cheesypete

Whilst I agree with the posts, are you positive that the issue is DNS? Bit more info about the PC in question - has it been on the domain before? Has it recently been renamed?

Experimented with it "on" but it stopped our auditing software from doing what it should ie/auditing! The worst part was that you had to turn it off to allow Mcafee to be pushed out, and then turn it back on again Too much hassle having it on, as has been commented on prior to my message

Not sure about thermal drives, but there are some drives that etch images onto the disc - these are called Lightscribe drives ... and yes you do need special discs which cost more than your average cdr

cheesypete AT ntlworld.com (does everyone have msn msgr access at their respective schools?)

By cheeky are you saying that the sheet wasnt written by him check your inbox for a link

Is it possible that your "client" has had its firewall (ICS) re-enabled and / or ports blocked? There is a setting in there to accept / deny remote desktop connections

Regarding Kingswood's link to Spaceguard - this will do pretty much what you want it to. V.easy to set up and manage - they do a 100% working trial if you are interested

Not at my Exchange server at the moment, but i think if you run the Exchange Optimiser from the START | Microsoft Exchange menu, the wizard allows you to change the locations of certain parts of exchange and i think (may be wrong here) mailboxes is one of them Feel free to berate me if i am wrong!

Is there a way of enabling Yahoo Safesearch across a LAN? Had some interesting search results thrown up by a member of staff - safesearch removed them, but dont fancy going round 300+ clients GPO? Script?

Wow - didnt expect so many answers! Its a difficult one as the Head of ICT was obviously managing the network long before I arrived and therefore knows what he is doing. Its interesting but it appears from the posts that ICT Tech staff have domain admin rights; our Head of ICT obviously doesnt need these rights, but he is still considered by most staff to be part of support. Indeed he is probably more trusted than the ICT support team put together !!

Hi All To summarise from the beginning, our new Head feels that NO teaching staff should have access rights to other staff member user folders. Now thats fine - we've been setting permissions since day 0 However, as our Head of ICT has domain admin rights this obviously "gets around" the permissions. All with good reason really, as he deals with support issues regularly, both from staff and students Its one of those situations where I feel he should have access rights, as otherwise my workload goes through the roof (again), but on the other hand i'm tempted to say, "lets go along with it" and see what uproar it causes What do other schools do? Are your Heads of IT / ICT merely "users" or do they have higher privileges?