I have a little networking problem:

Have a company laptop, running NT4, configured to be part of Domain UVW. Now have a home network, running ADSL via a router. Works great apart from, when I boot into the "run with network" hardware profile to use this, it takes an age to time out the search for a domain controller - like 6-10 minutes.

Potential solutions:Change the timeout value in the search for a domain controller (how?)Set up the other PC on the network as a Win2K server instead of Win2K Pro, and set this up as a domain controller, with a domain also called UVW
Problems:Laptop can also simultaneously be connected to work network via ADSL - seems likely that having two machines as domain controller for the same domain name is going to cause conniptionsDon't want to install Active Directory, under any circumstances - can Server be set up as domain controller without created AD set-up?

Problem two:

Buffalo router, was IP address 192.168.11.1 - now not replying on this address (works fine, but I need to access the config program to set up WEP), suspect I may have changed the address while fiddling. How can I find out the current address? Is there a tool that will list all the used IP addresses on my LAN? I know it's going to be 192.168.something.something - but rather loth to sit there pinging every combination until I get a response

zzaxx99

I don't think that setting up an independant server with the same domain name would work. This would be too easy a way to get round the NT security.

You can setup Win 2K Server without active directory.

When I take my laptop away from my domain I leave myself logged on and put the computer into hibernate. I am using XP though.

Can't help you with the timeout setting.

Re Buffalo router. Have you tried IP address 192.168.0.1

Didn't think the duplicate domain name was a goer - the more I thought about it, the more problematic it looked.

My first thought was that sleeping the laptop wouldn't work for me, as I have to reboot to a different hardware profile, but actually, I'm wondering if that is really true... I'm using NT4 on the laptop, which is infinitely worse than XP for coping with being docked/undocked/re-docked somewhere else, but I'll give it a try and see what happens...

Re: the router - that's about the only one I can rule out - that's the modem! :-)

zzaxx99

You could set your home computer up as a backup domain controller to your works one but your Company should have some objections to this.

Just tried it - sleeping it doesn't work - nice idea though.

Anyone know about svchost.exe?

I keep getting messages from my firewall that it is trying to be accessed,
"A remote system is attempting to access MS generic host process for win32 services on you computer.
Program is C:\windows\system32\svchost.exe"
And it says it is low risk and recommended I permit it

but if I allow it, the computer has problems, if I block it doesn't. So what is it? I saw from a search on google that it is part of windows.

But why is it causing me problems and why does something keep wanted to access it?

HELP NEEDED!

I have been experiencing problems when on line since last Friday. I had a few blue screens with VXD and VMM faults. Also have a box appear since Friday from internet explorer stating 'internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sorry for any inconvience' they then want you to send your files to them. I clicked on the technical tab to see what has gone wrong and it had a lot of modules listed ie; module 1 DDRAWEX.DLL, 2. DDRAW.DLL, 3. NTDLL.DLL, etc.
Yesterday I done a system information system file checker. The result was two corrupted files; NETDI.DLL in C:\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and SETUPX.DLL in C:\\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
Do you think that is causing the IE6 faults? I have tried to uninstall IE6 but don't have the option to do so, they only list repair or add a component.
How can i rectify the corrupted files? I am running WIN98V2.
HELP!

Jumpin, it could be any of a number of things, e.g. the grey box messenger spam, or of course the new RPC virus attempting to infect you... Remote systems have no business using svchost so don't allow it. Unless of course you run a home network and the requests come from another computer on the network.

Generally speaking, the whole point of a firewall is to keep things out, so don't allow things in unless you desperately have to!

IT, start by doing a full/thorough disk scan, checking for bad sectors which may have been the source of your problems. Then try repairing IE.

Kayak

I have repaired IE6 five times already without success, I will do the full scan now and report results, thanks.

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recently i am having following problem on my pc with windows 2000:

Everything works fine for the first few minutes after which i get the following error message: 'svchost.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows'.

After this I have following problems:
1) cannot navigate to linked pages or windows while surfing (not from all links but from some links)
2) when opening en existing exel doc, get the message 'cannot use object linking and embedding'. Then exec generates an error and is closed by windows.
3) when opening word application get the message 'this document could not be registered. It will not be possible to create links fromother documet to this document'

Would be grateful if anyone can throw somw light on thsa problem and how to fix it.

Thanks
Shammy

Kayak

Have just finished the full scan disc. Firstly when it was a 1/3 of the way through I got an illegal operation box warning with this detail, 'MSSINF032 caused an invalid page fault in module MFC40.DLL at 0167:7b983c64'.
I closed the box and carried on with the scan disc which has turned up no errors.
I have repaired IE as you suggested.
I have just done another file scan and have a new corrupted file to go with the two others.
*1.leonardo da vinci.DLL*
2. NETDI.DLL
3. SETUPX.DLL
What can I try now Kayak?
Waiting patiently with a headache!

Insider Trader

You could try booting to the C prompt and then running scandisk.

Optimist

I have just done a thorough scan disc, it took over 3 hours and reported no errors. What would be the advantage of doing another?

Insider Trader

If you were running scandisk from within windows then windows still has control of some system files which could stop it doing it's job.

Booting to the C prompt stops windows starting so scandisk will have full control. If scandisk took so long you were probrably doing a disk surface scan as well. Unless your disk is about to fail big time this should only need doing once so try leaving this option out. Instead of using scandisk you could try "Chkdsk /f" from the C prompt.

IT, the sort of random errors you're getting are often caused by hardware errors, hence my recommending the full surface scan. It's worth doing a chkdsk/f to see whether there are already bad sectors on the disk. If there are no bad sectors on the disk then that isn't the problem.

Check that your case fan and processor fan appear to be spinning normally.

It could also be a memory problem. If you have two or more DIMMs you could try taking out one at a time to see whether the problem goes away.

Also worth doing a complete virus scan. Two free ones on the web I use are http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp and http://www.pcpitstop.com/ .

Apart from that, it could be just about anything... had you loaded new software or changed the hardware just before the errors first appeared? Is it particularly hot in the room compared to other days?