1 No way to specify protocol to use for a specific service.

    2 IPX must be set as the default protocol to use a Lotus Notes server.

    3 Win95 does not honor LAN Manager security, other incompatibilities.

    4 With ODI drivers, adding an NDIS 3.1 protocol does not add frame type to NET.CFG.

    5 How can I hide the Network Neighborhood icon?

    6 How can I hide the Inbox icon?

    7 How can I get rid of the Microsoft Network icon?

    8 How can I get Exchange to work like a normal Internet mail client?

    9 I increased the scrollback buffer size in telnet and now it doesn't work -- no menus even.

    10 Microsoft Office 4.3 leaves a file open, preventing proper Windows shutdown.

    11 Why does Microsoft Access crash my server?

    12 How do I set up a two-computer twisted pair network?

    13 How can I share faxes on Win95?

    14 How can I use LAN Manager 2.x services?

    15 Why do I get VSHARE and NDIS2SUP failures in BOOTLOG.TXT?

    16 What can I try if network support crashes at startup?

    17 Why do I sometimes not get a chance to log in on some machines?

    18 Where can I get a partial list of errors in the Windows 95 Resource Kit?

    19 The Resource Kit is also wrong about IBM LAN Server, right?

    20 Who makes AppleTalk for Windows 95? [New] 31/1/97

    21 SysMon and SNMP might conflict with DPMS

    22 How can I "browse" with WINPOPUP like you could in Windows 3.11?

    23 How do I recover desktop icons like Recycler and Inbox that have "disappeared"?

    24 How do I address "VNETSUP error 6107"?

    25 Why should I probably turn all of Win95's power management features off?

    26 Does Win95 support broadcast RPC over TCP/IP or IPX?

    27 How to kill Windows' dubious "password caching feature"?

    28 How do I install a MS Loopback Adaptor?

    29 How can I store user profiles on the server rather than locally?

    30 How do I use direct cable networking?

    31 Why wont the network fax in MS Messenger / MS Exchange work?


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.1. No way to specify protocol to use for a specific service.

Date: Sun, 17 Sep 95 22:30:47 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

Say I want to connect to UTAH, my local NetWare server, but my default protocol is NetBIOS and I also have TCP/IP enabled. Maybe I have NetBIOS-over-IPX turned on, too.

As far as I can tell, I have to browse for \\UTAH on all protocols in series. Broadcast over NetBIOS, maybe go to a Browse Master, and wait for a timeout; Broadcast over TCP/IP, check the WINS server, check the DNS server, check LMHOSTS, perhaps :including a file cross-mounted from another server, and wait for a bunch of timeouts; and only then will my machine deign to look for UTAH over IPX/SPX.

This is inefficient, wastes time, and wastes bandwidth on slow links.


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.2. IPX must be set as the default protocol to use a Lotus Notes server.

Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:18:10 -0700
From: [email protected] (John Robert Zaums)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

[email protected] (Michael Sheppard) wrote:

>We are having problems setting up Lotus Notes to work with Windows 95. 
>Our Notes server is running over a Novell network. We have configured the 
>IPX/SPX protocol and Novell client support under Win 95 and we can access 
>the Novell fileserver. We have configured NETBIOS to run over IPX/SPX (we 
>think) but Notes can't find the Notes server. It complains that the 
>NETBIOS unit number(0) is too large. To me this seems that we must have 
>the NETBIOS configuration wrong, but we can't see where to correct it. If 
>anyone has working NETBIOS over IPX/SPX or has setup Notes with Win 95 
>could you please help me and let me know how you did it.

It's fun ------ I'll agree with you on that one. I battled with this
for about 4-5 months until I discovered an obscure little paragraph on
Microsoft Technet describing how to do it. Two solutions:
First
If you are loading stuff real mode you can use NETBIOS.EXE real mode
and it will work.
Second
But then again what's the advantage of '95 without 32 bit drivers.
Here's the trick. 
Go to the Network Control Panel
Select IPX/SPX Compatible Protocol
Select the Advanced Tab
At the bottom of the window you will see a check box saying "Set this
protocol to be the default protocol"
Once you've done that it should work. I've found performance to be
significantly better as well.


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.3. Win95 does not honor LAN Manager security, other incompatibilities.

