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If you want to directly open the Disk Management MMC, you can type diskmgmt.msc from the RUN box or from a command line. This will run the tool independently from the Computer Management MMC. As you can see from the image above, we have a number of basic physical and logical drives on the system, […]

DiskPart The command line tool DiskPart is also available in Windows XP Professional. DiskPart allows the administrator to handle disk administrative tasks from a command prompt. You start your session at the command prompt by typing the following: H:Documents and SettingsJZANDRI>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 1.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: P42GHZ DISKPART> This […]

Adding USERS with the Local Users and Groups MMC Adding a user is as simple as selecting Users from the left pane, right clicking it and choosing New User. You can also highlight Users by left clicking it and going up to ACTION on the menu bar and selecting New User. Depending on your current […]

Adding GROUPS with the Local Users and Groups MMC Some quick points to remember for local groups on Windows XP Professional systems that are not domain members, are that Local groups can contain only local user accounts from the local security database, and local groups cannot belong to any other group. (Local groups cannot be […]

Using USER ACCOUNTS in the Control Panel to add users to EXISTING groups [NOTES FROM THE FIELD] – You cannot create a new group using this tool. You need to use Computer Management to create new groups. You can add users to existing groups in a limited fashion via this method. How USER ACCOUNTS in […]

In order to see the properties of an account, you would select it and click on the properties button to see the following window. On the Group Membership tab of the USER property sheet you would see three selections to choose from regarding group memberships. The OTHER drop down window lists all of the LOCAL […]

When you are not in a domain and you open the USER ACCOUNTS icon in the Control Panel, you are presented with the User Accounts view as shown below. To change any of the listed accounts you would select CHANGE AN ACCOUNT and select the account you wish to change. It’s here that you can […]

Built-In System Groups Built-in system groups exist on Windows XP Professional systems, and while they do have specific memberships that you can modify, you cannot administer the groups directly. They are available for modification only when you assign user rights and permissions to resources. Built-in system group membership is based on how the computer is […]

The TCP/IP Model The TCP/IP suite of protocols maps to a four-layer conceptual model that is based on the seven layer Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol model. The detailed function of each layer of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol model is beyond the scope of this topic; however, the 60-second overview is as follows: […]

As mentioned previously, the TCP/IP suite of protocols maps to a four-layer conceptual model based on the seven layer Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol model. The TCP/IP four-layer conceptual model maps out as follows: Network Interface Layer – This layer effectively puts the frames on the wire from the sending node and pulls frames off […]

Subnet Masks – Implementing subnewtorks (commonly referred to as subnets in the field) helps to control network traffic. Every node on the same physical Ethernet network sees all the packets of data sent out on the network. This commonly has the result of multiple collisions causing network performance to be slow. Routers or gateways are […]

TCP/IP Class D Address Overview The IP version 4 addresses of 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255 are set aside through IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) as a special class of addresses for Multicast uses. At the present, ISPs are unable to allocate Class D address space to their customers. These addresses must be allocated through IANA. Class […]