Questions tagged [windows-2000]
Windows 2000 is a family of Microsoft operating systems comprising four editions, Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server. It was the successor to NT 4.0 and offered a very long list of new features and improvements. Windows 2000 went RTM on December 15, 1999 and to general release on February 17, 2000. It is no longer supported, and went End-of-Life on July 13, 2010.
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In windows systems, is renaming files functionally similar to deleting them?
According to my understanding of the Windows filesystem, a program can read a file according to its path, if this path is changed, then whatever program used to read this file, can no longer do so. ...
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How do I access a desktop shared by Netmeeting (on Windows 2000)?
I have got a legacy application that still requires Windows 2000 which is running in a virtual machine. For security reasons that machine only has access to a virtual network on the host that runs it.
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Windows 2000 Server on VMware Workstation is not booting
I am trying to open a Windows 2000 server using VMware Workstation.
it seems I am not having all the relevant files of the environment. I guess the server was partitioned with 3 parts. I am not having ...
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Extract list of installed drivers using a linux live disk
I have a quit old PC that was running Windows 2000 but the system crashed some days ago. Now I need to know which drivers have been installed on that specific pc but the system isn't booting anymore ...
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Windows Sever 2000 machine with striped scsi disk to VHD
Currently have a lot of servers running legacy applications that only work with W2k running on very old hardware that needs to be replaced.
The plan is to convert each current machine into a VHD and ...
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Unable to map a network drive from a Windows NT PC, to a Windows 2000 PC
I am trying to set up a test rack of legacy satellite communications equipment, and part of the configuration requires that I map a network drive on a PC (in this case, it's an IBM eServer xSeries 305 ...
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Windows still thinks profiles are mandatory even when they are not
A couple of weeks ago, we experimented with mandatory profiles for users, but due to some issues with one piece of software, we had to revert back to roaming profiles.
However, even though the ntuser ...
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Does the Global Catalog Server have to be in the same subnet as the Exchange server?
I have one domain. I have a DC in one subnet and an Exchange 2003 in another. I also have a DC in that same subnet as the Exchange 2003 server. I have to get rid of that DC, the one in the same ...
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In Windows 2000 Server SP4 Rollup 1, does a Primary DNS zone automatically get a copy of the master DNS records? [closed]
If I introduce a member Windows 2000 server into my domain (not a DC, just a member) and set up that new server to be a DNS server as a Primary (not secondary or AD integrated). Does the Domain ...
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Turn off web services in IIS 5 with ftp enabled
I have enabled FTP using IIS in Windows 2000. It is just for receiving files from an FTP server to a directory, and is working fine.
I'd like to disable the web component of IIS, but keep this ftp "...
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IIS FTP client in Windows 2000 setup
Using Windows 2000 Pro with IIS 5.
I'm going to have an FTP Server send files to this box to store, and need to set up the FTP client architecture right. The dialogs look easy to setup the box as a ...
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W2k Server: delete specific users by console
I want to delete specific user profiles in win2k-Server.
I thought I could achieve that with microsofts Delprof. But there I cant specificly declare userXY. So is there an other console way to delete ...
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Virtualizing a Windows 2000 host for use in Hyper-V
I'm looking for a way to successfully import a Windows 2000 host (running several legacy applications that do not work on newer editions of Windows).
I normally like to use Disk2VHD for making a ...
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How much space on the hard drive do I need to upgrade to Active Directory 2003?
On my forest root, is there a certain amount of space I need to upgrade to 2003 Active Directory? I know I need to put in the cd/dvd for 2003 and do adprep, so I'm guess lots of space is used. The ...
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MySQL Service Not Starting
I installed MySQL 5.1.65 on Windows 2000 Server and it got properly installed for the first time. After some time I uninstalled it, deleted all the installation files and then wasn't able to finish ...
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