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:18:27 -0400
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected] (Malcolm Newton)

Win 95 does not seem to respect share level security on Lan Manager servers
plus there seems to be a bug that only displays 6 folders/files within any
other folder/sub-folder. We will switch to user level security and test this
over the next couple of days.   
Malcolm Newton    President
[email protected]    http://www.io.org/~mnewton
VisiSoft Corp   2145 Dunwin Dr unit 11, Mississauga,Ont. Can L5L 4L9
(905) 607 6263 (905) 607 6122 fax


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.4. With ODI drivers, adding an NDIS 3.1 protocol does not add frame type to NET.CFG.

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:18:27 -0400
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

You need to add frame types (like ETHERNET_II, ETHERNET_SNAP) manually. See article Q124848 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.


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.5. How can I hide the Network Neighborhood icon?

Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 10:15:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

Let me count the ways:

  1. Set a user restriction in Policy Editor. For more information, see the Resource Kit or http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/.
  2. Use the nifty utility TweakUI, a "Power Toy" available from http://www.windows.microsoft.com/windows/software/powertoy.htm.
  3. You can also edit the Registry directly:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
    Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

    Add this dword: NoNetHood 00000001


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.6. How can I hide the Inbox icon?

Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 10:15:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

Let me count the ways:

  1. Set a user restriction in Policy Editor. For more information, see the Resource Kit or http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/.
  2. Use the nifty utility TweakUI, a "Power Toy" available from http://www.windows.microsoft.com/windows/software/powertoy.htm.
  3. You should also be able to edit the Registry directly; anybody?


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.7. How can I get rid of the Microsoft Network icon?

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:18:27 -0400
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

In theory, you just open the Add/Remove Programs control panel, select Windows Setup, and uncheck The Microsoft Network. However, this doesn't always work. One thing you can try is reinstalling MSN, then trying to delete it. For more information, see the Resource Kit or http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/.


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.8. How can I get Exchange to work like a normal Internet mail client?

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 18:00:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

Exchange has the following idiosyncrasies that make it a poor Internet mail client:

We suggest throwing away Exchange and getting a proper mail client like Pegasus Mail (on http://www.cuslm.ca/pegasus/ and all the free/shareware archives), Eudora ([email protected]) or Email Connection ([email protected]). Yes, we know that the Microsoft Internet Explorer was written to make using a non-Microsoft mail client unreasonably difficult. We suggest Netscape.

For more information, see http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/.


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.9. I increased the scrollback buffer size in telnet and now it doesn't work -- no menus even.

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 18:05:00 -0800
From: [email protected] (Ramesh Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc

Mike DeMarco ([email protected]) wrote:
: I was trying to up the buffer size in the telnet program that comes with
: Win95 and apparently set it too high.  Now when I start the program, all 
: that comes up is the title bar of the window. I can't get back to the menu 
: settings menu because of this.  As a result, I can't set the buffer to its 
: original size.  Is there some kind of configuration file that I can edit or
: something to reset the buffer to 25 and get the program working again?

Yes, I had encountered this problem very early in the Beta, and microsoft is
aware of this problem.  I have been able to reset it using the registry as
follows:

1. Start Regedit and search for the Key word Telnet
2. Stop when you find the key: \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Telnet
3. On the Right hand Window Pane, double click on the Item that says Rows
4. On the Dialog Windows that comes up Choose the Decimal Radio Button
   and enter the value you want, 
5. Of course exit out of the registry.

[Actually, if you use telnet more than occasionally, you should dump Microsoft's exceptionally slow and buggy telnet in favor of the vastly superior CRT, WinQVT, or Kermit 95. I am told that it is only a coincidence that Windows-UNIX connectivity worsens as Windows-NT connectivity improves.]


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.10. Microsoft Office 4.3 leaves a file open, preventing proper Windows shutdown.

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 10:18:27 -0400
From: "Peter Watt (Comtex)" <[email protected]>

Microsoft Office 4.3 leaves the file dialog.fon open when it closes. Win95 does not like this, and refuses to shut down.

Microsoft sources confirm that this is a problem with Win95 and Microsoft Office. Workarounds:


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.11. Why does Microsoft Access crash my server?

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 18:25:00 -0800
From: Philip J. Koenig <[email protected]>

One thing you should be aware of... if you're running MS Access -- it uses GOBS of record locks, and that alone can lock up a Netware server.

