RE: [WinMac] Virtual PC with Asante 10/100 card

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:25:01 -0400

>As you probably know, when you put an NT machine on a Windows network, it
>starts acting as a repository of networking data on all the other Windows
>computer on the network. This means NT generates much more LAN traffic than
>Win95. This was the source of my problem.
>
>If you can disable this function of your NT server, it might lower the level
>of network activity to a more manageable level. Don't ask me how that might
>be done.

Right click on Network Neighborhood, select the sercices tab, there you
will find a whole bunch of network services that NT installs by default.
Disable as many as you can get away with (especially DHCP, WINS, RAS,
RPC). Also disable as many protocols as you can (especially NetBuei).

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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