I just got off the phone with on of our partner ministries in Darwin. They have some visitor there right now and they were having troubles sending e-mail. They could receive e-mails, but they could not send e-mail.
After spending a good chunk of time checking the configuration of their router and their local computer and [...]

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One of the things that I get called about frequently here at my job (despite not really being in technical support), is people saying that their internet is down and can I help them get back on. The main complaints are that either ‘I cannot connect to my wireless router - the computer finds it [...]

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A network sniffer is an essential tool for any system/network administrator. The famous Ethereal used by the Linux has now a nice GUI (also for Windows), a different name and a new company behind it.
Wireshark works by catching all the traffic on one or more interfaces. To catch all the traffic on your network you [...]

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I occasionally do IT support for friends and friends of friends. My last call out was to fix a house that wanted to go entirely wireless - and never have I seen such a collection of Belkin products. All was going well until I had to connect their Canon MP600 to the Belkin Wireless Print [...]

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One of the IT guys in our office is running an Apple Mac Laptop, even though most of the network is Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional based. It has always been a problem for him when he administers the servers because with the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for the Mac he was [...]

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We are currently in the middle of migrating our network from a Windows 2000 domain to a new Windows 2003 domain. In the process we have upgraded from Microsoft ISA Server 2000 to Microsoft ISA Server 2004.
Microsoft ISA Server 2004 is quite different in how it operates from ISA Server 2000. It is now very [...]

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