[thelist] Windows XP network help

[John C Bullas (soton.ac.uk relay)]

At 12:25 PM 12/5/2003, Sam Carter wrote:
>John,
>
>I don't know why I didn't see your post until today.  Many thanks to you and
>to the others who have responded.
>
>The problem still persists.  Here are answers to your questions.
>
>Q1 - This PC belongs to another employee - the company President / (small
>company).  Not likely anything malicious going on here.
>
>Q2 - I don't know what offline access is.  It is probably not enabled.

It keeps a local "memory" of a distant netwrroked resource AFAIK


>Q3 - There are some network mappings to folders on 3 other Windows 2000
>clients.  These fail to login at boot time but succeed when user/pass are
>entered at prompt.

get the "owners" to add him as a recognised user?

>Q4 - There's lots of stuff loaded, Office, ACT, nothing exotic to my
>knowledge - but I've never met anyone that actually knows what most of the
>startup software actually does.  Anything I should look for?

the TSR stuff will be visible in the Task Manager, plug the filename in to 
google
and/or take a look in his "program files" folder?


>I may need to Format the hard drive and start over this weekend unless a fix
>is found.

Brute force

you might set him not to have admin rights (install software change 
configs) on the
PC rather set him to be a user, to stop him installing things, especially 
as he might
just admit to the screwup when you find it...

FB
Have a good weekend!


>Sam
>
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>
>
>At 14:41 01/12/2003, Sam Carter wrote
> >We've got a new Windows XP client on a Microsoft Network.  The other
> >clients are Windows 2000.
> >
> >It ran just fine for 2 days, then powered down (by itself??).
>
>Did it "fall" or did it "get pushed", could the user have gotten into a
>"jam"?
>
> >
> >After rebooting, it tries to connect to other shared folders on the
> >network and *always* requests the username / password to connect.
>
>Connect to the LAN or the shared resources? Is the machine set to single or
>multiple user default and is it set to prompt for a password?
>
>Virus infection?
>
>Q1 your PC or does it belong to someone else?
>
>Q2 Has someone set the thing to allow offline access? (will this need to
>refresh on reboot?)
>
>Q3 Has it got anything set up as favourites/places on the remote network
>PCs? (any effect?)
>
>Q4 Have any items on the remote PCs been set to load on boot up?
>
> >
> >Isn't it supposed to remember the username / password?
>
>The LAN I am part of requests passwords when "re-visiting" shared resources
>on other PCs after a reboot ( Net is a mish-mash of win2k prof, Win 98SE,
>XP Pro,
>everything from 3.0 GHz machines to 350 Pentiums!)
>
> >
> >Help appreciated.
> >
> >Sam
>
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