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Attached are the GPOs. Please let me know if you have any suggestions about these AT ALL. Thanks! computer_admins.htm admin_user_policy.htm admin_machine.htm

Klawd (or anyone else that knows...) I have been using psPrint successfully for a little while now. It works wonderfully, except that it does not set the default printer. I added the $ command, and it is still not working. It adds the printer properly. Any tricks to this? Thanks!

I have Windows 2003 (not R2 though) and 99% XP clients. I'd be glad to share my Group policy objects, if you tell me how to export them (I am still fairly new to group policy).

That's all I have in my logon scripts. I do not currently have any logoff scripts.

I did try your recommended change, webman. It did not help this problem in IE. I just tested it in Firefox (good thought). It turns out it is an IE problem. I use IE 6. Here is an attached screenshot of what I see in IE 6.

On the new version of the school website I am working on, I had previously had the CSS style commands embeded in the template PHP file that is included in all webpages automatically. I was trying to move these embeded style commands to an external file. Everything except for the menu buttons works and looks the same. However, for some reason the menu buttons are double the width when the exact same coding is used in an external file. Take a look: (add http): claridenfundraisers.com/tcsweb2/template/test.php If you click on any of the links, you can see what it is supposed to look like. Are there any tricks? I find it odd that is the only problem that showed up.

Maniac, thanks for the script. It does work wonderfully and solved the problem (plus logon times are now faster, since the script is quicker ) Ric, thanks for the link to the MS site. I have bookmarked that page. I am sure I'll be using it a lot.

I have just started learning visual basic programming a few weeks ago. I have been trying to create a logon script that will automatically connect several network drives for the user. (User groups are different OUs, and each OU is linked to a different batch file that loads the correct visual basic script, so students see student drives, teachers see teacher drives, and so on) The batch file successfully calls the visual basic file. This batch file also disconnects any network drives left from a previous session. The visual basic file does map the network drives. However, it keeps saying drive letter already in use, or something along those lines. How do y'all do network drive mapping? Anyone have any suggestions on how I can improve on my method to eliminate the error? Users keep emailing saying the computer has an error. I attached the two files. mapnetworkdrive_tech.vbs techlogon_file.doc

Thanks for your help, klawd. It looks like everything works well now. It looks like I had not specified the ini file correctly. After tweaking my settings to your example, everything works. Thanks again.

Thanks, Ric. I will try your script later today.

I downloaded the psPrint script from the Edugeeks download area. I may have missed something in the documentation, but I am having a hard time getting the script setup as a Windows 2003 domain logon script. I tried creating a batch file with the psprint printer.ini line, like the documentation said, but it does not do anything. Has anyone used this script before and be able to offer me some setup advice? It looks like a wonderful resource and I'd like to be able to use it. Thanks.

Not sure if this is possible, but it would be really helpful to have easy MSI deployment tools included in the program. Automatic printer installing (install printer depending on user OU) would also be nice.

Plugged_in, thanks. Removing the height did fix the problem with the bottom border. This also led me to discover I have copied part of the style changes from the old template, bringing back all of the old problems :oops: Oops. I now copied the correct code and everything is looking good again. Thanks for the help!

OK, found another odd bug. If you go to claridenfundraisers.com/tcsweb2/forum/gallery.php?cid=1 (add http to the beginning) in Netscape of Firefox, you will notice the page is off centered, the navigation bar does not go all the way down, and the bottom bar does not move down like it should. What is odd is that I already corrected several of these issues on the other pages (click on Mainpage for example). I have copied and pasted the coding from the mainpages to the template (it is powered by PunBB forums), but it should appear correctly. Any ideas? The PunBB forum was useless for this (no one responded in over two weeks).

Sounds good. Let me know if the new owner accepts the solution

We use Deep Freeze enterprise on about 45 XP machines. It has saved us so many problems over the past year. We have had a few small technical problems with it (such as workstation not communicating with console), but tech support has always been able to help us out quickly. I cannot recommend this product enough. We had tried DriveShield awhile back, but it worked terribly for us. With Deep Freeze, the only problem we have had is trying to retrain all the staff to not save on Drive C, but on their network drive instead (as they were always supposed to do). It took us about 2 months, but everyone finally accepts this now standard procedure.

I really don't know if this is a good solution for you or not, but try the page I put on my webserver: claridenfundraisers.com/tcsweb2/redirect.html It uses javascript to break out of frames, and then redirect the page. I don't know if it will work for you. I will see if I can think of any other ideas. I did test it by simulating the frame coding your current site was using on a page claridenfundraisers.com/tcsweb2/redirecttest.html and it did redirect in 1 second, breaking out of all frames. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this solution will work for you. *NOTE: Add http to my web addresses above, please.

Thank you to both EeEk and webman for your help. I tried all of your suggestions and addslashes worked the best. For future reference to anyone else that has this problem, below is how I corrected the code to make it work without errors: $data_slashes = addslashes($ta); $sql = "UPDATE cms SET content='{$data_slashes}' WHERE pagename='{$pagename}'"; Thanks again for the help.

Thanks, webman. I had not heard of that glitch. Everything's perfect [for the moment].

OK this is odd now. My page text displays perfectly in Netscape and Firefox, but the left margin in not lined up properly in IE6. This is just a normal space in a sentence, no special formatting used. Attached are two screenshots. If anyone has any ideas on this, I'd be very happy Luckily, I am starting to figure out how to fix CSS problems, but I am still a ways from really understanding CSS entirely.

For the new website we are hoping to implement sometime soon at our school, I have developed a php/mysql powered content management system. It works good, except anytime single quotation marks ' are used, it says "you have an error in your sql syntax. Please check the manual..." I know the basic statement is ok, because I can save pages without the quotation marks. Is there somthing I need to do to allow these? Below is a sample from the php page that saves the page. I can tell something about the single quote triggers the error (I am guessing it is ending the sql statement halfway through, but have no clue how to rewrite it properly). Thanks for any help. A note: -$ta is the name of the CMS textbox if (isset($_POST['submitcontent'])) { $ta = $_POST['ta']; $pagename = $_POST['pagename']; } $sql = "UPDATE cms SET content='$ta' WHERE pagename='$pagename'"; if (@mysql_query($sql)) { //include ('head.php'); echo(' Edit Page [b]Page saved successfully.[/b][/b]'); include 'template/foot.php';

We have purchased about 22 Acer desktops and one laptop in the past year. The laptop works great and is very fast. The desktops are all fine, we have only had major problems on three systems. Acer US support is decent, but slow (about 25 minute hold time). One of the best benefits for us is the Acer erecovery system. With this program, I was able to figure out how to use the Acer factory sysprep tool to create a standard system image for each series we get (in process of combining all images into one image). This works great, and gives us a free [legal] Ghost recovery cd to use. I'd recommend the Acers.

Since ours is a very small school (50 pcs total) we use Academic Open licensing.

Lanview sounds good on paper, but at least for us, did not work that great. It slowed the workstations down and constantly needed reinstallation. We have since purchased a program called Netcontrol2. It seems to run better.