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Updated last night, not explosions yet....

That's annoying Which version of Moodle are you using, might be worth digging through the SQL db to see if the 'old' email is mentioned anywhere in there.

I doubt it's held in the php anywhere, I would try a "new" user on the vle to see if it works OK for them. (If so it's probably somewhere in your profile) (Suspect you are now using the php mailer and the MTA on the server itself now rather than SMTP)

No prob fella. There might be a web panel you can access on the switch too to do some stuff but I'm altogether not familiar with netgear kit I'm afraid!

Hi Tony, Suspect you're after a usb-serial adapter mate. Something like: http://www.coolgear.com/images/CA-232-1MB.jpg I'm sure a mac user on here will be able to help locate one that a mac works with.

Hi there, I for one applaud you for taking the time and decency to ask for advice on this rather than swinging the hammer uninformed. As someone who used to run a network within the same RBC as you (albeit Northamptonshire county but still within EMBC), & also a School Governor at the time I did at times question the overall value for money for the services. We very quickly identified that there were some services we did use (Internet Connection, BECTA Accredited Filtering, & Email) and some we did not use (Video Conferencing (a nice child broke our setup), NEN Resources, Portal/VLE/ish stuff, etc). I think it's very wise to ascertain the cost of the various services but I would be fairly confident in saying the Video Conferencing aspect is very very cheap (if even costing anything at all now in the years after the initial set up / equipment costs). The big cost is going to be the internet connection. We looked at the cost to bring the Email in house first of all due to some limitations/stability issues on the provision by EMBC during the transition between Fujitsu/Synetrix some time ago and spent a couple of £k setting up a server to do this and sadly this was when I left the school. We then looked to replace the BECTA Accredited Filtering with a Smoothwall appliance (and I still would do this) as it was a good fit as a replacement but did put the onus on us (the school) to take responsibility for the what if's of a child accessing inappropriate material instead of bouncing it along the chain to the LA/RBC. Finally, as a school who heavily used our 10mbit/s symmetric 'uncontended' fibre leased line and knowing how much everyone flaps on the odd occasion when it was down we sought a decent ISP who could offer an SLA alongside the connectivity knowing full well I wasn't touching ADSL with a barge pole as bringing services such as Email / VLE into the school itself for hosting I needed more than the tiny amount of bandwidth available on ADSL (even if you bond this with a few more lines you're still miles away from the symmetric uplink speed of the fibre) I contacted folks such as Enta, NetServices, & Easynet as people who can supply 'good' connectivity and found that the start up costs for the fibre were very expensive (and a long lead time). I then considered the security aspect of the overall situation whereby currently we were protected sufficiently by the router ACLs maintained by Affiniti/Kingston Communications from other schools (and their infections) and then upstream at the RBC firewall I was able to sleep easy knowing it wasn't likely we'd be attacked directly. This of course is irrelevant if you have any externally published systems such as Webservers, Email servers etc though. To procure the service from another provider I would most probably 'lose' the upstream firewall and be left to manage a set up of my own on my router/firewall device which added an extra layer of troubleshooting complexity if something did go wrong. - With the RBC provision I would simply plug a laptop into the router, no internet? Ring the helpdesk and tell them to sort out, no other troubleshooting as the router was theirs, the line theirs and the backend infrastructure theirs. All in all having spent a few months doing this I was then confronted with the 'politics' of pulling out of such an arrangement with the county as with our harnessing technology grant being top sliced regardless of our involvement we'd lose the money anyway! We decided ultimately to 'make do' and change only the parts of the system that gave us the most grief (Email) and keep the rest that worked pretty well with a view to ultimately remove the filtering and put in a Smoothwall appliance leaving us really just taking advantage of the economies of scale in procuring a decent internet connection (with resiliency to cope with failure upstream, mirrored data centres etc). The cost to us at the time was £13k per annum for all of the services we had and it was £13k per annum I wasn't going to see anyway. Good luck and I am sure with the opinions gained here will help stand you in good stead with your endeavours moving forward. Do let us know how you get on.

