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Need explaination of NBTSTAT command

8-Jun-06 17:41

Thank you very much for your help. I will look at it and if I have any problem i will let you know.

Best regard,

Mekong River7-Jun-06 21:56

Re: Need explaination of NBTSTAT command

7-Jun-06 21:56

Hi, in the documentation, the command nbtstat is used to troubleshooting NETBIOS name resolution process problem. The document also provide some example of using this command too. When I type this command: nbtstat -c it was display the result as below:

Local Area Connection:<br />
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.88] Scope Id: []<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
                  NetBIOS Remote Cache Name Table<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
        Name              Type       Host Address    Life [sec]<br />
<br />
    ------------------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
    RACHA          <1C>  GROUP           192.168.0.2         152<br />
<br />
    <br />
Bluetooth:<br />
Node IpAddress: [0.0.0.0] Scope Id: []<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
    No names in cache

From here, i don't understand about the result. Based on the above information, how could network administrator solve the problem of name resolution?

Ray Cassick8-Jun-06 17:26

Ray Cassick

8-Jun-06 17:26

Here is a quick explination of nbstat[^].

Here is a good complete reference to SOME command line tools for Windows XP[^]

Here is another for Windows 2000[^]

My Blog[^]
FFRF[^]

Re: Need explaination of NBTSTAT command

Mekong River8-Jun-06 17:32

IE has lost XML parsing ability - pls help!

8-Jun-06 17:32

Thank you very much for your help. I will take a look at this link and if I have any problem I will let you know.

Best regard,

Koushik Biswas7-Jun-06 8:37

Koushik Biswas

7-Jun-06 8:37

Guyz out there, I think I did something silly wrong thing. I was playing around with the list that comes up if you open Windows Explorer --> Tools --> Folder Options... --> File Types. This list is a list of which executables to associate with which file extensions, so that when we double click a file, the OS knows which EXE to call. By the way, I have XP Professional SP2.

I deleted a few extensions from that list. One of the things I deleted was XML, and it was associated with Altova XML Spy. I always hated that when I double click an XML file, Altova would open up, blatantly advertising what its paid version offers before I can see my XML file. I had in the past tried to re-associate the XML extension with IE, but somehow Altova always regains it back. So among others, I went ahead and deleted the XML extension too. I have also deleted tons of other extensions.

Result: After that if I open an XML file with IE, IE does not "parse" it. It shows just as Notepad would Sniff | :^)

Can you please help me to regain my IE-XML tie up back?

Thanks a lot for your time and patience!

Koushik Biswas

Mekong River7-Jun-06 18:02

7-Jun-06 18:02

If you have backup your system state, then you could restore it to the previous state and solve your problem. In my opinion, you should try to use System File Check[^] feature which is available by default in windows to scan and check if any file type is missing or error.

Michael Dunn7-Jun-06 19:54

Michael Dunn

7-Jun-06 19:54

Here's the XML association info from my HKCR, save this as a .reg file and import it. Good luck.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="xmlfile"
"Content Type"="text/xml"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile]
@="XML Document"
"EditFlags"=dword:00010000
"FriendlyTypeName"=hex(2):40,25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,\
  74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,73,78,6d,6c,33,72,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,2d,31,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\BrowseInPlace]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\CLSID]
@="{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
  73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell]
@="Open"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\command]
@=hex(2):22,43,3a,5c,50,72,6f,67,72,61,6d,20,46,69,6c,65,73,5c,49,6e,74,65,72,\
  6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,5c,69,65,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,2e,65,78,65,\
  22,20,2d,6e,6f,68,6f,6d,65,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec]
@="\"file:%1\",,-1,,,,,"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
@="IExplore"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xmlfile\shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
@="WWW_OpenURL"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}]
@="XML Document"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\BrowseInPlace]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
  73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,30,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,53,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,6d,\
  73,78,6d,6c,33,2e,64,6c,6c,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\MiscStatus]
@="2228625"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\ProgID]
@="xmlfile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{48123bc4-99d9-11d1-a6b3-00c04fd91555}\Version]
@="1.0"

--Mike--
Visual C++ MVP Cool | :cool:

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Koushik Biswas8-Jun-06 7:52

Koushik Biswas

8-Jun-06 7:52

Thanks Mike for the advice. Unfortunately it did not help Frown | :(

Koushik Biswas

Gamusino_15-Jun-06 6:01

Gamusino_

15-Jun-06 6:01

Try to re-register the last msxml library that is in your system.
This libraries are in the C:\windows\sytem32 folder. I'm not sure this is your problem because unregistered dlls cause more collateral damages but you can try.
Execute from command line this, REGSVR32 "C:\windows\system32\MSXML4.DLL" , the number could be different, depends on the software you have installed.

