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My mom tries to limit my AOL account online times, but because my mom and dad use the same account and because my dad can't seem to memorize a simple password, he writes it down so I found it and opened an account just for emergencies such as if I need to do some homework past my restricted hours... But I have been told that I need to get off the computer a lot! All I know is that I go insane without a computer! Like at school, by lunch time, I am crazy because I need to be on a machine! Good thing I know the IT Director of my school! lol [N]F

Oh I have checked this! It is when I click to see all computers in the workgroup`MSHOME' that it says I need to contact my network administrator! Hey, lookie! That would be me! lol. I know it isn't me... must be Windows or something because when I got my new laptop right out of the box, it got configured and works with my network... it is just that one pesky laptop that is having all the problems... [N]F

I found a place that gives free .com domains. But I think you have to get a cirtian amount of traffic per day or something... and if you want, you can purchase the domain from them too. If I can find the website address, I'll post it. [N]F

I have a laptop that can't see other computers on my network. I try to map a local drive Z: and I go under My Computer > Tools > Map Network Drive > Browse > Entire Windows Network title > MSHOME and it is right there it says that it doesn't have permissions and to contact the network administrator (which I guess is me).I have ran the network wizard on it with no sucess either. I know it is connecting to the network because I can see it on my router's connections screen. My other laptop which hosts Z: connects fine and so does my other computer.That laptop is running Windows XP Home Edition, for you information.I have tried, and I know it isn't my firewall, because I have checked that...Any ideas?Thanks![N]F

I just tried that and it worked!!! I LOVE YOU!!! I mapped my USB E:\ which was plugged into my laptop. I then mapped it on my tower and on another laptop and now it is set as Z:\ on all the computers... I figured that I will just use my tower as the main "server" for storage and junk.... Now I am working on my printer! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! I couldn't have figured this all out without you all!!Also, how do I make it so that when I hook a computer up to my network that mapped drives will automatically pop-up under My Computer? Thanks!Thanks!Nightfox Notice from moonwitch: consecutive posts merged on member's request

How long of a reply are we talking? Anyway, I don't think that you would be going off topic about server linking....So clovis, I got my domain from Godaddy.com (not the one that is hosted here, I pay for one site and have to look for free web hosting for any new site). My paid server is at my web host and I am running a server at home. I would like to use a subdomain to link my home server with my paid server just as in, subdomain.mydomain.com. How would I do this DNS configurations?carpedemus, I am trying to understand your diagram. You have it as my main server which is visble, and then there is a separate WWW server that hosts documents and files, then a FTP server, and then a mail server. Could you explain how these 3 servers are linked to the main server and how the main server actually "works" as in taking WWW requests and pulling up pages from the WWW server and so on. Or is the main server just a DNS server "routing" requests to the proper servers?But here is how I saw a server setup:MAIN SERVER --> WWW Server, Mail Server, FTP ServerEverything would be on one server... I also don't really know of the book topic I should look at. It's not like there is a book called "Your Own Web Hosting at Home for Dummies".So instead of making a $500 investment for one server, I would have to times that by 4?! Oh man! Looks like this summer I am going to have to find a job! It's not like I make $2000 on my Google Ads or have $2000 laying around! Or, could I just skip some of it for now and just add a server? Like, one server and load some sort of Linux distro I take it (I was going to use Windows 2K as I found a guide some guy wrote and he uses Windows 2K).Thanks for any feedback you can give me...

See, I would like to launch my own server and using a subdomain to link it to my website that I have already put over $100 into (that's why I am here, free hosting! lol) or something like it..... But yeah, it would be cool... hmmm... any good IT techs getting free hosting here? lol

Hey, Back when I was searching for a free webhost, I came across this one (name is obviously censored and replaced!) https://stg.io/ But when I looked at their plans, they have 2 servers for hosting. One is paid and the free one. But they have it like, box6.somewebhost.com and box7.somewebhost.com, but these are two totally different servers! I would like to know how you do this because when looking at Google IP addresses, the one that hosts Google.com is totally different than the one that hosts gmail.google.com. Thanks!

