Troubleshoot Windows 2000 DHCP server
News If you get an address in the range 169.254.x.x on a Windows 2000 client, you'll know that the client was unable to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server.Try using the Ipconfig/release command followed by Ipconfig/renew.
[January 21, 2003, 10:01]
Solve Windows 2000 DNS server problems
News At the user's workstation, you should run IPCONFIG /ALL from a command line to see whether the TCP/IP stack on the local machine is responding correctly. NSLOOKUP is a command line utility that allows you to query DNS server zone files.
[May 19, 2003, 13:03]
Telnet Server for Windows NT/2000/XP
Downloads Gives Telnet users full access to Windows NT command line. Features include support for both line mode (with scroll buffer) and screen mode, local printing on the client side, connection restriction based on Host or IP address, connection...
[November 19, 2003, 12:51]
Improve TCP/IP performance in W2K registry
News If the PING command works the first time, try incrementing the value by five or 10 until you see the error message. When you enter the command, the PING will either be successful or it will fail with a message stating that the data must be fragmented.
[October 8, 2002, 14:24]
Putting broadband to work
News If one address consistently shows in the logs, you can traceroute the address (run tracert from the Windows command line) and complain to their ISP. Can I run voice over IP over my broadband connection, or make telephone calls over the internet?
[November 6, 2002, 12:29]
Microsoft Cluster Service or network load balancing?
News You administer the Cluster Service with the Cluster Administrator MMC or with the command-line utility Cluster.exe. Monitoring and maintenance is done with a command-line utility called WLBS.exe, which you can run locally or remotely (if enabled).
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
Evesham Technology E-scape Li review
Reviews It's when things go wrong, or when you have to brave the Linux command line to run software that expects you to have a ponytail, that things degenerate. We plugged our review system into our office LAN, and it immediately acquired an IP address...
[October 11, 2002, 10:02]
Microsoft get back to baseline on security
News That's a command-line only utility that queries a database maintained by Microsoft containing the latest hot fixes issued for each product, checks those installed on the client machine and issues a list of discrepancies.
[May 9, 2002, 16:39]
Red Hat Linux 8.0: The best version yet?
News For example, upon installation there was automatically an entry located in the /etc/fstab that would allow me to mount my USB flash card reader with the simple command mount /mnt/flash. In an attempt to make the configuration simpler, Red Hat 8.0...
[April 3, 2003, 9:47]
Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
News Getting onto the unsecured wireless network, pinging possible IP addresses of other computers on the network, finding Andy's unpatched computer, scanning open ports for vulnerabilities, using the attack tool to build an exploit, and using the...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 review
Reviews The dependence on the command shell is one of many interesting changes in Exchange Server 2007, making it the first mainstream Microsoft application designed to be as configurable from the command line as from the Windows GUI.
[August 23, 2006, 13:15]
