Marchuz^

I had the exackt same problem on my PDC. I just executed a command in CMD and the problem was gone, unfortunately I have forgotten what command I ran but if you look in the online help system I'm sure you'll find it...

Now I got it somehow the way I want it, the NT box is in the domain as a server and is running WINS, FTP, SMTP, DNS, etc... The main DC is a K7 800, 256 Mb RAM... The NT4 box is waaay too slow for Win2k but NT4 Server is running quite fast... (P166, 64 Mb RAM, going to upgrade to 200+ soon)

Yep, I want to have two DCs but the box running NT4 is just to slow for Win2k...

I have a Windows 2000 Advanced Server acting as a primary Active Directory DC, now I want to make my NT4 Server a backup DC but I can't... I install NT4 and select backup DC... then I create a computer account in Active Directory for my NT Server. But when the computer is supposed to join the domain it says that the computer account is already in use a workstation or server... Anyone knows what to do? Maybe Clutch can answer this one?

My two systems: =========== S_Buffy =========== Athlon 800 (114x7) MHz (Alpha P7125 cooler) Abit KA7 2x128Mb Apacer PC-100 Cas2 ASUS V6800 GeForce DDR (150/354) with Golden Orb cooler... SoundBlaster Live! Very cheap 10/100Mbit NIC IBM 75 GXP 30.7Gb DMA66 Fujitsu MPD3173AT 17.3Gb DMA66 32x CD-ROM 4x CD-ROM AOpen HX08 Windows 2000 Advanced Server, SP1 ========== Server ========== Intel Pentium OverDrive 125@166 (2,5x66) Noname AT Motherboard... 64Mb EDO RAM Matrox MGA 2Mb gfx-card Currently 3Com Ehterlink III 10Mbit NIC (going to upgrade soon) Maxtor 1Gb HDD 2x CD-ROM Windows NT 4.0 Server, SP6a

Have you installed the VIA 4in1 drivers? If not do that and Win2k will run fast...

Yes, it works just fine now..

Well, I got it right now anyway, but thanks for the help clutch...

Yeah, the ICS have a static IP... But do you mean static IP on the LAN adapter or the Internet apapter?

Ok, but I think I heard once that it's not necessary to enter the WINS IP manually, but that was obviously wrong... And another thing, if there is a computer with Internet connection sharing, is it necessary to have dynamic IP on the clients or is it enough to enter the IP of the ICS server as default gateway?

We only have one domain and that's because my computer is running active directory, I'm at my friend's place right now and all their computers are in their own workgroup. They don't the IP of my WINS in their TCP/IP properties, but arent't they supposed to find it automatically, or is that only when they're being rebooted? Another reason may be that they have disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP...

I'm currently on a small network setup with about 6 computers, I think the network browsing is quite slow so I have WINS server on my computer, but it only registers my computer, I'm in my own domain and all the other computers are in a second one... The other computers won't even find my WINS server at all... Anymone knows whats wrong??

I have to agree with Silent-IQ... here in Sweden you read about alot of peple having problems with their IBM's, including me, after about one month i got about 90k in bad clusters, i fixed the problem with chkdsk and it's been running flawlessly ever since... But I have to say that IBM makes really nice disks. Fujitsu makes good disks too, I have and a MPD3173AT 17,3 Gb DMA66 drive from mid 1999 and it's been working flawlessly since the day I put in my computer...

I run Windows 2000 Adv. Server on my home computer and I don't have any performance problems, it runs hust as fast as Win2k Pro on an Athlon @ 864 MHz, 256 Mb RAM... I think the reason that your computer is so slow in regular desktop applications is that Win2k Server is optimized for background services by default, to change this right click on 'My Computer' and select 'properties' and the 'Advanced' tab, then open the 'Performance' dialog. There you can change optimization mode, either applications or background services... [This message has been edited by Marchuz^ (edited 27 March 2001).]

I just upgraded to Internet Explorer 5.5 Sp1, everything works just fine but when i start an explorer window with the folder-list enabled it just crashes... this is VERY disturbing... If anyone know what's wrong I'd be very pleased since this driving me mad... ------------------ Marchuz^ UIN: 42900735 marcus@fofso.net