Networking

GFI Network Server Monitor 7 New GFI Network Server Monitor 7 enables enhanced complex monitoring tasks for small, medium and large enterprises.   London, UK, 20 October 2005 – GFI today announced the release of GFI Network Server Monitor 7, developed to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes. The new upgrade features a…

Windows Server 2003 has the Telnet disabled by default (and so good that it does!) To have the Telnet service running on Windows Server 2003 follow the next steps: Go to the Services applet in Administrative Tools (or click Start, then Run, and type "services.msc" (without quotes) and click OK). Find the "Telnet" service, right-click…

With Remote Desktop on Windows XP Professional or Windows Server 2003 (in Windows 2000 Advanced Server, this feature was called Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode), you can have access to a Windows session that is running on your computer when you are at another computer. Read What’s Remote Desktop in Windows XP/2003? for more…

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 is a brand new protocol analysis tool. It has been under development for about 2 years at Microsoft. You are welcome to try it out and provide feedback to us. Key features of Microsoft Network Monitor 3.0 include: A completely new user interface Real time capture and display of frames Simultaneous…

I found this nice blog by Darren Mar-Elia regarding an issue with editing wireless GPO settings from a Windows XP SP2 machine. I thought it was interesting enough to share, so here is my interpretation of it. If you may recall, Windows Server 2003 has added quite a few good GPO settings, some of which…

Network protocol analysis is a technique used to view, in real time, the raw data sent and received over a network interface. This is useful for troubleshooting network configuration and network application problems. It is also useful when developing new network protocols. In this article, I’ll go over the very basics of troubleshooting a network…

Routing is configured on a W2K Server / Windows Server 2003 machine by use of the RRAS snap-in. However, this console is NOT available on a W2K Pro or XP Pro machine. If you have 2 small network segments populated with no more than a handful of computers per segment, you CAN use a W2K…

This is a step by step setup of how you get Windows XP to use Internet Connection Sharing or ICS. These instructions assume that when you have a Cable Modem connection or an ADSL connection (frankly, it can also be a simple Dial-Up modem connection, but that won’t get you anywhere, would it?). Let’s say…

How do I change the Terminal Server (or RDP) listening port? By default, Terminal Server (For Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003) and Remote Desktop Protocol (for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003) listens on TCP port 3389. To change the default port for all new connections created on the Terminal Server: Run Regedit and…

You cannot add a new listening port to your Terminal Server via the GUI (Terminal Server Configuration in Administrative Tools) because there is no option for changing the listening port via the GUI. What you need to do is create the new RDP listening port via the registry. Warning! This document contains instructions for editing…