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
