Recent content by kwinsw

Hi, Please excuse me if this is the wrong forum, I’m a bit clueless on this subject. My company has asked me to look into web hosting services. One of the criteria I’ve been asked to investigate is how many “MYSQL database slots” each hosting service provides. Some of the hosting companies...

Hi, I’m looking into setting up a VPN for my small business. We’re either going to use the VPN function built into SBS2008 or one of the Netgear security appliances, probably the FVS336G. One of the things I’m trying to figure out at the moment is how to make sure that the remote systems, which...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help. I have SBS2008 running as the dhcp/dns server on a small network of Vista and XP machines. Every so often, for no obvious reason, the dns stops working. It can resolve some URLs but not others – specifically it seems to have problems with www.google.com and...

Hi, I wonder if someone could help, I've posted this elsewhere but without much luck. I'm trying to install a Netgear WG511T 802.11g wireless networking card under Suse Linux 10.1 using ndiswrapper 1.54. Im using the atheros_wpa_driver.exe, though Ive also tried it with the latest drivers...

Hi, I wonder if anyone cal help. I have just installed SBS 2003 and am trying to configure IIS to allow external users access to our default company website. I just can’t get it to work. Users on the local network can access the site, but not users outside the firewall. The server has two...

Hi, I’m learning how to use SBS 2003, using virtual PC, in preparation for installing it at our family business. What I want to check is the best way to harmonise different organisational units. We’re a small family company, and I’m currently only planning on having three groups of users...

Hi, I wonder if someone can help. I’m trying to configure the POP3 connector in SBS 2003 R2 to connect to my company’s IMAP mail boxes. So far I’ve • Specified the ISP’s SMTP server as the default for sending. Although it takes ages to send a mail, this does seem to work. Intended recipients...

Hi, Thank you very much, that is perfect. And no, i'm planning on driving down anyone's wages or poaching employees. I want to design a spreadsheet into which I can enter a day rate and the number of days a person will be working and which will show me, in different columns, how much I can...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help: I want to backward calculate percentages in Excel. For instance, if an agency charges me $230 a day for a temp, and I know that the agency's markup is 12.5%, I want to be able to work out what the fee was before the agency added its markup. If feels like it...

Hi, One of the jobs my department has to do is stuff excel datasheets with data from text files (tab separated values files). I want to automate this process, but I’m not sure the best way of doing it. Basically I need something (a macro a script, I’m not sure) that looks a column A of the...

Did all those things, but with no joy at all. And it's still not working. I'm sure it must be something small that I'm missing. Thanks everyone for your help.

Yep, thanks for asking. I've run, everything appears to be working fine.

Hi, I wonder if anyone can advise. I’ve just installed SBS2003 in our company. For a while at least, we want to use calendar and other features in Exchange but carry on using our ISP email. I’ve entered the account details into the POP connector and have set my ISP’s SMTP server as the...

Hi, I am trying to setup a small virtual network using Virtual PC 2007. The network consists of one virtual machine running Small Business Server 2003 and two clients running Windows XP. No matter what network settings I use in Virtual PC I cannot get the clients to see the server. The server...

Hi, I'm trying to link two text frames in WordPerfect X3 so that text flows automatically from one to the other. Can this be done? I can't figure it out. Any and all help gratefully received. Thanks Karl (kwinsw)