Recent content by RichardMoran

I have been using VMware ESX server for about 3 years so I am unlikely to change products due to the investment in both time and money. It is a great product, fully featured, mature, but expensive. I'm not saying that it isn't worth the money, but if budget is an issue it can be difficult to get...

The only thing I could suggest as an idea is to virtualise the server using something like VMware or Xen. You can then backup the running virtual server without having to install any sort of client within the server OS. You'll probably need to check if your supplier supports their product in a...

There are lots of companies looking at 'no e-mail days'. Just do a Google, and you'll see articles on big companies like Intel, US Cellular, and Deloitte and Touche. Several companies here in London have mentioned to me that they were looking at it. I personally think it's nonsense, and agree...

Have you made sure that the 2003 firewall is either disabled, or set to allow 'file and printer sharing' under the exceptions tab? If not, you won't even be able to ping it from the XP machine. Rik

What do you mean exactly by "The virtual machine does not file share WITH the domain controller on the network"? Do you mean that you cannot view the DC shares from the VM, or are you saying that you thought there would be a netlogon and sysvol share on your VM? A DC has netlogon, and sysvol...

Arie01, I don't use the VMWare Workstation edition, but from the message I would guess that it will not work as it is trying to lock a file on the DVD, and as the DVD is read-only, it is unable to write the lock to it. It would work on your C drive as it is able to write to the drive and...

What the Reseller has told you is correct. Open Licences are only available for Operating Systems as upgrades. I have been through similar discussions with Microsoft recently with regard to our business requirements. Additionally, I also have a PDF explaining Academic Volume Licensing which...

We had a similar problem with mail going to AOL accounts. It was related to something that some of the larger e-mail providers had implemented to help prevent spamming. They had started doing reverse lookups on the sender to confirm that the sending address was valid. We were in the middle of...

Thanks Porkchopexpress, I've only just read your message, but I have already resolved the issue by changing the DNS settings as shown below. I'll give you a star anyway, but would really like to know why the printing to spooler/direct issues occurs anyway! I can't think of anything that connects...

basst, Thanks for your reply. All clients are Windows XP with SP2. Problem only presents itself if client has local printer. In every case they were printing from standard Windows applications. Logging onto the network as an Administrator and running test prints still produced the problem. I...

Hi, I've just performed an upgrade of an NT domain to Active Directory, and have started experiencing an odd problem with printing. I'm not sure if the problem is AD, but the timing suggests it. I'm new to AD so you will have to excuse my lack of knowledge in this area! Original config...

Many years ago I had a problem with disk space on an NT box running Exchange 5.5 which also served as a file server. I had several drives in the server, but none had enough free space to be of any use; perhaps 20MB max on each. I spent several days deleting/moving files to keep the system...

About 9 or 10 years ago I looked after a marketing database that had several files close to the 2GB limit. We ran systems written in Foxpro for Windows 2.6 and the DOS equivalent which was virtually identical. We spoke to MS who just said that there was a 2GB limit and there was nothing we could...

Hi, I'm having an issue with a user's PC running Windows XP, and Office XP. Recently, when you go into Word and go to Insert->Picture->From File... and select an image, it doesn't appear on the page. (In any view mode) If you select where it should be, you can see an outline. If I resize the...

We use VNC quite a lot, and as mentioned earlier have experienced the 'screen refresh' issue. We tried TightVNC, and UltraVNC, and they all had the same issue. I month or so ago I downloaded version 4 of VNC from RealVNC, and this issue now seems to have been greatly improved. We only use it...