I’m now running Ubuntu 7.10 on my personal laptop (it dual boots with MS Vista Ultimate, but defaults to Ubuntu). Of course I want to do it all, including connecting to MS Windows VPN’s.
The short set of instructions over at tipotheday were spot-on.
My only addition would be to have the Ubuntu 7.10 install CD (or ISO) handy. Personally I used the command line (CLI) version, worked a treat.
Setting up a remote user today, who has a network printer on their local network which they want available to the RDP session (over VPN).
RDP doesn’t by default redirect non COM/LPT/USB ports – i.e. an IP port.
Thankfully, a simple registry edit noted in MS KB 302361 makes it easy to tell XP to redirect other ports.
Yup, you can.
Microsoft Vista Business & Vista Ultimate come with ‘Downgrade’ rights.
IBM have a page explaining the process, as do a number of other suppliers.
Why would you want to? Well one client I have is about to purchase some new workstations, rather than upgrade all the other workstations to Vista, or have some running Vista and some running XP, it makes sense for all workstations to be on the same OS, with the same apps. By downgrading to XP now, and having the right to revert back to Vista later makes for an easier transition now.
I can’t recall which web site I found this via, and have not had time to play further with it, but it looks very interesting: that is tweaking the settings to mimimise network traffic caused by “Server Message Block (SMB)” with Windows Explorer.
If anyone has used these tweaks, I’d like to hear what your experience has been.
Have an Microsoft Exchange server and want to change the maximum size of emails that can be sent or recieved?
Here is how: Open up Exchange System Manager, Global Settings, right click Message Delivery, select Properties, Defaults and bingo, you can set both Sending message size and Receiving message size.
Julie, the back room tech, just wrote an article on how to enable debug logging to better solve authentication problems on MS Windows 2000, 2003. No doubt this will also help with tracking down a multitude of other error messages that would otherwise remain unseen.