Ummm... well, my E: has this but I can't access it on any other computer! Go figure! What on earth am I doing wrong here? I know everything is correct! Or is it the share name that I should change? Well, the only real way I can share files is to load them into my intranet but I have to be on my tower in order to save any thing. I cheked my firewalls and, it allows port 80 obviously and if I had port 21 open, I could FTP into my machine remotely. I would have better luck setting my machine up as a web server.... I have apache installed and then I would just need a REAL ISP instead of this dinky AOL service and some more memory and faster CPU and I would be good. But for now, I don't feel like FTPing over my own network into my own computer. I would just like it so as soon as I connect, under My Computer I can see my E: in any computer over the network. Thank you!

Ok, I thought I would make this topic active again after I noticed something. The tower PC I am on (which I will call the server because it acts as one) DOES talk to my laptop. Ok, well,because I run a private test web server on this machine and it is connected directly to the router via CAT 5 networking cable, I activate Apache and MySQL. I turn on my laptop and connect to the wireless network. I then open up IE and type: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ which is the server's internal IP address which I set to stactic so it could easily run as an internal server. Well, the site I had setup showed which means that the server is allowing inbound network connections and that I am on the network. It just seems that I am having problems enabling file sharing. My router is setup perfectly, and so are my computers. They hit the network. My problem is just enabling file sharing correctly and being able to access the machines remotely. When I am in Windows Explorer, I sometimes notice a Map Network Drives menu. Is this what I need to use or what? Thank you for all the help so far!

Today I went laptop shopping fo a laptop that I could use for notes and stuff and one that three years later can follow me into college. I chose the Avaratec C3500 Series Tablet PC.Here are the specs:-Tablet PC (like I said above)-DVD-ROM/CD-RW optical drive-5.5 pounds-Win XP Tablet PC edition 2005 (box says 2002)-512 MB RAM-802.11g Wireless; 10/100 Mbps built-in Eithernet-60 gig hard drive-AMD Athlon XP-M 2200+It has more power than my PC (I don't have much RAM on this machine... I can't seem to run Dreamweaver and AOL at the same time or Photoshop and AOL or everything runs SLOW!) and it is a nice portable computer. It is lacking some features, but it is a cool laptop or Tablet PC.Also, when I pulled it out of the box, it came in this really cool looking protector. Not a laptop case, but it protects it and looks cool. I remember when Tablet PC's first came out and cost over $2,000. This one was, I think, $1,200 with $100 mail in rebate.Main reason why I got this was for an independant study program I am taking next school year and I am hopeing that I will be allowed to use my own laptop insead of one of the school's off brand ones. It would be nice so then I don't have to worry about breaking the school's and I can use mine for college too. For notes, I just open Microsft Journal and jot some stuff down in my own handwritting! I have played around with a demo Tablet once, but it was smaller... I just wish mine was. But it is still a sweet laptop!

I like this site a lot. You can find some really neat hacks for your XMB board. >> http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Hmmm... as of today (April 21, 2005 at 10:09 PM GMT -5) the site appears to be down. I will keep checking about it as it had some really cool hacks that I liked. Funny thing is, it was up last weekend.

Why doesn't this surprize me? lol! ever since I re-installed windows on my crashed system, I have been meaning to install FireFox but never found the time to. THIS has made me write down on a post-it: "INSTALL FIREFOX!" and it is now on my monitor for tomorrow's top prority! Wow! good thing to!

Haha! I would like to know why people would want long domains! I hate them! I always think about my email when I decide on a domain... webmaster@DOMAIN.COM is what I go by. I also don't like dashes (these things: - ) in domains either. I had a spammer on my old blog who would post links like http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and other junk links like the such. I couldn't possibly stand that! Even a domain like xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com is close to bugging me, but xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com (20+ characters) is way over the limit!

Oh, so everything I would need is on the CD? Ok, I get it now (I think). That's cool. I only wish Windows worked the same way (lol) so then I wouldn't need to re-install everything! I had to re-install Windows on my laptop due to Windows being all screwey and I had to re-install office, and the such! Yuck! (See why I want Linux? lol) Oh boy.... this sounds like fun. Maybe I should wait until I have an A+ Certification before I try liveCD, lol. All of this seems so complicated. Not a problem from me... I can buy old computers from my school for $1 and get a 1-15 gig hard drive per machine. And when I say old, I am talking 133 mhz Pentium 1 CPUs w/ Windows 95 included. Ummm..... sounds difficult! Very, very difficult! Maybe I'll skip liveCD, lol I have access to plenty machines and if I ask, I could probably even get a GOOD machine from the IT department to play around with Linux on at school... they are even thinking about switching from Novell NetWare to SuSE Linux Standard Server to manage the network which makes me happy! Wow.... That's good. Thanks!

