bladedanny

Hi All, One of the schools I work at currently use a system of word documents for doing student reports, these are a mess and poorly organised, the office staff have asked me of any software I might know of. This school in particular is a special needs school for 11-16+ whereas all the other schools are primary so all their reporting software (report assist) is aimed at primary school. I was just wondering what other people use and what cost they are and also if they are any good. Any information would be great, Cheers, Dan

We had this problem on a few, they needed to go back to our apple supplier as the needed a new logic board, if they are under a year old or under 3 years if you have apple care they should do this free of charge. Hope this helps, Dan

The only other quick fix I can think of, although I'm not too sure of its practicality is to keep the print queue paused then to 'authorise' a print job just un pause the queue. Just an idea, again not sure of its pricticality as i've never tried it.

I'd agree with Joedetic whilst a mac mini would run mac os x server no problem you are limited with its use of disk space, also it might sound daft but is a valid point in my eyes, it doesn't take much to knock the power cable out of a mac mini and the last thing you want is that to happen. Go for a mac pro if you don't want to splash out on a mac server.

What we do for our librarian to manage her printers is grant her user account full permissions on the printer and just place a shortcut to the printer on her desktop. This doesn't give her the ability to authorise/deny print jobs but does enable her to delete any massive irrelevent print jobs that uses may have sent to the printer. Hope this helps, Dan

Yes all local profiles have been deleted. This was done via VBS script. Cheers, Dan

Unfortuantely I can not yet take the old server out of action as it is currently acting as a fileserver until we can find a suitable time to copy everything across and set up new shares etc. The eventual plan is to remove the server alltogether, but untill then the server, unfortunatly has to stay. I'll have a look in dchp, but I believe everything is pointing to the new sever.

Hi all, This is my first post but it's confusing the hell out of me, so here goes. We have just installed a new server as the old one is, well, old, and have set up the new server as primary domain, dhcp and dns server. Our clients are either windows 2000 or XP. Everything is ok with the XP machine, they are now looking to the new server for group policy. The problem is with the 2000 machines, they are just not picking up the group policy so apart from students having full access to machines the main issue is the desktops which are now stored under \\newserver\desktop$ for some reason some of the 2000 machines are still pointing to \\oldserver\desktop$. Now here's the strange thing, sometimes is will point to the new location and sometimes it points to the old location, it seems to be very intermittent. I have checked the DNS all seems fine, active directory replication all seems fine. I have flushed DNS and the machines, deleted the local profiles. Sometimes simply restarting the computer works, but then later on in the day when a student / teacher logs on it loses all the permissions again. Sorry for the long and probebly senseless post but any help would be trully aprretiated, Thanks, Dan P.S. if anyone needs more information, just ask, thanks. Also the servers are Server 2003.