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How to: Configure a Network for Multiple Remote Desktop Connections

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Remote desktop connections enable access to a computer’s desktop, programs, and files from other computers, either in the next room or around the world. Everything appears on the remote computer just as it does when sitting in front of the host computer. Configuring computers to accept these connections is simple—just click a checkbox. Then to access the computer over the Internet a port forward entry is required on the network’s router, which is also painless. However, configuring remote access over the Internet for multiple computers on the same network is not quite so intuitive. To help you learn the ropes, we’ll take you step-by-step, configuring everything to enable hosting of multiple remote connections to computers, on a single network, over the Internet. For each computer that is going to be remotely controlled, we’ll edit the Windows Registry and create a firewall rule. Then we will configure port forwards in the router. Enable remote desktop connections on each PC ...

How to configure TCP/IP Properties of my computer

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For Windows XP: Step 1 Click  Start->Control Panel-> select and double click  Network and internet connections -> select and double click   Network Connections .   Step 2 Double-click the  Local Area Connection  icon; highlight  Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)  tab in the Local Area Connection Properties window that appears:   Step 3 Double click it or click  Properties . The TCP/IP Properties window will display.   Step 4 Now you have two ways to configure the TCP/IP protocol below: 1.     Assigned by DHCP Sever Select  Obtain an IP address automatically  and  Obtain DNS Server address automatically , as shown in the figure below. These may be selected by default. Then click  OK  to save setting.   2.     Assigned manually 1)    Select  Use the following IP address , as shown in the foll...

Convert FAT /Fat32 to NTFS for Security

Convert  File System , fat - fat32 to ntfs Open a dos prompt and give the command c:\convert d: /fs:ntfs this command would convert your d: drive to ntfs. if the  system  cannot lock the drive, you will be prompted to convert it during next reboot. Normally you should select yes. Conversion from fat/fat32 to ntfs is non-destructive, your data on the drive will NOT be lost. Be aware that converting to ntfs will make that partition of your drive unreadable under dos unless you have ntfs utilites to do so.   WHY NTFS?? Features Of NTFS File System, that makes it Secure 1. BASED  ON  BINARY  SEARCH TECHNOLOGY. 2. SUPPORTS  WIN – 2K , WIN – 2K3  AND  WINDOWS  XP  O/S. 3. FILE  AND  FOLDER  IMP  SECURITY IS AVAILABLE. 4. DISK  COMPRESSION. 5. SUPPORTS  DISK  QUOTA. 6. SUPPORTS  EFS ( ENCRYPTED  FILE SYSTEM )

Create an Windows 7 unattended image.

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This is a step by step guide on using sysprep to make a Windows 7 machine ready for deployment from start to finish. 1 . Install The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 onto your computer. 2 . After installation finish start Windows System Image Manager from start menu. It will be look like this. 3 . Right click on “Select a Windows image or catalog file” under Windows Image and click “Select Windows image” . Point to Sourcedirectory in the Windows 7 DVD, highlight “install.wim” and click open. 4 . Right click on “Create or open an answer file” under Answer File and click “New Answer File…” 5 . The next part is a little confusing. You are going to add components, from under the “Windows Image” section on the bottom left hand side to the passes on your Answer File. To add a component, you can right click on them and select “add to # pass”. There are many different options you can add, but they have to be done in a certain order a...

How to create an FTP user in Windows Server 2008

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Once installed on your server, go to the  START  menu, and in the search box, type " local users ", then click on the link " Edit local users and groups " The Local Users and Groups panel will then open.  Right click on the "Users" folder, and select "New User..." Add your new user: To add the new user to an existing web site, open IIS Manager,  select the web site , and click the  'Add FTP Publishing " link: - Note: if you don't see this link, first install FTP Publishing Service 7.5: 1. Go to StartMenu and Select  Microsoft Web Platform Installer   2. Under the  Web Platform  tab, select  customize  and check off  FTP Publishing Service 7.5 Configure the FTP site according to your preferences. In this example below, are are enabling Virtual Host Names so that you can set up FTP sites on the same IP address. Click Next.. And on the next screen: set the Aut...