Security Warning.

Saksida Bojan5-Jun-06 10:29

Saksida Bojan

5-Jun-06 10:29

I have downloaded a few games from reflexive.com
when i tried to run i got "Open File - Security Warning", and it says publisher can't be varified. And ask me if i wan't to contiune. There is nothing wrong with it, but... How can i change setting, that would automaticly run?

Re: Security Warning.

Mekong River5-Jun-06 15:22

Software Keyboard OSK.EXE

5-Jun-06 15:22

Try to go to internet option..., go to security tab and click on custom level... then try to study an option of download section.

jumbojetjames3-Jun-06 8:23

jumbojetjames

3-Jun-06 8:23

hallo

is anybody out there who has used the OSK.EXE inside W2K or XP to communicate with a C/C++-program. the question is not to start/end this application but how to communicate with it char by char.

Any idea ?

best regards

simon

Is SoftIce too cold for my computer?

GreenLantern2-Jun-06 1:20

GreenLantern

2-Jun-06 1:20

Well another softice problem but this one is a little different
I have Compuware Driver Studio v3.2 that is said to work for xp. during configurations, settings asked to *test* my VGA compatibility and the test was successful with standard VGA display settings. but when I restarted and went to launch softice. It tottally freezes my computer.. Softice is still working though i can do the ctrl+D and everything to get the softice screen but when i do ctrl+D to leave the system is still stalled/frozen; so I am forced to do the HBOOT and hard reset to leave it all to gether, because what good is a debugger when no other program is able to run. i don't know what i could be, that’s why I’m assuming its just too cold for my computer! lol
Any Help please, I'll much oblige.
Thank you.

Ps: What is the NuMega home site or someone I can complain and tell how much Codeproject helped me more then they did?

Re: Is SoftIce too cold for my computer?

Mekong River2-Jun-06 5:37

Re: Is SoftIce too cold for my computer?

2-Jun-06 5:37

GreenLantern wrote:
I have Compuware Driver Studio v3.2 that is said to work for xp. during configurations, settings asked to *test* my VGA compatibility and the test was successful with standard VGA display settings. but when I restarted and went to launch softice. It tottally freezes my computer.. Softice is still working though i can do the ctrl+D and everything to get the softice screen but when i do ctrl+D to leave the system is still stalled/frozen; so I am forced to do the HBOOT and hard reset to leave it all to gether, because what good is a debugger when no other program is able to run. i don't know what i could be, that’s why I’m assuming its just too cold for my computer! lol

Try to check whether this software compatible with your operating system and your hardware or not. On the other, if the product has it own KB document, you should find the solution from your problem.

GreenLantern2-Jun-06 14:41

GreenLantern

2-Jun-06 14:41

I maid sure that softice is compatible with my os and pluss it said that even microsoft gives out hotfixes that update a files for softice called called osinfo.dat (released operating systems) or osinfob.dat (beta operating systems) and so far i've found no recent hot fixes so i have to suggest that i've got the most recent because its the most recent compuserve package! And plus why would my NVidia not be compatible with *Standard VGA* lol, anyway i've have'nt gotten written back from technical support and i really think they don't know whats going on. i don't think theirs anything else i could tell you.. but thanks for the help so far.

Re: Is SoftIce too cold for my computer?

Mekong River3-Jun-06 5:45

Re: Is SoftIce too cold for my computer? [modified]

3-Jun-06 5:45

GreenLantern wrote:
I maid sure that softice is compatible with my os and pluss it said that even microsoft gives out hotfixes that update a files for softice called called osinfo.dat (released operating systems) or osinfob.dat (beta operating systems) and so far i've found no recent hot fixes so i have to suggest that i've got the most recent because its the most recent compuserve package! And plus why would my NVidia not be compatible with *Standard VGA* lol

Ok, in my opinion, you should contact directly (phone or e-mail) to this company and give a feed back about this issue. I think it is a good reason to give them a feed about their product performance and it might help the other user to solve this problem if the could found the solution based on your problem.

