[dba-Tech] Modems

Stuart,

I appreciate your replies very much.

>> You didn't say that you had a netware server running :-(

>> That connection will be using IPX/SPX.  You will ned to instal IP as
per my other message. <<

Yup, IP is installed. I haven't tried your technique of actually assigning
an IP address because all three systems obtain IP addresses automatically
and obtain DNS server addresses automatically. The only difference in the IP
properties on the XP machine vs. the 2k machines was in the Advanced
settings, on the IP settings tab, the Interface metric was automatic in XP
where it's equal to 1 on the 2k machines.

The IPX/SPX and IP stuff has been working forever on the W2k machines and up
until just recently on the XP Home machine. I set up the XP machine last
summer on our Novell LAN with the cable modem. That's the problem. It's just
stopped working. I see that there are additional things going on. For
example, when I boot the system the Taskbar is inaccessible (can only get
the hourglass when the cursor is moved down to the taskbar). The Task
Manager shows SVCHOST.EXE Local Service 11% 21 MB of RAM and growing. When I
check the Security and System logs on the XP machine I see that every second
there are 9 event ID 528 events in the Security log. In the System log there
are 9 or 10 pairs of events (Event ID 7035 and 7036) per second. If I end
the SVCHOST.EXE Local Service then the task bar becomes accessible. When I
check the Security and System logs again, there aren't any more of those
528, 7035, and 7036 events being generated.

I subscribed to www.eventid.net to see if I could fill in the gaps in my
knowledge about this stuff. We'll see.

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI

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