Hi...Ok....Nothing much
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A "windows 2000 system" can also be a terminal server client - in fact, in most situations, its preferable if they are, as you don't have to pay for a terminal services client access license.
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Reply: There is a Windows 2000 Terminal server at one end hosting applications. Then there is terminal server lisences needed to access the server which are obtained by clients...called terminal server clients !! Get it. Micro$oft !!! To start lisencising you have to pay Microsoft - they give you a code to start the "terminal server lisencing service".


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When you say "mixed/native mode also mention that you have a windows server" what do you mean
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Reply : Mixed mode means there is combination of Windows 2000 Server & Windows NT 4 Server on the network...all that trust replationships, authentication...for 2000 have to be work along with NT 4 ((|)) Native mode means there are solely Windows 2000 Server on the network as domain controllers. PLEASE REMMEMBER IT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE CLIENTS : Win 9x, Win NT Workstations, Macs....


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do you know what active directory does?
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Reply : It is no physical file on a particular machine which you can see but it controlles everything in a domain...user, computers, security, replication, fault tolerance....everthing that you can imagine that happens in domain - Like GOD (he cannot be seen but his presence can be felt and controls every aspect of your life). As for multiple domains it provides fault tolerance by replicating the avtive directory in every domain. So everything you publish in AD gets replicated eg : DNS, DHCP...If one of the domain controllers goes down others can be used....pretty good. BUT DO YOU THINK MICOSOFT CAN HANDLE ALL THIS EFFECIENTLY FROM PAST EXPERIENCES...WE ALL KNOW THE GOOD OLD BABY Managing all these requires human resources and that is $$$$.

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NOW FOR WHAT I WANT :

I WANT TO SCAN A REOMTE SERVER TO SEE WHICH IP ADDRESS HAS BEEN BLOCKED OR ALLOWED. YOU CAN SET THAT ALLOW/DENY IP ADDRESS SETTING...remmember ?? SAY THERE IS A SERVER 180.0.0.1 IN THE VOID AND IT HAS ONLY ALLOWED AN INTERNAL IP OF 180.0.3.45 REST ALL ARE BLOCKED....HOW DO I SCAN IT FOR IT SINCE FOR DENIED IPS IT DOES NOT GIVE ME ACCESS/ERROR PAGE. AND IF AM FROM 180.0.3.45 IT GIVES ME A LOGIN SCREEN OF SOMETHING ELSE.....HOW DO I SCAN FOR THAT DAMM PARTICULAR IP....ANY ONE CAN HELP ME HERE !!!! i cannot sit and change 1000+ ip address to see which is the right one !!! i need a tool !!!

Bye. Hope to get some postive reply from all you guys out there.