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I'm actually dealing with a question at least one step below a VPN. I'm simply trying to set up a shared drive over the internet. I've got a customer running a Win98 box with a shared resource, a folder on the root drive. From a remote machine (also a Win98 box), I can ping the host machine but...

neglected to mention that I did edit the lmhosts file to include the target machine's ip address and name.

Well, I'm actually dealing with a question at least one step below a VPN. I'm simply trying to set up a shared drive over the internet. I've got a customer running a Win98 box with a shared resource, a folder on the root drive. From a remote machine, I can ping the host machine but cannot...

Event viewer has recently been giving me a warning that our Exchange Server (Exch. 5.0 with all Service Packs) has exceeded the permitted number of associations, something on the order of 2800, with event id 57. When I read the documents on the MS Support site, it says that this arises in a...

I have a client that uses ACT 4.0 as their contact manager. They've set up a pseudo-intranet by putting a copy of their ACT database on a commercial website. Essentially it's just web based storage of the database. ACT 4.0 lets remote users synchronize their database by email or by direct...

It sounds as though you're dealing with a relatively small data store, as I did recently. I put the new NT4 server on the network as a BDC, used Exmerge to export individual mailboxes from the old server to the new, then promoted the BDC to a PDC. Worked pretty well. Some problems with shifts in...

I've run into this same problem many times. All of the previous responses were accurate but I'd add one more, especially because you're using a laptop. Last time I dealt with this I found that by stopping the network card on the laptop, I was able to access the Exchange server. The user used his...

I paid Microsoft their $35 fee to get the answer to this one. It is indeed that you have mail on your home system being delivered to a local folder instead of your user mailbox. Make sure that both versions of Outlook, your home copy and your office copy, are delivering mail to the same location...