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Hmm, that's true - I hadn't though of that! They really aren't going to like it when I tell them that paper is the only viable method though - they are all mad on saving the rainforests and stuff...

Nice - something that could possibly have a tenuous link to computers or electricity that isn't IT's remit? Got any vacancies?

Good point. I believe the idea was that the form tutors should know which kids weren't in at registration... Trouble is, that leaves too much to chance. As Powdarrmonkey says, I suppose it needs to update in the morning, or every hour. But then it requires too much maintenance and checking... Not an easy one...

Well one solution that is easier said than done that I've considered is to have a query that downloads the student form registers to a workgroup laptop's hdd every evening. Then it can be grabbed on the way out and it should in theory have registers accurate to the last 24 hours or so. As I said though, it's easier said than done, I've never really done anything like that to Sims...

Asside for the possibility of her being a bit of a password idiot, it might be worth checking that there isn't another member of staff with the same or similar name (particularly one who has left and doesn't show up unless you search Staff - All rather than Staff - Current). I believe when you add a new member of staff Sims likes to pop up and helpfully say "that new person your putting in, John Smith, looks like this person, Johnathon Smith. Is it the same contact?" One moments inattention, and the bursar clicks "yes" and it re-enables the old member of staff instead of creating the new. This has caused trouble for us in the past - several members of staff have been found to have duplicate records and so have two usernames and passwords. This is escpecially common for us since our HR department are a bit rubbish at reading messages from Sims - they just click "yes" to everything Hope that helps!

Ok, so with usual foresight, we in IT have been told that we have a fire drill tomorrow... So down comes the Deputy head and says "what solutions does your Network Manager have in place for taking registers if the building is burning down around us?". The answer: "nada". The response: "get one." (well, substitute half and hours pointless discussion for that, but you get the idea...). So, what software do you guys use to register students in case of fire? Does it require network access (if so what happens if the server room is suicde bombed by an outraged member of tech support?). Or do you rely on a paperbased system? Cheers!

Sorry, yeah I want a different folder for each user on boot. Therefore when I log in I get /paul, when Dave logs in he gets /dave, etc. Thanks for that, I'll give that a go today!!

Hi all, As I am the "linux expert" of the office - a position I fear I hold simply because I don't regard the OS with fear or loathing, rather than because of actual skill - I have been asked to write a shell script to do the equivalent of mapping an online folder to a drive in windoze. The online folder is basically the personal documents folder on our SharePoint VLE. Its mapped on our windows machines as below: In XP: Tools => Map Network Drive then type in http://webfolders.xxxxxx.sch.uk/Personal/%username% Then obviously you whack in the domain login details and it works a treat, and we have a script to run on login to map it automatically. I've touched on Samba before but I'm by no means proficient. All the guides and examples I can find relate to mapping //servername/path rather than webfolders and just chucking in the url doesn't seem to work the same way. Any thoughts on how to go about this? Cheers in advance!!

He's just a guy named after the medal "Order of Lenin" Welcome Elison!

Yeah, don't get me started or we'll have to move the post behind the red door so I can rant Thanks guys!

Ok, I'm fixed!! I did check the local servers firewall and it was switched off (I am glad - if that had been the reason I'd be feeling pretty sheepish for not spotting it earlier!!!). Turns out that the NM had changed the internal network ip ranges on the isa server to not include anything below .10 - which happens to include both our sharepoint servers Changed that back and presto, all is as it should be!! I'm guessing he removed them intentionally to prevent people trying to access the vle externally while he was running the upgrade and forgot. Oops. Alls well that ends well I guess, thanks for your help guys!!

Good point!! That hadn't occured to me and the answer: No! From the ISA server I cant see or ping either of the sharepoint servers, or any of the sites (intranet, mysite, etc). But I can ping everything else on the network (domain controllers, stroage servers, etc). Wierd. Does that suggest DNS issues? Or maybe a service not running on the unreachable servers...

The following sites are running in IIS: SharePoint Central Admin v3 BW Portal SIMS-ADP-Provisioning SIMS-ADP-ClientSite SIMS-ADP-Admin MySite SIMS-ADP-Management SIMSWebServices SharePoint Shared Services Office Web Services An IIS Restart hasn't fixed it I'm afraid...

