SteveCIS

Hi Guys, I've found the answer, it was staring me in the face. Sorry to have posted such a stupid question. Thanks, Steve/

Hi, Does anyone have experience of using OpenOffice across school. We are an infant school with 200+ desktop and laptop machines and are considering moving to OpenOffice. Currently our Year 1 children use Office but our Year 2 children use Textease so we need to rationalise this with one package accross the whole school. It's going to cost us £2400 (60 x £40) to licence our 60 Year 2 laptops, hence we are considering OpenOffice. Has anyone else done this and are there any known pitfalls or problems ? Thanks in advance. Steve.

Hi, Does anyone know what power scheme in in effect when an XP workstation is switched on but no user has yet logged on, ie it's just sitting there with the log on box displayed. Once a user has logged on, the settings in their ntuser.dat file in their profile come into effect, but it's prior to that I'm interested in. I guess it's a setting in one of the control sets, but does anyone actually know. Thanks in advance, Steve.

Hi, I don't think you need the speech marks around Administrators. Below is a line from a script which works and I have deployed using a GPO. cacls "c:\Program Files\Sherston\Money Mice\saves" /e /g everyone:c Only the path is in speech marks. Hope that helps, Steve.

Problem solved, thanks teejay, I moved the workstation to a different part of the network, from a different switch and Flash10 installed straight away, just as it should. After a bit of investigation it seems the port on the original switch is faulty, although I don't understand why it appeares to allow some communications/protocols but not others. It's not a managed swirch, just a common or garden Netgear job. Anyway all's well, so thanks for the idea of checking the logs on the client, that's where the clues were. Steve.

Thanks sted, I've actually only got one workstation in the OU linked to the GPO to install Flash 10 at the moment while I try and sort out the problem and I've made sure the old version has been removed. Thanks, Steve.

Thanks teejay, its good to have another perspective on it. I've already tried the gpupdate /force and checked the share could be seen from the workstation. What I hadn't tried is the logs on the client. Sure enough there are messages indicating the GPO has failed as it can't find the domain. Users and machines all authenticate ok and everyone has access to where they are supposed to so AD seems ok, apart from with GPOs. I think there may be some low level permission type problem. That's tomorrows job. Thanks again,Steve.

Hi all, Has anyone experienced a system that was deploying software successfully using GPOs suddenly stop working for no apparent reason ? The server OS is 2003, release 2, SP1 and all the clients are XP either SP2 or SP3. I have used GPOs to deploy many packages on our network, but not for the last few months. Now I come deploy Flash Player 10 and it refuses to work. I've spent a couple of days now trying to resolve it (created new install point, new GPOs, checked permissions etc etc) and failed. Just wondered if anyone else had experienced anything similar and solved it. Thanks, Steve.