I had an issue escalated to me where NetBIOS name resolution didn’t work on one particular machine. DNS was working – you could ping by hostname. However, you couldn’t connect to a remote share using hostnames (although connecting using IP addresses worked).
As a number of other people had already looked at this before me I [...]
You might have the following problem with Windows 7 64 bit with ATI Radeon 2400 HD (default Windows drivers or latest drivers from ATI). If you RDP to the machine after Windows has put the screen to sleep you might find that when you later try to use the computer, there’s no signal being sent [...]
The time on my PC at work has been gradually getting out of wack. So I took a look at the PDC Emulator (PDCe)in the root of our Active Directory forest and found lots of W32Time errors like:
The time provider NtpClient cannot reach or is currently receiving invalid time data from 192.168.1.1 (ntp.m|0×8|172.16.1.1:123->192.168.1.1:123).
192.168.1.1 is a [...]
Ever noticed how Windows Explorer, by default, shows the drive letter after the label. For example:
\\longservername.subdomain.domain\AllOurData M:
The problem with this is that in some dialogs you can’t see the drive letter. Wouldn’t it be better if it did it the other way around:
M: \\longservername.subdomain.domain\AllOurData
Here’s how you can change that using group policy. First you [...]