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  1. Posted

    We use Microsoft Software Update Services http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp as our local windows update server. You simply point auto-update (included in Win2k-SP3 or higher or available as seperate download) to your local server. Lots of documentation on setting it up plus its free. You have to manually approve the patches but that's actually a good thing because it gives you time to test first.

     

    You can configure Auto-Update on client using group/local policy or registry settings.

     

    Hope that helps

     

    -Evan

  2. Posted

    Assuming your using Apache webserver, you can manage authentication with .htaccess or config files. Here's a link that describes them in detail

     

    Authentication in Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

     

    .htaccess description: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

     

    Hope that answers your question

     

    PS. If your new to linux, install webmin (http://www.webmin.com) on your server to help you configure these things.

  3. Posted

    Or if its 2k/XP/2k3 then use findstr (Find String). Here is the output from findstr /?

     

    Searches for strings in files.

     

    FINDSTR [/b] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/s] [/i] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]

    [/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes]

    [strings] [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

     

    /B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.

    /E Matches pattern if at the end of a line.

    /L Uses search strings literally.

    /R Uses search strings as regular expressions.

    /S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all

    subdirectories.

    /I Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive.

    /X Prints lines that match exactly.

    /V Prints only lines that do not contain a match.

    /N Prints the line number before each line that matches.

    /M Prints only the filename if a file contains a match.

    /O Prints character offset before each matching line.

    /P Skip files with non-printable characters

    /A:attr Specifies color attribute with two hex digits. See "color /?"

    /F:file Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for console).

    /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string.

    /G:file Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for console).

    /D:dir Search a semicolon delimited list of directories

    strings Text to be searched for.

    [drive:][path]filename

    Specifies a file or files to search.

     

    Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is prefixed

    with /C. For example, 'FINDSTR "hello there" x.y' searches for "hello" or

    "there" in file x.y. 'FINDSTR /C:"hello there" x.y' searches for

    "hello there" in file x.y.

     

    Regular expression quick reference:

    . Wildcard: any character

    * Repeat: zero or more occurances of previous character or class

    ^ Line position: beginning of line

    $ Line position: end of line

    [class] Character class: any one character in set

    [^class] Inverse class: any one character not in set

    [x-y] Range: any characters within the specified range

    \x Escape: literal use of metacharacter x

    \<xyz Word position: beginning of word

    xyz\> Word position: end of word

     

    For full information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Command

    Reference.

  4. Posted

    No problem, happy I could help. I really wish MS would warn you before installing the patch from windowsupdate (at least until they get it fixed). Everyone I know who runs XP has been screwed by it.

     

    This brings up another point, assuming MS tests their patches at least internally, how did such a big whoops make it past Q/A. Either everyone at MS runs a dual 10 GHz machine (not likely) or they don't run Antivirus (scary!). Or more likely they were just testing to see if the patch plugged the hole and didn't concern themselves with performance.

  5. Posted

    If you do have all the updates for WinXP SP1, you probably have the Q811493 patch installed. If you run Antivirus software (I would hope you do) this patch causes your Uber-fast computer to run like a 486. Microsoft has identified a performance problem when installing this patch and will be releasing an updated version some time soon. The patch can be removed without problems by going to Add/Remove Program and uninstalling "Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q811493". You can check out the full MS Bulletin here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-013.asp

  8. Posted

    Hehe yes we have WAY too many files. The problem is our web software was written by someone who thought it best that every client had their own folder (with a copy of master version files) and every client project had its own sub-folder (also with a copy of master version files). Multiply this by 3 major products (and multiple versions of each) and we have a lot of the same files in different folders with a few customizations here and there. These files will eventually be archived but not in the near future. Luckily our new versions of software will be less file intense laugh

  10. Posted

    Hey Everyone

     

    I'm looking for some opinions about the performance of Windows 2000 Distributed File System (DFS) when dealing with a very large number of small files. Please reply with personal experiences using DFS and any impact on performance of the servers.

     

    I plan to implement a DFS share to replicate the wwwroot on 3 web application servers. The wwwroot contains about 230,000 small files in 24,000 folders. Total size is about 3 GB but the files rarely change. All three servers are large machines running Windows 2000 Server (SP3) with hardware SCSI RAID and are connected via 100mbit lan. I fully understand how to implement this but am looking more for input on the performance hit I can expect when replicating such a large number of files.

     

    Thanks for any help,

     

    Evan

  12. Posted

    Are the new users profiles being created in the C:\Documents and Settings\ folder after you try logging them in? Are you able to hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and bring up the task manager while sitting at the blank screen? If you are, go to the Processes tab and kill explorer.exe then go to the Applications Tab and click New Task. Type explorer.exe into the Create New Task box. This is basically forcing a shell reload

  15. Posted

    Perhaps a few more details would help. Please provide:

     

    1. What OS (Win2k, WinXP, etc)

    2. What Service Pack Level (SP1, SP2, SP3 for win2k or SP1 for WinXP)

    3. Any aditional changes (file permissions, disabled services, etc)

    4. Some basic hardware info (speed of processor, size of hard drive, amount of memory)

     

    With this info, we should be able to help you out. laugh

  19. Posted

    Are the users logging in the same Security level (users, not power users)? I've depoyed SP3 on about 30 machines and haven't run into this problem but I login right after the first reboot (as an Admin user) to install a few post service pack critical updates. This is totally a guess but it may be that the SP install needs to finish something on the first login and it requires a higher level user (power or admin) to complete.

  23. Posted

    Mandrake has the friendliest user community in my experience. The best place to start is http://mandrakeuser.org and http://mandrakeforum.com. As for a recommended distro, I would recommend Mandrake 8.2, Suse 8.0 or RedHat 7.3 for the new Linux user. Mandrake and RedHat have CD-Images freely available to download (Suse does not! frown ). Mandrake has the best installer (in my opinion) and auto-detects more hardware than most other distos.

  25. Posted

    Is it possible that he switched PCI Slots when putting everything back together. Win2k sometimes freaks if you move a PCI card to a different slot without first uninstalling the hardware in Device Manager. Also check to make sure the video card isn't sharing an IRQ with something else (Sound, NIC, etc). You can check by going Start=>Run=>msinfo32.exe then expanding "Hardware Resources" and selecting "Conflicts/Sharing".

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