Keith, Please let us know what version of database software you have. It makes a lot of difference as to how to restore an old db over the top.
Regards James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Antoine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Howto with NT problems > > First some background; I have helped out computerwise for about 15 years with > a local charitable organisation, building re-building and software. in the > last few of years they have expanded to 16 machines 4 of which are NT4 > used in a button/phone alarm system for the disabled and aged. They use a > very cobbled together system from an English company called Tunstall. The > system sits on NT and is called vision, whereby clients can call in an > emergency either from 'fall indicators' or button press. > > Now we have a server and 2 workstations netted. It is necessary to backup the > database on the server to one of the WS regularily. However the machines are > aging and need constant care, so in the past 3 weeks I have built and > installed ghosted software to 3 'newly' built computers. There is a 4th > machine which can take over from the online 3, it is also slow etc, when the > time comes to exchange the new for the old, so as I can maintenance them. Or > like last week when a cpu fan karked it and needed replacement pronto. I know > as much about NT as I do about being an astronaut, thats where you good > people come in. > > Query #1 > > We cannot change the computers over until we backup the database, already > acheived via the vision software to cd, and re-write it to the new server and > the single machine we use during the change over. We CANNOT be offline, jusy > in case there is an emergency. > We now have the cd in the machine to write it to but whatever I do i cannot > overwrite the datybase as it says its in USE. We have tried just in NT and > also in vision, which is a misnomer, because they can backup but not > overwrite. They forgot about the latter. So how do I in NT 'UNLOCK' the > database so as we can overwrite the database ? > > Query #2 > > There are tons of manuals re the vsision and anything in NT related to vision > but there is nothing to tell us how to change ADMINISTRATOR password. I > assume that one has to login to change the database in as administrator, but > they passwwords we have do not work. The agents here in Oz have gone > commercial themselves and now getting info from them is very hard as we are > now in competition, dirty pool. So how does one set logins ? > > Could you mail this to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and also cc me a copy, > would you also couch it in very simple terms SxS style. Many thanks, as I am > so glad that this list is now multi OS, that one is not afraid to ask M$ > queries from disfunctional geeks such as you lot! > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To those who have been in harms way, to those that have made the > sacrifice in humanities name. At the going down of the sun and > in the morning I shall remember them. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Keith Antoine aka "skippy" > 18 Arkana St The Gap Queensland 4061 Australia PH 16 7 33002161 > Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer : Knowall > > _______________________________________________ > http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
