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Hi All I have been setting up a rebuilt machine on our network. The network is peer to peer. I have set up file sharing on the Win 2000 machine. Everything is fine except when I try to access the shared files from a 98 machine. When I try to access the new machine, I receive the message...

Hi All I seem to be having a problem with a couple of my machines running Windows 2000. We have 2 networks setup. One is under the domain and the other is just the standard Windows Workgroup. The problem is when I go to Windows Explorer to access one of the other machines on one of the...

Hi All I am trying to fix a pc at work running windows 2000. I am receiving the message "NTLDR is missing". So far I've tried to do a recovery using the Win 2000 CD but that hasn't worked. Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks Treestump

Hi There I'm just setting a rebuilt PC at work and installing Windows 2000 Professional Workstation with service pack 3 for the first time. Should I make a separate boot partition and if so what size? Is reactivation required ith Service Pack 3, am I able to move the hard drive to a different...

Hi The machines on my network are running Windows 2000 and Office XP Professional. I have one machine that currently shows all excel files in Windows Explorer as XLS Files under the Type column when the view is set to details. However every other machine on my network shows the file type as...

I didn't think that it was possible. However, our company created a super IT boss position and it was his idea. Suffice it to say that we disagree a lot but it's hard to do anything when he's the older brother of the Executive VP Thanks Treestump

Hi All Does anyone know whether it is possible to network a scanner? Thanks in Advance Treestump

Hi All I have a user in the office who has a high speed cable connection on his home computer. He wants to bring it into work and set up a connection within our office network as well. Now, I realize that I could do this but I would have to keep changing the network settings every time that he...

Hi All We are running Notes release 5. On one of our computers, Notes consistently freezes the system as many as 5 - 10 times a day. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Notes a couple of times and increased the amount of ram in the system but so far it hasn't helped. The system is a Toshiba...

Hi All I have a workstation running NT 4.0 whose harddrive needs to be reformatted. I would like to get it into Dos. However, when I try in uninstall anything, it asks for the adminstator password. Unfortunately, the previous system administrator left no information at all. Any suggestions...

Hi All I'm having a problem with one of my PC's. It is currently running Windows 98 SE. The power supply of this unit was damaged during some electrical problems that occurred on site. After I replaced the power supply, the device manager did not recognize the CD Rom. So, I formatted the...

Hi In answer to your new questions: Yes, I am getting a login prompt on the root terminal. When I type in the root password, I am receiving the message "3004-007 you entered an invalid login name or password". Yes, I have checked the caps lock( no offense taken). I setup a new...

Hi, I've just stepped into a system administrator role on a system running AIX 4.3.2. I can login as root from every terminal except for the consol terminal. Has anyone run into this problem before? Thanks Dave

Hi I am having a problem with DirectX in one of the computers. The computer is Dell Dimension 4100 833MHz system with 32MB Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP Video Card running Windows 98 Second Edition. Direct X is currently recognizing the card as only having 1.5 MB of Video Ram when I run Dxdiag. When we...