Tricky_Dicky

Hi all, I've just installed a Zone Director 1025 and Zoneflex access points around my school and it all seemed to go beautifully. All the access points got picked up fine and the laptops seem to be working well with it. Pleased with myself for getting in done I told the ICT co-ordinator that it was done and he promptly said "Great, that means I can get the internet on my iTouch" no problem thought I and he connected fine, but it wont let him connect to the internet! I tried with my iPhone and the same thing happens, it gets an correct address but wont let me out to the internet, just comes up with box saying "Could not open search page". Some please tell me I'm just being thick and point me in the right direction to fix this. Rich

I was under the impression that the Amazon cloud system was fantastic if you need some serious computing power for a short period of time. The pricing of the system reflects this I think, in that you pay per hour of computing time. It wasn't designed to be a hosting service something like edugeek. Just my tupence, feel free to correct me.

You are a star! That's sorted it. All I need to do know if configure it Rich

Just for some further info; this is my moodle config file: <?php /// Moodle Configuration File unset($CFG); $CFG->dbtype = 'mysql'; $CFG->dbhost = 'localhost'; $CFG->dbname = 'moodle'; $CFG->dbuser = '********'; $CFG->dbpass = '*******'; $CFG->dbpersist = false; $CFG->prefix = 'mdl_'; $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/moodle'; $CFG->dirroot = '/var/www/html/moodle'; $CFG->dataroot = '/var/www/moodledata'; $CFG->admin = 'admin'; $CFG->directorypermissions = 00777; // try 02777 on a server in Safe Mode require_once("$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php"); // MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES, // RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE. ?>

Hi, Thanks for that, can you be any more specific about what it is I need to check? Rich

Hi, Yes, PHP seems to be fully installed. I can see it's configuration on the server happily. I think I've messed up the http.conf file somehow so that it works on the local machine but not on a remote machine, however I have no idea what I've done. Rich

I've just installed Moodle on a test server running CentOS and it all seems fine on the local machine but when I try and access it from a remote machine it's as if the PHP isn't being parsed. Do I need to set something within the PHP.conf file that I have missed or is it a security thing somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated. Rich

If you are buying a nice new server it's well worth looking at your backup solution at the same time. A tape back up drive built in is a lot neater and easier to work with in my opinion and will probably be cheaper to install at build time rather than afterwards. Let us know which machine you go for and how it works out.

Hi, Could some one please quote for 60 batteries for Toshiba Satellite Pro A120s. Model number: PSAC1E. Cheers Rich

I've used SCCM in the past and once set up found it to be a fantastic piece of software. Few pit falls to bear in mind are the initial setup took quite a while and that was with a lot of telephone support. The second is that it uses a Database backend and so I was advised against running it on a virtual environment due to the amount of IO reads going on. But if you can afford it and set it up and then figure out the correct procedure for creating the installer packages it is very good. Rich

Thanks for the info. I thought it sounded odd but was worth checking first. As much as I would love to name and shame I don't think it's appropriate. However they were at the ICT for education conference yesterday and sat in the corner booth and like to offer the internet in any place.....

Hi, I've just got back from the ICT education conference in Birmingham, very worthwhile, and a was wondering if anyone can clarify something for me. There were a few companies there trying to sell Moodle, or rather the setup, configuration, maintenance etc and one thing that was said was that if I just install the free version of Moodle it doesn't conform to all of the latest data security requirements. Is this true or is it just sales speak? Is there anything in particular I should be looking out for when installing Moodle within school? Rich

I'm going with the ICT co-ordinator. It's my first conference of this type, anyone fancy giving me a heads up on what to expect? Rich

That brickie tool is actually pretty good. My brother in law put up quite a large garden wall with it and it looks excellent, but obviously will take some time. A building of that size will probably need planning permission, it also matter where in relation to your house and boundaries you are planning on building it. I presume you have done the calcs for weight of the roof and angle things like that and also know how to fit an apex roof. If you haven't, I'd go with a professional.

Further information: ? The processor is a Xeon Quad Core 2.66 (server specification) ? The RAID controller is an Intel manufactured SRCSAS144E ? The cost to upgrade to 8Gb of RAM is an additional £70.00 Do you think it's worth having the 8Gb of RAM for a storage server? Rich

Hi all, Thanks for the replies. I've asked our supplier about which RAID card and Processor it is, so will post the results when I get them. It is a bought not built server and comes with 12 hot swap drive bays on the front for easy access. I did look at the Sun stuff and it looks very nice, but, being a primary school we don't really have a huge amount of use for all of the features available on it and the main thing that I'm looking for is some where for the teachers to store music/video/pictures. I think something like the machine specified above would be fast enough for the amount of simultaneous users we would probably have using it. Simon -> ask Mark for them Rich

Hi all, What do you think of the following storage server Spec/price? Intel SSR212MC2RBR Storage Server Intel Quad Core E5430 2.66GHz Processor Intel Additional Power Supply 4Gb Kingston Memory 12x Seagate RAID Edition 1Tb SATA HDD’s for Storage 2x Seagate 73Gb 2.5” Boot Drives Windows 2008 License Configuration 3Yr Warranty The cost for this unit is £5,395.00 Regards Rich

Leasing deals can work out really cost effective, but read and re-read the contract for small print such as minimum usage deals and most importantly length of contract. I personally wouldn't go for a contract any longer than 3 years. Have used Central Connect before and had Kyocera photocopiers and printers which worked out pretty good. Rich

I'm looking at something like this now and I'm comparing the HP DL185 G5 with 12TB RAW for about £6750 and the NEC Express5800/120Rh for about £6295. What is the current situation with NEC in regards to ownership/support, anyone know? Rich

How would I check if it has a unique SID? Our GPO structure is set up so Default Domain --Curriculum ----Staff ----Students It's picking up all the GPO for, Default, Curriculum and strangely if I log on with a Staff account that works fine, but the students doesn't. Any ideas? The DNS seems to be fine, pointing to our only DNS server at *.55 Rich

Hi, I've just done a clean install on the Toshiba A120 laptops in a hope to speed up logon times but when I add it to the domain and logon with a normal user it isn't pulling through all of the GPO's. The machine is in the same container as all of the other laptops and the user is a standard user that was working fine on other laptops yesterday. I've done a GPupdate /force and restarted and now I'm getting a bit stuck. Any ideas because I've got a Deputy breathing down my neck for these. Cheers Rich

No, the network sucks. Have a call open with Link2ICT at the moment as they installed it. It is an all Cisco network which doesn't seem to be able to handle large file transfers?!? I was moving about 5GB from the server to a network drive last night and all the desktop icons dropped off the machines. Any pointers for setting up the Ruckus, or is it straight forward enough? Rich

Student Profile is 1,243KB. If it works, can take 10 minutes, but often they don't log on properly so you get things like H drive not mapped or icons missing etc. I have just changed some of the GPOs, like wait for network before loading -enable, which I'm hoping will mean that things are missed. Rich

m25man, It's a very simple network. I have 1 server at the moment which is doing everything. I suspect it is just a rubbish wireless network which is causing things to mess up but I have an evaluation of the Ruckus kit coming in on Monday . I've already waved the quote under the powers that be and they seem keen. Are there any other things that you could think of that could be slowing down logons? I'm using Mandatory profiles if that makes a difference? Rich

Yes, it was meant to be a question, sorry. Cheers for the links, very useful. Rich