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Hi all, One of the students in my school created a Google Presentation using the 'Wave' theme. All of the slides show the theme background when editing, but only the first slide shows the theme background when presenting. This happens using both Chrome and Firefox. In IE, the slides show the theme background(!) but the transitions/animations don't work. I have downloaded the presentation as a .pptx and run the slideshow, and the theme background displays on every slide. I then re-uploaded the .pptx to Drive, converted it back to a Google presentation and am having the same problem, only the first slide shows the theme background! I have applied a different theme, with the same result. Re-applying the 'Wave' theme gets the same result. I have made sure to click the 'apply to all slides' button frequently, but nothing changes. I've posted this on Google's product forums last week but haven't received any response as yet, so any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Ian

Hi. We have recently had a new windows server 2008 server in the school which we are using as a WDS server. While experimenting with unattended installation using a sysprep.inf file I encountered a problem. The file works but it will not accept our volume license key. The error I receive is "The product ID you entered is not valid". Before I captured the image I run sysprep using the "Use minisetup" and "reseal" options. I'm thinking that the installation is somehow become an OEM install and is asking for an OEM key. Any ideas? Thanks

nope, our kids couldn't spell telnet, let alone use it! The admin passwords were set by County when the switches were installed, there aren't any shortcuts to the admin web interface anywhere, & we've not got any pupils that are that up with IT that they'd realise there was a web interface to some networking devices... That's Plan A for tomorrow morning...

The cabinet is right above a teacher's desk - one of our stricter/most respected teachers - so I've no worries about pupils getting to it. The switches are "limited managed", whatever that means (my guess is cheap!)... I've tried different patch cables as well...

Hmm, that's a thought - I'll try bouncing the switch before anyone gets in tomorrow just in case the auto-sense/auto-negotiate have got their knickers in a twist - I'd not really given much thought to the switch, working on the basis that it was new in in February and every other port was working fine. Not convinced that the reboot will fix things, though, because I've patched the room into the other switch in that cabinet & still get no connection. Still, stranger things have happened... Sorry, I should have said Yep I have, & I'm still getting no connection...

Nope. There's been a fair bit of work in there just recently, but a) nothing electrical/electronic & b) nothing before the network connection initally went down & we had the wall box replaced. Yep, no connection at all. I've even checked that the NICs haven't randomly become disabled (which has happened to me before!) but they're quite happy, just sat there, smugly displaying "network cable unplugged". I wonder if the County Network team have performed their ritual sacrifices to the Networking Gods this month...

From the PC to the wall socket c.14m (I know, I know, but teachers will insist on moving things around!), and from the Wall socket to the switch c.34m...

The network connection in one of my classrooms dropped several weeks back. As the classroom was barely used, it wasn't a high priority. Anyway, doing the diagnostics pointed to the wall socket being faulty. That's now been resolved but I've still got no network connection in the room. I've bunged a LAN tester on (nothing fancy, just continuity/wire order) and it shows that the cabling is fine from the plug going into the back of the PC all the way up to the plug going into the switch (i.e. all wires in the cabling connected & in the correct order). The network is Cat5e (& I use 568B wiring order everywhere if that makes a difference). I've tried 4 different ports on 2 different switches, 2 different PCs, & new cables on either side of the run from classroom to switch, but still get no joy. No life on the NIC LEDs or the switch LEDs. Nothing. Nada. Nix. Zilch. Not a sausage. Any ideas? Ian

I can hardly wait!!! I'd still like to crack this one as well, though - must be the masochist in me!! :-D

David, what an extremely generous offer, thank you. I've PMd details. webman, yep, all correct...

Hi webman, I've tried putting the / at the start of option 67, tried the paths to the 3 pxelinux.0 files I've got on the server, and also tried prefixing the root path with the server name, but still no joy. Hi David, I don't have a spare switch I could use, or second NICs for the servers, I haven't been given my budget yet so can't buy the kit, and the Head wants this working last week!

and I'm getting really frustrated now. We run a Windows network in the school, with one 2K3 Server serving all our PCs. I want to build a Linux thin-client solution for the new library we've just had (for many reasons). I've built 2 servers (1 root server, 1 application server) as per instructions here, here, and here. The client would pick up the Linux server, but then (after much tweaking with network settings/dhcp configs/nbd-server configs/etc, it got to the point where it would ignore the static IP addresses I'd allocated & pick one from my Win dhcp server. So I then uninstalled dhcp3-server on my Linux server, and tweaked dhcp on my Windows server (instructions here, dhcp settings attached). Now, I'm stuck with the client requesting an IP address & just being ignored by the dhcp server. I know that it's going to be me missing a tiny config setting somewhere, but I'm out of ideas (&so's Google!). Any help you could give me would be great. Many thanks Ian

Have done, Chris, thank you

After replying to sted I had another mooch around & the sub-directory (of the main share) I store my MSIs in was set up as a share in it's own right, with full control for 'Everyone'. However, I've added read access for 'Everyone' to the main share permissions & it works!!!!! WoooooHooooooooo!!! Many thanks for your help chaps...

Sorry - was juggling several dozen things yesterday & having brain-f4rts all over the place... Full control for school admin/staff/pupil security groups.