There is a patch for 3.11 that solves part of this, and some parameters that should be used for any 3.x server. First, you must use the set utility from the console to set the "Maximum record locks per connection" to 10,000. (!) Also, you must set the maximum record locks on the server to the maximum, which I believe is 100,000. Due to Access's page-locking nonsense, it gobbles up huge amounts of locks... so much that MS's API built into their own MS-DOS (SHARE.EXE) is incapable of supporting the required number of locks... which means that any "Microsoft Compatible" NOS (i.e. LANtastic, Powerlan, 10Net, etc.) really won't fully support Access. I thought it was cute. :-)


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.12. How do I set up a two-computer twisted pair network?

Date: 1 Oct 1995 19:37:36 GMT
From: Charles Denny <[email protected]>

[This is off topic, but it gets asked so often...]

You need to buy or build a crossover cable. The following is taken from the
Data Communications Cabling FAQ:

   10.0 Birds and Bees (Plugs vs. Jacks)
     
     The EIA/TIA specifies an RJ-45 (ISO 8877) connector for Unshielded
     Twisted Pair (UTP) cable.  The plug is the male component crimped
     on the end of the cable while the jack is the female component in
     a wall plate or patch panel, etc.  Here is the pin numbering to
     answer the question, where is pin one?

  Plug                          Jack
  (Looking at connector          (Looking at cavity
   end with the cable             in the wall)
   running away from you)

      ---------- /                   ----------
     | 87654321 |                   | 12345678 |
     |__      __|/                  |/_      /_|
        |____|                         |/___|

   12.2 Ethernet 10Base-T Crossover patch cord;
    This cable can be used to cascade hubs, or for connecting
    two Ethernet stations back-to-back without a hub (ideal for
    two station Doom!)  Note pin numbering in item 10.0 above.

     RJ45 Plug  1 Tx+ -------------- Rx+ 3  RJ45 Plug
                2 Tx- -------------- Rx- 6
                3 Rx+ -------------- Tx+ 1
                6 Rx- -------------- Tx- 2

I built this cable and everything works fine on my system. For more
information on the cables, refer to 
  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/LANs/cabling-faq/faq.html
and for more info on Ethernet, try
  http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/faq.html.


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.13. How can I share faxes on Win95?

Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 11:33:05 GMT
From: [email protected]

I don't know. Microsoft AT Work FAX won't work; see article Q130395 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.


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.14. How can I use LAN Manager 2.x services?

Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 11:33:05 GMT
From: Tag Carpenter <[email protected]>

The only way we can get Win95 clients to use Lan Manager 2.X printer shares is this:

  1. Connect to the Lan Manager shared printer on an NT server byentering "NET USE LPTn: \\(LMServer)\(Printer)" in the DOS command box.
  2. Offer the connected printer as a shared resource via the NT print manager.

Although this "bad form" solution involves two redirections, it seems to work well in our environment (DEC Pathworks and Windows for Workgroups). I don't know if it would work on NT workstation, that's one of our next experiments.

The best answer I have gotten on why the printer shares don't click is that there was some network printing stuff done by the old real mode redirectors which didn't make it into the Win95 "LM3" code. My guess? Another attempt by MS to force you into putting up NT servers all over the place!


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.15. Why do I get VSHARE and NDIS2SUP failures in BOOTLOG.TXT?

Date: Unknown
From: Microsoft

This is just a minor bug with Setup forgetting to clean up after itself; it's not a problem. For an explanation, see article Q127970 in the Microsoft "Knowledge" Base.


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.16. What can I try if network support crashes at startup?

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 95 15:29:31 EDT
From: Kevin Lacy <[email protected]>

I've been told that this is dangerous, but it helped at least a dozen people who had been declared hopeless cases by Microsoft "Technical Support." Most were getting random errors in VIP and VTDI.

If you installed Win95 over an existing Win3 (which is almost always a bad idea), try moving all *.386 out of your WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories and rebooting. These are old Windows 3.1 VxDs; all Win95 VxDs have the new .VXD extension.

If this works, it means you have a virtual device driver conflict with something that Win95 Setup didn't recognize, and which you probably don't really need. You should either install Win95 again into a fresh directory (strongly preferred), or spend several weeks poring through your WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files.

Have a boot disk handy before you try this!!!


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.17. Why do I sometimes not get a chance to log in on some machines?

Date: Various
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

Nobody knows. This happens a lot. The workaround is usually to "log off and log on as different user" (Nigel Mackintosh <[email protected]> and [email protected] (Mike Stickney) found this workaround independently).