Hi all, I've been sort of dumped in the poo this week, because over the half term we have somehow managed to screw up our VLE external access. This is a system I have never been involved in and the network manager has gone snowboarding The VLE is our own design hosted on Sharepoint over two servers running Windows Server 2003 64bit. Up until last week, the sharepoint servers were not running service pack 1. Last week the NM attempted to go to service pack 2 on both servers in preparation for our spanky new Sims Learning Gateway install. We had a whole host of errors and, as a result one sever is running on version 12.0.0.6421, and the other on 12.0.0.4518. Trouble is I'm not involved in the sharepoint servers at all, so I wouldn't know where to start on troubleshooting the updates. The Sims Learning Gateway was installed anyway on our half-upgraded servers and the VLE works perfectly internally. On both sharepoint servers there is a web site on IIS called Portal for external traffic to be forwarded into. It is here that we have the problem. Traffic coming from the ISA server (the rules on that server look correct for forwarding "intranet" traffic to the correct server and the correct port) does not reach IIS on the sharepoint server - I get the following error on the logs in ISA: Failed connection attempt Web Proxy - Reverse A Socket operation was attempted to an unreacheable host. Rule: Intranet External traffic - 10.36.84.9:8181 **This is the correct server IP on the correct port** I'll cut the essay short here, any ideas would be appreciated (even if they seem obvious), and if you need information that I haven't provided here, just say!!! Paul

And to add insult to injury I'm going to id theive your Edugeek login and transfer all your rep!! Mwahahahaaa!!!

For those who care... I have fixed this problem. Well, for "fixed" read "cheated". Basically I think that the reason it wasn't booting was some sort of error wasmaking ${recordfail} true, and therefore throwing out the timeout feature as per the if statement in /boot/grub/grub.cfg shown below: if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then set timeout=-1 else set timeout=4 fi So by commenting out the if statement, and just leaving the timeout statement (as below) it works a treat. #if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then # set timeout=-1 #else set timeout=4 #fi Of course I'm sure there's an excellent reason grub check this and now it doesn't I've no doubt its going to come round and bite me in the ass one of these days. But hey, that's a problem for another day Thanks to those who have helped out - and if anyone does have any ideas as to what the error that actually causes this to happen is, please shout!!!

Ours blocks it on banned phrases! Guess we're strict I'll add it to our exceptions list though - much better to be too strict than to be too lax

It was indeed still commented. I uncommented as you suggested, but it hasn't made any difference... I run update-grub after every change and it always says it works - although since all the suggestions you have all come up with for me and all the ones I have thought up on my own have made little difference I started to wonder if it was actually updating grub.cfg at all! But I changed something, updated and checked the config file and it had made the change! It just doesn't actually make any difference!! I altered the file to match Mark's posting, but the same stroy applies I'm afraid - it was identical except for the timeout value - when I change it in /etc/default/grub and update, or when I changed it in the grub.cfg directley as you suggested, it does the same thing: totally ignore it!! I really have nothing left to give on this one, I can't think of anything that hasn't been changed, changed back, commented, and changed again!!

I could cry.... I have now removed all entries to grub except the one I want and what does it do??? It just flippin sits there waiting for me to select option 1 of 1!!!! Such a simple program is causing way too much trouble. And the thing is, it doesn't matter that much, it's just hugely irritating

Hi, Right, well I deleted the extra linux-headers as suggested by computer_expert, but I still have the recovery mode and memory test options, so I can't seem to get it down to a single choice. So unfortunately the problem remains. Looking through the link to Grub 2 posted by Gerry, I have made my /etc/default/grub file look identical to theirs and it still doesn't work!!! Interestingly it claims to be grub2, is configured the way grub2 is supposed to be configured (no /boot/grub/menu.lst etc) BUT the version is 1.97~beta4. Which to me implies that its a beta version of grub1?? Waaay confused now, I'm totally out of ideas...

I've been snowed under so far this afternoon, so it might be tomorrow before I get to play with it. I'll let you know what happens when I do it - don't think I'm ignoring your help

Not tried that - would have to google that to work it out, I've never had to bother doing that before!!! I'll take a shot at it this afternoon and keep you posted

Yeah I was forgetting that to begin with, but I did it these last few times. It says it works ok, but makes no difference unfortunately. I'm glad it's not just me that this doesn't make sense to!!!

Hi Gerry, Huh, I didn't notice the quotes - that is odd, all my other default installs are the same as yours, can't imagine why it's different... However I've changed it as you've suggested and it still just sits there, waiting for user entry... So weird...