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What do you mean connected? What platform(s)? Can you tell us a sample app? Not really possible to answer your question with the info given.

Hmm... I had a similar concern before joining our machines to the domain. Check this out: might not be a problem with a domain, only a workgroup. "What's the real problem anyway? The issue of duplicate SIDs are not a problem at all in a Domain-based NT network because domain accounts have...

I got ABE and it's working great! Thanks!

Thanks everyone! ABE is just the ticket. What a life saver.

We're moving our File services off novell to 2003. Under novell, if a user browses to the HOME folder, which contains all USER folders, they see and have access only to their own USER folder. Same thing goes for the department folders. Under 2003, I can easily set it so that one has...

Hi All, We're moving our File services off novell to 2003. Under novell, if a user browses to the HOME folder, which contains all USER folders, they see and have access only to their own USER folder. Same thing goes for the department folders. Under 2003, I can easily set it so that one...

In my experience, having worked in both environments, it is extremely difficult to achieve project goals and continuous improvement goals. Conceptually, a project is called a project so that it can have a clear beginning and end, and a resultant product that can show ROI and all that good...

My two cents. Coming into an environment that sounds much like your's, I've found that the management here doesn't want the structure and prefers to keep things loose (I was hired to introduce some structure but most managers don't want it). They like being able to iniate a project through a...

Hi All, Apologies for the somewhat off-topic post. I'm trying to find forums and resources for MIS and IT planning. I'm researching this information for two reasons: first I think it would be interesting in and of itself. Second, I feel I'm wildly overtasked and am looking for industry...

SQLBill: That's what I wanted to do. But this company is pretty cheap. I priced out a system and they choked on their top ramen.

Sheez Louise! Thanks very much for the info, everyone. You just saved me a big headache.

Hi Rick, Our customer db is quite substantial - probably in the neighborhood of a million distinct customers. Using SQL Server instead of MSDE made a major difference in performance. Locking down the retail machines is one of my main priorities, believe me. The company I work for has a...

Hello All, We've run out of space on our SQL server and have decided to move the DBs off the server and onto a NAS device. I expressed some concerns with this idea but this is the solution that was decided on. Before I actually order the equipment, I'd like to get other opinions about it...

I'll guess I'll weigh in with our experiences with MS RMS. We use it at 7 retail locations currently and have a test store set up as well. Our usage would be akin to Radio Shack. We do a lot of catalogue sales so we try to capture customer information at purchase time so we can send them...

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a list of best practices for POS environments. Reliability is something I'm constantly trying to improve at our retail locations but of coure, money, time and availability are all limiting factors in the POS equation.