Months later, the museum director calls you to help troubleshoot a network probl

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Months later, the museum director calls you to help troubleshoot a network problem. Their network is experiencing such heavy traffic that performance across the LAN is suffering. They suspect that one device is issuing a barrage of requests,
perhaps due to a software application malfunctioning, a security breach, or a virus. However, they are unable to identify the problem node. Using your knowledge of TCP/IP utilities, what command(s) would you use to identify the troublesome computer%u2019s IP address
and host name? What single command would give you the most information about where traffic is slowing?

Explanation / Answer

Windows 2000 Professional has a feature that automatically logs you into your computer without having to enter a username or password. This feature is not available on any of the Windows 2000 Server editions and cannot be used if your computer logs into a domain.

Here is how you set it up:

1. Go to Start, Settings then Control Panel
2. Open Users and Passwords.
3. Click to clear the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer check box. (This option does not appear on a system that is a member of a domain)
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Click to clear the Require users to press Ctrl-Alt-Del before logging on check box.

Another way of doing this would be to download and install Microsoft%u2019s TweakUI program. With this handy utility you can do the same thing and even allow your computer to log onto the domain.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/down....TweakUI.asp

You can even have it do the same for your Windows XP computer with the XP version.

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