Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / January 2006

Ok first off thanks for the help in advance.  Here's the Deal Currently at my
work we are in the process of putting in Microsoft Small Bussiness Server.  I
run a Mac I book with OSx 10.3.9 in it.  to be able to work with the any of
the programs that we run on the PC's of Work, ...

I have two older Macs, a Power Mac 7300 w/G3 chip, and a Power Mac G3 tower.
I want to network the two with an ethernet crossover cable, but I don¹t want
to use a monitor on the 7300.  Can this be done without damaging the 7300?
Thanks for any info.

Ever since I upgraded to Messenger 5.0 I've been getting the message
"The system is unavailable now so you have been signed out of Microsoft
Messenger."  It appears about 20 seconds after I sign in...every time.
How can I fix this?  I'd really like to be able to use Messenger again!

Can I connect to my mac running osx using remote desktop from my pc
running xp pro?  Or does it have to be from mac to pc?
Any help would be great

I've had a problem where my MSN messenger has saved conversations in a file,
but erased everything else that was in the file, including old conversations
and Word files. I tried a system recovery to get these files back, but it
didn't work. Is there a way to recover the files ...

I have some Excel files at my work (Windows) which I like to save on my
local disk. Normally this goes well with "Save as" and then choosing my
Macintosh disk. But with some files I get an error: Disk is full.
Those files have a logo inside the Worksheet. When I compress the

I used without problem my msn messenger for mac OS 10.3 (spanish
version) until few weeks ago, when an alert wrote this  "a new version
is available for download..." . today i was downloaded this, and a new
file was created on my computer "messenger.bin.uncompressed"... It is

I think I just may be confused but I cannot get audio with Messenger
for Mac 5.0. I have downloaded it twice but still no audio, either
going out or coming in, with an individual using Messenger on a Windows
machine who has talked to others. On careful reading about Messenger

I am trying to map a normal SMB share to a Windows 2003 member server.  I
can map to any server that was upgraded from Win2K to Win2k3 without
problem.  Servers on the same domain that were fresh installed of 2003 will
not allow a connection.  Nothing appears in the server event ...

Please, I need help.
I have some wav files that need to be converted to a mac format. What
software do I use.
This is not for an Ipod nor is it music. Please any help. What format does

I am trying to access the MusicGiants.com software client which is
based on Windows XP.  It is like iTunes but only for Windows, with
higher quality music which I want to download to my mac and use WMP 9
for mac OS X.  If I create a remote desktop (or possibly ftp server?)

Hopefully some of you experts can help me out with this one.
I have a Powerbook G4 with Mac OS x installed.  I obtained the laptop from
someone and I would like to start from scratch and reinstall the OS.
I have the Mac OS disk and I have ran it as instructed and selected to

I an not install the upgraded tool bar on my MAC.  It will down load,but not
install.
Any suggestions?

Everytime I try to send or receive a jpg or tiff file on messenger, I
get an error message saying that the transfer has failed and that the
recipient has canceled the transfer.  Since I know this is not true -
I'm stumped.

Can I view VCD on my PB 15" ?  I'm running v10.4.3.
Thanks,
Charles