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List:       nt-mgrs
Subject:    RE: [nt-mgrs] WINS
From:       Brian.Hoffman () starkist ! com
Date:       1999-06-24 11:48:34
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but you can create a boot disk that gives you almost all the functionality
and will work on NTFS, FAT and Linux partitions.
-brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nelson [mailto:bnelson@willamette.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 2:04 PM
To: Walczak, Jeff
Cc: 'wkearney@gilman.edu'; Walczak, Jeff; nt-mgrs@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: RE: [nt-mgrs] WINS


Greetings,

Just a reminder... The newest version of Partition Magic (v4.0) will not 
work with NT Server. Only NT Workstation.  Boo hiss.
BN

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Bill Nelson - Director, Information Technology Services           
Tokyo International University of America          
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Salem, OR 97302               bnelson@willamette.edu

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Walczak, Jeff wrote:

> I've looked into the registry and could not find any key that points to
the
> WINS database directory.
> 
> The reason why I want to do this is that sometimes we like to setup NT on
a
> smaller FAT partition (so we can boot from DOS floppy...  I know there's
> NTFSDOS, but don't have any experience with it to trust it) and Program
> Files and Data on separate NTFS partitions.  It would be nice to have the
> WINS database on a separate NTFS partition for performance.  I don't want
to
> put it on a network drive.
> 
> If I can't move the database I would just want to create one large NTFS
> partition with the whole RAID set since the WINS database will be the only
> use for the machine and it would be in \winnt.  The problem with this is I
> can't get the partition to expand to 8gig. Partition Magic does not seem
to
> recognize the partition I created during the NT install. I don't know if
> it's because of the RAID controller or the version of Partition Magic I've
> got (2.0.205).
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Jeff Walczak, MCSE
> LAN Systems
> 323 Computing Center
> 645-3716
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wkearney@gilman.edu [mailto:wkearney@gilman.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:00 PM
> > To: walczak@buffalo.edu
> > Cc: nt-mgrs@cc.gatech.edu
> > Subject: RE: [nt-mgrs] WINS
> > 
> > 
> > Sure, tweak the right registry stuff and anything's possible.
> > 
> > The better question is WHY would you want to do this?  You're 
> > not thinking
> > of using a networked drive are you?  There's a  very, very 
> > important thing
> > to remember about services and network drives.  You have to 
> > be running as a
> > "user" in order to connect to network resources like drives.  
> > 
> > Unlike unix, NT does not allow you to designate 'jobs' from 
> > scheduling and
> > such to be run "as a user".  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Walczak, Jeff [mailto:walczak@buffalo.edu]
> > > Subject: [nt-mgrs] WINS
> > >
> > > Does anyone out there know if it is possible to move a WINS 
> > > database to a
> > > directory other than \winnt\system32\wins?
> > 
> 

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