other resources with the laptop? p.s I know it's quite slow as compared to 802.11b or a wired LAN.

PLs correct me if I'm wrong, Amanda is not supposed to handle the dat Tape drive?

Hi all, please note that i'm only a newbie! I have just installed a HP Dat Tape internal 40 Gb on my server with psyche loaded. The SCSI Tape drive has the id 3. 1. How can I check for devices that can be mounted i.e list them 2. I have installed Amanda package through the gui package manager...

Thanks Simon I have played around with smb.conf and now my win9x clients are logging onto the linux domain. I have comment out in smb.conf: wins support = yes and asked my win9x clients to use it, it may be a stupid question but how will I ensure that the WINS is resolving the hosts names. I...

Yes it was!!!!!!, just after I posted, I went to 'Text Mode Setup Utility' and disable firewall, now everything's fine.

Thanks simon, in smb.conf, i've adjusted where applicable to: security = user Netbios name = smbserv i've log onto the win9x machine with the username/password specified in smbpassword workgroup of win9x machine: wgp on the win9x client # net use t: \\smbserv\main or # net use t...

Thanks Simon, what did u mean by 1. <netbios name = 'some server name'>? where to state that? 2. <security = share>? in smb.conf? yes account is setup I have made the appropriate changes in smb.conf as per your post. Still can't browse the domain on the win9x clients "net use t...