MS Office Red X of Death - Ahhhh!

Dwight Early(earlyd[at]erinet.com)
Sat, 22 May 1999 16:19:18 -0500

WinMac Digest #319 - Saturday, May 22, 1999

  Re: NT4 services - Net Stop IIS
          by "Alex Dearden" <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
  Re: scsi on NT
          by "Alex Dearden" <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
  Re: IP printing from a Mac
          by "Alex Dearden" <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
  Re: fight for mac
          by "Alex Dearden" <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
  Mac OS 8.6
          by "Alex Dearden" <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
  MS Office Red X of Death - Ahhhh!
          by "Dwight Early" <earlyd@erinet.com>

Subject: Re: NT4 services - Net Stop IIS
From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:07:27 -0500
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> Alex:
>
> What's the command line to stop IIS4? The equivalent in Exchange is:
>Net Stop EXCHANGESA /Y

Oh jeez, I wish I could remember... :( I believe it is also NET STOP
<something> (IISADMIN perhaps? or WEBADMIN). I'd have to look it up since
I've never done it from DOS, I always did it from the services control
panel. And I check this list from home where I don't have NT (not
anymore, after it died...)

Sorry

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

Subject: Re: scsi on NT
From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:07:28 -0500
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> Am I correct in assuming SCSI uses the
>lowest number address as the implied C drive so I could change the SCSI
>ID's to boot from another drive?

It really depends on what you write in the BOOT.INI file. You have to
specify here the scsi controller number, the scsi ID and the partition
from which you want NT to boot (unless you have a PowerPC system, but if
it's Intel you have to specify all that).

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

Subject: Re: IP printing from a Mac
From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:07:34 -0500
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> I still print direct to the printer
>from my Mac, while everyone else (all PCs on NT now) go through the server
>queues. But I use IP instead of AppleTalk. I don't remember right now how I
>did it, but I think I followed some tech info stuff on Apple's web site.

The only way to do it if you don't use DAVE, is with Desktop Printing and
Laserwriter 8.5 and above. Again, be very careful with Desktop Printing,
you've been warned ;) as they say in the samba configuration file, gotta
love that.

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

Subject: Re: fight for mac
From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com> (by way of Marc Bizer)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:12:24 -0500
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On 5/20/99 at 11:50 PM -0400, Alex Dearden wrote:
>if you think I should give up the fight to keep a Mac in the system.

Never give up the fight for the Mac, it is the quintessential OS when it
comes to integrating with other OSs.

Plus it's the best OS in the world :)

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

Subject: Mac OS 8.6
From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:19:15 -0500
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I don't know if it's been mentioned here but Mac OS 8.6 is out and it's
SUPPOSED to take care of the Mac's problems with dropping TCP/IP
connections. Of course there are a couple of caveats with it but nothing
big (at least that I have noticed).

Alex Dearden
MCSE
pata@doglover.com

Subject: MS Office Red X of Death - Ahhhh!
From: Dwight Early <earlyd@erinet.com>
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:19:18 -0500
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OK, Gang, has anybody had any luck with the Microsoft Office apps and the
Red X of Death when trying to read documents using Win graphics in versions
of Word, Excel or PP 97 with Mac Office 98 apps?

I'm the lone Mac in a sea of PeeCee's and this is Red X of Death is killing me.

I know that the MS Knowledge Base acknowledges the Red X, but offers no
solution.

TIA

--Dwight Early

P.S. This my home email address. During normal business hours Eastern
Time, use the following email address <dwight.early@ascfb.wpafb.af.mil>

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