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SCO Openserver 5.05 – Default Route

okidoke — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:42:05 +0000

I needed to add a default route to my SCO Openserver 5.05 box. I used the following command
route add default 192.168.4.3 (192.168.4.3 is the main router on my network)

To make this persistent I then edited /etc/tcp, searched for the word “ifconfig” and added the line after the ifconfig statements.

/etc/route add default 192.168.4.3

This will not however, survive an upgrade.

There is an article here that gives a much more detailed description and further options.

http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec4defaultroute.html

MOA 2009 – cant open company (Resolved)

okidoke — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:27:39 +0000

This morning I could not open either company file for my MOA installation on my eeepc netbook, after scratching my head for a while, I realised, I had earlier changed my defailt DNS servers to googles 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, becasue I am running in a domain network here at work I need to ensure the I am pointing to the correct DNS details.

Once I changed them back everything work great.

Dex

Leo’s Carpets – New Showroom – Roe Lee – Blackburn

okidoke — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:42:19 +0000

My brothers have just opened this fantasic looking place at Roe Lee in Blackburn, its taken a while, but they are really pleased with this. have a look at http://www.byleo.co.uk

Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 Pro and Windows Home Server

okidoke — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:05 +0000

I am operating a small business, well two in fact, from my dinning room at home, we use a Windows home server (WHS) ( Tranquil PC ) and have five users with laptops all with the WHS connector software installed

I have installed Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 Pro (MOA2008) on the WHS by logging into the remote desktop.

I have set the various Multi user access permissions on the WHS installation of MOA2008 and saved the company files (.sbc) on a shared folder for all the users to access.

For each laptop I have installed the client and all works well, the users open the respective company file in the shared folder and have appropriate access to the data.

I have also a WHS set up at home and my connector software is associated with my home installation, I have this weekend installed the Release candidate of Win 7 on my laptop taking advantage of the long bank holiday weekend (here in the UK) to consolidate all my backups and old files on my new clean installation. (Whilst at the same time I have changed my login user name)

I created a corresponding user on the WHS and set the necessary permissions, also mounting network drives with the appropriate user names and passwords etc. I can open and save all my files on the network without problem.

However having installed MOA2008 I can no longer access any of the company files.

After wasting a lot of time looking into various issues around SQL and permissions, the solution was quite simple.

I uninstalled the version of the WHS connector software associated with my home network and then installed the connector software from the WHS work server. I can now access all the company data.

Better still, I have now un-installed the connector software associated with the company WHS server and re-installed the connector software from my home server and I can still access all the company files with MOA2008 on the company server.

I guess the connector software must set up additional security setting that aren’t exposed any ware within the WHS configuration

David

Windows Home Server Connector Software

okidoke — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:26:53 +0000

On more than one occasion I have needed to re-install the WHS connector software, whilst I can do this with the original install disk, if there has been an update to the connector software, I will be prompted to download the latest version (once I have finished installing from the cd ! ).

Fortunately there is a copy of the latest current copy on the home server, but it is not easy to find.

Point your web browser to your server in my case the server name is the default “server”

http://server:55000

And this will take you to a web page on the server with the latest version.

Completely Wipe a USB Key Drive

okidoke — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:08:59 +0000

I have only done this in windows 7, but assumes it works in vista also.

Please proceed with caution,if you select the wrong disk you will blow away the data on that disk.

Fire up a command window and type diskpart

The command prompt will change to DISKPART>

now type list disk your disk drives will be listed

If you wish to select the disk identified as disk 1, then type select disk 1

If you run list disk again, this time your selected disk will be flagged with a *

Type clean And you disk will be wiped clean,

then type exit to exit the utility, and you disk will be empty ready to partition and format

Hosted Exchange and Windows 7

okidoke — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:31:43 +0000

I have been playing around this weekend with Windows 7 and installing my usual app’s, looking to see if anything breaks, and so determining if I should install it on my main production laptop.

