Ken's book must be good. It rates at 4½ stars from 221 reviews on Amazon!

Hey, let's give Ken a well-deserved plug here: Amazon has it for 36% off and...

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;" Ecclesiastes 9:10

Well done, Steve. Many of us always appreciate integrity.

-Paulie

WOW! What a response from everyone! I was hoping one or two would reply. I've got enough here to write a book! This is great. Thanks to all of you...

WOW! What a response from everyone! I was hoping one or two would reply. I've got enough here to write a book! This is great. Thanks to all of you...

Thanks! Me too.

FIGURED IT OUT. When they migrated to Windows 2000, the DNS didn't get configured correctly. I could ping their servers with the IP address once I'm past the firewall with...

Sure did. This still happened when they were still running 7.0. I'm using TCP/IP, and I tried both the server name and the server's IP address. I upgraded to 2000's...

Very good information. Thanks to all of you, especially for answering so quickly!

Thanks Yul. For Pete's sake, why doesn't the install wizard just PROMPT you for an Admin password, and do away with the blasted sa bit, right?

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Amen. I appreciate the insight. No way I'm going to throw on that servoce pack and hope. After my install and once that's stable, I'll approach them for a designated...

Good advice... thanks!!!

Thanks Omen... another great tip. Wow, this question has raised some great feedback!

That's a good chunk of advice, Antares. Thanks!! (I was wondering when you were going to show up...)

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Thanks Clive! I was thinking of starting the main file at 100MB with a filegrowth of 60MB (or should I just do 100MB?). I figure it'll take them 18-24 months...

Good advice... Thanks!