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  1. gerardsweeney
    Running the admin MSI didn't work for me either - it was doing that way that I discovered the service not starting. If I ran it silently (msiexec /i filename.msi /qn /norestart), then it just failed silently (the failure is listed in the log file). Like I said earlier (and as you discovered), using the non-admin installer works fine. I'm thinking that the deployment job will need to look something like: msiexec /i "smartproductdriveradmin\VC90 SP1\vc_red.msi" /qn /norestart msiexec /i "smartproductdriveradmin\SMART Product Drivers.msi" /qn /norestart Total guess, of course.. Hopefully someone with a non-updated SMART board can verify this for us? I got told to politely go away when I'd asked to get access to any of the board PCs sometime today. Tch! Cheers, Gerard
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    I looked at this last thing on Friday for a couple of minutes before having to make a mad dash to collect the kids . I've not had the chance to test this in any way, as all of our boards have been updated now, so this is purely theory.. There's a folder inside the created Admin install called VC90 SP1. The ini file shows Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, and there's an MSI which seems to run semi-automated if you just run it in Explorer. I'm wondering if the driver won't install silently without this being installed FIRST? Perhaps because the MSI for the silent installer either can't launch this secondary MSI (or isn't configured to do so)? All of SMART boards here are now being used by the classes, and then other projects are getting ready to fire off here for me so chances are I won't be able to even consider looking at this for a while. Cheers, Gerard
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    All.. Has anyone managed to roll out Smartboard (SMART Notebook) drivers v10.6.106.1?? I did the same as previous version of 10: I used their Install Manager Pointed it to the download Admin install version of the driver Disabled the auto updates etc. Command line is msiexec /i "blah\SMART Product Drivers.msi" transforms="blah\1033.mst;blah\noupdates.mst" /qn /norestart Do it that way, and it fails silently right at the end. Run the MSI manually, and it fails right at the very end saying Error 1920 - Service SMART Board Service (SMART Board Service) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient (etc). However, if I download the "standalone" installer "smartproductdriverssetup.exe", then it works a treat. This is on XP SP3, by the way. Cheers, Gerard
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    Hello, all.. I hope this isn't breaking any forum rules, but I'm getting desperate here! Our AutoCAD R14 licence manager server finally bit the dust, so I'm having to replace it. The problem is that the installer CD for AutoCAD R14 appears to have gone for a walk sometime over the last 7 years when the box was last looked at! I don't need the installer for AutoCAD itself - just the licence manager. The school uses 2 other (later) versions of AutoCAD, but they use the more recent FlexLM licensing application - I need the very old non-Flex one. Trying to get hold of anyone in Autodesk to ask is proving laughable. The school needs to hand in pupil work by the end of the week - hence the panic! Can anyone oblige with a number to call or email address? Or perhaps a download link? Cheers, Gerard
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    Hello, all.. Does anyone have any insight on how to get Game Maker 8 installed silently? I'm not bothered if it's a repackaged MSI or the correct command line - anything is greatly appreciated. I contacted YoYo, and they said they've never had an MSI for any version of GM. Tch! Regards, Gerard
  6. gerardsweeney
    All together now! oooooooooooooooooo... Nellie the sycophant packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus Off she road with a trumety trump trump trump trump! (With apologies to Toy Dolls)
  7. gerardsweeney
    I had a look on their answers section, and the nearest I can see is discussion of a PHP version of Xibo Player: https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/63716
  8. gerardsweeney
    Ah... The link with the -screensaver (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xibo/+spec/xibo-screensaver) Is a SUGGESTION, not a feature Doh..
