Temporarily disabling Kerberos

How to force NTLM authentication and temporarily disable Kerberos.
Sometimes you may need to temporarily disable Kerberos authentication and use NTLM instead, for example when you are trying to troubleshoot authentication issues with a server or network device. Here’s a quick tip on how you can force your XP machine to use NTLM instead of Kerberos [...]

Troubleshooting Domain Join Issues

How to troubleshoot when issues joining a domain arise.
If you’ve been trying to join a Windows machine to a domain and you’ve encountered problems (or you want to verify if everything went OK) you can do the following.
First, try running netdiag /v to see if there were any error messages were generated from the procedure. [...]

Using XP as a router

A cheap and easy way of adding a router to your network is to use a surplus PC with Windows XP Professional installed on it. Just install an additional network card in the box and then configure the registry setting below and Presto! Your XP box becomes able to route (forward) IP packets from one [...]

Forcing a remote logoff

How to force a user to log off of a remote machine
Bob logs onto his workstation and you (who are on another workstation) want to force Bob to log off. How can you do that?
You could do it using Computer Management. Open Computer Management on your machine and connect to Bob’s computer, then right-click on [...]

XP : speedup access to network shares

I have seen reports that Windows XP is slow when accessing network shares. I use XP daily on my local home network and a corporate LAN. I haven’t noticed the network slowness. But if you do, there are reports that deleting a particular registry key resolved the problem. It certainly works for Windows 2000. You [...]