OK, well you can either wait for someone who does know about Moodle/Live@Edu or accept help from someone who knows about Linux, Moodle & SMTP. Firstly for your moodle set up I would strongly recommend you set up the no reply address on that page as that alone could be the problem since it's complaining about a "From" address. - Also worth double checking your Moodle account has a valid email configured within the profile. RabbieBurn's has the same set up many people will use but depending upon the set up of the domain itself (for sending verification etc) this may or may not work properly. If you take out the live@edu pod51007.outlook.com and put in localhost instead what happens? (or you could try putting qmail in there as a little hack).

I'd firstly confirm you can mail out from the VPS from the shell prompt just to rule out any potential firewall stuff. Can you show us the error & a screenshot (with any personal details blurred) of the settings to get a feel for this. And this all worked fine on your previous set up? (What was different on this?)

Establish how often this is happening and whether you need to approach the deployment differently... Can it be MSI deployed? Does it need to be part of the image the member of staff gets? (Does it need to exist for a large number of users). If it can be run from a UNC path without installation that often makes life easier (for you) but be aware of network demand and if the user wishes to use said app at home away from the network. I think if you get smart with the deployment you will save yourself (and ultimately the end user) some headaches. List some apps and we'll see amongst us any deployment experience.

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Nope I'm wrong turns out the g isn't 3g but goes to show I've never had any 3g signal anyway! (god bless wifi in the house) Sorry for dashing any hopes.

CS New Media for definite; lots of people on here have a good experience there.

It works fine on 3g if you enable data roaming. (well it's working for me anyway as a TMobile user over on Orange land with a htc desire)

Please post a guide price as per forum rules to save you having to reject ridiculous offers and give the rest of us a ball park figure you're looking at.

Awesome Thanks.

We're all friends here. For the sake of the OP - Realistically no I don't think you can build your own CC4 server without incurring costing from RM, it's not as straight forward as bunging a disk in I'm afraid. It might be worth considering the functionality you use in CC3 and whether it could be done without it and also why you are considering moving to CC4 altogether if it's just the age of the server it might be worth thinking of a 'refresh' within the school, involve the userbase and see what they would like etc.

Smoothwall

What is the file and where? (It might be being used) Or give a quick google for "file unlock" to free up the file (best say what file it is first incase it's important) The other thing you could do is 'exclude' this file from the back ups.

No prob, feel free to pm me the host name of your webmail and I'll see if the admin port is open. (Suspect that's the problem though)

Where you have a public IP natted to a private IP. Ie. 1.2.3.4 points to 10.12.112.134 (where ports must be opened on the 1.2.3.4 side to access them on the 10.12.112.134 side)

Is this a natted set up? (Can you confirm that the necessary ports are allowed)

Found their customer service equally bad compared to most other ISPs to be fair. Helps not having to argue with your adsl isp over whether an issue is theirs or BT's on the line. Been with them for 2 and a bit years now on the 20 and 50meg packages and it's been fine, always get above 40mbit.

What is the issue with gpo based deployment? It's ideal in all of our environments.

That's exactly what I was talking about If it's already in your config though that is a bit odd that it's not working (when he said he added those lines to fix the issue). Ok, quick lesson in thinstation configs. thinstation.conf.buildtime is the file included within the image itself thinstation.conf.network comes from the tftp root server (sounds like you might not be using one of these if you're doing an install to disk) Have all of the machines stopped doing it at exactly the same time? IE, all of the old & new ones together or just the new ones you've installed? If ALL of them have just started doing it I would be thinking it's group policy (or tsconfig.msc) that's limiting it but if it's just the newer ones that you installed it could be an old usb stick without the above config details or there's some local hacking to be done to enable them.

Something will have changed as much as we think it hasn't, this kind of issue won't have just magically happened so we need to find out where. The config could be in several places, if you are dishing up the boot image via pxe you might find it in the tftp root directory thinstation.network.conf or it might be included in the image itself. Tell us a bit more about the set up and I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of it. Kim