Recent content by gshurman

I to have been developing in fox since FoxBase. While I still plan to keep developing in VFP, I'm looking at aome alternatives. One that looks interesting is Microsoft's Light Switch. It's been in public beta for a while. It looks like a good learning tool that can get you started with .net...

After a lot of expiraminting with the settings for the card swipe reader, I found that if I only read track one from the credit card VFP works as expected. Since all I need is track one, problem solved.

I'm attempting to integrate ICverify credit card processing software with VFP 9. The first problem that I've run into is with the card swipe device. I set up a simple form with a text field to hold the contents of the swipe. When I swipe a valid credit card I get the correct information from the...

I tried FIXMBR. No help. Still get the black screen after the Windows XP logo screen both in Regular and Safe modes. I've now checked 3 PCs and all pass hardware diagnostics. All report that this problem started yesterday.

I've received numerous reports of this today. Seems like it started yesterday. Maybe a bad Windows Update or a virus?

Yes, I've checked the GPOs and the first thing I did was to create a test user.I've stumped a few MCSEs who have looked at this. I currently have a call into M$ tech support.

2 DCs 1 GC. No replication errors dcdiag - all passed %logonserver% shows just the correct DC name.

Yes, after making the change they can login to the network with their new password. The old password can no longer be used. The new password is also being picked up by Outlook and Outlook OWA so I assume that it's being changed in AD.

Yes, they enter their current network password and then enter a new one and verify it, They are even told that the new password cannot be the same as any of the 24 previous ones.

Not just one user, but any of over 100 users on the network.

Logging in with network credentials.

One of our users just showed me that they could change their network login password by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del in XP and click on Change Password. Server OS is Windows 2003 R2 and Active Directory has the user accounts marked with "user cannot change password". What am I missing here? Is something...

Thank you. That is exactly what I needed.

I've attempted to do that using the "Run" command to do the copy but the black screen that comes up when I shell out to DOS confuses the users.

I would like to be able to open a VFP program on a local PC and check for an updated version on the server. Once found I would like to overwrite the program on the local PC without getting a "File in use" error. I cannot run directly from the server as the local PCs are often not reattached to...