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  1. dball63

    Noob Needs some help making HTML edits on PHP page

    I've got this site that I've been keeping up to date as best I can for a few years, it has one page that uses php to present an image gallery. That page also has some html in a frame on the page that I cannot figure out where to edit or make changes? Could use some help finding it. I just need...
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    career/certification advice if you could share some….

    I’m looking for a little advice from fellow IT folks at Tek-Tips. Good news. I just finished updating my MSCE for Windows 2003 after much procrastination. So I’m kind of back in the study mode and I’d like to continue with something else that doesn’t have a deadline again like my MCSE cert that...
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    NTBackup Data Recovery

    Was hoping the group could help me prepare for the future. I ran into an issue a few weeks ago with a failed SP1 install where I was about to restore from tape. I installed a parallel OS, inserted the tape and there was no data on the tape from the parallel installation. When I got the server...
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    SBC/AT&T DSL Setup New Sonicwall TZ170

    I plan to install a new TZ 170 at our location this weekend. I think I have everything I need but I recall that during my last install of a sonicall DSL solution, SBC had to make some changes to our DSL account so we could use the sonicwall instead of their speedstream modem. Is that still the...
  5. dball63

    SQL Instances - What are the benefits?

    Trying to figure out best way to install SQL 2005. What are the advantages or disadvantages to using named instances over a default instance? David Sacramento, CA
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    Sharing Calendars and Contacts on SBS 2003

    Our office wants to start using exchange to share calendars and contacts on our SBS 2003 server. Really what they want is one central calendar for scheduling as well as a central contacts share. Exchange is currently setup and users are using their exchange mailboxes to manage their personal...
  7. dball63

    RPC Locator Server, Locator.exe Errors on Startup

    For the last few months I always get these errors when attempting to use my laptop off the network. Right after login, it will hang for a bit trying to start the service and then it will fail and throw up this message. I never see the errors when logging in on the network domain. "RPC Locator...
  8. dball63

    Fonts Issue with Acrobat 7

    I've run into this problem ever since I tried Acrobat 7 and Acrobat Reader 7. I ended up rolling back all my clients in the office to Acrobat Reader 6 becuase of this problem. I never did find a solution for it and adobe has not seemed to realease any patch that address it so maybe I'm missing...
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    SQL 2000 Setup System Log Files?

    I’m setting up a new SQL 2000 SP4 server. Operating system is Win2003 Server Std. SP1. With this new server I plan to migrate next month 2 user databases. When I purchased this new server I planned to do it right this time. Drive C: RAID 1 (OS and SQL Program Files) Drive D: RAID 1 (SQL Log...
  10. dball63

    Software Installation Administration Tools

    Long time no post :) I have a problem that I would love to find a solution to. I used to be an Novell Zenworks advocate for large software rollouts in the office. Our IT department now is not willing to make the changes needed to NDS to keep using Zenworks. They also will not allow me to make...
  11. dball63

    New VPN Installation - MS or Sonicwall?

    I need to install a new VPN solution for a very small business. They only have one remote user that needs connectivity. I have some experience setting up VPN using sonicwall tz170 and I'm not sure if I want to go that route again or try something different. I have heard good things about MS...
  12. dball63

    New VPN Setup - MS or SonicWall???

    I need to setup a VPN for a small busnisess. I have little experience with Sonicwall tz170 and VPN and not sure if I want to install another one or try something else this time. Business has one server with one nic, Netgear rt314 gateway, one remote user, static routable IP adresses. I've...
  13. dball63

    Outlook Problem Connecting to Server

    I've run into a problem on one of my clients laptops. This was workgin just fine at one time and now I cannot connect to the mail server at all. It started as an error message "You receive a message "Outlook failed to start correctly last time". I tried everything to resolve this problem, safe...
  14. dball63

    Application Speed over TZ 170 VPN

    My new TZ170 VPN seems to have filled the viod for this client that I am doing some work for recently. Connecting to exchange email and getting to files is plenty fast at this point. The problem: This person also wants to use QuickBooks accounting over this VPN connection using 56k modem at...
  15. dball63

    Sonicwall TZ170 NetBios Connections

    I have a new Sonicwall tz170 and VPN setup. For the last few weeks I have been having trouble getting to mapped drives via Netbios name. Via IP address works fine and at this point my only alternative is to change login scripts to map to IP addresses instead of netbios names and that looks...
  16. dball63

    Setting up Hardware Firewall for first time

    Setting up sonicwall firewall for first time. Some general questions. 1. Should I switch the firewall to NAT requests now or should the DSL modem NAT addresses for internet requests still? 2. Should firewall IP config contain ISP external DNS numbers or internal DNS numbers or both? My...
  17. dball63

    Trying to Install 8.1 Client... Can't Remove Older Version

    I'm trying to install version 8.1 client on a pc and for some reason I can't seem to get rid of the older version installed on this PC so the setup won't let me continue. Any help, I've spent many hours on this already David Ball CNE, MCSE
  18. dball63

    Verify Client is installed and working

    I recently installed NAV 8.1 for small business and I have no experience with their products. I seemed to get the server portion istalled fine and got the registration/license things handled for Def updates. I also went to each PC and ran the INSTALL CLIENT option to install the end user portion...
  19. dball63

    New SonicWall SOHO3 Install

    I've got a small business client that wants me to setup a firewall for him and he already purchased a SonicWall SOHO3. I've never setup one up and was hoping someone could give me a place to get started? we also want to setup VPN for remote access too. Network now is Effiecint Networks DSL...
  20. dball63

    Strange Things After Win XP Upgrade

    I recently updated a PC from Win 2K to XP Pro and I've noticed in the last few days when attempting to open the registry using regedit.exe or regedt32.exe, it opens for 1 or 2 seconds then it closes automaticlly. Taskmanager does the same thing. Anybody else seen this problem? Dball63

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