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Struggled to find an appropriate forum, so going for this one..... In your school who is responsible for filling up paper and toner in printers? Could I also ask how many printers? The reason behind this, we have 10 MFP with a follow me solution, with only 1 ICT technician, now the school is saying he needs to fill paper and toner (which takes about 45mins to 1 hour). Thanks in advanced

My advice would be go back to your old boss and tell him you made a mistake and want your old job back.. Lots of love, Your old boss

You know one of those things where you just look and look and cannot seem to find the answer.... well here I am.... We have two Vlans, Admin network (Vlan 170) and Wireless Guests (Vlan 120) - Actually there are loads more, curriculum, AuthorityEdge, CCTV, e-Registration, Cashless catering etc etc but we will stick to these for now. My HP core is set as follows... (I ommited the tagged/untagged details) ip default-gateway 10.100.15.254 ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.100.15.254 router pim vlan 170 name "Management" ip address 172.24.0.1 255.255.254.0 ip helper-address 10.100.0.10 ip igmp vlan 120 name "WrlesGuests" no ip address 10.100.14.1 255.255.252.0 ip helper-address 10.100.0.10 I then have a smoothwall on 10.100.15.254/255.255.255.0 sitting in both vlans My global catalog server/dns/dhcp is 10.100.0.10 My Question how come I can ping the smoothwall on vlan 170 but not on 120?

Accessing SIMS data isn't all that bad, since all the data is just stored in an SQL database. I wouldn't suggest writing back data until you are confident on how the data is manipulated, but as soon as you get the hang of it, its not too bad. We have created some T-SQL that export data from SIMS into our learning platform automatically every night. The only writing back I do is replacing data - not creating new data, just in case! i.e. We use SIMS for our reports, the staff can just enter a number which corresponds to a comment bank (hence creates the data in SIMS) then our code just replaces that number with the correct comment. Hope that helps, and if you need any more info please just ask. Regards

We have a VPN connection to our server that works and authenticates fine to Server 1. Server 1 IP = 10.100.0.16 (255.255.252.0) Server 1 is tagged in VLAN1 and VLAN2 Server 2 IP = 10.100.13.8 (255.255.255.192) Server 2 is only tagged in VLAN2 What I want to do is when my external computer connects to the VPN I want it to get an IP addresss from VLAN2 with access to VLAN2 as well so I can access server 2. Any ideas on how or where I start to do this?

Since it is Christmas, time of good will and all that, I have decided to share some interesting ideas with you guys in the hope that if anyone else has any good logon ideas they will post back. This will populate the Computer description in AD with the current logged on user (along with time logged on) then in the location field it will put the last user who logged on. Logon.vbs Set objSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") strDomain = objSystemInfo.DomainShortName set objNetwork = createobject("Wscript.Network") strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName strUserName = objNetwork.UserName strComputerDN = getComputerDN(strComputer,strDomain) Set objComp=GetObject("LDAP://" & strComputerDN) if instr(objComp.Description,UCase(strUserName)) = 0 then objComp.Location = objComp.Description End if objComp.Description = "Logged On : " & Now & " - " & UCase(strUserName) objComp.SetInfo Logoff.vbs Set objSystemInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") strDomain = objSystemInfo.DomainShortName set objNetwork = createobject("Wscript.Network") strComputer = objNetwork.ComputerName strUserName = objNetwork.UserName strComputerDN = getComputerDN(strComputer,strDomain) Set objComp=GetObject("LDAP://" & strComputerDN) objComp.Description = replace(objComp.Description,"-",", Logged Off : " & now & " - ") objComp.SetInfo

Yey - well its now 5 minutes closer to the end of the day anyway.

You got the first few really quick - but nope D is wrong

Depends on what you require - beauty about RM ones are they are all in one... providing a space saving solution. The best I would reccommend is to buy some big old iMACs with widescreen 27" displays, then Boot camp them to load windows 7 instead of Mac OS - but hey that would just cost a fortune. There are many all-in-ones out there now which look good, but for money, you can always get a Midi-tower and seperate screen with better specs. Just realised another post without actually giving an answer :-(

We have made a few questions for our quiz, thought I would post them here for you guys and gals to have a go if you fancy it. http://www.josephrowntree.co.uk/1.png

You need to first install a PXE boot server - 3Com PXE server is as good as any, a TFTP server, then using ghost create a multi driver disk and load it into your TFTP server. Not sure the rules here about sending you the software, but if you start with that I am sure I can help you out once you get the client booting to PXE. On the other hand though, WDS seems to be the way forward. We deploy all our windows this way now and works every time, although I did like Ghost Enterprise when I was using that, it would re-image and join the demain and everything for you.

Are you using exchange? if so this could easily be done. Check out ADModify.net (its free as well)

Nothing is impossible. There are pro's and con's with this, your technician is correct in that she may have to manually restore the program/settings everytime that she re-builds one of the netbooks and yes this is not ideal, since in the world of ICT most of us are lazy. There are methods that can be explored to ensure that these settings remain, but that is really down to your ICT technical staff to explore. I have 2 technicians who work for me and we operate a can-do attitude, if a member of staff asks for something, they get it no matter how much trouble. I don't think there is much point approaching your tech support with this, perhaps if you have already done this then maybe it is time to gentle go to the top, get the head's backing perhaps. Remember if you upset an ICT technician they can make your life hell. Again being careful not to upset, your LEA should have someone there who has the technical knowledge that could help (printing off these forum responses prob isnt going to help your case too much as they can just say - they dont know what they are talking about) I know not exactly helpful, but I hope it gives you a start.

WSH is the way forward, if you want us to write one for you let us know, but its a good learning curve to just google WSH and filesystemobject and try it out yourself.

I have a logon script (based on HTA) which does just this, I am home now, but will dig the code out and post it here tomorrow - it also re-asks the user to accept every 60 minutes, as there was a case in another school where staff got off by saying they logged on in the morning but then forgot what the message said by the afternoon.