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I managed to get a Suse 10.2 server installed with Squid and Dansguardian fully operational Has anyone found a good method for automatically authenticating logged in domain users? I want the users to login to the Windows domain (with XP Pro), like they currently do and for Dansguardian (or Squid) to silently and automatically retrieve their username, so I can better track user internet activity. Thanks for any ideas.

This is a wonderful program, especially for free Has anyone figured out how to do a silent install yet?

Check out this program from the Edugeek member download area: http://edugeek.net/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=37 Is this what you are looking for? I have not had a chance to use it yet, but it looks good.

Is there any domain group policy setting (or logon script) that will automatically sort the Start>All programs menu by name?

We finally purchased a new air conditioner for our server room. It still has to be installed, but I am starting to think about what temperature it should be set at. What temperature do you keep your server room(s) at?

We frequently play music in our office. The school here does not care, as long as it's not too loud. During the summer when we are working (with no students on campus), we like to play music over the public address system for "annual testing"

Thanks for the help. I looked at VMware some more today--it turns out the networking was not setup correctly. I did find a spare PC today, so I'll probably just use that instead. Thanks again though.

Are those computer desks (in the last photo) custom built? They look very nice.

We use Netcontrol2. Not great, but decent (and cheap).

I am trying to setup an internet content filter on VMWare server. I tried using the VMWare dansguardian/squid appliance, but internet explorer keeps saying cannot connect. Does anyone know of a linux distribution internet filter that can be installed? I only have one NIC card in the machine, and a router upstream of the server. Eventually, it will need to be configured to get the username from the domain login. Ideally a free program would be best. Thanks for any advice.

It turns out the user did the exact thing I told them to avoid--they had taken away their access rights to the folders. When they tried to add them back, they did not give write access to themselves. I manually corrected all permissions and it works fine now. Thanks!

Here is the complete method I use to redirect the desktop: 1. Edit user GPO 2. Go to user config 3. Go to folder redirection 4. Right click folder redirection and click properties. 5. My first setting is: redirect all to same location 6. My second setting is: create folder for each user. 7. My path is: \\servernamehere\Staff Private\{username} for staff and \\servernamehere\Student Private\{username} (students and staff are different OUs). It works very nicely for me. Let me know if this is any help at all.

On my network, each user has a network drive. They are listed as the folder owner. I have one user who likes their My Documents folder redirected. For some reason, all of their documents keep getting marked read only, and they have to change the setting for each file EACH time they open it. Is this is simple setting repair, I'm hoping?

It works perfectly now. Thanks for the help!

Looks like it's a mod that is available. http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=100096#p570861 It would be a nice feature to add...

Our slowest desktop machine in use right now is 2.6GHz, 512MB, 80GB hard drive, XP Pro, cd burner. (We used to have 500MHz pcs, but finally phased those out this year). All new desktops have the basic spec of Celeron 3.0GHz+, 1GB ram, 80GB hard drive, XP Pro, digital camera card reader, dvd burner. I know Celeron is not ideal, but it's the best we can afford right now.

Case $bpress = $infoitem MsgBox(0, "Student Quick Launcher v 1.1", "Student Quick Launcher v 1.1" & @CRLF & "Written By Matt Marsh." & @CRLF & "" & @CRLF & "Comments & Suggestions to:" & @CRLF & "[email protected]" & @CRLF & "Last Update: May 2007" & @CRLF & "For Edugeek.net members" & @CRLF & "www.edugeek.net") EndSelect WEnd Select Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Exit EndSelect Is that where you were talking about adding it? My computer still ignores the close command. (I have just started using Autoit a short while ago, and am still learning how to properly code with it). I did recompile the script.

Thanks for posting the script. Very nice work. It works very well. I do have one question though-when I click the close button on the toolbar, it does not do anything. Is there any trick to getting this to work?

I like Palatino Linotype best.

I had faced a similar situation at my school when I first started (in the US, like you). Although we are a very small school (only 50pcs now), the network was a huge mess at the beginning, with no computer faster than 1GHz, most 500MHz and all machines were running 98 with no type of real networking. Anyway... My recommendations: *Combine all systems into one domain. Once everything is setup (and tested ) students will not be able to access or see anything they should not be able to or damage network settings too much. *Reimage all systems. You might want to check out Ghost for Linux (it should work fine with Windows systems). *I'd recommend one server to be the domain server, the other to be a file server (and allocate each user a network drive, plus a share drive for staff). The accounting software could safely run on the file server. The dual Xeon server would make a nice domain server. I don't think you really need any more servers right now. The ones you have should be powerful enough for the moment. *Backup data from both servers and reinstall Windows. *Install Windows 2003 server on the 2000 server. *Use GPOs to lock down almost all settings from students and staff. *Make sure you have decent antivirus software. Trend SMB works wonderfully for us. *Setup remote desktop on the Windows 2003 server(s). Then, you can access from home, if needed. Good luck with this project.

That works perfect in IE6. Thank you! I will test on Mozilla and IE7 later in the week.

Does anyone know of projectors other than the Hitachi projectors that have free RS232 control software available? Our school is finally beginning to look into installing classroom projectors, and the staff wants to control the projector from their computer (clicking an icon to select VGA or Video 1 input, making volume control changes, etc) I am just wondering if there are any other options out there. Remote controls always got lost/stolen/broken here, so that is not a good option.

Works perfect! Thanks.

Does anyone know of a php script that will open an IMAP mailbox and echo the number of unread messages (You have X unread messages)? I am trying to design a portal for our staff members, so they can see at a glance whether they have new email.

^That is the link that I got the ADM file for Google toolbar.