Sharepoint open word no connectivity with the server

Posted by on February 14, 2012 No comments

 

I ran into a problem with opening sharepoint documents it gave a “no connectivity with the server” pop up.

It ended up being a Fortinet load balancer setting of SSL persistance.

 

Access to the path ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS’ is denied

Posted by on September 13, 2011 No comments

This is on a Moss 2007 farm. I found lots of good posts to this error on google, but I needed to give more permisson to the etc folder than what these posts say to do. I just gave wss_admin_wpg and wss_wpg full control to the etc folder and the error went away and the hosts file has new entries.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/archive/2007/05/05/the-case-of-the-disappearing-hosts-file.aspx

http://chve.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/eventid-6482-reason-access-to-the-path-cwindowssystem32driversetchosts-is-denied/

ddwrt prompts for username and password

Posted by on September 4, 2011 No comments

I upgraded my wireless router with ddwrt and after a 30/30/30 reset I put in a new user name and password. But ddwrt kept prompting me for username and password every where I clicked.

I fixed it by closing out of IE, opening it up and clearing out all cache and cookies in IE.

URL Rewrite doesn’t show up in IIS 7

Posted by on September 1, 2011 No comments

After you install IIS 7 Url Rewrite, the URL Rewrite icon will not show up in IIS Manager. You have to close out of the IIS Manager and open it back up and then it will appear.

Mac doesn’t remember wifi network

Posted by on August 21, 2011 No comments

I solved it by deleting my wifi network, deleting the wifi network from my keychain and re-adding the wifi network.

I deleted out my network (click on wifi icon in the tool bar, ‘Open network preferences’, ‘Advanced…’ highlight the network and click the minus button.)

Then I deleted my wifi network out of the keychain. (Applications, Utilities, Keychain Access) right click on the wifi network and select delete.

Then I rebooted and clicked on the wifi icon and joined my wifi network.

* I had two wifi networks in my keychain. I had changed settings in my wifi router before this started happening, I messed with the security mode.

Excel slow to open over the network

Posted by on August 18, 2011 1 comment

An office 2003 update creates this problem. Here is the fix for Excel 2003.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570623

I did the registry update but the path wasn’t right. I changed it here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\

 

Windows 7 Mac keyboard mouse doesn’t work

Posted by on August 17, 2011 No comments

I couldn’t get windows 7 and my Mac mini to share my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

How I got the Mac keyboard and magic mouse to work with windows 7 bootcamp was to disconnect the keyboard and mouse in my Mac OS then in windows 7 connect them. Then go back to Mac OS and reconnect them.

Mac OS lion doesn’t like it when the bluetooth keyboard and mouse is connected in windows 7 but window 7 doesn’t care if my Mac was connected.

Unable to delete: . Directory name must only contain alphanumeric characters and no spaces

Posted by on August 8, 2011 No comments

In Joomla, deleting sample data could not delete media manager “sampledata” folder. I had to go into command line and manually delete it.

An error occurred while updating NextGEN Gallery: Could not create directory. /Web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/.

Posted by on August 6, 2011 No comments

After upgrading wordpress to the newest version a update to a plugin failed to install

After Googling it. . .this guys fix didn’t help me.

http://beyondtheledge.com/blog/could-not-create-directory-issue-in-wordpress-a-php-5-2-5-bug/

What I ended up doing was deleting the nextgen-gallery folder and re-installing the plugin.