Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / November 2005

I want to get an optical trackball for a friend who has a Mac
and who does illustration graphics with Photoshop.  I would
like to get him a Microsoft Trackball Explorer like I have,
but I've heard that Macs don't have a right-click like PCs do.

I have two win2k-servers with shared folders. The clients are mixed
pc/mac (MacOS9, MacOSX). Last week one of the servers suddenly hanged
and was rebooted. Ever since then, the mac clients have trouble
connecting to the shares on the server.

I'm using messenger 5.0 on a mac, running OS 10.3.9.  Suddenly, as of
yesterday, every one of my contacts started to appear off-line all the
time.  I just phoned one of them who said that I appeared to be
offline.

I use RDC on Windows XP all the time at work to connect to a Windows XP
host across the Atlantic. Response is almost as good as sitting in
front of the machine.
But at home I fire up the Mac RDC (RDC 1.0.3, MacOS 10.4.3) to connect

Hello, I am currently using an mac os 9.1 lap top, and I was wondering
if anyone can help me find a link where i can download msn messenger
for mac os 9.

I had been using RDC to connect from home to my work PC:
Panther
Nortel VPN
DLink rounter

Pls help, as i'm new to Mac and everything.
I have Mac OS X 10.4, and i have microsoft RDC 1.0.3, so, it has worked
for me for looooong time nicely. Today, suddenly(as i recall it may
have being due to the fact that automatic Mac update was done(for the

OS X 10.4.2, Office 2004, RDC 1.0.3 (040913)
RDC on Windows allows users to open sessions with multiple remote machines.
Far as I can tell, RDC on the Mac allows one session to one remote machine.
Is there some tweak (or perhaps add-on program) that allows RDC on the Mac

When it says there is a program which is being blocked should i allow it or
block it when i press allow the message keeps coming up so i can not go on it
this happens a lot with programs i make with Microsoft Visual Basics 6.0 how
can i stop this i have searched for updates and ...

Msn messenger no longer reconnects after waking up from sleep. Before
with 10.4.2 when waking up from sleep messenger would re-sign in.
Anyone else having this problem?  or is this just my imagination can
someone confirm that messenger re-signs in after waking up from sleep

Every time I start up I get a crash when I click sign-in in the Personal
account tab
My config is:
Corporate (config'd to LCS)

I currently use MSN Messenger 4.0 on Mac OSX.
Does anyone know if there is a way to simply -upgrade- to version 5.0
and still
keep my conversation history from version 4.0 ?

A few people have asked about this before, but there was no solution
posted.
Since I started using RDC for Mac 1.0.3 (I was using an older version
previously, which I of course no longer have) I have to Agree to the

We have many Mac users who's windows account is only used for getting email
or having access to a share. They do not login to a Windows PC anywhere.
The problem is that when looking over these users accounts, they show up as
never being logged into. Our method of weeding out ...

When using Windows Messenger 5.0 on my Ibook G4 I have frequently
disconnects without any reason, as I know. Why?
Peter
Sweden