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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.

What I would do is send all the domain names to your webserver, then depending on the host header show a different website. So I would make... vle.theockendonacademy.com point at c:\wwwroot\vle\index.htm remote.theockendonacademy.com point at c:\wwwroot\remote\index.htm and so on.... this way your nameserver side of things will not need changing in the future if there are any changes (as this often takes 24 hours to update) then just create a simple redirect web page at each of those locations to point redirect straight to https://213.38.46.81/RDWeb etc

We have 8 Ricoh printers with RFID usb scanner units on them (you can use codes on the keypad if you dont have the cash for a card unit) then the rest is all software, we use Equitrac.

Our normal switches are 2510's, our PoE switches are 2910al and the Core switch is a 8212zl.. this is the set up on the Core, but then similar on the other switches trunk C10,D10 Trk2 Trunk ip default-gateway 10.100.15.254 ip routing vlan 1 name "DEFAULT_VLAN" untagged E1-E4,F1-F4,G21-G24,Trk2 no untagged A1-A24,B1-B24,C1-C9,C11-C24,D1-D9,D11-D24,G1-G20 no ip address exit vlan 100 name "Curriculum" untagged A3-A4,A18-A20,A22,B2,B6-B12,B18-B22,C12,C17-C20,D12,D18-D20,G2-G10 ip address 10.100.0.1 255.255.252.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 ip igmp exit vlan 104 name "WirlesCurric" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.4.1 255.255.254.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 ip igmp exit vlan 108 name "WrlesMbook" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.8.1 255.255.254.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 ip igmp exit vlan 110 name "Legacy" ip address 10.100.10.1 255.255.254.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 ip igmp exit vlan 112 name "Voice" untagged B1 qos priority 6 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 voice no ip address ip igmp exit vlan 113 name "cctv" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.13.1 255.255.255.192 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 ip igmp exit vlan 114 name "IPTV_DigiSgn" untagged C21-C22,C24,D21-D24 ip address 10.100.13.65 255.255.255.192 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 ip igmp exit vlan 115 name "CshlesCater" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.13.129 255.255.255.192 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 ip igmp exit vlan 118 name "ScienceTools" ip address 10.100.13.225 255.255.255.224 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 exit vlan 120 name "WrlesGuests" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.14.1 255.255.255.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24,Trk2 exit vlan 170 name "Management" untagged A17,A24,B4,B17,B23-B24,C11,C13-C16,D11,D13-D17,G1,G11-G20 ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 172.24.0.1 255.255.254.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C17-C18,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G21-G24,Trk2 exit vlan 180 name "eReg" untagged A5-A12,A21,A23,B3,B5,C23 ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 172.24.4.1 255.255.255.0 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 exit vlan 199 name "AuthtyEdge" untagged A1 ip address 10.100.15.249 255.255.255.248 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 exit vlan 999 name "WANOutsdeLk" tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 no ip address exit vlan 130 name "FtreVlan130" tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 no ip address exit vlan 135 name "FtreVlan135" tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 no ip address exit vlan 140 name "FtreVlan140" untagged A2 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 no ip address exit vlan 116 name "Access Control" ip helper-address 10.100.0.8 ip address 10.100.13.161 255.255.255.224 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 exit vlan 117 name "BMS" ip address 10.100.13.193 255.255.255.252 tagged A13-A16,B13-B16,C1-C9,C19,C21-C22,D1-D9,E1-E4,F1-F4,G20-G24 exit vlan 300 name "SamsungUD" no ip address exit

You only have one printer to print to as an end user, but then you can go to ANY printer in the school swipe your RFID card and then your print jobs come out of the printer you are standing at.

Not sure exact models, until I can check tomorrow but its all HP kit, 2510? maybe for the core, then 2910's for the PoE and 2610's for the normal switches.

We have a company called IOT print solutions doing ours... the jury is still out, although the tech support is quick if a printer fails. The printers automatically contact the company to re-order supplies, all the school has to do it fill it with paper.

Glad you got your problem sorting out - its quite a common thing with HP network printers, oh the good old days... wait until you upgrade or work somewhere with follow-me printing, that is serious headache printing!

Hmm, thanks guys, I have about 15 different VLANS and connect to them all fine, but just this one with a 10.100.13.192/255.255.255.252 is causing a problem, which is why I thought it might be a routing issue.

We have a 3D cinema in our lecture theatre, main problem is the format of the source video. Sky 3D effectively show a video which is at high frequency, showing left eye then right eye then left eye, etc etc... to view this you need glasses which are in sync with this, blanking each eye as required. The method our projector uses, and also cinema's is that both left and right eye are shown at the same time but with a polarised filter on it. The first solution requires expensive glasses, the last cheap glasses, which is why Schools are recommended to use the polarised method. Now the interesting bit, 3D blu ray have followed Sky's route, so 3D bluray disks do not work either. If you would like to see one working and discuss it in more detail we are based in York and you are more than welcome to visit.

Ive just looked up that model, I am assuming that you have set it up as an IP printer, if this is the case then try installing the printer on the XP system seperately first to see if this works first. After that try pinging the printer for both machines.. Try disabling di-directional printing... let us know how you get on.