[thelist] Windows XP network help

[Michiel Oosterling]

Sam Carter wrote:

>John,
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>I don't know why I didn't see your post until today.  Many thanks to you and
>to the others who have responded.
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>The problem still persists.  Here are answers to your questions.
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>Q1 - This PC belongs to another employee - the company President / (small
>company).  Not likely anything malicious going on here.
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You never know. Maybe some 'nice' website he visited

>Q2 - I don't know what offline access is.  It is probably not enabled.
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Never simply take it that something is disabled in windows. Things like 
Remote Assistance etc are enabled by default for instance, something 
which I have always found highly irresponsable of our friends in Redmond.

>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.
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In what way did you connect to these shares? Did you tell windows to 
remember the password you gave it to connect to the shares?

>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?
>
>I may need to Format the hard drive and start over this weekend unless a fix
>is found.
>
>Sam
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I just read you original post for the first time. I take it this is a 
windows pre-installed pc, but maybe you could have a look at the acpi 
settings (power settings). Also check the BIOS, see if there's anything 
like auto power-off enabled oslt.
Flash the BIOS, either with a current image or with a new upgrade.

IMHO, reformatting and reinstalling is the last resort. I'd want to know 
what caused this, and a format will not make this clear to you. You have 
no way of knowing if the problem will arise again after this procedure ....

just my 2 (euro)cents worth,

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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of John C Bullas
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:48 PM
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org; thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] Windows XP network help
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>At 14:41 01/12/2003, Sam Carter wrote
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>>We've got a new Windows XP client on a Microsoft Network.  The other 
>>clients are Windows 2000.
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>>It ran just fine for 2 days, then powered down (by itself??).
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>Did it "fall" or did it "get pushed", could the user have gotten into a
>"jam"?
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>>After rebooting, it tries to connect to other shared folders on the 
>>network and *always* requests the username / password to connect.
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>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?
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>Virus infection?
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>Q1 your PC or does it belong to someone else?
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>Q2 Has someone set the thing to allow offline access? (will this need to 
>refresh on reboot?)
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>Q3 Has it got anything set up as favourites/places on the remote network 
>PCs? (any effect?)
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>Q4 Have any items on the remote PCs been set to load on boot up?
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>>Isn't it supposed to remember the username / password?
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>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!)
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>>Help appreciated.
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>>Sam
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