Jaan Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 Long story short, we have been changing S:\ permissions and removing the s:\ entirely for staff that don't need it. We use Solus4 to deploy so "most" of the stuff goes through the database, so no S: needed. However, i've started to make security groups for the relevant areas and some of the older software is being a little more problematic. Are legacy apps, like Exams Organiser, Options, or Nova still the prefered modules used by schools, do capital even support them.... or should we be using a more modern alternative? Some of these look NT 95 era! Just for transparency, we've normally had a dedicated SIMS manager here that looked after sims and the servers that solely ran it. I have little to no experience with SIMS\CAPITA. I don't really know what i'm talking about lol
bobsmith Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 Exams Organiser, Options and Nova-T6 are all still current (as far as Capita is concerned....) and the relevant people should have access to them. Exams Organiser is Windows 3.11 era!
matt40k Posted January 25, 2019 Posted January 25, 2019 Generally teachers don't need a S drive, just the back office staff, then they need full control over Exams, CTF, Nova, Attend, B2B, Census \ Workforce Census then any Finance folders. Important its Full control, not just modify - stupid I know but the older software has problems. Attendances letter I remember being one really weird one.
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 Thanks for the info all, Almost there now... just struggling with options.
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 options online is a possibility for you? I've already method this to the SLT team here. Not sure what the financial situation is but i'm pushing for the cloud hosted stuff moving forward.
Linfit Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 The missing password error for options is usually because it can't see S:\SIMS and that's usually because its not set correctly in the sims.ini file. If its working on some workstations but not others check if there is a sims.ini in the relevant users AppData folder and it there is delete it.
ajp233 Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 @jahilton2002 SIMS Options Online is a free module
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) @jahilton2002 SIMS Options Online is a free module eh what!? awesome.... i'll check it out! thanks! Edited May 6, 2022 by ZeroHour
Linfit Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 @jahilton2002 SIMS Options Online is a free module And its price reflects its capabilities and completeness.
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 And its price reflects its capabilities and completeness. lol ah right.....
bobsmith Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 It's actually pretty slick and works well enough that we got 240 kids through it. I'm not one for praising Crapita's work but sometimes they get it mostly right. The world's probably gonna end now.....
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 I Just need to get the current module working now really. we can transition to online later in the year. Does anybody know what NTFS permissions the user of the options module needs on the S: ? I only started getting the error (post 4) in options once S: drive permission were amended to satisfy GDPR requirements. I've obviously missed something for Options. cheers
matt40k Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 Options users will need full control of the folder then (s:\sims\options or whatever) .
Jaan Posted January 28, 2019 Author Posted January 28, 2019 (edited) Tried this, but still get the error. For giggles, I give the test account full access to the share riot and it works. So deffo a permission issue. Edited January 28, 2019 by Jaan
matt40k Posted January 28, 2019 Posted January 28, 2019 Try running https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
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