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The default gateway is used for addresses that the machines doesn't know about. Local traffic is exactly that local, anything within the subnet mask. The packets going to local traffic doesn't need routing. The packets to the internet will be tagged by Web Browsers (etc), and will be sent to the proxy server specified. If you have a "proxy" server that has in internal IP for local traffic, and an external IP for LA bound traffic, this will be doing NAT. So you don't need a gateway. I found that RRAS was amazingly crappy in Windows 2000, it only remembered some machines, I think it was a DHCP lease issue, but I never really sorted it on RRAS, I switched to linux, which worked, and then I changed over to just using a proxy. If you want a Linux server to do the same job it takes far less time to setup, but it is easier to do with specialised hardware (Cisco PIX / Nextscreen / Router). -==- If you want a temporary solution that will work. Remove the RRAS - the issue was probably due to DHCP leases; Check that the proxy server has an internal and external IP on separate cards; Set the proxy to be the name of the proxy server (make sure this is set in DNS correctly to the internal proxy IP); The only problem with this, will be dependent upon how the LA serve their intranet servers to you. --==-- Contact your LA/ISP, and tell them how many: 1. student workstations you have now; 2. staff workstations (if on separate range); 3. network infractructure (printers / routers / switches / WAPs); 4. wireless clients; 5. projected expansion, of all the above; And explain exactly why you need these extra IPs, and you'd rather change over now, than two years down the line.

I dunno on your network, we have a central PIX/Router, to manage our VLANs and stuff... So this is our gateway. I ended up having no default gateway on proxy servers. As long as it knows where the local stuff is, and where the upstream proxy is, the servers will sort it out, as all requests go the right way.

Phew! I'd just given out a few Vista laptops, as long as it is just the olde 16bit stuff that doesn't work, as we don't use this anymore. I wouldn't give out Office 2007 yet though, there's converters out there.

"The sky at night" was just on TV talking about this. It looks like it could be fun!

I hide the "Logoff" button, so they need to CTRL-ALT-DEL. I got confused comments at the start, "how do we logoff", but they eventually picked it up (mostly).

Does anyone know ? I keep looking around, but I can't get this info. We're a few years away from it at the moment, 2012-2014 (tranche D). But that's not that far away, I've been working here for that long. :!: I can find figures for the ICT stuff: The CAPEX (Capital expenditure, IE year 1), is £1450 per student; The OPEX (Operating expenditure, IE years 2,3,4, etc) is £110 (per student ?); Aso the Gov't is spending £2.2bn per year, or £45bn overall. But the actual total payments to schools/LAs is not stated anywhere I can find, either as CAPEX or OPEX. So, does anyone have any ideas ?

It shouldn't make any difference. Hopefully, the LEP / LA / School, should be able to state whether they want existing laptops to be support or not. They should also be able to state whether they want laptops provided for all (relevant) staff. I would also hope the new BSF scheme would replace laptops at the same rate, but I guess it will come down to how good the schools/LA BSF co-ordinators are. You should really have someone at the school who will be responsible for the BSF process, and it would be best to give them a list of all the issues that you can raise.

If they think that there is a 'significant level of risk', as they put it, they must have some analysis report somewhere. Either they produced it, or they had someone produce it for them... or they found it on the interweb. Ask to see the study that they have done to back up this claim, and phrase it in such a way as to suggest that you don't believe that they'd make this stuff up.

When we first moved across to the LEA broadband, they gave us a range of 1024 IPs, and I said this was insufficient. I asked, and eventually, they changed us from this 4 * 24bit addresses to 16 * 24bit addresses. So now we have upto 4096 IPs. If you ask them, and badger them, and badger them, they might give you a larger range. But in the meantime. Check your DHCP setting: Is the default gateway set correctly ? I'm guessing that if the NSlookup works right, you can also ping the proxy server ? You don't need the windows routing, as the proxy server should do NAT. So check the routing on the proxy server, we have had similar situations with this, and I have had to remove the default gateway on this server, use "ROUTE" from a command prompt, "ROUTE PRINT" to see the current routing table. I still use MS Proxy 2, for the staff network, as it still works fine. Easier solution: Stick a sign up in reception/staff room saying: "Internet Down, use only possible from machines 1 to 4"

Or, you could create a script that imports this registry file... ...and then run this at startup (or logon).

Actually, doing a search for "sticky keys" made me quite nervous about what I would find....

Google is your fiend... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=registry+value+for+sticky+keys&btnG=Google+Search&meta= http://www.adminscripteditor.com/forum/tm.asp?m=8304 Just remember that this only changes for new profiles.. as it says. I _thought_ there was a setting in Group Policies to switch this off, but I don't have access to any Windows Servers from home anymore....

