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I dont work in the education sector any more so a lot of the site isnt really relevant for what i do, but ill probably lurk around and pipe up every now and again

And wow things have changed! I moved jobs 3 years ago last month, so became inactive on here. I accidentally fell over the place on a google search just and thought id see if me account still works and it does! I see the place has really taken off Awesome work to DosBox, Grumbledook and the others who made this place what it is today. Tis looking good chaps

my servers have to be rebooted in order due to cross server dependancies (mailnly my blackberry enterprise server arg) so this woud be a nightmare for me. /me looks at the wsus config

Ive had 2 so far, 10% of my D610 stock.

i wonderd where that was myself! woohoo

Thats ridiculous, why has microsoft not publicly released this update? Im gonna do some testing now

To stop the kids changing the wallpaper you cant just set the policy to stop them changing it, you also have to assign a wallpaper otherwise it does not work.

Its not usually good practice to use a dynamic host on a server for a myriad of reasons, it sounds like you may have missed the default gateway when assigning a static IP to the server, or as Dos_Box suggested, DNS isnt configured to play nice with <2000 boxes.

Hrmm i took my 210 215 and 218 without picking up a book and scored over 800 on each, the 216 was a 5 day course and i scored 831... Ive got 217,219 and 224 to do now, and doing the 228 for completeness. Ill upgrade to 2003 then so 2 more exams then pass out in a corner somewhere.

ive had one explode too, but it was hit by a football after 200hrs of use...

Woohoo! I passed my 70-216 MCP today, officially making me MCSA qualified. Now onto the last 3...

Copyright infringement! EduGeek is the first point of call for me when looking for answers to a wide range of questions. It is also a community, a great one at that. I no longer work in the education industry but found it impossible to leave, hence why i still loiter around the forums

I used loopback at the last place to apply per room printers to users and i must admit, it was a pain when it broke but generally it was fine.

Take a look at Fink for a mac equiv of apt-get for packages ported to mac

I vote for the LiDE 25s too, ive used several, the best bit was i used a driver pack that allowed me to preinstall the scanner so it could be used on any comp in the school by anyone, pair that up with front mounted USB ports and no external PSU needed and it became very attractive. You could buy about 6 for £200 too probably.

Hrmm interesting, my sophos server froze, requiring a "manual reboot" on monday afternoon... no error messages in sight either.

Personally, i would do the 2003 track, then do the upgrade exams.

Are your servers running the reborn cards then? As for not being able to take down the servers, the kids could load some DDoS tools and attack them, run NetWare specific exploit code looking for holes etc etc, so in all fairness they can at least cause outages as a direct result of letting them run what they want. The odds of this happening however seem to be very low at your school. My old school was a different kettle of fish. The kids used to find every way possible to break things. One of the biggest issues was them running (or trying to run) P2P apps and install games. I think the point i was trying to make is the workstations are great, one reboot fixes all hence the need for no restrictions, but id be more worried about them using the workstations and their freedoms to attack the network infrastructure itself, not knowing netware i cant comment on its security, but i would still be paranoid about allowing them to try. For the bright kids i would have liked to have set up a lab for them to use.

Probably. My stance on this is (just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons) is to lock the workstations down, make all resoures the kids need available and lock out the rest. I see what your school is managing to do, but i think its quite a rare situation, the kids at my old place would have tore down the network within a week if we gave them rights similar to yours. also, you must have a great confidence in your ability to secure your servers, personally i wouldnt want to risk it, every (and i mean every) system is crackable, you just have to find the weakest link. The other thing i would be concerned about is the ability for a "guest" to attempt to attack the network. If the kids have such restriction free accounts, it means a wouldbe hacker would only need to obtain access to a kids account to give him relative freedom, compared to a locked down system that would need a key account operators account to attempt to do any real damage. I like the idea, but im too paranoid im afraid. Would you leave your car unlocked because you trust your neighbours? Its not he neighbours im worried about...

Are these network or local printers? network printers are user based, local printers are machine based. When you say: What do you mean by lose, are they not loading and a new profile being made or are they dissapearing from the machine itself?

Pull the generic pro/100 driver off of intels website, its the one i used and everything worked great.

boo the world cup ascii server is full! :sniff:

From past experience NEC seem to have no concept of weight, ive got plenty of 1/2/3 year old versas from several series here and they all weigh a ton. Saying that, ive had very little fault with them.

which muppet used bang on weights to balance your wheels? go chop his nuts off and tell him to use proper alloy weights!

I had that problem with a bunch of GX60s, it was the network card driver. Are you using Dells or Intels generic driver?