A possible hint:

Joe Ross <[email protected]> reported that he always gets a login prompt when there is a disc in his CD-ROM drive, but not when there isn't.


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.18. Where can I get a partial list of errors in the Windows 95 Resource Kit?

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 95 08:35:17 0700
From: Microsoft

Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q135849: http://www.microsoft.com:80/KB/PEROPSYS/win95/Q135849.htm


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.19. The Resource Kit is also wrong about IBM LAN Server, right?

Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 15:56:04 GMT
From: [email protected] (James Gerber)

The Resource Kit says there is support for several flavors of IBM's real-mode LAN client DOS LAN requester including for LAN Server 1.3 and 2.0. It even has a diagram of the layers of drivers used and tells you to install DOS LAN Requester before installing Windows 95. Then you are supposed to select the appropriate version of DOS LAN Requester from a menu during install. Only problem is IBM is not even on the list! If you try to use DLR anyway, you get crashes and lockups.

In fact, Microsoft and IBM had another one of their spats during beta testing and the effort to accommodate IBM's client was abandoned. Unfortunately, despite several bug reports, Microsoft never corrected the resource kit.


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.20. Who makes AppleTalk for Windows 95?

Date: 16 Oct 1995 21:30:56 GMT
From: Don Bourrie <[email protected]>

Nobody. But there are two DOS/Win3 stacks that are somewhat compatible with Win95 (no "long" filenames, of course), and both are working on new "Designed for Windows 95" versions. Maybe by second quarter 1998. Note that a Microsoft press release pre-announced the Win95 version of MacLAN Connect on August 8th, 1995

There is now a version of Maclan 95 which works very well and supports long filenames and printer sharing etc.... Please see the Mac to Windows 95 issues page

Personal MacLAN Connect
Miramar Systems
http://www.miramarsys.com/
[email protected]
805-966-2432

COPSTalk
Cooperative Printing Solutions
http://www.copstalk.com/
404-840-0810


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.21. SysMon and SNMP might conflict with DPMS

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 21:08:33 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

On my PC, and on those of at least two other Usenetters, the system will crash hard if left alone long enough for the energy-saving monitor features to kick in while System Monitor or the SNMP Agent are running. My PC has a Number 9 Motion 771 video card.


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.22. How can I "browse" with WINPOPUP like you could in Windows 3.11?

Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 15:47:28 -0600
From: [email protected] (Dave Andrews)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

You can't. This useful feature was removed.

P.S. - They did this with Paintbrush too. I actually still use the old version of paintbrush.


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.23. How do I recover desktop icons like Recycler and Inbox that have "disappeared"?

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:37:12 GMT
From: [email protected] (Raymond Chen)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

On Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:27:47 GMT, [email protected] (Dave
Wickberg) wrote:
>It seem that my due to some error my recycle bin has disappeared, I've
>tried fooling around with the registry but I can't get it back onto
>the desktop, any ideas?

Right-click the file C:\Windows\Inf\Shell.Inf and pick "Install", then
log off and back on. This will reinstall all the standard shell gizmos
(forgiving many registry sins).


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.24. How do I address "VNETSUP error 6107"?

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 06:33:34 GMT
From: [email protected] (Patrick Moore)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Microsoft's answer, from Knowledge Base article Q137454, is to delete the following Registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlset\Services\VxD\vnetsup

You can delete it if you want, but if you have it in your old system.ini, or win.ini etc., it will just show up again and again every time you restart windows. Do a search of these files in your windows directory and remove any reference to vnetsup. Then remove it from your registry, ******** I would strongly suggest you backup your startup files ( four in all including msdos.sys ) before you change anything in your registry.


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.25. Why should I probably turn all of Win95's power management features off?

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 20:10:00 -0800
From: Various

Vincent P. Amiot <[email protected]> and others report that sleeping various kinds of laptops can cause crashes in NetWare or TCP/IP DLLs.

I and others have experienced crashes if the "Energy Star" monitor power-down feature kicks in while SNMP or System Monitor (SysMon) are active.

Various people have reported lost NetWare drive mappings when "Green" PCs go into suspend mode. They can only be reestablished by restarting Windows.


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.26. Does Win95 support broadcast RPC over TCP/IP or IPX?

