I want to disable intenet explorer(For example:)  http://192.168.1.4 to
printer with gpedit.msc local policy. How can I configure taht?
Thanks.
Sam

I have a W2K domain with XP clients.  A user can log on but cannot
access the server that contains their data (it is also the DC).  When
trying to map to the server or to access the server through network
connections I receive the error message:

I have a question which I hope somebody may have an answer to.
I would like to know whether there are any implications of making an
ordinary user a member of Domain Admins on a Windows 2003 domain while
at the same time placing said user into a restricted GPO.

Windows server experts:
I know that Windows 2003 Server will log the IP of a user trying to logon with
a phony username or bad password. But, 2000 Server does not. Is there any way
to get 2000 to do this?

We had migrated from NT domain to win2k3 domain. We are using Hitachi
filers for file shares. After migration when we are trying to add any
group for all the shares on these shares it's taking very log time.
Even if i add any group or the member to root share with full access

I am trying to help a friend who has just purchased a second hand PC and is
having problems with the old user's critical details and user settings
preventing access to many areas of the machine, I am asking for any help in
the total SAFE removal of old user info, as I personally ...

I've spent the morning greping the web for any information about this
little problem that I am having without any real success. Basically I
have a Windows service running on a 2003 server box that needs to
dynamically manage IP addresses on two of the NICs using AddIPAddress

I am trying to add logging capabilities to a Windows(2000/XP/2003)
application that can run under any user context(not neceseraly a member of
admin).
The problem is that every time a diffrent user will run the application, the

I'm trying to bring together information about how to recover an
administrator login to a member server and to a domain controller, for
Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 / XP.    I see at least three problem
conditions I want to understand if there is a way to recover from:

I'm investigating a hacking attempt on our Windows 2003 server.  We had 56
bad attempts to guess a user's password.  Below is the detail of the attempt
with the identifiable information removed:
Logon Failure:

I have several accounts that exhibit that behaviour.
I checked the button, and a few minutes later, it becomes unchecked.
I found a KB article referring to NT exhibiting this behaviour if you
create the accounts in a certain way, but nothing referring to 2000/2003.

I have a shared folder with about 30GB of data which I need to move to
another disk in the same server.
Most of the files/folders I don't have permissions for, i.e. Domain
admins isn't in the list when viewing the security tab, and is most

I have 2 websites on a IIS machine (Windows 2000 server). one of them is
open to the public and another one   should be only accessable for inside the
network (LAN). What has to be done in order to secure it, so peolpe from
outside wont be able to see the Intranet website.

My laptop i changed domain password and i mistyped the password
my account is locked after that in server my account is unlocked but i
am not able to login into my
laptop I am working out of our network and i am useing VPN to connect

Anyone if user account info (Not Active Directory)  can be backed up from
one Windows 2000 machine and restored to another?
What I am looking to accomplish is to have a machine on standby where I
could quickly restore a user base to a backup machine should my primary