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How to Install phpMyAdmin

Choose an appropriate distribution kit from the phpmyadmin.net Downloads page. Some kits contain only the English messages, others contain all languages in UTF-8 format (this should be fine in most situations), others contain all languages and all character sets. We’ll assume you chose a kit whose name looks like phpMyAdmin-x.x.x-all-languages.tar.gz. Untar or unzip the distribution [...]

How to create Bonding in Linux Server

Linux allows binding multiple network interfaces into a single channel/NIC using special kernel module called bonding. “The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical “bonded” interface. The behavior of the bonded interfaces depends upon the mode; generally speaking, modes provide either hot standby or load balancing services. Additionally, [...]

How to Set up a Firewall in 20 Minutes SmoothWall Express firewall

SmoothWall Express 2.0 is a free Linux-based firewall, which installs on a dedicated machine. Its interesting features include the ability to set up a DMZ for hosting the Web servers, FTP servers and an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) to protect your internal network. The firewall is also compatible with ISDN and ADSL and automatically senses [...]

How To Configure a Computer Running Windows Server 2003 As a Web Server

Install Internet Information Services Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is the Web service that is integrated with Windows Server 2003 To install IIS, add optional components, or remove optional components, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs. The Add or Remove Programs tool starts. 2. [...]

How to stop Folder Redirection in Windows Server

After you have successfully deployed a Folder Redirection Group Policy object (GPO) in your site, you may want to stop Folder Redirection for one or more users. However, before you try to stop Folder Redirection, you must first enable the Redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location when policy is removed Group Policy [...]

How to enable and to configure Remote Desktop for Administration in Windows Server 2003

By default, Remote Desktop for Administration is disabled. To enable it, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click System. 2. Click the Remote tab, click to select the Allow users to connect remotely to your computer check box, and then click OK. Note You do not have to have a [...]

How to limit the number of connections on a terminal server that runs Windows Server 2003

How to limit the number of remote sessions on a terminal server loadTOCNode(2, ‘summary’); 1. To open the Terminal Services Configuration Tool, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Terminal Services Configuration. 2. In the console tree, click Connections. 3. In the right pane, right-click RDP-Tcp, and then click Properties. 4. On the [...]

How To Create a Roaming User Profile in Windows Server 2003

Creating a Roaming User Profile loadTOCNode(2, ‘summary’); Creating a roaming user profile is a two-step process. First you create a test user profile, and then you copy the test user profile to a network server. Create a Test Profile loadTOCNode(3, ‘summary’); To create a test profile for the roaming user, follow these steps: 1. Log [...]

How to create a roaming user profile in Windows 2000

Creating a roaming user profile Creating a roaming user profile is a two-step process: creating a test user profile and then copying the test user profile to a network server. Creating a test user profile In this procedure, you create a test profile for the roaming user: 1. Create a user account to act as [...]

How to Create and Copy Roaming User Profiles in Windows

Create a Roaming Profile To create a roaming profile, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu that appears. 2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under User Profiles. 3. In the Profiles stored on this computer list, click the profile that you want. [...]

How To Install and Configure a File and Print Server in Windows Server 2003

Install File and Printer Sharing loadTOCNode(2, ‘summary’); By default, a Windows Server 2003-based computer is installed with Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks, and TCP/IP. You can view these services in the properties for the local area connection. You can create a Windows Server 2003 file server and print server [...]

How to install and configure a DHCP server

Installing the DHCP Service You can install DHCP either during or after the initial installation of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, although there must be a working DNS in the environment. To validate your DNS server, click Start, click Run, type cmd, press ENTER, type ping friendly name of an existing DNS server in [...]

How to Configure the DNS Server in Windows

To configure DNS by using the DNS snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC), follow these steps: 1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click DNS. 2. Right-click Forward lookup zones, and then click New Zone 3. When the New Zone Wizard starts, click Next. You are prompted for a zone [...]

How to Install Microsoft DNS Server

Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs. 2. Click Add or Remove Windows Components. 3. In the Components list, click Networking Services (but do not select or clear the check box), and then click Details. 4. Click to select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, and then click [...]

How to add a Workstation to the Domain in Windows

The final step in this process is to add a member server to the domain. This process also applies to workstations. To add a computer to the domain, follow these steps: a. Log on to the computer that you want to add to the domain. b. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. c. Click [...]