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Speed up network login

lmilesw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:33:36 +0000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
“SynchronousMachineGroupPolicy”=dword:00000000
“SynchronousUserGroupPolicy”=dword:00000000

Network Permission Issues

lmilesw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:03:40 +0000

Problem

Many computers will not automatically authenticate on network shares even if permissions are set properly so everyone has access thus you cannot fix network permission issues.

Solution/Procedure

Navigate to the network share from explorer after a fresh log in to be sure you don’t have a previous session open and already authenticated.
If the computer is having issues properly authenticating it will prompt you for a username and password in the username box type “Everyone” in the password field leave it blank, and were it says remember password check the box.
You should now be able to see the files located on the network drive. If you cannot and it re-prompts you for a username and password the user “everyone” does not have permissions set.
If you cannot see the files on the network drive change the file permissions on your domain for that network share to allow everyone to properly access it.
If it does let you see the files properly restart the station and try to navigate to the same place again, this time it should not prompt you for a username and password. It should just display the files.

You now have properly set up the computer to verify as the “everyone” user before asking for a password instead of always prompting for credentials.

Enabling Belkin network USB hub (part # F5L009) in a virtual machine

lmilesw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:49:55 +0000

Symptoms

Belkin software running in the virtual machine connects to the hub Drivers do not show up in the attached devices list.
Resolution Device manager shows missing driver for USB mass storage device.

Solution

The USB driver needs to be manually copied. Since ESX Server does not provide direct support for USB, USB drivers are not installed in the guest operating system by default. USB-over-IP devices depend on the USB core files to install properly.

Procedure

To enable the rest of the installation, copy and rename the required file from the original operating system CD:
- Source: usbd.sy_ in the \i386 directory of the CD
- Destination: usbd.sys in the \system32\drivers directory of the guest operating system.
After copying this file, reboot your machine.
You can then continue with the Belkin software installation.
ONLY Windows XP is effected by this

Ease of use

lmilesw — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:20:58 +0000

We plan to automate much of the setup