  9. gerardsweeney
    I've been having a play with Xibo, and I believe that each user has the following folders created in their profile folder: %appdata%\Xibo [localsettings]\application data\xibo Now - in my Xibo setup, I've got the server and the client running on the same box, but I believe it's the one in LocalSettings\Application Data which contains the config file (user.config) I think(!) that if you did something like this, it might work: * Have a copy of the user profile local settings\Application Data\Xibo folder somewhere on a readable share * Edit it so that the displayName section has "replaceme" (or similar) * Have an autoit script which looks a bit like: ; Copy template down $file = "user.config" $destdir = @UserProfileDir & "\Xibo\[foldername] $destfile = $DestDir & "\" & $file If FileExists($DestFile) = 0 then $sourcefile = "\\blah\xibo\[foldername]\" & $file $string = FileRead($SourceFile) $String = StringReplace($string, "replaceme", @ComputerName) DirCreate($DestDir) $w = FileOpen($DestFile, 2) FileWriteLine($w, $String) FileClose($W) $exe = [path to xibo]\XiboClient.exe $cmd = Chr(34) & $exe & chr(34) & " -screensaver" $bat = @TempDir & "\xibo.bat" $W = FileOpen($bat, 2) FileWriteLine($W, $cmd) FileClose($Bat) RunWait($Bat, @ScriptDir, @SW_HIDE) Compile that off as an exe using Aut2Exe Rename it to the scr you will be using. Something like that... It would - of course - require the Xibo server to have the client registered as a display - something which would need done in advance.. All off the top of my head, so could be utterly wrong!!! Oh, and my AutoIt coding is shocking, I know Regards, Gerard
  10. gerardsweeney
    That's how I initially read it as well - it'll resolve itself when you move to Server 2008 AND Windows 7/Vista... So that's alright then - just 4 years for us to wait! Server 2003 SP3, perhaps?
  11. gerardsweeney
    Heh... You Devil's Advocate, you.. Unfortunately, the purchasing limits on our council mean it'll likely be at least 4 years before all of the PCs are Win7. By which point, approximately 10 billion folk will logged calls with us saying that their H: drives are empty. I exaggerate - 9 billion. Maybe M$ will fix it with XP SP4? (What? What's everyone looking at me like that for?!?!) I'm firmly in "almost hometime" mode now
  12. gerardsweeney
    Sorry - sounding dense here... What do you mean the issue is fixed in the latest release? Do you mean if the clients move to Vista/7?
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    Cos - y'know - that'd be too much like being helpful for Microsoft's liking!! Yes, we could fix it.. Uh-huh... Or... You could move your infrastructure to our entirely new server software. Free upgrade?? Are you having a laugh?! Only in the IT world could this happen. Imagine a car company.. Their VroomVroom2003 has a fault whereby the fuel gauge is faulty, and permanently says that the driver has plenty of petrol left. They openly acknowledge the fault. When asked if they will fix the fault, or at least make a spare part available for customers to have fitted, they tell the customer that they need to buy their VroomVroom2008 model instead. At full cost. Bet Toyota wish they could adopt the Microsoft approach!! (Sorry - I'm having a bad week with software companies!!) Thanks for all of the replies so far, folks.
  14. gerardsweeney
    I'm not familiar with the server setup, but is there any chance you could list your setup so I can forward it onto our IT guys - hopefully one of them will be willing to contrast and compare. (3 more calls in since this morning - all saying "my home folder CAN'T be full - it says I've got 500Gb free" - ARRGH!) Regards, Gerard
  15. gerardsweeney
    Ah... I think this is the source of the problem: The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog : Why disk space is incorrectly reported on folders where File Server Resource Manager quotas are enabled and WWoIT - Wayne's World of IT: FSRM and NTFS Quotas in 2003 R2 The user home folder structure on our servers is: E:\Pupils\pupilusername1 E:\Pupils\pupilusername2 E:\Staff\staffusername1 E:\Staff\staffusername2 According to the Technet link above, our IT guys would need to change it to: E:\pupilusername1 E:\pupilusername2 E:\staffusername1 E:\staffusername2 I somehow don't think that's going to happen anytime ever!! Luckily, it's all fixed if the client is using Vista and the server is 2008. So that's alright then - I'll just let the users know we only need to wait another couple of years for us to move to Windows 7!!
  16. gerardsweeney
    Hi, there.. I'm not 100% certain - I am but the lowly desktop admin who gets hit with the issues first. I think it's just quotas running on a 2003 server. I was kind of hoping there was a client plugin or similar, but the network guys don't think there is. GAH.