Ok... Got that now. Ok... I think I will be doing that. At the moment I am traveling and so I will have access to more stores. I hope I can find some software stores and I'll take a peak. LiveCD is where you load Linux off a CD but not on your hard disk? So how do you exactly "load" something from a CD onto your LiveCD version? Seems a little tricky too me. I guess I agreed to learn all this stuff when I wanted to use Linux! lol. But I guess I'll get it soon enough. Thanks!

Thanks! I normally use photobucket but free and unlimited (yeah right!) is good too. I will have to wait to get the screen shots online as I am currently traveling and don't have the screen shots on my laptop. I will be back Saturday (next week) or Sunday at the latest as I only got 5 days off from school. Thanks!

Yeah... I fully agree with that... It looks like they made it in paint! And there is still the ® and TM in both logos and NO copyright statement! After looking on Google's website, I found this bit of information located at: https://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/our-trademarks.html. And the MAJOR violation: That image is a modification to the logo so it is an illegal image and Google can take action such as sue the guy. And I bet Yahoo has simalar trademark usage rules as well. I also did a whois search and it appears it is hosted on a private server because the domain points to "no-ip.com" NS servers. And I think I know how he did this. I could probably code one but I don't want to get sued by Google, Yahoo, Altavista and any other one. But I could probably make a page to enter a search term and then go to another page to select which search engine to use but this is the wrong forum for that!

I have been there before... my problem is choosing which "flavor." I just can't decide on if I want LiveCD or one that works on top of Windows or if I want a pure Linux copy. With all the different ones, I have to say I get confused... It is like a library with the same book but with hundreds of different versions of that one book! lol I just want something easy to get me off the ground and then move into something that does a little more, and then something that does even more.

This is a good example of why I hate Microsoft. I refuse (and have even told a Microsoft Tech Support agent) to install SP2 again! It has made my systems SLUGGISH and very pathetically slow.If I was an IT manager, I would not deploy this evil thing! My laptop which has an Athlon XP-M chip and probably more memory than this machine is better but experienced the same symptoms as this machine! I am out-raged! I would think Microsoft would conduct more open Beta tests before something like this... I hope SP3 isn't this bad. Anyway, what's this about Microsoft not supporting computers without service packs? I think it is up to us on what we want on our computers and not Microsoft's. I mean, it is almost as they "own" us! Oh well, they don't have to support my machine.... soon, once I conclude testing with Linux, I am making a full switch!

I know this is a little off topic (and you are a mod!), but I tried installing Linux on a non-used separate hard drive...Anywho, I do have some screenshots, but I am getting them ready to upload somewhere...Thanks for the help so far!

I like cjb.net domains... at least they can't force their ads if you use the DNS option... But URL redirections do have ads... you are forced to mask your URL (how they force the ads in an invisible frame) but can disable if you purchase ad-free for $9.99. But you have to keep your account active every 90 days which isn't too hard as they email you when your account needs to be re-activated.

Notepad is a good "anything" editor! you can edit any kind of code (HTML, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, ini files, and the what not)... Although it doesn't include help tips... this is where a nice HTML book comes in handy! I have looked through some of the newer HTML books today, and they are all better than the one I learned from! Good luck with it though...

Well, I don't live in Canada... just the US... The only services available in my area is Alltel DSL, bunch of Dial-up ISPs like Netzero, Juno, AOL, and possibly others, and I am not sure of the local cable company... I think it might be Comcast. Well if anyone could possibly help me get drivers for my softmodem as it seems I am not getting a real modem anytime soon, that'd be great. If I can get Wine and possibly a free ISP that would work with Wine and Linux, I would prolly have to do trial and error. Also, I had my friend burn me a copy of SuSE mini-installer off of the Novell site. The other one is like 1 gig but I don't have a DVD-ROM drive so the mini-installer should work. I will install it on a secondary hard disk I have so I can keep this windows install so I can come back here and stuff... Thanks! Please also give me some more tips too!

Ok... Well, it isn't a top priority to get my network working yet... I am just trying to find out where I went wrong... If I am planning on possibly dual booting Windows XP on a partition with Linux so I can still possibly mess around with the network... but this will be done on a spare hard drive so, I shouldn't have any problems.Thanks!