Everything I have thrown at it has worked fine, the only issue I had was with Outlook 2007 and my hosted exchange provider Sherweb.

Usually I log into my Sherweb account with my email address and password, however when I use those credentials during set up Outlook 2007 behaves as though the credentials are wrong somehow.

For some reason in Windows 7 during the Outlook 2007 set up you have to use the credentials in the format of ” DOMAIN\USER NAME “

The domain portion for Sherweb is simpley the Internet domain ” ihostexchange.net “

The user name can be found by logging into you account at admin.ihostexchange.net and looking for the corresponding SAM user name for the user.

So you logon should be something along the lines of

ihostexchange.net\john.smith_pc-fs_co with your usual password.

After that all is fine.

Hope this helps

David

UPDATE: Sherweb have now published an FAQ for their customers http://support.sherweb.com/showfaq.php?idarticle=198&idcat=1

Nvidia IDE / SATA Drivers BSOD nvstor32.sys – Work Around

okidoke — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:42:58 +0000

For some months now, I have had a persistent problem with my wife’s laptop, she has a HP Pavilion dv6000 (dv6231eu), which came with XP media centre, earlier this year I upgraded the OS to Vista Ultimate, and I used the Vista drivers downloaded from HPs Support Web site. Since then, she has had several BSOD much to MY pain, to make things more difficult, the BSOD screen was blurred and I couldn’t read the message.

After lots of googling, I suspected the problem was with one of the Nvidia driver, I downloaded and installed several different drivers from both Nvidia and HPs web site, and no matter which version I used, the problem was still there.

In the meantime I had installed Microsoft’s Windows Home Server on a re-purposed pc at Home, I installed the accompanying connector software on each machine in the house (4 laptops and 1 media centre pc, all running vista). One of the great features of windows home server is the automated backup of the client machines on the network. after midnight, each night, each machine in turn does a differential bit level backup to the server of each volume on the client pc, usually only taking a few minutes, however in the case of my wife’s laptop, whilst the main system volume C: backed up fine, the machine would BSOD every time is tried to back up the HP recovery volume D: now I had some consistency!.

After some more thought and further looking around I found these great instructions for debugging the MEMORY.DMP file on her PC. After installing the debugger and the symbol set. I had the name of the suspect driver nvstor32.sys

Using the device manager I selected the IDE/SATA devices and located the driver, I first tried rolling back the driver, restarting the machine, backing up with WHS backup and bang, another BSOD. I had finally given up with the Nvidia drives, and decided to revert to a generic windows driver.

So from the driver in the device manager I selected ["update driver software"], ["browse my computer"], ["Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"] I then selected the “standard dual channel PCI IDE Controller” driver by Microsoft, this is dated 21st June 2006, driver version 6.06000.16386 rather that the Nvidia driver, with this installed I restarted the system.

I ran the backup again, and …. no BSOD, at last!, lets see if these older generic drivers last, or if they show up any other issues.

Like everything else in my blog, these are intended as notes for me, how I resolved a problem I had, and I share these in case you have the same problems, They may not be as detailed as other posts and if you want to know more then drop me a line and I will do what I can.

David

Fixed: Can’t open faxes in Outlook 2007

okidoke — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:28:01 +0000

This week, I had a problem on “my” laptop only, were I could not open FAX.TIF attachments received and forwarded to me by SBS2003, to add to the confusion I also receive faxes from a fax to email service from my ISP, these also arrive as .tif attachments, I could however open these external attachments.

I remember having this problem in outlook 2003 from time to time, and after a bit of googling I found the answer.

Open regedit and search for the following key

OutlookSecureTempFolder

Change the path from :

C:\Users\dflood.leos\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\JSWA86CR\

C:\Users\dflood.leos\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temp\Content.Outlook\JSWA86CR\

Restart outlook and problem Solved

Your path may vary slightly, but you should get the idea.

Lego Key Chain

okidoke — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:25 +0000

This is neat idea, I could probably make one of these with my kids old Leo blocks. Or I could just buy one direct from Lego here.