Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / November 2004

When it does work, it's fine.. when it doesn't work (sending a file or
receiving from anyone, virtually all of them using a PC) i get the
error about my connection being blocked and to contact my network
admin or ISP to enable file transfers.

   I am a Mac newbie. I bought a secondhand G4 cube with 64 mb ram.
After running into several out of memeory messages I bought an additional
256 MB ram. That solved most of my memory issues and then I learned how to
allocate memory to individual programs.

I am running vpc 7 on a g4 powerbook, I am trying to install window xp
as the operating system...i get the "Install OS on this hard drive"
command. I go to drives menu with the Cd inserted but the capure disk
is greyed out so I cant open the windows xp installer. I would really

I have some trouble defining a new dictionary from preferences. I try to
load a SP dictionary from Shared Applications (Office) but OE dosent update
the selection.
Can anyone help me with this, please ??

If this is not the proper venue I apologize.
I have an airport base station that is driving me nuts.
Number one would work perfectly for a while. Day to a week and then it would
dump the configuration file and stop until I reset the base station.

Ok...I can see the Mac from my pc, I can add the printer to my XP machine
via url:
ht tp://192.168.1.100:163/printers/stylus_photo_825
I can send print jobs, but they stop in the PC with an error.  I can't check

I have a Windows 2003 server which I am unable to connect to from any Mac in
the district.  I can connect to any other server in the district, just not
this one.  The error message I get is:
"Could not connect to the server because the name or password is not

Can anyone tell me why I can send files from Messenger4 for OSX but I can't
receive them. It lets me accept the file, but then fails after starting
transfer message appears.

When copying a file from MAC OS 10.2.8 or 10.3.5 to a 2003 file server
running Macintosh File Services we receive an error if the filename is longer
than 27 characters (not including the . extenstion).
If the file is transfered over SMB, or to another MAC, the 27 name length

I have outlook 2001 and Office X and panther.   THe spellcheck does
not work.  When I try, it says it is not working and may need to be
reinstalled or reconfigured.  Does anyone have any ideas?

I want to move the mac files to a new server.  I can see the files and write
to the files on the Windows 2000 server but i can't connect to the Windows
2003 server.  The error code is -5002.  The server shows up in the mac
window ok but fails the connection.  charlie

I have a Windows 2003 server which I am unable to connect to from any Mac in
the district.  I can connect to any other server in the district, just not
this one.  The error message I get is:
"Could not connect to the server because the name or password is not

Is there a way to hide applications under OS 8.6 other than going up to the
finder bar at the time and selecting "Hide --------"?
Thanks.
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I have been running Outlook 2001 on my Mac system 9.1 with Exchange
Server 2003 with no problems.  I upgraded to system 9.2 and I have lost my
connection to Exchange Server 2003.  I've tried re-setting the profile but I
keep getting messages saying the server is not available or ...

can any guide me on how to sign in with msn in MAC X. I m
with ADSL conection and the error message pop up is can
not allocation anyinternet connection. pls help.