Finally talked to Gene today, he had been trying to reach me but couldn't. The email we sent had boucned, and since I don't have a phone yet, a coworker took it and then gave me the number. I called it, left a message, and then got lucky when he called me back and I was talking to a coworker near a phone.

I have to learn how to relax. My coworker is trying to rush things as quickly as possible, so quickly that it causes me to jump like a jumping bean, and causing so much stress that I cannot sleep at night. Even the lawyers gave me more time to develop stuff. Plus she is only giving me small pieces and I don't know how the puzzel fits together yet. It is the third week, I got to major products done, and am working on the Database conversion, only to find out that the Access database that she gave me, may differ from the one she is currently using. She claims all she did was change one table, but a query that works on my copy of Access, is missing a refernce or two on hers. I think I asked her three times for the most recent copy, but I think I have a copy from 9/16 and 9/18 and I think she made changes on 9/20 and 9/23, but I wouldn't know because I don't have her copy from her hard drive. When I talk to her she just looks at her screen and types and types, and zones me out. I don't know if she is listening to me, or what. Then of course it is my fault when I don't get the information I need. She complains that everything I send her is a "book" and I have to cut it down or else it won't be read. Which I tried to use here and it ticked people off. You guys wanted more detail on the issues I had been having.

If I can just figure out how to communicate with my coworker, I think most of the problems will be gone. She is six months pregnate and ready to leave in December, so I don't know if that is her personality or body chemestry changing when she snaps at me for unpluging a cable on the test workstation so I can see the error that it gets and then code for it. So that the person getting the email doesn't walk up to me and ask "What does Error 76: Too Many Files mean?" and VB says "Too many files" and the MSDN says "Bad or invalid password to network share" I didn't code all 80 pages of Microsoft error codes, good gosh they keep inveting them and a lot are "Undocumented" so I cannot just look them up, and unless I simulate a situation which can commonly happen in a network hospital, we won't be able to figure it out until it happens. So I spent 15 extra minutes to unplug a cable, run an update, and see what error it gets so I could code it so that the people getting the email have an idea of what went wrong. If for some chance, oh whatever, I may not be there to look up the error code for them and they have an old list that says something else, they aren't going to know what to do until I come back. In the meantime the client may notice that the update didn't work, and an hour has passed and as soon as I get out of the meeting with my boss or coworker or from a doctor's appointment, or heck even from trying to fix development issues, the client will be upset that we coldn't fix the update issues. Why? Because "Too many files" confused our support staff and their error code list only goes up to 36 for some reason? PS some of the errors I got on database issues are negative numbers! [link|http://arronax.utmb.edu/msgnet/faq.htm|[link|http://arronax.utmb.edu/msgnet/faq.htm|http://arronax.utmb...gnet/faq.htm]]

Thanks Bill, I'll let you know how it works out. Hope I still have a job.

while I may not have access rights to turn on auditing, she might, and get mad that I copied source code from her hard drive. I am better off pulling an older version from a place she put it on the server and then using that to figure out what she is doing. I was able to get a Form that way for VB for one of her projects off of the VB share on the network. I think I can make my form look like hers, or use her form and modify it. I'll just rewrite the code so that it works, what I got was unfinished and a prototype. I'll clean it up.

You know that I just don't go poking around on someone's hard drive over a network.

Of course it is handy to stick this line of code into a Batch file:

net use %2: \\\\%1\\c$

But I wouldn't use it. Name the batch file as nnmap.bat and call it like this:

nnmap IPAddress X

Where IPAddress is the workstation IP address and X is the drive letter that you want to map to. Most networks leave in that "C$" share with group "Everyone", don't ask me why, but on my networks I remove that share and put in a different one with restricted access.

But no, even if I do know how to use the net.exe command, I would not abuse it that way. I advise anyone reading this to not use it, unless they really really had to.

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