  17. gerardsweeney
    Hello, all.. This is something which has always irked me slightly, and it's now becoming a bit tiresome with the HD calls. All of our users get drive H: mapped to their home folder. It's viewable in My Computer, as you'd expect. The H: drives are quota controlled at 500Mb each user. If you look at the properties of the H: drive in My Computer, it shows how much is available on the entire server, rather than the H: drive. For example, mine says Free Space: 306Gb, Total Size 478Gb - which I'd love to be true, but isn't the case Is there some way of tweaking Windows to report the correct size??? Either a patch or additional (free!) application? Regards, Gerard
  18. gerardsweeney
    Thanks for that.. Unfortunately - I already have a bit in the login scripts to set the environment variable from the setup notes from 2008 (which works).. I have another theory I'm going to have a bash at. I'm not wildly optimistic, as it doesn't really make any sense - but what the hey, it's AutoCAD, right?!? Thanks again for the feedback, though. Kind regards, Gerard
  19. gerardsweeney
    Hi. Phil.. Yep, we use AD. I have the product installed - apparently correctly?!?! - and AutoCAD works, but Inventor doesn't. Anything you can offer will be more than gratefully received!! Regards, Gerard
  20. gerardsweeney
    OK - the saga continues.. After much swearing, deploying and wiping of test PCs, I now have AutoCAD 2010 running as a non-admin. However, if I try Inventor 2010 it can't find a license server. Run Inventor as me (local admin), and it works. Make a test pupil account into local admin, and it works. GAAHH!!! I've given users FC of HKLM\Software\AutoDesk and C:\Program Files (purely as a test, mind). Autodesk have been their usual less than useful selves - "give users admin rights" - fine, and I'll just format drive C: while I'm at it, and save them some additional time, will I?! The usual fixes don't work (of course), including the ones used for AUtoCAD/Inventor 2008. Has anyone out there managed to get this monumental piece of whatnot working without giving pupils admin rights? A packet of biscuits to the one who can cure my problems!! Regards, Gerard
  21. gerardsweeney
    It gets better.. The installer creator for 2010 is broken, in that filenames for about 40-odd samples have been truncated as they go over the limit for a CD/DVD. I ended up having to wait for each "file missing" dialog box, copy paste it into Notepad, browse to where it expected the file to be and manually rename each of the ~1 files to their correct (yet stupidly long) filenames. Nice to see some thorough product testing has been done with that. To make it worse, I gather this is also the case with 2009.. How much does this product cost again?!? Sorry - busy venting here!!! Regards, Gerard
  22. gerardsweeney
    Thanks for posting the list. Looks like there's 4 there which are dodgy - Championship Sprint - Ghosts’n Goblins - Ingrid´s Back - Super Hang-On Zenobi don't allow commercial sales of their games, and the others are expressly denied. Not that 99% of the target audience actually bother about such things.. So - erm - back to School stuff, I suppose... AutoCAD 2010, eh? What a big old pile of [^&.... NO CARRIER]
  23. gerardsweeney
    For the machine itself, yes. Not for the games. Sorry to lapse into Emulation bore mode... I help out with an emulation website (World of Spectrum), and spend a fair chunk of available free time over the last few years trying to locate authors and copyright holders to ask for their formal permission to host copies of their games.. If NTL ever put a limit on monthly emails, I'm scuppered Cheers, Gerard
  24. gerardsweeney
    Hi, Phil.. You're not alone. Once again, I'm facing the interminable battle with AutoCAD and their sub-standard installation engines. The installer builder on 2010 insists on trying to check the WWW for updates. Except it doesn't support proxies, so sticks for 45-60mins before saying it couldn't connect to the WWW (well, dur!). ANd then doing the same for the second part of the program - GAAH!! With 2008, I ended up abandoning their laughable installer and doing a series of msiexec /i type commands. For non-admins, I ended up copying out my HKCU\Software\Autodesk bit, and reimporting chunks of that for all other users - otherwise it just tries to reinstall itself over and over. I really hoped for better things with 2010, but it seems that was a pipe dream. And that's just to get the thing installed - let alone getting it running as non-admins!! Has anyone out there managed to get this working without someone having to be logged in to install it?!?!? Cheers, Gerard
  25. gerardsweeney
    Hello, all.. I would be interested to know if the games on the included CD have been purchased with the suitable licence. There's a common misconception that just because the games are 20+ years old, that individuals/companies are free to do with them as they please - which is most definitely not the case. Copyright and IP still belongs to somebody somewhere, and some of the larger companies are fiercely protective of their old games. Examples are CodeMasters and Rare (AKA Ultimate). Likewise, certain US Gold titles are a total no-no. A lot of companies will be OK for emulation sites to host copies of their files, so long as the site asks, and that it's clear that it is for non-commercial usage. Whoever makes this joystick may find themselves at the end of a harshly worded cease and desist. Oops.
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