If you have ever had to support, or use an Exchange server that uses RAS to send and retrieve email, and is used as a workstation by users (I can see people cringing, but I see this in a lot of small sites and small businesses) you will know the frustration of loosing your connection every time you log on as a different user. To make matters worse, half the time the problem … [Read more...]

To block all of napster's sites set the firewall to disallow the following IP blocks: 64.124.41.0 -- 255 208.184.216.0 - 255 Out of the box napster uses TCP ports 6699, 7777, 8875, 8888 … [Read more...]

You can reconfigure Proxy Server to only allow a specific workstation to use the internet by changing the LAT to only include the IP of that specified workstation. To do this, firstly give the chosen workstation a fixed IP address, and exclude it from the DHCP scope. Then go into the Proxy MMC, drill down to the Web Proxy and go to properties. Select the "Local Address … [Read more...]

Proxy Server does not support reverse hosting of socket level applications and therefore can not provide this functionality by default. A product that can provide this is Surrogate Sockets. http://www.edu-tec.com/surrogatesocket/ … [Read more...]

Microsoft have written a KB article on this one - Q234203 contains 3 options but basically you need to expand the wspcpl32.cp_ file to wspcpl32.cpl from it's server based location and copy it into the windows\system or winnt\system32 folder on the workstation. … [Read more...]