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Roger Wright wrote:
Have you noticed that you're the only one that replies to my posts here? Are we the only two CPians that do networking and OS maintenance besides programming?
It seems so. Nature of my job is to write networking software (although this will be only for a few weeks more  ), eventhugh I don't maintain any network (manually that is)  .
And all the OS knowledge I learned form my 100 MHz, 32 RAM machine, although it's a pity that life circumstances didn't allow me to start with computers earlier! (only 3 years ago I used a computer for the first time )
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Damn! You do remarkably well for having only worked with these things for three years. I've been at it for over 25 years and still struggle to keep up.
I have to admit, though, that I resisted computers for many years. My job was to design electronics, and until after I was laid off, there were no computer tools that did anything to help me with that. Some of the new CAD tools available today would have been welcomed, but they didn't exist, and I could do everything I needed to do with a pencil and paper. My designs needed programs to run them, and these I enjoyed designing and coding, in a dozen languages and as many operating systems and hardware environments. But I didn't start learning PCs until I was unemployed and needing some way to eke out a living.
It's always nice to get your input - I have not one person here to swap ideas with, and no one to learn from. It makes it awfully hard to make any progress. Like this mail problem, I know someone has done it. If I was in a big city (yuck) I would probably bump into someone in a bar one night who could tell me in two sentences how to solve it. But there is no one here who has ever done it, so I'm stuck flailing around in the dark chasing random clues. Frustrating.
<marquee>"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Thanks Roger, I appreciate your ideas as well.
Roger Wright wrote:
But there is no one here who has ever done it, so I'm stuck flailing around in the dark chasing random clues.
I'm the same boots really. I remember when I was in 1st and 2nd year of college, there was absolutely nobody to talk to about different computing issues (of course I haven't heard about CP then). Very very frustrating.
So I had to do everything by experiment.
Now it's very good as the place I'm working on is a research group so they are very clued in to these issues.
Anyway, did you manage to sort out that problem?
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Venet wrote:
did you manage to sort out that problem?
Nope. There are no clues at all! Everything in XP assumes universal access to the Internet, and that everyone has an email account. From all the information available it would appear that peers in workgroups can't talk to each other using email in XP, and I'm certain that's not true. I bought the MCSE text for XP Professional this week and read it, and it never mentioned the subject, either. I suppose I could write a mini-exchange server and install it on one client machine, but I really don't know where to start with that. There's probably a good example or two on CP, though, so that would be my first place to research the project. But what the heck do small offices do when there's no one around to write custom software for them? Grrrr.
<marquee>"Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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I'm not sure how easy would be to setup and use SMTP Server that comes with ISS?
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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hello codeproject World !
Can anyone please tell me how to change the Starting logo in Windows 2000 Advanced Server.??
I want to change the starting logo of the Windows
"Welcome to Windows2000 Server Family"
plz tell me how to change that and changing Wait and shutdown logos in Windows 2000?
--thnx
Waiting for a quick reply
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Hmmm, this requires a bit of resource hacking (referring to the app with the same name)
Bitmap that Windows 2k displays is held in ntoskernel.exe (or kernel32.exe file, I'm not sure and it's 8 in the morning) file. Now you might want to consider backing-up this file first, before you do anything with it.
Let's say you made a kernel1.exe copy.
Open resource hacker, edit the bitmap and save the file (kernel1.exe). Make sure that you don't add some bitmap that's bigger than 16 colors!
Open your boot.ini file and copy the Windows Adavnced Server and add this line:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 New Face" /fastdetect /kernel=kernel1.exe
Restart your machine!
P.S. I don't like your sig
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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Dear all,
I need to set quota limit for users on a shared folder on a file server.
How to implemented it in VC++?
Thanks
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I can' t open or copy some files. When I try it says "Access denied" and that maybe some other program has access to the file. But there is no other programm running and windows just has finished booting. My PC crashed while it was copying some files from one drive to another. Please tell me how I can reset this "access"-flag or where it is. Maybe with some API - Calls
JAVA sucks!
