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Chapter: Administration


Adding or changing computers

Setting up a client (work station) in Windows

Autoexec.bat and config.sys

User Account On Server
Regional Settings Properties in Control panel

Regional settings

1. Select “English (Australian)” as the regional setting

- Short date format

2. Short date format MUST BE dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy – ie for example 01/07/00 or 01/07/2000. If you use, for example dd/mmm/yy then the date will print “jul” instead of “07”. The only identifiable problem caused by using this format is in the automatic billing of faxes and disbursements.

3. You must use a “/” as the separator

Miscellaneous tasks
Network configuration
General
Map network drives

6. The next task in network configuration is to add the network drives N:, P:, F:, by clicking "Map Network Drive" in Windows Explorer and connecting

¨ N: to \\galt\network$
¨ P: to \\galt\programs$
¨ F: to \\galt\office$
¨ Q: to "\\galt\masters$ (no longer in general use)
7. Solicitors should also have J: connected to "\\whitestar\cd_rom_j" and K: connected to "\\whitestar\cd_rom_k". You should be sure that you select the option to reconnect these drives at the next logon.

Network printers

Share local drive

9. Share the root folder of the user's C: drive by right-clicking it and selecting Share. In the window that comes up share the folder as WSX$, where WSX is the workstation ID. The password for full access should be 9WSX7 (where WSX is the workstation ID again). Other computers can then connect to the computer's C: drive by running \\WSX\WSX$.

Latam

See separate entry

Word 8

Word 8
Run setup from the "Legal Word" menu, and change the appropriate fields.

Notes

Sub topic: Practice directions