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Hi @all, the problem seems to be solved. A long time ago someone installed a scheduled job on the clients which forced running RUNSMS.BAT every day from the site server the client was originally installed from. Great.[thumbsdown] Bye Chris

Hi Leslie, I dont know the DataModule, but if have a more common information: If you free resources it's better to do it in the OnDestroy event, because OnClose and OnCloseQuery will not be used, if you close your program with Application.Terminate. OnDestroy is more reliable. Bye Chris

Hi spider, I think that your program doesn't work is a problem in the event routine btnLetterClick. Bye Chris

Hi spider, I dont know the reason, why delphi raises this warning, but if you are shure, there is no reason for such warning, you can ignore it.

Hi Spider, you declared Question as string, so for Question := ... does not work. An ordinal type ist char, byte, integer aso. Bye Chris

Hi Jennifer, are you shure, your drives are configured (jumpered)correctly to work as master/slave combination? Another idea: Try to change the positions of the drives. Bye Chris

Hi SgtPepps, this information is stored in the registry, and the windows API has some functions to retrieve these data. You will need GetAdapterInfo and GetPerAdapterInfo with the associated structures. But I dont know, if you can use them using VBA. Bye Chris

Hi Drew, I think the reason is then length of the sharename, if it's on a NT Server. Does this occur with sharenames shorter than 9 characters?

Hi myown, have you typed net use lpt3 (without colon) or net use lpt3: (with colon)? Error 67 means ERROR_BAD_NET_NAME The network name cannot be found. Bye Chris

Hi Masterpjz9, at your own risk! The policies are values stored in the registry, so you could possibly copy them from one machine to another using *.reg files. A lot of them you can find if you search for "policies" inside registry. Or you can have a look at the *.adm files...

Hi skipholiday, network as reason sounds good, especially if you have shares connected from an unreachable server. But it's a normal behaviour, because the explorer will not be shown completely until all connections are testet. Bye Chris

Hi Micah, normally programs start in the address range 4xxxxx, maybe drivers too. Can you just post a complete error Message? (with no XXXX in it) Could be helpful. ;-) Bye Chris

Hi Stiddy, to do a "serial" ping to the computernames/ip-addresses you will read from a flat text file just create a very little batch file. It only contains a single line: for /f %%i in (ipadresses.txt) do ping -a %%i >> pingresult.txt ipadresses.txt is the text file containing the...

Hi @all, I moved three clients (server, but no SMS server) to a new site. To do so I used RUNSMS.BAT three times from the new siteserver, when I was connected to the client using remote control (SMS and VNC). Then I checked success on the admin console. It worked fine. Two days later I checked...