=> Subject: RE: [NF] Troubleshooting => => It's not a fox issue, but one of troubleshooting. I built => several pcs recently w/ windows xp to upgrade one clients => old 98 machines on his network. I installed them and they => came up fine, running dhcp and getting an ip address, => hitting the internet, antivirus all loaded, MS Office, and => all the usual stuff. Some of the machines had intel Celeron => chips, others had amd chips and all were working fine. => Except - a couple of seemingly minor nits. The server is => windows 2003 running active directory. None of the new => machines could join the domain and some of the machines, => when pulling up Excel documents were just pigs. It would => take about a minute to open a document across the network. => The problem would worsen if you tried to view the => headers/footers in Excel. => => At first I thought the problems might be related, but later => found that wasn't true. The inability to join the domain => problem had to do with the dns server. Once I straightened => that out and re-scavenged the database, all was good. => => That left the other "issue". Printers can be a pain. As I => was thinking through the problem, it occurred to me that the => only machines I was having a problem with were connected to => a brother laser printer, which was being shared off a => computer. I set the default printer to the other hp laserjet => on the network, and the files opened immediately. Apparently => Excel binds the printer to the documents; much like fox => does/can with the frx in a report. => Anyway, I just thought some of y'all might benefit from this => little tidbit in the future. => => John
John, if you think about this in terms of the WYSIWYG paradigm, you will see there can be no other explanation. You just happened to hit a really bad case of this in terms of response time. More often it will happen that a spreadsheet nicely formatted on one computer will not look the same when it is opened on another computer with different display/print resources. That's why I invented the portable document format several years ago. The whole point is to preserve the cosmetic appearance of something when moving from one environment to another. <g> B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
