StewartKnight

Russ, Just seen your blog and the "advert" for my charity trek to Peru. Many thanks for that!

Actually, I think you'll find he was being "ironic", which was injecting humour into the thread, and not a personal attack!! Now, altogether..... Calm down dear, it's just a commercial!!!

I wouldn't call cat5 "electrical" though. I wouldn't like to install power points, but network points have no electricity going through them (well, not enough to frazzle me!!)

Aside from the previous mentioned stuff, you have to avoid taking the twists out of the cable when terminating, and the unused pair in CAT5 is used in CAT6

I can send you a copy of my CV if you want. About 15 years ago, I paid an agency £200 for them to create a professional looking CV, I've used this format on numerous interviews (as you'll see from the CV). 9 times out of 10 I get an interview, and I've only missed getting the job on a couple of occasions, and 1 of them was because I lived to far away. (These we're the days when I contracted... ah, the good old days) Anyway! PM me if you'd like a copy!

I've completely created a couple of new computer suites here, and I'm quite well paid, so I didn't mind, then science wanted to be networked, I told them I was too busy to accomodate them, so they got some 6th formers to do the wireing, and what a dreadful job they did! So there you go, it you don't want to take on the job yourself.... get the 6th formers to do it!

Cumbria's is working, but I suspect that we use a different box to yourselves, despite being on the same network!

'using' is the operative word. I started at a new school 3 weeks ago, this week I got a reminder from RM to renew our licence on some maths software. I couldn't find it anywhere on the system, but did find a box, unopened, answering to RM's description. There was a similar problem in my previous school, but at least the software had been opened. cheers, beeswax Ha thats nothing! We've got some software from 1997, that they never got working (cost nearly £4k in '97). They spent ages, could not get the thing to run. Now they've got their 1st technician, I've been given till tomorrow to get it working! (it's nearly 10 years old!!!! )

I'd expect that to be the salary of a network technician, not a network manager. I'm on a lot more than that, and I'm part time!!!

If there was a materclass in Linux (Geoff???) for beginners, then I might be able to get it past management!

Hi Steve! Appreciated the support! Perhaps I should ask Jeff to mention it at the CLEO meeting at the end of the month! What sort of posters were you after? General "go to this web site & support me", or sponsor forms? Thanks for all your help! Stewart

I used ADMT to get off a Viglen NT network. It was a real suprise; it worked 1st time, had no issues, and guided me through the whole process! Not often a Microsoft product works, but once you've installed it.. it just does!

I've always found that 42" plasma displays need to be "soak tested" at home for a few months 1st ;-)

we're thinking of something similar here. The nice ladies in reception are going to produce a powerpoint slide each day, and display it in the foyer for the students. It's up to individual members of staff if they need something displayed.

The way I see it is: Ex: Is something that used to be, Spurt: Small drip under pressure So I used to be a small drip under pressure, now I'm just small & under pressure!!!

this is the vbscript I use; hope it helps!!! Option Explicit Dim oNetwork, sPrintPath Set oNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") sPrintPath ="\\192.168.2.250\Lexmark" oNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection sPrintPath oNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter sPrintPath WScript.Quit Obviously I have the printer shared on the print server as "Lexmark"(don't ask!!!) and the print servers ip address. Run this at logon, and the printer will be the default

I used CMIS at the last school I was at. ARRGHHH I hated it! No end of problems. Looks good when demonstrated though! I took a new job, partly to get away from CMIS.

The last school I worked at was one of the 1st adoptors of CMIS. What a disaster it was! I'm sure it's better now (it would have to be), and I was sick and fed up of doing "upgrades" every 2 months! Part of the reason for taking this new job was to get away from CMIS, and all the other "experts" on CMIS left to get away as well!!!

for what it's worth, this is my logon script: Dim oNetwork, sPrintPath Set oNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network") sPrintPath ="\\10.102.28.7\Room16" oNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection sPrintPath oNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter sPrintPath WScript.Quit you can take out the SetDefaultPrinter for the 2nd printer the printer server is 10.102.28.7, and the printer name is shared as "Room16"

I think you're getting a little picky there! All this poor chap want to do is get his printers to work. I'm sure he doesn't care if it's when the machine boots, or the user logs on!

Geoff says that you have to set up a tcp/ip printer port. What I'm saying is, you don't have to. Share the printers on the server, then use the script to attach the printers to the local machine. This method means you have only 4 small lines of code, and it does'nt take a second to run, No drivers to install, and if you change the printer, as long as you give it the same share name, the printer is instantly available for the users!

Sorry Geoff, but I beg to differ! In documents & Settings, all users, start menu, programs, startup, add the script. Thats how I've done it. If you still have problems post again, and I'll send you my script, which is currently working on 100 computers & 50 laptops!

the way i see it, 10mb over 100 computer is pants, 100mb over 100 computers is 1mb each for the internet!

however you spin it, theres a lot of difference between 10mb & 100mb though!

are you sure you're getiing 100mb, according to my CLEO source you're on 10mb, same a Cumbria. Can you try this and see what it says?