I think all the conversations talking about bypassing proxies should be banned/removed/modded. But hey, that's just me.

(They're there for a reason, people!)

Create a new A record (www) and give it the IP of the webserver, and create a pointer record and it should resolve fine. You might have to force a dns flush on the clients to see f it works right...

Considering it's a used system with someone else's version/license of XP, and according to rellie1977 he wanted to format the drive anyway, it's HIGHLY ADVISABLE that the drive get reformatted. ...

No worries :)

If you still need help, let me know.

Cheers.

If you want to repartition and format the hard drive, boot the system with a Windows 98 boot disk and type fdisk which will bring you to the screen you will need to define the partitions for your...

You can sign up for a free service @ http://freedns.afraid.org and have it take care of the reverse DNS for you, as long as you already have a domain registered. The instructions are on the site,...

It depends on the switch - some models don't require them, others do. If you don't want to spend the money on switches, since you already have 2 hubs, just connect the hubs together with a crossover...

You'd have to configure your XP box as a router to do that, and I'm not entirely sure it has that capability. Would it be possible to use your Linux box as your firewall/router/gateway? You could...