Services and Disk Management

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Services and Disk Management
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Default Services (some)

• Alerter
• ClipBook Server
• Computer Browser
• DNS Client
• Event Log
• Messenger
• Net Logon
• Network DDE
• Network DDE DSDM
• Workstation

• NT LM Security Support
• Fax Service
• Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service
• Schedule
• Server
• Spooler
• Telnet Server
• UPS
• TCP/IP Printer Server

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What they do

• Computer browser keeps track of computers in the
  domain or workgroup
• Event log keeps track of events in NT
• Net logon performs authentication
• Network DDE network dynamic data exchange
• RPC locator and service remote procedure call
• Server provides RPC support and file, print and
  named pipe sharing
• Workstation provides network connections and
  communications

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What to do with them

• Configure startup
• Double-click the specific service
• Under Startup select Automatic, Manual, or
  Disabled.
• start, stop, pause, or resume a service
• Click Start, Stop, Pause, or Continue
• To restart a service stop and then start

• The logon account
• System Account or This Account.
• If you select This Account, specify a user
  account, and then type the password for the user
  account
• To provide a user interface on a desktop select
  the Allow Service to Interact with Desktop check
  box.

See here the services dialog
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Disk Management

• Select Programs, Administrative tools and
  Computer Management
• Select Disk Management and you will see the main
  dialog displaying a map of the drive(s).
• If your disk is new (nothing installed)
• you should have a primary partition with Win2K
  and the remaining of the disk(s) marked as free
  space
• proceed to create an extended partition in this
  free space
• then create drives in the extended partition

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Format and assign drive letter

• Select tools and format. You should format all
  partitions as NTFS.
• Select tools and assign drive letter if you are
  not happy with the ones Win2K defaulted to.
• Finally select tools and properties to setup
• drive label a name to the drive
• sharing in Win2K all drives have an admin share,
  but you can create new ones
• security you should also set the permissions for
  the drive.
• You can also check, defragment and clean the
  drive.