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    Home network printer.

    in Hardware Hangout

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    http://www.hamachi.cc/download

    this program will creat a simple vpn so that u can connect your wife laptop and your home pc together. it will be just like ur on a home network so it shouldnt be hard at all.

    I appreciate the reply, but I was looking for a solution from within Windows. I was really hoping to connect via TCP/IP or something. I don't think that Windows has the ability to connect a printer like linux can. It's really frustrating.

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    Home network printer.

    in Hardware Hangout

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    Hi guys,

    I’ve got this network at home and have a D-Link 704p router with an HP business 1200d hooked up to the router via the DB25. Now D-Link has a software utility that makes one of you machines a print server. I have used the software and share the printer from the computer and can print from my other windows systems via the shared printer. My question is a 2 parter really,

    1) Is there a better way to set up the printer through the add printer wizard in windows?

    I have Windows 2000 pro, Windows 2000 server and Windows XP pro. I would like each machine to be able to print without one or the other having to be on.

    2) My wife sometimes works from home, but her laptop (Windows XP pro) is bound to a domain at work and I would like for her to be able to use the printer. I have gone through the set up a new printer utility and have tried all the configs I could think of even creating custom ports. I can't get the printer to print. If I install the printer server software on here system it disables my other computers from printing.

    In Linux I just configure cups and set the print server IP to my routers IP and set up a printer queue. No third party software needed.

    Thanks for your help. :)

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    Windows Media Player is screwed up

    in Software Hangout

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    Ok, I've been getting a similar error from my WMP v9.0. I'm running windows 2000 Sp4. The problem started after I installed the latest Divx codec pack, 5.2.1, not 100% sure of that version #. I have since uninstalled the codec pack and re-installed a codec pack from Microsoft, but the problem persists. The thing is, I get the error if I left click a media file, be it mpg or anything else, and try to run it from the web page. If I right click and save as, and run it from my desktop no problem. I get the Error message and it also has a box checked that says "Restart Windows Media player"

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    What's the best Hard Disk Scanner?

    in Software Hangout

    Posted

    I know there is many 3rd party software that does the job but is anyone better than windows scandisk??

    ps: i'm looking for the best so comparatives and pages with information will be appreciated :)

    How about something from your hard disk manufacturers support site?

    WD has data life guard.

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    outlook 2003 hangs on close

    in Microsoft Office

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    Hey! I just recently ugraded from office 2002 to 2003 on an IBM T30 running Windows XP pro and now outlook hangs on exit and the icon stays is the systray until I end the process. I've searched the web and found that it is an issue. I then did a complete un-install and re-install of 2003. Deleted and recreated the users account, and even deleted the Outlook Backup profile. I have tried the .srs rename and the extend.dat delete and variuos other fixes including disabling sync on exit yadda yadda yadda............ Is ther a pill for this issue? :)

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. :rolleyes:

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    unattend-issues with F6 during install

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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    i've searched around the forum and found other unattend issues, but none that were the same as what i've got going on here:

    last night i whipped up an xpsp2 slipstream image, wrote it, and did a test install to another partition on my drive. my boot drive is on an on-board promise sata controller, so i had to do the F6 on install thing as usual. all went perfect with the test install, so i decided to go with an unattend and the addition of some of the typical drivers that would be needed. here is my winnt.sif:

    ;SetupMgrTag
    [Data]
    Autopartition=0
    MsDosInititated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

    [Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEulA=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    Repartition=No
    Unattendswitch="Yes"
    WaitForReboot="No"
    OemPnPDriversPath=drivers\gige;drivers\nvidia;drivers\mouse;
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    AutoActivate=No

    [GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*****
    EncryptedAdminPassword=No
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=035
    OemSkipWelcome=0
    ProfilesDir="%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\"

    [Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    XResolution=1024
    YResolution=768
    Vrefresh=85

    [UserData]
    ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
    FullName=none
    OrgName=-
    ComputerName=main

    [TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=
    Dialing=Tone

    [RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=1
    Language=00000809

    [Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=GROUP

    [Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

    [Componants]
    msmsgs=off
    msnexplr=off
    zonegames=off

    [Shell]
    DefaultThemesOff=Yes

    [GUIRunOnce]
    %systemdrive%\install\DirectX9\dxsetup.exe

    (yes i realize i dont need that dxsetup in there, but im sure this is not the cause of the problem).

    i added the .sif along with the necessary $OEM$\$1\drivers and such, burned the image (same method as before), and went for another test install. everything went as before (though setup auto-skipped the EULA screen, which was promising). did the F6 thing and installed the promise driver as usual (which worked, as i was able to see the drive / select the partition), but this time when setup got to the first main file copy portion, it suddenly couldnt read any of the files off of the floppy. i decided to skip the first file, i got more errors. turns out it couldnt read any of the files from the floppy. i skipped all of them, and setup completed the file copy (from the cd), and at the end setup properly copied over all of the contents of $OEM$\$1\drivers (also promising). since the promise driver couldnt be copied over to the boot drive, setup naturally blue screened after the first reboot.

    i tried reading the promise driver floppy back in windows - no errors. made another floppy and retried setup - same result.

    so... something having to do with the unattend stuff is causing the floppy to not be accessible during the file copy portion of setup. possible solutions i see:

    1. fix my id10t error that i likely made in the .sif

    2. somehow incorporate the promise driver into the image in such a way that it is no longer necessary to do the F6 thing.

    #2 is not really ideal, as in theory the F6 feature of the installer would still be broken (say, to install drivers for some other controller in the future).

    the whole situation kinda sucks, as i'm loading the promise driver, so its not like i can replicate this in vmware, so i am kinda flying through cds trying to fix this one :)

    thanks in advance for any assistance here

    Al

    2. somehow incorporate the promise driver into the image in such a way that it is no longer necessary to do the F6 thing.

    I think that is the way to go. I not 100% sure, but when I ran a sysprep to do an unattended install on my 2000 server with a promise raid controller my answer file contained a line with

    [mass storage device] along with the $OEM$ tag. If I get a chance, I will run through the process and post the log.

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    updating isolated servers

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    Ok, here's a biggie. At work we have a couple of servers that can never be exposed to a wan even by proxy. They are windows boxes. I was wondering if there was a way to do the windows updates a la web style.

    Is there some way to set up a server with all the updates and then have these isolated servers connect to it and do the scan for needed updates and install accordingly? If this has been done before I would really like to know.

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