Posts Tagged Windows XP
Offline files on a DFS mapped drive
Posted by Terje Skulstad in Software, Windows on October 14th, 2009
Seems KB940648 is valid for more than the KB says. Experienced problems with offline files on a DFS mapped network drive with Windows XP SP3. When the machine went offline and you tried to open the file from the Offline files folder or the mapped drive I got
“Configuration information could not be read from the domain controller, either because the machine is unavailable, or access has been denied”
I found a couple of KB’s related to DFS problems with offline files, but they where all for SP1 or SP2. Anyway, I installed the hotfix and the problem was solved. I can now open and save files to both Offline files folder and the mapped drive (only the folder structure for the offline files visible of course)
The KB’s that described similar problems for SP1/SP2 are KB937357 , KB893231(which both actually is a better description of my problem)
Outlook 2003 – the famous red x
Posted by Terje Skulstad in Software on June 25th, 2009
If you read this post, you probably have a client computer where the html mail in Outlook 2003 shows a red x where either the picture is a link or embedded in the mail. A number of web sites has the solution if we’re talking about the embedded pictures. You could then probably follow the instructions for deleting the registry key for the OutlookSecureTemp folder referenced in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/817878 or clean out the folder manually.
If your problem is related to images that are link to an Internet URL, you should check your IE settings. Where I work, we use a transparent proxy, so IE is set to detect settings automatically. This is accomplished with WPAD so you don’t have to to anything on the client. What I’ve found out is that Outlook is unable to detect this setting on a couple of clients, but if you insert the proxy address manually in the Intenret settings the picture link works. IE itself works flawless.
Haven’t found anything on the Microsoft KB concerning this, but seems to be a bug in the Outlook 2003 software. If you have any idea what could cause this feel free to post it.