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1) about 2-3 seconds 2) about 2-3 seconds (no login required as it's authenticating against AD) 3) 5 - 10 seconds depending on search 4) about 2-3 seconds Our eclipse system is running on a 2 year old duel core server. last year it was on a server that was built from bits of other old servers - it ran, but quite slowly. Not got FF installed so can't test the search I'm afraid! Mike.

There should be no reason they need to be priveledged users to do this, just tweek the group policy to give them access to the right menu in IE and it should allow them to change it. Better still you could write an intelligent login script which can tell if it's on or off the network by looking for one of your servers, and then set or unset the proxy settings accordingly by changing the relevant registry key - it's surprisingly easy to get this functionality with VBS. Mike.

Best of luck, I must have spent 10+ hours investigating these issues previously, and I never came up with a specific set of circumstances that would definitely cause it, or anything like a solution. They just seem to drop off the network after a while for some bizarre reason, no amount of plugging and unplugging wires or changing settings seemed to make a blind bit of difference, turning the printer off and on is the only fix I've ever found. Mike.

Our wireless network is Cisco 1200 series access points going back to a Windows IAS server for authentication against Active Directory. I have pushed out the settings via Group Policy to the clients, but opted for machine authentication only so only machines that are in our active directory structure are authenticated on our wireless network. You can set it up so it authenticates as the machine pre-login then when the user logs in, it changes to user authentication at login and authenticates to IAS using the user credentials. The main problem with setting it up this way is it tends to change from machine to user authentication while logging on at around the same time startup scripts are run, and you sometimes lose wireless connection for a few seconds, which can cause problems for any scripts you have running. It also means any user with a valid account on your network can add devices to your wireless network like mobile phones, PSP's or any other device with built in wireless - obviously this is a bit of a security flaw. My recomendation - do it so only the machines can authenticate to the wireless network and not users, it keeps it simple and it works! Mike.

We get this problem a lot with the 2015 HP printers we have. We just instruct users to turn the printers off at night and on again the next morning - it only seems to be a problem if the printer is on for a long period of time. I gave up trying to find a solution ages ago! Mike.

We have one cabinet of Netbooks - we opted for the Stone Neo netbook for our first set which so far have proved to be excellent. Logon times are quicker than some of our laptops, we don't get any problems with them on our aging Cisco wireless system, they are some of the most trouble free machines we have in the school! We will probably be buying a second set soon, not sure if we will stick with the same or possibly try a different make. I've decided to start buying netbooks as a replacement for laptops in departments which don't use their machines for more than web browsing and ocassional word processing. Mike.

If I were a betting man, I'd say you were more than likely correct with that analysis.

OK, it's a design flaw then. Which ever way you look at it, it's a little bit daft.

I thought this was a well known security issue in Server 2003, I've always known about it, and restrict my network by specifying the groups that are allowed to add machines to the domain in the default domain controllers policy.

And also how your static IPs are managed. We use DHCP to manage our static IP numbers for things like Printers, Access points and the like by making use of the reservations feature, then it's only a few minutes work and a re-start of the devices to change fixed IP addresses - dead handy! If the router is enabling the two address ranges to talk, then it will create a serious bottle neck on the system. I really would look at migrating them onto one single address range it will make life so much easier for you long term. Mike.

How about running it as a machine startup script insted of a logon script? Startup scripts run under the local system account, and can modify permissions on any files on the C:\ Also insted of using the CACLS executable, I tend to use the VBS version of XCACLS if I'm changing file permissions using scripts, I find it more reliable. Mike.

What is this strange concept you speak of?

Is it not possible to move the entire domain onto the new scope - it has a lot more addresses on it than the old one. that way you wouldn't get any of these sorts of problems. As it stands at the moment with the subnets that you've selected, the two scopes won't be able to talk to each other as far as I can work out. Mike.

I think it's only an issue if the earth bonding in the different buildings isn't linked, but most outside buildings I've come across in schools the earthing all goes back to the main building, so these things are not normally an issue.

If it's possible to get a wire to the building, then I would seriously consider this rather than wireless as it will be much more reliable. The cables that power the outbuilding must come from the main school somewhere so there will almost definitely be a way of getting a cable to it be it underground in a duct or overhead on a wire. It will be well worth the extra effort as the one and only time I've experiented with a wireless bridge, it was hidiously un-reliable. Mike.

Nonsense, they wouldn't have to re-run the entire cable - you can get cable couplers which will allow you to extend existing cables. Although it's not considered best practise to use them, there's nothing wrong with doing so if it's necessary. We've had a large number of ports re-located in this school and quite a few cables have been extended as a result and they passed all the tests absolutely fine. Mike.

Reminds me of a accident my friend had on the forklift at his work once, not quite as bad as that, but he worked for a busy Beer distribution company, and accidently miss-judged lifting a pallet of san miguel down from the warehouse racking. Basically he got the forks under the bars supporting the pallet instead of in the pallet, the the entire crate came down right onto the forklift Luckily the safety cage did it's job and he escaped un-injured, but soaked throu with beer and in a state of shock from it. When they cleared the mess up, there were just 2 unbroken bottles left in the whole crate. If it's going down, it's going down quickly!

Admin PCs rarely get re-imaged, only if there's a problem or majopr changes that need to be made. My classroom PCs only get re-imaged when it's absolutely necessary as well. We update the images every year to include all the latest patches and updates, but we don't re-image the lot as we don't have the time - the new image will slowly work it way out there as machines malfunction or are replaced. Mike.

"It arrived and departed and no one really noticed"

My SIMS S:\ is setup as the following; I have two groups - SIMS Users and SIMS admins. SIMS users only have read access to the Directory hosting the SIMS files, SIMS Admins have read/write access to the whole srive for dealing with CTF files, upgrades, Exam files etc. This works fine with regards to upgrades etc. There is no reason for normal SIMS users to have read/write access to the drive. Mike.

This is a screen shot of one of our screens powered by Xibo, scrolling news across the bottom (RSS feed from BBC) 2 small areas and 1 large area for whatever content you want - Power point, text, images, web pages, flash objects - xibo will display them all. The key to making digital signage work is keeping it simple, and producing a good template to use for all the screens for consistancy.

That's what I'm using to run 4 screens at the moment, works like a charm Mike.

Not sure if you can achieve this with HTML, but if you got the machine to run this little VBS script at startup, and named the files 2.html, 3.html, 4.html etc. (VBS returns Sunday as day 1) then it would open up the correct file on the correct day. Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") file = "C:\PATH\" & WeekDay(Now) & ".html" WshShell.Run file Mike.

No, I mean variations relating to that Top Level Domain like Welcome to Facebook | Facebook and m.facebook.com - There's no way of wildcarding a top level domain in Websense as far as I know. If you put facebook.* in it ignores the end bit. Mike.

Like any other party, they are entitled to their point of view and opinion, it doesn't mean anyone has to take notice or even listen in the first place. I won't be watching because I don't have any receiving equipment in my house, not even an arial on the roof, and that's how I like it!