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Is there a free or really cheap monitoring tool out there? The network at work runs a proprietary package for sales of motorcycles, boats, personal watercraft, and parts for all. It periodically reports an error, varying in details, but always indicating to me a connection problem, too many collisions or something. The cabling in the building is a really botched job, and I suspect that timeouts are occurring in database requests, since these errors nearly always happen when a user tries to update something. What I need is a simple tool to listen in on the network - client or server side - and report the number of collisions, bad packets, etc over a period of time. Ideally it would do so from the background, recording results to a log file.
If this was a Win2K system I'd use the performance counters that are built in, but it's built around a WinNT server and Win98 clients. WinNT is too hard to configure for this (and the server is too slow @ 500MHz), and Win98 lacks the facility at all. Any suggestions?
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Thanks for the link, Ian! There's a lot of good stuff there!
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Hi,
Do anyone know how to change LAN connection settings by code/script?
More specific I want to change the LAN authentication settings for multiple clients in a company network (Win2K domain).
I want to automate the process of changing the settings for all the computers, either by using a logon script or something similar.
The client are running Windows XP.
Thanks in advance.
Ståle
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We have an off-site employee who's running Symantic Corporate Edition on his laptop, same as our internal users. Internally, we don't allow users to change their LiveUpdate settings, and the button to do so is disabled. Obviously, a remote user will need to be able to control this themselves, but his LiveUpdate settings button is also grayed out. So the question is how can I get his Symantic install to allow him to control these settings?
Thanks in advance.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Can't remember how I managed to allow offsite users to manually LiveUpdate their systems when I had everything set to update from a local LiveUpdate server I had setup. Almost 3 years since gtting the arse and no closer to getting back to the big end of town.
Can't they just download the 4.5MB virus update executable and manually run it to keep upto date?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Not sure, to be honest. What I ended up doing was creating a package specific to off-site users, and shipped it to him on a CD, along with instructions on how to uninstall the version he has, and install this one. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks, Michael.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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The default www.codeproject.com address hasn't worked in days now, and instead of the quaint error messages I used to receive, I now get the generic HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error message. This is a lot like the behavior I'm seeing from my own webserver since installing SP4 and all of the latest updates from Microsoft. There's a checkbox in IE that enables Show Friendly Error Messages which is supposed to supress technical messages, which I have unchecked. And IE6 now appears to ignore wildcards in URLs placed in the trusted sites zone, too. For example, adding http://w*.codeproject.com used to expand to all hosts in the codeproject domain, but that no longer works. This is becoming tedious, having to sneak in the back door after every reply to a post.
At least it works once I get in - that's far better than my server! Why, oh why did I ever let this lot talk me into giving Windows Update another chance?  I can't even look at http://localhost/IISHelp to find clues - it won't let me in at all, or return any meaningful error message. No wonder Apache is so popular...
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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I'm trying to update Windows 2000 SP2 to SP4
It hangs at the stage "running processes after install."
When I killed the dialog and rebooted, system->about suggests that SP4 has been installed correctly. There are no apparent problems (though I've only tried a few apps. so far).
I've hunted around in newsgroups, etc. and a number of items suggest stopping the IIS Admin service. However, it won't let me do that. I then tried disabling IIS Admin and reinstalled SP4. Still hangs.
I then tried stopping each of the dependent services, ftp publishing, world wide web, smtp. It won't let me stop those either. Help!
Does anyone know a way round this?
If not can I assume that SP4 is installed correctly?
I need to have it installed in order to install VS .NET 2003.
Kevin
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One possibility is to go to Services and disable startup of the Web services, then reboot. Install SP4 again, reboot, then enable Web services again as Automatic.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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I was eventually able to disable IIS Admin, reboot and reinstall SP5. I also stopped my SQL Server service but I think that was a red herring.
Anyway, I was eventually able to install Visual Studio .NET, which was the object of the exercise - though I had problems with this too!
Kevin
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Hi, does any one know why windows explorer in windows xp hide the status bar by default? When you start new windows xp there is not status bar. From windows 95 until windows 2000 the status bar of windows explorer is display by default and the tree view has a line to indicate the level of folder which is difference from windows xp.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, my computer just install windows xp for one year, but in become slower and slower? Do you know any reason why it become slower.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Memmory useage. If you install a lot of stuff on your machine, test out a lot of programs, that could be what is slowing you down. Another possibility is Spyware and Adware. To make it faster, try reinstalling your OS. I have to do that from time to time.
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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Hi, my computer has 2 partition which install windows and Linux. Could any one know how to view and transfer the file from windows to Linux and vice versa?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, does anybody know how share the file between two computer, one using windows 2000 or xp and the other one using Linux red hat 9.0?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, I have a problem with MS-DOS prompt in windows 98. When I use DOS command (which stand on windows) when I pressed the “/” it display “-“ for example when I type the following command “dir /a” it display “dir –a”. I have check in the keyboard language but it still remains in English-United State. When I return to Ms Word, everything is fine. I don’t know why it become like that but it is really made me difficult to work with MS-DOS.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, I have a problem when I install the new CD writer into my computer. I use CD writer sony crx1611 with main board Intel Celeron 2 GHZ. Before I start to install windows I configure some configuration in CMOS. Before and after install the operating system on my computer when I start or restart the computer the CD tray (the place to hold the CD) always come out for 2 or 3 second and get in again. I don’t know why it becomes like that? It is not a big problem but it made me annoyed when it comes out every time when the computer is started or restarted.
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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It's no wonder your PC has been slowing down! You've got a Celeron! Oh man I feel sorry for you. Next time, get a P4, or something else, but the worst you can get is a Celeron. Even AMD is better.
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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On the site you have written a program that will ID the Operating system. Can I use this to scan my entire Network,and if so will it work in ID'ing all different operating systems?
Thank You,
HB
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Hi all. I've got a user whose running Windows 2000, SP3. She was attacked by a Trojan called Download.Trojan that reset her IE home page, and installed the following files on her PC under WinNT\System32, including a batch file to download these files off the net, and execute them:
install2.exe
infamous_downloader.exe
0021-bdl94126.EXE
CS4P028.exe
silent.exe
I deleted the files, and reset her IE home page, but now she can't connect to the internet at all. She can browse the network, check her Exchange email from Outlook, and such. She just can't browse the internet. I reinstalled SP3, deleted and reinstalled her TCP/IP connection, and even tried giving her a static IP address (normally, our users have dynamically assigned IP's).
Anybody familiar with this?
Thanks in advance.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Have you tried clearing the cache in IE? Delete all temporary files, cookies, and any offline content; sometimes this restores IE to a working state after an infection is cleared out.
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