Can you open a share on a network even if the machine you are on is not part
of the Domain?

I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain why this is so..
An application that I run on a couple of W2K3SP2 boxes automatically
starts after a reboot, you can
tell the application is starting because an item is popped onto the

I have 1 domain and no OU's. I have used GPO and have created a policy that
set's a min password length & enables complexity. I have setup a filter to
assign it to a single user (for testing reasons). I perform GPUPDATE \FORCE
and the event viewer shows it completed. The problem ...

I have a Windows server 2000 PDC named "myserver" with a share named
"myshare". The path is \\myserver\myshare. A legacy app depends on this
share. Now I should upgrade the PDC to Windows Server 2003 in a new
hardware. The new PDC server will be named myserver2. The old one will ...

I need to delete a Excel from a folder on C: which is not shared.  But got
following message: the process cannot access the file because it is being
used by another process.  How can find out what "another process" is?  Or
just forced it to be deleted even being used by another ...

I'm running Server 2003 R2.  I've installed a second NIC card so I can
run RRAS.  The second NIC is configured to not register it's
connection in DNS.  It does anyway.  Also, the DHCP connections
reserved for RRAS create DNS entries for themselves.  So, I have

I'm having "fun" today :)
Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition, Service Pack 1
I have a scheduled task that I want to run a batch file hourly, as a
service, with no one logged in.  I've simplified and simplified, so now I'm

Every now and then some user creates a file or folder that can't be
deleted - they don't have rights to change the rights on the folders.
The files or folders are not in use but you can't delete them - checked on
the server to verify the file wasn't in use.

i was just searching for how many VPN users are able to connect to an
enterprise 2003 ?
is that number increased in windows 2008 ?
where to find about the maximum number of VPN clients on windows server ??

Does anyone know how to submit a feature request to Microsoft?

I have two services one called vmagic.exe and the other csmagic.exe that when
stopped I want an email sent to me to notify me that it has been stopped. Is
it possible to do this? These services reside on both Windows 2000 and
Windows 2003 servers. I have no scripting background ...

I have set Disable Map Network Drive in the group policy of ADS domain and it
works fine. But when the user logs in with the login script which contains
net use commands to map network drive, the drive gets mapped. how can I
disable this?

I have several Windows 2003 x64 machines that are on a workgroup (not
a domain).  They use file sharing and two mirrored SQL servers between
them.
Every time these machines reboot, either manually or because of an

Gurus,
Running Windows Server 2003 SP2.  In order to free up space on the C drive
of one of my servers I noticed that C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles uses 775MB
disk space.  Is it safe to delete this directory?

When I try to map network drive which is on win server 2003 I get the
message : "No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this
time because there are already as many connections as the computer can
accept. "