Computer Repair Tips for everyday users

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Can't send emails out in Verizon

If you can receive emails but not send then check your smtp port settings.

Verizon has blocked port 25 and is now using 587.


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Mac with Paralles Vista Printer Access Denied

I recently had a client's MAC with Parallels running Vista crash, bad hard drive. I did not originally set this up but have learn what a nightmare this can be.

The Mac tech replaced the drive and restored from the Time Machine, which is a back program. What sucks is if you get a backup with a corrupt VM then you have to recreate and do again till you get a good one. You can't just pull data from the Parallels VM as it is encapsulated. So I set out to do a repair on anything that was not working. Found issue with:
Printer Name "ACCESS DENIED". Found that the Mac shares had to be taken out and re shared. Now we can see the machine and shares but still no access, removed the printers, ran Bonjour it was corrupt, reinstalled that and ran, wallah, printing again.

Get into Quickbooks and find another problem. When you press the print icon it does nothing. Had to do a search for the QBPRINT.QBP, rename to QBPRINT.OLD and start Quickbooks again. Wallah, printing from Quickbooks again.

MAC is a great product and I like Windows, but it just doesn't pay to go both ways, :-p

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