I'm all for making life easier for the staff (to an extent), but the students should have to muddle through things, as otherwise they'll never learn (in My opinion, our management have different ideas, and I do as I'm asked/told). IT is difficult, sometimes, if they get a job they might need to work out how the corporate IT systems work, and they'll only be able to do this well, if they have been able to figure out how the educational IT systems work. BUt, this is off topic, and I'm sure we could discuss this elsewhere, as I'm sure it has been already... We're supposed to be telling me the best way I can backup the staff laptop data..... hey.... I have downloaded the trial for smsync, as someone (whos' name is on the previous page, and so I can't see at the moment), suggested. It looks quite good, I have set it to sync up my laptop docs to the student file server (the one with several 100 gigs of space free). I like the way it keeps advising me that it is synchronising automatically, but I suspect other people get annoyed with this sort of pop-ups. I think if I can work out some sort of remote access system (webdav or FTP) for the staff accounts, then I can get it to sync up across the 'net too. -yay one more thing I need to sort out.... preferably before September.

If you use Group Policies, there is an option to change permissions on stuff in there.... You should be able to set permissions to a user group.... I have done this for some wierdly crappy software in the past.

If you do: net use * /d this should drop all network shares, assuming you don't have any files open from the shares, I run this at logon (and logoff.... actually), to make sure that I can map correctly. actually, if you want to check the switches on net use, you can run a command prompt and type: net use /? The problem I always come across in BAT files is that it uses the "command.com" NOT the "cmd.com" to run stuff, which is very inconvenient sometimes. I am switching over a lot of my existing logon scripts from BAT files to have fewer VBS files. And I don't use outlook or exchange at school.

We recently replaced some of our white/grey cables, with multicoloured jobbies. Now we have "pretty" tangles instead of white ones... ( We now have one colour per group/VLAN ).

@Calapso Yes, I find software does this all the time... solution 1: reg2adm converter from NUTS http://yizhar.mvps.org/ (and elsewhere) this will do it; solution 2: If you know VBS scripts you can import a registry file and run this in the startup scripts (very much neater); Both methods assume you can get a reg file. When I need to send these out, I try to send them BEFORE I desploy the MSI.

We got some machines for the Art dept that have card readers, and I had the problem whereby they used up the first 4 drives, which really bugged me. So I created an extra local disk ( e: ), at about 16mb; Created 4 folders media1 to media4; Went into the disk management and firstly removed the current drive letter; Then mapped each one to a folder ( e:\media1, etc), rather than a drive letter; I then created a link on the local "all users" desktop to the E: drive; We hide the C: partition, but they I wanted to stop people saving stuff to the E drive, they still will do, but the small size will stop this. I'm going to write a startup script for these machines that will erase any files in the root of E:, and folders that aren't called mediax.

Hmm.. I usually use Firefox ver.....dunno, and I get the Axe thing icon. When I load up into IE7 or Opera, I get the "EG" Logo. Yeah, must be an issue with my cookies too.... I'm not flushing them, as otherwise I'll lose all my passwords....

Heh, the software I was talking about was Sibelius, but they've stopped using it now. Damnit, I didn't know they had a License server, but then again at the time the music dept were based off the main site, so they had a flakey connection to our servers and the internet in general. This would have been a bit excessive for the 6 machines and 4 laptops they had anyway. @Dos_box I still think you should threaten them, and tell us what it's called. And I would defintely look at ways of getting around their registration.

Nah, nuke and pave !

Dunno, but http://www.synthesis.ch/ do a client / server thingy. ... but then I'm not completely sure what DirectPush is for...

I started tentatively re-introducing a mandatory profile to our network. The stuff I made sure I had (by adding into the registry), the: 1) removing the shutdown, and changing it to the "what do you want to do now ?"; 2) changing the default screen resolution to be a standard 1024x768; 3) I removed the user name stuff, as otherwise they were all going to have my name; In the end I took it off... can't remember why...

If they are introducing a standardised pay scheme across L(E)As, this it would be nice to see what these figures are. I'm after getting a pay rise/promotion at work, and I'd like to know what I should (can) get paid... or at least con out of them

I have installed some Music software (can't remember what it was called), that had to be registered online once installed... and we needed to do this per machine, and it was limited to the number of licenses we had. We found out, that we could then image this machine... problem solved. We install it onto the first Music assigned computer, and then image this out to the others (I haven't exceeded the number of licenses). The music dept have since moved to Audacity... which is Open Source, so I installed it across the network (or, rather, I am in the process of doing so). Check to see if you can "fiddle" it, liken this, telling them what you're doing (to cover your arse). The only issue you might get is if it registers online every time you run it. [None of this will work if you use RIS not Images to push out software] I'd also tell them about the Edugeek forum, and you'll be naming and shaming if they don't sort their license models... and none of us will ever buy it...