Madmanmcp

NORTONS!!! Ok, your problem is with the firewall and you'll need to allow access through it for your network to work. I don't use Nortons nor do I like it...so you'll have to wait for someone to come along and help you with it. Nortons has trashed more computers then they have fixed and I stay as far away from it as I can.

I at work at the moment on Win2k, not XP...I'll be home shortly. You can go into Control panel or into Windows Explorer and RIGHT-click on the C: drive and select Sharing from there. I can't give the exact steps until I am on MY XP machine.

Try rebooting now to see if you are connected.

Two things to check. Like Bruce said, check to see if sharing on the drive is on. Next check the Windows Firewall, turn it off to see if you can get access.

See if this is what you want. h_tp://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2003/08/22/css_photo_zoom.html

I can vouch for the McAfee Security Center bug, When I open it I get a blank screen. I'll play a little longer and then nuke it and wait for an update.

The Admins won't care... [runs and hides]

Sorry Raul, I was heading to bed and rushed to post this. But glad to see you coming over to the Darkside

For those interested, the Preview for Internet Explorer 7 is available. Beta 2 This is NOT a supported version, if you install it and something breaks...oh well. This is strictly test software and not to be used by the faint of heart or computer challanged. (my disclaimer) h_tp://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx

When you attempt to "communicate" on the internet by making a connection to another computer, ftp in this case, several things happen. Your computer sends out a request to the other computer and ask "are you there, ready to receive data?". The other computer responds "yes I am, is this the correct port to use". This is called hand-shaking, trying to setup a connection where both computers are in agreement on how to talk to pone another. What you have done is interfered with this communication and blocked access to your ports. You need to allow this activity because you actualy initiated it. ftp will not work until you allow it.

McAfee was doing the job it was designed to do. It first detected a virus/worm and deleted it, as you mentioned in a previous post. BUT not before the virus spit out 407 emails. McAfee also caught these and asked you what you wanted to do with them, either mail them or delete them (just in case they were good emails). Deleting them was the correct action since they were not valid emails sent by you. Once you had finished deleting those emails, that should be the end of your infection. Do you have any more symptoms?

Don't feel this way, these individuals are trained to prey on peoples kindness and the general manners that people use to conduct themselves on the phone. Its the old salesman "foot in the door" technique, as long as they can keep talking and keep you on the line, the better chance they have of making a sale. Its a simple matter to determine that they do NOT have any real business with you except to get your money. Say "no thank you" and just hang up. They are in fact the ones in the wrong and do not deserve any of your time, they are intruders after your money. You did not ask for the intrusion nor did you want or need it. I've gotten pretty good at it, "no thanks", SLAMMM. I used to use other methods but grew tired of them. I way say "hold on a minute please" and put the phone down and forget about them. I would blow a whistle in the phone real loud and say hang on while I get the tea off the stove, then come back with another excuse about letting the dog in just to see how long they would wait to talk with me. Time is money to them BUt don't feel bad about being rude to these folks. Just hang up, if its really an important issue and they have legitimate business with you they will call right back.

Hi Jayc, I've never really built a raid system but I have my old NT 4 MS Training Manuals and the Exam Cram books and maybe I can find something in them to help. Are you running NT Workstation or NT Server? Not sure if there is a difference in Raid between the two setups but at least I can look at the right book. Did you reinstall into a separate partition from the three you are using for raid? The book mentions that all three need to be the same size, if you created a boot partition did it reduce the size for the raid partition that is on that drive? Did you rebuild the boot.ini file and are the ARC names all correct? Ok, I just looked in the Workstation manual and Raid is not mentioned, so it must be available in NT Server only. Is that what you loaded?

Hi Mick, just because one computer behind a router can connect to the internet doesn't mean everyone can. Your initial problem with a timeout suggest that you didn't have internet connectivity at that time and messing around with the cuteftp settings would not have caused it. Now sometimes routers and modems can be fickle and you will drop connections to the network and not realize it. The first thing I would suggest you try is to power everything off and wait a couple minutes and then start turning everything back on. That includes turning off the cable modem, the router, and all the computers. This should renew all the network connections and hopefully get everyone back on the internet.

Jeff, you can upgrade or downgrade your plan at anytime. Or you can purchase additional bandwidth or diskspace if needed at anytime if its just a temporary issue. Just click on the Help Desk link and submit a ticket. Are you going to remain a "guest" here or do you plan on registering a name in the forums?

Question #1 - Yes It actually comes with 2, Outlook and Outlook Express. For home use I would suggest you use Express. Question #2 - h_tp://support.microsoft.com/kb/171301 Other Question - Is answered in the above instructions.

This is my original email account from Prodigy that I've had since 1989. They don't have mail forwarding so sending to another account is not an option. I'm also not sure that gmail would be blocking them all either.

The "Pharmacy" emails are getting to be a real pain, thats for sure. I click on block selection in SpamKiller every time I get one and it has not been able to block them yet. I took a quick look at a batch of them and have decided that there is no way to block them because of all the changes they are doing to each one...they are all different each and every time. They use pictures for the letters, they put in spaces at different places, they change the spelling by using different letters and characters. What surprises me is that this would work at all! Who in there right mind would be able to read what is there and want to purchase it. To me it seems like a total waste of time even sending them out. I was actually hoping that they would find out that no one was actually buying anything from reading it and stop. But they haven't

Maybe this is a clue to your slowdowns and will explain whats happening. I believe you are not "logging out" correctly and whn you try to switch cpanels the sytem is becoming confused and appears as a "slowdown" to you. When you switch from one domains cpanel to another domains cpanel do you log out or just retypr the url? At the top right of the main cpanel page is a "Logoff" button. Click on that and then try and log into the second cpanel.

Ok, that is correct, I just wanted to be sure here and not overlook something. When I do a tracert from my desktop your domain shows up fine with no slowness that I can tell.

Simple question here...are you doing a tracert to: pacificgarages.com/cpanel or pacificgarages.com You do a tracert to your domain or the IP. The backslash I believe specifies a folder and there is no folder called "cpanel".

Thanks Rob, thats perfect. Bruce, I used to create throwaway accounts and delete them...cause I could never remember them and it got to be too much work and I stopped. Rob's site is perfect, create any old name on the spot and go and check it for the verification email.

I hate having to register so they can farm the email or other data that you are "required" to supply. Oh well, I'll sit this one out.

I believe your problem will be the technology used for your medium will become obsolete before the shelf life actually expires. I have install disks and backups in the back room on 5 1/4" floppy disks which are still readable...but these types of drives are not available on newer PC's. I've got DAT tapes and 3 1/2" floppy and Zipdisks all of which will be useless in a short period. Just be sure to move this data to a newer media before you get stuck with something you cannot access.

Notepad is a small basic text editor that comes with windows. It takes a total 68kb for the executable and 25kb for the help file. Ignore it. If its really that bad, just delete the two files, "notepad.exe" and "notepad.hlp", then delete the shortcuts you may have. I don't believe there are any registry entries except maybe the associations for .txt. But once you try to open a .txt it will not find the executable and a popup list will display asking you for another program to use to open the file and you can change the association at that time. But its really not worth all this trouble...just ignore it.