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  1. alpder

    Attachments disappear

    Using Groupwise 7 with no problems until recently. If I send an email with a small picture attached from my work Groupwise to my home email, the attachment will not be on the email when I check it at home. If I open the email at work (in Sent Items), there is no picture in the sent email. If I...
  2. alpder

    Problem with TransferText

    I would be grateful for some help. I have a csv file as follows: PurchaseOrderNumber,DocumentDate 6310S02621733,15/12/2009 6310S02621734,15/12/2009 I have created a table in Access2003 with the correct field names. The data type for both fields is "Text". I am trying to use VB code to import...
  3. alpder

    MAPI Session Handle Error

    I have a laptop running XP2 SP2. I have installed Groupwise 7.0.1.When I try and create a new email I get a message "MAPI Session Handle of the Novell Groupwise Object Request Broker could not be accessed. The address book cannot run" I have uninstalled the Groupwise client and even used a...
  4. alpder

    Error in Loading DLL

    I recently cloned a new PC, so I now have 2 identical computers (XP and Office 2003 Professional). On the cloned PC I get an error when running VB code in MS Access. The error is "Compile Error: Error in loading DLL". On the original PC I get no errors. I have checked the references and they...
  5. alpder

    [b]VPN connection problem[/b]

    I have a laptop and want to connect to our office Novell network from home. I have created a VPN. That works fine - I can ping IPs inside the network. I can use pcAnywhere to connect to PCs running in the Office. I have installed the Novell client on the desktop, but when I try and login, it...
  6. alpder

    XP chkdsk problem

    I am running XP SP2 on a P4 3.60 GHz with 2 GB RAM, NTFS file system, connected to Novell 6.5 network. I have tried to run chkdsk from the Tools tab of C: drive properties. It says it will schedule the job. When I restart it tries to run chkdsk but gives msg "Cannot open volume for direct...
  7. alpder

    Method 'Open' Error

    I inherited some programs written by a previous employee. We have recently upgraded all our PCs from NT4 to XP SP2 and have upgraded Office97 to Office2003. The code connects an Excel spreadsheet to an Access database and extracts data from the mdb file This program works perfectly on some PCs...
  8. alpder

    Access2003 opening Access97 database

    Our company has recently updated most PCs to Windows XP and we have upgraded Office97 to Office2003. The problem I have is that we have one PC which has not been upgraded, so it runs on NT with Office97. The operator of this computer is constantly adding data to one particular database which has...
  9. alpder

    Open acess from excel (Office2003)

    I have been using Office97 but have just upgraded to 2003 and converted my Access databases. I used to be able to open Access databases from Excel using: Dim DB As Database Set DB = OpenDatabase("P:\Factory\Rejects.mdb") This no longer works (Runtime Error 3343. Unrecognisable data format)...
  10. alpder

    Background color changing in Word

    I am using Word97 to produce catalog sheets for our products. The file is stored on a network drive. If I print it from Computer A it is fine. If I open the file on Computer B the background color (red) looks fine, BUT as soon as I click the print icon (or open page setup and then click OK), the...
  11. alpder

    Run code from another database

    I generate many reports daily which are emailed to clients. To automate the task I run each from the Task Scheduler, but it is getting rather complex. So, I have created a database and within that I have code to call each report which is required. The code for creating the reports is in a second...
  12. alpder

    Detecting open Excel file

    I have written a large number of routines for generating reports for our agents in all parts of the country. The data is sourced from an I-series IBM using ODBC. The data for the report is generated and exported to an Excel spreadsheet which then needs to be formatted. I do that with macros in...
  13. alpder

    Spelling in OE6

    I am running XP Pro and (unfortunately) MS Office 97. I understand that OE6 uses spell check from MS Office. I get the message "An error ocurred while the spelling was being checked" Does anyone have any suggestions?
  14. alpder

    NTVDM problem

    I am running an XP computer on a Novell 6.5 network. Each night I run a number of scheduled tasks creating reports and emailing them to customers. I get an error message when I get in to work about a failure with NTVDM (presumably about the email program which is a DOS program). I am getting the...
  15. alpder

    Network Places - some PCs not visible

    On a Novell network we have PCs running a mixture of NT4 and XP. As administrator when I go to Network Places, I can sometimes "see" all the networked PCs, but other times I will just see some of them. When I see only some of them, it is usually the XP computers that I cannot see. I find this...
  16. alpder

    Remote Desktop Disconnects Remote PC

    We are running XP computers on a Novell 6.5 network. I am trying to setup remote desktop. I can connect, but before I get the connection, I get the message: "The user COMP1\administrator is currently logged on to this computer. If you continue, administrator has to disconnect from this computer...
  17. alpder

    Default XP logon name

    I have a new PC running XP Pro. I have connected to our Novell network. I have deleted the user called "User" and want the Windows default logon name to be "Administrator". Even though User does not exist, that name still appears as a default logon name. I would be grateful for any assistance.
  18. alpder

    Viruses and WindowsNT

    Our organisation currently runs a small Novell network. Our workstations run Windows NT and are protected from viruses with VET antivirus software. Microsoft are or have stopped support for NT. Does this mean that we will not be able to get regular data updates for VET to protect our PCs?
  19. alpder

    Check if program running on remote pc

    I have set up a networked PC as a slave running many scheduled tasks which among other things create reports and email them to our customers. We are a manufacturing company and get orders electronically from a large customer. We use their software on this slave pc to download orders from the...
  20. alpder

    Find Operating System

    I run functions in an Access DB from one of 2 PCs (on Novell network). One PC runs WinNT and the other XP. As I have a Shell function in the code I need to use code to determine the OS so I can run a DOS command (the reason for this is that the windows directory for NT is WINNT, but for XP it is...

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