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What version of Wndows ?
What filesystem ( NTFS, FAT )?
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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It' s Windows XP Professional and this drives system is NTFS.
Thanks for your interrest.
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In that case you might want to use TakeOwn.exe utility that comes with Resource Kit (it's for Win2k, but should work on WinXP!)
I recently had the exact same problem. For some reason security bits for certain folders were not read properly (or corrupted completely) and each time access denied would occurr. No way to change permissions back!
Used takeown.exe and fixed it fine. So it's worth trying to use this utility, because it does the job. You can even see the OS protected information!
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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It may be Explorer itself, or one the many new shell extensions that XP seems to be bundled with. I recall reading about this a while back.
Sorry I don't have any more info. I don't use XP.
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
'ugly naked women are good, when i'm not around, in front of someone else' - Shog9
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Hi,
I was recently involved in a project where we wrote a simple program that listend to a signal on a port (COM/LPT) and on that signal it shutdown windows and after shutting down it sent back a signal letting the system know things went well.
Now I have been asked if this could be done with windows 2000 (/xp) and have been contemplating various ways to achive this. But I cant find any information on how to acchive the "power down OK signal" that is soposed to be sent after windows has shutdown.
Does anyone know how this could be achived ?
(in a simple fashion, I mean writing my own HAL isn't something Im about to do)
And is there someone who might know, ie. does Microsoft have anyone I can ask ?
// MickeM
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If I understand you correct, then, when Windows Starts up again you wanna send a signal through the port. Is that right?
You can read the last date/time, where windows were shutting down, in the eventlog, you can also read when it was started again.
You can calculate everything needed about shutdowns/boots/uptime from the data in the eventlog...
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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No, it is when windows *has* shutdown.
Its a bit like ATX power, I want to as the last code executetd in windows (or as late as posible) tell the widget connected to the poert that "windows is now shutdown"...
// MickeM
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Is it important that your app be closed last ?
You can detect Windows Shutdown, if you listen for WM_QUERYENDSESSION and act as appropriate.
Is this what you need ?
Regards,
Venet.
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.
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The CreateProcessWithLogonW function creates a new process and its primary thread. The new process then runs the specified executable file in the security context of the specified credentials (user, domain, and password). It can optionally load the user profile of the specified user.......
Is it also applicable if I want to run a program on a Novell Server (and have a W2K workstation using the Novel client)
or do I need the Novell NDK? Any idea?
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Anyone know if it is just the server , or server and workstation that will allow you to mirror a drive ?
Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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If you mean mirror a drive over 2 disks (fail safe) every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that.
(I'n don't know about XP Home edition, never used it, but professional can)
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Anders Molin wrote:
every NT based OS from NT4 and up can do that.
Actually, 2000 Pro can't. It can use mirrored/striped/etc volumes, but can't create them. Gotta use 2K Server to create them.
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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It can 
On my old computer I had 2 disks striped, and I did it from Win2k Pro (it was the only OS on the pc).
I have made, and used, stripeset's from NT4 Workstation, Win2k Pro, and Win XP Pro.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Anders Molin wrote:
I have made, and used, stripeset's from Win2k Pro,
Well, I tried to make a mirror with 2K pro and it promptly told me to bugger off and use Server. *shrug*
--Mike--
Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer
My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Yep , 2 disks because I just got caught out without a backup and I do not want to be caught out again. Tape drives of any decent size are too expensive and take a while to copy the shear volume of data on modern hard discs. CD is too slow and too small , so that leaves hard disc , so I was going to mirror two 60GB drives and have one in a removeable shuttle . I was running win 2000 , but I am going to XP on the new discs , but I do not know if the desktop version of XP will create and manage mirrored drives . There will be a performance hit this way , but I will try it and see . If it is troo bad , I will get an IDE raid controller .
Ain't nobody ever told you : There ain't no sanity clause .Groucho Marks
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