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I have a home network in this configuration....
Mac desktop with OSX 10.4.11 with a USB printer Windows Vista Home Basic desktop Windows Vista Home Premium laptop I want to be able to easily print to the USB printer. The key constraint is it has to be...
Started by Paul Nathan on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I found online a while back that XP machines printing to a Mac (OS-X 10.4) connected.
Be found here.
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I have two PCs both running Vista Home Premium (64-bit). They are each connected to the internet wirelessly. However in order to make file transfers between them go quicker they are also directly connected with a gigabit network cable. They are both assigned...
Started by Adam on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Under Security Settings, select "Network....
Try this:
Open the Local Security Policy Editor (Start->Run "secpol.msc" ) .
If you are not able to ping 10.0.0.1 -> 10.0.0.2, you will need a crossover cable, or need to plug both computers into a switch/hub .
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I have a couple of workstations (Windows Vista, 7) used to host virtual machines using Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC 2007, or Virtual PC for Windows 7. If i want to sleep or hibernate the physical hosts, I tend to get paranoid and save the states of...
Started by icelava on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
I use XP Pro workstations and VMWare....
My best bet is to try it and see; rollback is your friend here .
Cursory searching shows people who had no problems, as well as people who had their guest VMs hang .
The standard answer in IT, it depends , applies here .
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I'm not sure what recently happened, but here's the thing. I have a home network, 1 Vista desktop, 1 XP desktop with Shared USB drive attached, 1 NAS drive (running linux kernal I believe). All devices set to same workgroup "HOME". Until recently, I could...
Started by Keith Gr on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at microsoft):
Not appearing in network map in Vista computer http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Troubleshoot-US/windows-vista/Start-your-computer-in-safe-mode ..
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Microsoft says that Visual Studio 2008 can be installed on any version of Vista (excluding started edition).
But I am not sure, if Home Editions cause not problems with debugging, virtual machines, IIS, MS SQL 2008 and all other tools which developers...
Started by Grzegorz Gierlik on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
XP, is that I've been running Vista on all of my machines for over a year, and I've been very happy to have a couple of Vista Business x86 virtual machines for testing different browsersI would recommend you to stay with ....
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Theoretically, can you activate Windows XP, Vista, 7, on identical machines? For example, if peter and tom got the same machines at BestBuy, can they activate Windows 7 on both machines since the hardware ID / fingerprint is the same?
I think the normal...
Started by Bob M on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
That....
Also, I'm pretty sure that even if the machines are "hardware identical" the hardware will still have different IDs generated at serial numbers which are unique.
Installing the same Win7 key on multiple machines is against the EULA.
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What is the best way to share source across local machines?
I'm working on a cross platform project with an svn repository. I perform a checkout on one platform (perhaps osx), and make changes. I must then test my modified code on other platforms (xp,...
Started by vilalian on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Virtual machines like VirtualBox give you access to the host machines' file system through....
On all the test machines, and when you're satisfied use SVN's branch merge tool to merge all your computer, and just share the files that way.
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I look after ~50 machines running XP/Vista, all on a single Windows Server 2008 domain. We are rolling out a number of test webservers internally, which have their SSL certificates signed with a company internal CA.
To prevent users being confused by ...
Started by Texas on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
This article.
Your best bet is to deply your root certificate to the machines using group policy.
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Windows 7 will be released only 3 days from now. If there are a bunch of machines
1) Quad Core, 4GB machines
2) Core2Duo, 2GB machines
3) HyperThread 3.2GHz, 1GB machines
are there pros and cons to installing 32-bit vs 64-bit Windows 7 on them?
For example...
Started by Jian Lin on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
XP 64, Vista and currently the RC of Windows 7 and I never have had any Problems nor Speed.
Cappable OSes.
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We have a Windows Server 2003 machine. We also have 30 machines running Vista Home Basic with a bouquet of free software: Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, etc. Is there a way to automatically update that software? I'm looking for Aptitude ( apt ) analogue for...
Started by skfd on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
On their local machines you could partition their harddrive up, install Windows on the first partition.
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