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Problem is a KVM Switch is multiple computers to 1 screen... i need it to be multiple screens to 1 computer...

A KVM Splitter is what i'm after... but all the KVM Spliiters i've seen are JUST monitors, i need to get multiple keyboards and mice into that scenario too...

Does anyone know of any products that can help create the following situation:

1 Media PC in a room.

1 Monitor and keyboard and mouse in each other room connected the computer

Not a remote connection...
Needs to be more like an exention of the monitor/mouse&keyboard, but more than 1

Let me know if you can help please

Bunce

How you get the beta?

I have this highly annoying problem where when i close or IE or WinExplorer, i get the "send error report" and when its WinExplorer it sometimes crashes it...

I can't seem to see anything on google and neither does a fresh install...

Need to have this computer ready by end next week and its highly aggrivating, any help or ideas would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Well that sounds good... if anyone wouldn't mind perhaps putting them on a DVD for me, please PM me and i can sort out some payment for it...?

Hi,

I'm needing to converta a Lotus Approach 97 database to Microsoft Access.

Does ANYONE know of anyway or programs that will convert the database? INCLUDING the design of the forms etc?

Please help!

Hey everyone,

got a new problem that i'm unsure on how to work around.

I need to set Group Policy settings for all computers within the company, but we dont use Active Directory or a logon procedure.

Does anyone know how i can get all the required settings installed an easier way than going to every computer?

script?
batch file?

Please, if you have any ideas or suggestions, share them

Sorry if you are going to repeat yourself but as this problem is relevant to one of my issues i thought i'd pop my question in there.

Away from network side of things.
One of our managers travels alot with his laptop and we need to manage his backup routeen. Sadly, he's not very good with computers at all. So we need a program that is simple and reliable.

So far we've not liked "windows backup" as it has not seemed to be that reliable.
The only files that we want to backup are my documents and his email pst file.
With the windows backup we used incremental so it only backed up files that changed, but unless we were doing something fundementally wrong, this didn't seem to actually work and when we double checked the files, they were months out of date.

Does anyone know of a simple program that will backup selected files and folders easily to an external hard drive. As in, 1 click. (2 clicks might be too much for the person in question )

Additional information for this fiasco!

I have a wireless laptop that can be used to connect to each site (5).
I use a nifty piece of software called "Mobile Net Switch" which can have multiple settings to connect to different network. Basically when you change site you can activate the sites settings to change it for that site. (i'll post details if people are interested in the program...)

Anyway...

The site i was at yesterday where all these problems are occuring with unable to ping computer names... was occuring also on my laptop...

Now i'm at HQ and the settings have changed slightly, weirdly... i am now able to ping computer names at this site...

The only changes though are the IP address and the Default Gateway.

At the (broken) site, i've tried changing the IP's around in case it was IP related between a working pc and a broken one. This fails.

We've tried translating the computer name to IP in the host file but this doesn't seem to work either.

(anyone able to tell me what LMHOST does? It is enabled...) (LMHOST is in the advanced tab on the TCP/IP properties - wins tab)

sorry to bring this up again but its causing more of a problem that initially thought.

Were have a handful of computers (that we know of at the moment) that cannot ping any other othe computer/server by computer name.
They are fine pinging by IP.
They are all windows XP Pro.

NetBios over TCP/IP is enabled.
DNS Server is correct
Subnet mask is same for all.
So is the WORKGROUP
The IP is manual.
Default gateway is the same for all also.

Internet works fine.

Problem is theres some software that is required to talk to a server by Computer Name.

tracing the route of the computer name fails, yet IP is fine.

So something is completely wrong with the NAME side of things.

Can ANYONE please help shed some light or ideas on this, as this needs to be working by end of the week!

Thank you in advance!

Ok but to make it more confusing, when the firewall was enabled, the file and printer sharing was enabled... also netbios was enabled...

this is why i am confused.

Once the firewall was disabled i could see the computer via IP but not via computer name.
When the firewall is enabled, neither work.

Its more the fact that its working, but not how i need it to...
granted i'll have to leave it like it is if i can't fix it.

Thank you for your replies...

sadly... none of it worked...

turning off the Windows Firewall fixed it though... so anyone have any ideas why that is?
It is not essential the firewall is enabled as we have firewall on the network.

Hey all,

Got problem with network at work. A group of computers are required to access the shared documents of another computer.
All but one of the computers can view the these documents.

This computer in question can ping the computers IP but can't see any computer in the network neighbourhood.
It has the same workgroup.
Manually assigned IP details.
Firewall disabled.
Simple File Sharing Enabled.
Files Sharing protocol.

I dont think it can ping the computer NAME if this helps at all.

Anyone have any ideas?...

no thanks

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