Achandler

Is your exchange box setup to accept emails from unknown users (for some reason I really can't remember the correct wording)? Ours wasn't at first which caused us to have problems.

Seems you have even bigger issues then ever then if you can't even download what your trying to build! But seriously download moodle, then follow a nice simple guide on the Internet to get it running so you can login as the default admin account. Then we can probably help out a little more.

There is also an option in the config file to check whether you want it to use basic auth or a form based auth, but you shouldn't be able to enter fake details and still get the window to open. I'm quite sure mine failed when I checked to force the 2nd entry of the details.

I never had to configure the client on the server but I did join the domain with my Ubuntu server

The problem has to be to do with permissions, as long as you have specified the server details properly and it can pull the information about the home drive from AD properly. Although I've had multiple problems with the client I've not ad the same fault as you two are getting. Have you tried using the LDAP Capture login instead of the LDAP Server login, I remember reading that the LDAP Capture was more reliable with the SMB Web Client.

This either works easily or has problems, we've had massive problems here due to student permissions not being quite right throughout the file server meaning the client would let them transverse the folders correctly to get to their own files. There is no "setup" guide that I could find i'm afraid, maybe I didn't look hard enough, I also like the challenge of setting things up and understanding what everything does if I have the time to, and when I set this up I did. Basically from the original files you download, you put the block into the right place and then edit the "config_smb_web_client .php" and nothing else to make it work (you can touch other things to change other bits but it isn't necessary really. All the details you need to change should be on Line 19: $smb_cfg->cfgWinShareToSmb=array( '\\servername'=>'MyDomain.local/servername', ); Works for me, I've left the prefix on line 10 commented out. It's using BasicAuth on line 187 and I have forced SSL on line 238 as my site is all SSL since it contains student details. If a box loads, but is blank it implies it can't find the share properly, so might be a mistake on line 19. Hope some of that ramble helps.

We're got tons of HP Compaq 615s, 6720s, 6735s. Of them all only the 6735s are any good, then the 615s are 2nd worse, our 6720s fall apart, we had one teacher break 1 within 2 hours of receiving it, we recently bought more expensive, and I hate to say this Toshiba laptops (not a fan I once worked fixing them, but lets face it every laptop is the same). They came with £50 off and their silly if it breaks within a year and it isn't user error we'll give you your money back offer. Knowing the mysterious ways laptops just "stop" working and then sending them off cos we can't work out why either, I thought it was a risk worth taking. If one goes faulty on our batch of 10, money returned would make the laptops cost about £360 each, not to bad I dont think fo what we got.

Only all the basic setting im afraid then. Restart the webserver, check the DNS and IP addresses are correct? It should all be ok since other browers can see it. The most interesting one would be do you use a proxy? Are the exceptions in that correct? I think Chrome uses IE's setting but Firefox you might have set within the browser?

I've just visited your moodle site, in Firefox Google Chrome Internet Explorer 8 8.0.7600.16385 Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.5512 Its worked in every single browser I have installed on the computer im currently sat at. Do you get a completely blank page still? If so have you tried updating IE, maybe clear your IE browsing cache?

What did you do yo your moodle box before this happened? Maybe the problem is infact with IE updates going out?

If that is the case then it makes it very difficult at all to be able to help you at all, unless someone else has experienced an identical problem.

Assuming your moodle is fully online can you provide us with a link so we can have a look for ourselves?

Nope, but will probably be some standard bug, such as you change something that Internet Explorer cannot work out for itself when other browsers can. What did you do during the maintenance?

A toshiba A200 and A100 are similar to take apart I thought

I seem to remember them being quite easy. They have a bezel to remove like normal don't they, this is screwed on at te back of the laptop though (where the hinge coveres are) pull that off, the keybaord is screwed on through screws along the base to. More then likely 2 knowing Toshiba, though they sneak 3 into some models.

I can recommend WinHex then, sadly you have to purchase it (so depends on how valuble the data is ofcourse!). However Winhex, can open the drives through windows or "physically" if the drive was corrupt etc. I reckon from personal experience you'll be able to use the software to get the data off. I've got data off a drive that couldn't be opened at all by windows and made a constant ticking sound. Oh yeah there is a trial of winhex that gets you files under 200k only! That might work for you.

Yes Hightower it does by default I believe, though you can turn this feature off.

Maybe its not just the email missing? I know frm experience if the email, first or last name is missing you are sent to the profile page to update these fields to correct ones. That's all well and good, however what it doesnt show is that the city/town and I believe the country is also required, so if you these fields either not filled through AD or not changeable by students then this could be the issue. Other fields like description I believe can be marked as mandatory. I used ADModify to bulk update alot of our AD locations.

Aslong as the users have and the web serivce have the right permissions level to open the files then there shouldnt be an issue. Is M: a shared drive or a local hard drive? With regards to useing the server name in the wwwroot, as Mark says this is only useful for internal use and testing which i assume is the stage your currently at but you will need to change it to http://moodle.myschool.org.uk for example, when you publish it. Although you could do this now using DNS in your windows domain which would make the installation easier to publish later externally.

I've solved the problem, there was a permission within the authenticated user role set as "Prohibit" when it should have been "Prevent", one simple misclick had casued all the faults I was encountering.

The permissions aren't working properly both site wide or locally assigned, I'm beginning to believe the install has gone faulty s the issue effects everyone except those with the administrator role, again both locally assigned and site wide. The install is online though, so if your available to have a quick look and would be able to if youc ould PM me that would be great.

The only permissions on a role I have edited are that of a student, but the issues I have affect all users tht are not admins. If I make a user a systemwide course creator, they should be able to create courses anywhere, however they cannot create courses at all. I did this as a test because my locally assigned user roles of course creator were not allowing the users to create a course. It appears to me that when a user logs in, moodle i failing to give them the permissions and they get the default authenticated users permissions.

I have moodle setup and working, but when I edit the user permissions and roles, it seems to have no effect at all. Cource creators cannot create courses, or even edit existing courses. Also the role changes made to permissions access to a block (the MRBS in this case) have no effect, an administrator can still do everything, but the lower down roles are having no effect, neither locally or systemwide. Any ideas?

Two of your problems are very closely related. I imagine you are using "localhost" within your moodle config files. The reason I say this is because the client computers are looking for their own local host IP addresses (the same for everyone) and not the server IP address as you said. I would ignore the first problem for now cos this again could be related to the config file simply not being found and fix the other two. On your server in the moodle documents area, you'll have a file called config.php, check that file for the following part: $CFG->wwwroot = ''; If within the '' you have the word localhost then thats the issue, the server IP address can be used here, once this is fixed the theme should fix itself to, as that is related to the client either unable to find/ open the theme files on the server. I also wonder if this is where the LDAP problem is coming from to, the in ability to locate the config file.

Everything in SIMS except Nova T4 (maybe T6) works fine on windows 7, the reason NOVA T4 doesnt is because its a 16 bit application. With that said only yesterday I recieved an email saying SIMS will be fully supported on Wndows 7 through the next patch. But we'll give that a few weeks while its fully tested before we go full windows 7 for office staff.