Date: 14 Nov 1995 17:22:51 GMT
From: [email protected] (Rob Philpott)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

In article <[email protected]>, 
[email protected] says...
>
>Can anybody tell me how I can perform a broadcast RPC from Windows95?
>The Win32 SDK documentation and MSDN indicate that a datagram protocol
>(either ncadg_ip_udp or ncadg_ipx) is required to support this, but
>neither appear to be supported under Windows95.  The documentation
>from both sources listed above is vague on the subject of Windows95 
>support.

Windows 95 does not support the UDP/IP nor the IPX protocols. Even if the transport protocols were available (e.g. from a third party), you'd still need the RPC transport support DLLs for those transports (i.e. the RPCDGCn.DLL/RPCDGSn.DLL).

We've been requesting Windows 95 UDP/IP support from Microsoft for some time now. To this point, the answer has been "no". They don't perceive sufficient market demand for it to offset the development cost and the additional memory requirements that it imposes on the system.


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.27. How to kill Windows' dubious "password caching feature"?

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 21:00:00 -0800
From: Rich Graves <[email protected]>

By default, Windows stores all network and dialup passwords in world-readable .PWL files. Even if Microsoft successfully resolves the serious .PWL encryption bugs that make password storage totally insecure (which they have promised to do for Win95, but not for Windows for Workgroups), this default "password caching" behavior is inappropriate for many sites.

To turn it off for Windows for Workgroups, add the following to SYSTEM.INI [Credit Jim Carlson]:

[NETWORK]
passwordcaching=no

To turn it off for Win95, you can use Policy Editor, or edit the following Registry entry directly:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
  Network\DisablePwdCaching

This gets a binary value of 1 [Credit Malcolm G. Miles].

Here's a simple RegEdit script to accomplish the above. Save it as NOCACHE.REG and run it from either DOS (in a network login script, for example) or Windows.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network]
"DisablePwdCaching"=dword:00000001

Note that there are *three* nonblank lines. The second nonblank line ends with the right bracket and the third starts with the double quote; what you're seeing is *not* a line broken at column 80.


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28 How do I install a MS Loopback Adaptor?

If anyone knows of an easier way to do the above, pls let me know. Tim Holbrook, cppWare Ltd, [email protected]


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29 How can I store user profiles on the server rather than locally? (Subject: Re: Keep user profiles off local workstations?)

I have all user profiles stored on one of our Windows NT servers. Everytime a user logs on to Windows 95, they get the message: "You have not logged on at this computer before...." and asks them if they want a local profile created. All of our users move from PC to PC everyday, so the profile really needs to be on the network server and nowhere else. I really don't want thousands of folders being created in the C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES directory. Is there a way to disable the message or stop the local PC from saving profiles locally?

Unfortunately, the method Microsoft utilized for the creating of roving profiles (the ability for on user to get the same desktop on more than one location) requires that a copy of the profile be stored locally. This is to allow the user to get their profile even if the server is not available.

I do not believe that it is possible to disable the local storage of profiles. Someone correct me if I am wrong. BastillS@


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30 How can I store user profiles on the server rather than locally? (Subject: Re: Keep user profiles off local workstations?)

I have all user profiles stored on one of our Windows NT servers. Everytime a user logs on to Windows 95, they get the message: "You have not logged on at this computer before...." and asks them if they want a local profile created. All of our users move from PC to PC everyday, so the profile really needs to be on the network server and nowhere else. I really don't want thousands of folders being created in the C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES directory. Is there a way to disable the message or stop the local PC from saving profiles locally?

Unfortunately, the method Microsoft utilized for the creating of roving profiles (the ability for on user to get the same desktop on more than one location) requires that a copy of the profile be stored locally. This is to allow the user to get their profile even if the server is not available.

I do not believe that it is possible to disable the local storage of profiles. Someone correct me if I am wrong. BastillS@


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31 How do I use direct cable networking?

Peer-to-peer networking, check that direct cabel connection using win95 setup has been installed.

1. Open both computers, choose program --> accessories --> direct cabel connection.

Adding file and printer sharing.

When win95 is first installed it does not include the components that enable other to use files and printers on your computer.

1. Open the network properties dialog box (control folder --> network neighborhood --> properties).

Tony W


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32 Why wont the network fax in MS Messenger / MS Exchange work?

The fax service must be the first one installed to your profile. Deinstall all other services, try then to reinstall it in this order: MS FAX, MS Mail, PAB, PST, Inet Mail. dhmyrdal@


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