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Re: Thanks G.S.Gupta4-Sep-02 18:34 G.S.Gupta 4-Sep-02 18:34  Thank You very much for the reply. Out of Paper message in Win2K 567890123431-Aug-02 22:45 5678901234 31-Aug-02 22:45  Is there some way to change default (and unpredictable) behaviour of Win2000 Printer Spooler when there is no paper on local printer? The message "Out of Paper" appears a long time after paper is over, and sometimes it looks like spooler forgets to show this message. My users are confused with this situation and I want to get such message immidiately. Re: Out of Paper message in Win2K Roger Wright1-Sep-02 4:08 Roger Wright 1-Sep-02 4:08  The Spooler service in Win2K is flaky, but I doubt that this is Microsoft's fault entirely. I've seen a variety of behaviors on different machines, and the difference seems to be in the printer model. My Lexmark, for instance, has to complete a job; cancelling a print job leaves a stub file in the spooler folder that will block any later attempts to print until the machine is restarted. An HP I've used allows jobs to be cancelled okay, but about 40% of the time it fails to print at all on the first try. I'd bet the problem you're having is due to the driver, not Windows - check for a newer version on the web. Alternatively, if you have more than one printer assigned to the print device, you can set different priorities to make Windows pay closer attention to one over the other. This won't help overall performance, though. This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order books on Windows device drivers askadar31-Aug-02 4:14 askadar 31-Aug-02 4:14  Hi, what books on windows device drivers can you recommend for a newbie to the topic? Askadar Re: books on Windows device drivers moliate12-Sep-02 12:45 moliate 12-Sep-02 12:45  I'm assuming you want to develop for NT/Win2k/XP. I really don't know much about drivers for Win9x... Books Windows NT Device Driver Development - Peter G. Viscarola, W.Anthony Mason Gives a good start in driver development. Shows how to set up the development systems and use tools like WinDbg. Includes nice code samples. Inside Windows 2000 Third edition - David A. Solomon, Mark E. Russinovich A nice introduction to Windows 2000 system mechanics. Seems to be primarly written for advanced system administrators, but contains some nice information for developers too. No code, but lots of system experiments with the kernel debugger (a tool for live debugging included, although it probably must be updated at SysInternals webpage to work). Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference - Gary Nebbett A reference. Wait until you understand the basics, then get this one. Some say the information is to accurate to find out whitout the Windows source code. The author claims he had no such access. Internet SysInternals Webpage Useful, contains a lot of sourcecode. Microsoft DDK page Microsoft is releasing the new version of the DDK (next month, I think). If you have an MSDN subscribtion, you will be able to download for free. Otherwise, try using the old suite until you feel the need to upgrade... Hope this helps. Cheers /moliate Two o'clock and walking through familiar London - Or what was familiar London before the cursor deleted certain certainties - I watch a suit and tie man giving suck to the Psion Organizer lodged in his breast pocket its serial interface like a cool mouth hunting his chest for sustenance, familiar feeling, and I'm watching my breath steam in the air. Neil Gaiman - Cold Colours D&*ned WinXP Junk!!!! Roger Wright30-Aug-02 20:47 Roger Wright 30-Aug-02 20:47  LAst week I built my first WinXP Peer-to-Peer network, and after much hassle with undocumented bs, it was working perfectly. Today I spent most of the day on the phone trying to install a program that requires a shared database. I installed the first station, along with the master database, and all went well. The db was installed in the root of the C: drive, as should work with any previous version of Windoze. But when I installed the client of another PC and tried to access the db, it told me that access was denied! I shared the bejeezus out of the db - Everyone has full control, and all four users have admin accounts on all three machines. But still it insists that access is denied. Online Help is useless, as always with Micro$oft products, and the problem is worsened because Dell has replaced the standard help with their own even more clueless help system! The default simple network sharing option is off, and security is shamefully lax with all users having full control of everything on all machines, but the so^ of a b*&^h will not allow access!!! I uninstalled the original db and reinstalled it to the host's Shared Folders directory, and I can now suddenly access it from other PCs on the network, but I don't want it there. Is there any way to make a WinXP P2P network actually useful? This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order Re: D&*ned WinXP Junk!!!! Venet1-Sep-02 3:24 Venet 1-Sep-02 3:24  Strange problem Roger. Reading your post I get the feeling that there is something incorrect with the database configuration, rather than sharing, but I'm not really sure. What kind of database are you using ? Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos. Re: D&*ned WinXP Junk!!!! Roger Wright1-Sep-02 3:58 Roger Wright 1-Sep-02 3:58  It's a straight flatfile - .mdb database. The mfr tech had me install it to the C: root, which works fine on all previous versions of Windows. Everything installed perfectly on the primary host, and after sharing the db, I could browse it from other hosts on the net. But I can't open it without an 'Access Denied' message. In XP, you can add share users via a dialog; the dialog lists all users by machine and username (ie, \\UWCRR1\Roger). You can look in other locations, but clicking that button displays only the one host, not the other two. In Help, this is supposed to mean that the machine isn't on a network, yet print sharing, Internet routing, and file sharing from the Shared Folders directory works fine - obviously it's networked correctly. I removed the program after the tech hung up in frustration and reinstalled it to the Shared Folders directory, and suddenly it worked correctly on the other hosts. But I don't want to use that directory - it clutters up the view for all users, and might get damaged by one of the users accidentally trying to open it. Access dbs are fragile that way, and the users shouldn't have to deal with the visual clutter! XP Sucks! This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order Re: D&*ned WinXP Junk!!!! Roger Wright11-Sep-02 4:20 Roger Wright 11-Sep-02 4:20  Problem solved! I think... XP will not share with users unless all users are using passwords - the default user setttings won't work. Yesterday I reconfigured all users to have passwords, then created a group for the db program users and added users to it. I re-installed the program and shared the db folder with the new group and, voila!, it worked Many thanks to the authors of this[^] article! Maybe I'll summarize it and publish a tutorial for other CP users... Windows .NET Server? Rickard Andersson2029-Aug-02 23:34 Rickard Andersson20 29-Aug-02 23:34  Where can I download Windows .NET Server? I mean, where can I buy Windows .NET Server? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++! Re: Windows .NET Server? Nish Nishant29-Aug-02 23:40 Nish Nishant 29-Aug-02 23:40  It's not out yet. If you have an MSDN enterprise or higher subscription, you'd have got the beta CDs by now. Nish Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW] Re: Windows .NET Server? Rickard Andersson2029-Aug-02 23:45 Rickard Andersson20 29-Aug-02 23:45  Oh.. but is there any place on the Internet where I can get the BETA!? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++! Re: Windows .NET Server? Nish Nishant30-Aug-02 0:25 Nish Nishant 30-Aug-02 0:25  Rickard Andersson wrote: Oh.. but is there any place on the Internet where I can get the BETA!? The MSDN subscriber downloads might include a beta download. But you need a MSDN subscriber ID for that! Nish Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW] Re: Windows .NET Server? Michael P Butler30-Aug-02 0:30 Michael P Butler 30-Aug-02 0:30  You can download it from the MSDN subscribers web-site. If you have a subscription to Enteprise or above. It's a bit of a big download though. Michael Programming is great. First they pay you to introduce bugs into software. Then they pay you to remove them again. Re: Windows .NET Server? Rickard Andersson2029-Aug-02 23:43 Rickard Andersson20 29-Aug-02 23:43  .... or is there a BETA for free download somewhere!? Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++! Re: Windows .NET Server? Brian Delahunty30-Aug-02 6:41 Brian Delahunty 30-Aug-02 6:41  Rickard Andersson wrote: .... or is there a BETA for free download somewhere!? You'll have to be an MSDN subscriber Regards, Brian Dela Re: Windows .NET Server? Roger Wright30-Aug-02 20:35 Roger Wright 30-Aug-02 20:35  I have the .NET Server RC1 CD. You can order it from the website for about $12US. This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order Re: Windows .NET Server? Rickard Andersson2031-Aug-02 5:21 Rickard Andersson20 31-Aug-02 5:21  Roger Wright wrote: about $12US And I live in Sweden... hm... that would be an import duty too... and some more fees... I think I skip it! and to much megabytes to download! (I have ISDN) Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++! Re: Windows .NET Server? Roger Wright31-Aug-02 6:57 Roger Wright 31-Aug-02 6:57  I suppose I could copy the CD into a folder on my HD and email it to you, but I wonder how long that would take? And whether it would be legal? This is a US-only distribution, but last time I checked, Sweden was friendly Probably best not to go there... This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order why does my program not work on XP? sages29-Aug-02 0:53 sages 29-Aug-02 0:53  I have a program on foxpro25,thus i must call foxw250b.esl. when i change my os to XP,unluckly it does not work.When it start ,The error message will appear"divide point error". i think that fox250b.esl doesn't work on XP.How i do with it? Tell me please.Thanks. sages Re: why does my program not work on XP? stephen woolhead15-Sep-02 4:17 stephen woolhead 15-Sep-02 4:17  There used to be a fault with older versions of foxpro that when moved to a faster machine (300MHz or faster, well that is fast for when foxpro2.5 was written ) it will start giving divide by zero errors on startup. There is a fix in the microsoft site somewhere. Stephen. Terminal server administration Nish Nishant28-Aug-02 18:20 Nish Nishant 28-Aug-02 18:20  Here I have a Win2K advanced server that has terminal services up and running! I want to know how I can administer it using my XP box [both are on the same LAN] I don't see anything like a Connect to terminal server anywhere Nish Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW] Re: Terminal server administration Nnamdi Onyeyiri29-Aug-02 2:31 Nnamdi Onyeyiri 29-Aug-02 2:31  maybe you need to use a third party software. Email: theeclypse@hotmail.com   URL: http://www.onyeyiri.co.uk "All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors." Re: Terminal server administration Venet29-Aug-02 23:01 Venet 29-Aug-02 23:01  Nope, you'll need to create Terminal Server Client disks. There should be an option in Terminal Services in Start, Programs (not too sure) Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos. Re: Terminal server administration stephen woolhead15-Sep-02 4:13 stephen woolhead 15-Sep-02 4:13  Start->Programs->Accessories->Communications->Remote Desktop Connection. Stephen.

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