GreenLantern wrote:
thanks for the help so far

You are welcome. I'm very happy to help you in any circumstance Rose | [Rose]

GreenLantern3-Jun-06 16:30

GreenLantern

3-Jun-06 16:30

Because of compuware's lack to respond to all my letters, I took it upon my self to go and do extansive research on my problem, i found out the the problem was that the exeptions that SoftIce hold for the PS/2 is unstable in the way XP drivers cordinate with softice. For someresson that causes the keyboard to stall and the whole operating system to stall too. Windows form of a kernal PANIC! I now know the problem.. May someone please help with my solution?
Thanks you.

-- modified at 22:34 Saturday 3rd June, 2006

How big is a "big" Outlook PST file?

cheesepirate2-Jun-06 0:32

cheesepirate

2-Jun-06 0:32

I'm writing an app that does some processing in outlook, and my boss keeps reminding me that he has a "small" outlook PST file - even though it's over 3GB in size.

In my book, anything measured in gigabytes isn't small.

I was wondering, in a "real" corporate environment, how big do system admins typically let their users data files get?

Cheers,

Dave

Re: How big is a "big" Outlook PST file? [modified]

Mekong River2-Jun-06 5:43

2-Jun-06 5:43

cheesepirate wrote:
In my book, anything measured in gigabytes isn't small.

Office 2002 or earlier = 2GB, Office 2003 = 20GB[^].

cheesepirate wrote:
I was wondering, in a "real" corporate environment, how big do system admins typically let their users data files get?

Using Disk quotas[^] to set and define available space for each user.

-- modified at 11:46 Friday 2nd June, 2006

JCParker5-Jun-06 4:52

JCParker

5-Jun-06 4:52

The largest I have seen was just over 15GB. I would recomend that they be kept under 2 GB. If something happens most of the tools used to recover .pst start to choke after 2 GB and fail arround 4.

If you Boss has a 3GB file sugest to him that he think of breaking it up to smaller files. Also all .pst should be kept in the same location (again for data recovery it makes it easier, since you do not have to search the entire drive).

Outlook 97 would handel 36 .pst files, newer versions can keep track of more, Outlook 2003 can keep track of over 90 (Sorry I do not have the actual limit for the number of .pst files it will keep but have a manager who has 90 in his working enviroment.).

As far as when they are stored on a server - this depends upon position, job function, and available space. On the mail server, space constraints for that server dictate how much mail they can keep on line, I give everyone the same size mail box (usually no more than 5 times the allowed attachment size.).

Hope this helps

cheesepirate5-Jun-06 22:21

cheesepirate

5-Jun-06 22:21

I like actual numbers.

I think I may have to keep these facts to myself and be smug when all his mail goes up in smoke though. I don't think he's accepting dissenting views on this front.

Cheers

Dave.

JCParker6-Jun-06 3:07

JCParker

6-Jun-06 3:07

The maximum size of an Outlook .pst file pree 2003 is 2 GB (There are ways to allow this to grow, but recovery if/when it becomes corrupt will be a problem.).

The default maximum size of an Outlook 2003 Unicode .pst or .ost file is 20 GB. (Note: The largest file Outlook 2003 will accept is 30GB, this is due to stack space limitations I am told.)

As always the above is only firm until the next code update, at which time it may change without notice.

Cheers!

cheesepirate6-Jun-06 3:11

cheesepirate

6-Jun-06 3:11

Ah, I meant you'd given actual numbers, so I hope you didn't take that as a horrid demand!

Cheers for info though.

JCParker6-Jun-06 3:16

JCParker

6-Jun-06 3:16

No problem. I asked yesterday while I had the Exchange Developers on the phone. I think I started a new patch comming for Exchange yesterday, and all I was trying to do was patch a few lines of code.

Cheers

CISSP training book

Mekong River1-Jun-06 15:23