Q: We have many users
sharing common apps and a single interface. Is there any way to copy user group
information from one user to another?
You can use GRPTOREG.EXE
and REGTOGRP.EXE from the Windows NT 3.5/3.51 Resource Kit.
REGTOGRP.EXE creates a Windows NT .GRP file in the current directory for each of
your Program Manager groups. GRPTOREG.EXE converts a .GRP file created by
REGTOGRP and inserts the values into the Registry.
- Make the appropriate changes to your desktop environment.
- From the command line, type REGTOGRP.
- Copy the .GRP files to the new user's directory.
- From the command line, type GRP TOREG followed by the groupfiles.
GRPTOREG will accept the parameters /o and /c where /o specifies that any
existing Program Manager group with the same name should be overwritten and /c
creates a Common group from the groupfile (otherwise, a Personal group is
created). For the /c switch to work, you must be logged on as a member of the
Administrators group. If you want to specify more than one file, separate
filenames with spaces: for example, grptoreg /o /c c:\user\bob\bob.grp
c:\user\bob\bob1.grp.
Q: In Windows for
Workgroups, it's easy to eliminate a system maintaining a browser server list.
How do you accomplish this in NT?
You can accomplish the
same thing by adding the following information to your Registry (see screen 1).
- Traverse the Registry tree until you come to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters
key.
- Select Edit from the menu, and then select Add Value from the drop-down
box.
- For Value Name, type in: Maintain ServerList. For Data Type,
select REG_SZ. For String Value, type No.
- Reboot the system.
Q: I have heard that
there are switches you can place in BOOT.INI to help with diagnostics and
tuning. What are some of these switches?
The /MAXMEM=x switch in
BOOT.INI controls how much physical dynamic RAM Windows NT will use when your
computer starts (see screen 2). If you add /MAXMEM=12 to a BOOT.INI
configuration description line, then your machine will act as if it has 12MB of
physical RAM when you boot the computer using that configuration, regardless of
amount of memory present.
The /SOS switch shows the loading of drivers one at a time so you can
determine which driver is creating boot difficulty. In a multiprocessor machine,
the /NUMPROCS=x switch allows you to set the number of processors the system
will use.
Q: We received the
following error in the Server Event Log :
Event ID: 2022
Source: srv
Detail: The server was unable to find a free connection 48 times in the last
60 seconds.
How can we fix this?
You have to use the
Registry Editor to work around this problem (see screen 3).
- Traverse the Registry tree until you come to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters.
- Select Edit, and then select Add Value and add the following values:
Value Name: MaxFreeConnections
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 8
Value Name: MaxWorkItems
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 255
- From the command prompt, type NET CONFIG SERVER / AUTODISCONNECT:-1.
- Reboot the system in order for the changes to take effect.