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Looks like you've shared the home folder directly, rather than mapped to a subfolder of a share. In this case, after renaming the folder you will also have to change the share name.

The wall sections have timber patressing. One suggestion was to move the boards that are worst affected (the ones on the walls with doors) to different walls, but of course the other walls wouldn't be strong enough to hold them.

Thanks We've already cranked down the door-closers to their lowest setting, but seems like the walls are made of cardboard! One of the advantages of wall-mounted projectors is avoiding ceiling wobble issues, but this is a new one on me...

Hi all I've got a new school building with SMARTboard SBB885i with UF75W Projector in each room. The projectors are wall mounted and short throw, directly above the boards. The problem is that the wall construction is lightweight with plywood panels inside to support the board. Minor flexing of the wall caused by doors closing and (to a lesser extent) footsteps causes the projected image to move relative to the board. The steep projection angle magnifies the effect, causing the image to shake up to six inches at the bottom. Has anyone else come across this problem, and is there a solution? Thanks.

I would guess it's probably not possible, as the point of AD integration is to stop you having to do this. I suppose you could achieve the same effect by not using AD integration, but have some sort of service or scheduled task watching for AD password changes and synching these to SIMS, but that'd require reversible encryption and access to a SIMS developer API, and I don't think it'd be easy.

Ah yes, now I look in the logs, lots of %CDP-W-NATIVE_VLAN_MISMATCH: Native VLAN mismatch detected on interface gi50. Guess I'll have to go down there and rebuild it. Thanks for the advice.

So I may be able to remote into the curriculum switch and move all ports to VLAN 2. Of course I may then lose contact with it...

Yes, all new and all Cisco - figured it'd be best to keep them all compatible. 3 x SG200-50 and 1 x SG300-10.

Both main switches are straight out of the box, so will have all ports in VLAN1. I figured this wouldn't matter as all frames were untagged and I wasn't planning on using VTP, so the VLAN IDs were only intended to be local to the bottom switch. However, the layer 3 switch is set up with VLAN 1 as admin, VLAN2 as curriculum, and that communicates fine with both layer 2 switches it's connected to. I reckon you're right though, but don't fancy having to reconfigure all 4 switches now the network's live! Can I disable CDP instead?

Network diagram - rough sketch, hope it makes sense...

There are two separate fibre pairs, one coming in from the layer 2 admin switch and going to VLAN 1, the other coming from the layer 2 curriculum switch and going to VLAN 2. Layer 2 switches are as factory default. Diagram to follow...

I just use a folder with a bunch of .LNK shortcuts, easier than having to type anything.

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but am on the point of giving up and buying another switch... We've got a brand new school with 2 comms rooms, one serving most of the school, and another smaller one covering a couple of classrooms and various offices. The network has 2 separate subnets, one for admin and one for curriculum. Routing is handled by a layer 3 Cisco switch in the main comms room, which then links to two separate layer 2 Cisco switches, one for each subnet. All that part works fine. The two comms rooms are linked by two fibre links, so rather than do any VLAN trunking I figured I'd keep it simple and use one link for admin and the other for curriculum. As the smaller part of the school has 40-something network points total, we put a layer 2 50-port Cisco switch in, and VLAN'd it down the middle so it should function as two separate switches. Ports 1-12, 25-36 and 49 are all left in the default admin VLAN, and the fibre from the admin switch in the main comms room feeds in to port 49. Again, all that works fine. Ports 13-24, 37-48 and 50 are moved to a newly created VLAN 228 (to match subnet octet) and port 50 picks up the fibre link from the curriculum switch in the main comms room, all configured exactly as with the admin VLAN, just a different VLAN ID. The strange thing is, when I plug a laptop into a curriculum port, I can't pick up a DHCP address from the server in the main comms room. To troubleshoot, I've taken one copper port (21) and the fibre link (50) and moved them to a separate VLAN 2, just to isolate everything else from the problem. I've cleared and monitored the port stats, and I can see broadcasts being received from the laptop on port 21 and also lots of broadcasts and multicasts from the fibre, but nothing other than occasional multicasts are being sent out to the laptop. I've tried every sensible variation of trunk, access and general on both ports, ensured that all ports are untagged, and tried variations of SmartPort (including disabling it). Nothing I do seems to be able to convert the incoming broadcasts on port 50 to outgoing broadcasts on port 21, which seems to me should be default behaviour for a layer 2 switch. I've temporarily patched the problem by moving the curriculum onto an old Netgear 10/100 switch, which was the only spare one I had with a mini-GBIC slot, but that's not a long-term solution as there are 4 APs feeding into this switch, so it really needs to be a gigabit. Anyone come across this before, or have any idea what I might have missed...? Thanks in advance.

Maybe instead of shelling out to a one-line net use command, shell to a three-line .cmd file that picks up the username, password and sharename as parameters, tries to use them to map to the share on server1, exits if errorlevel is 0, otherwise maps to server2...

Haven't tested this, but if you were to add & "/user:domainname\" & strInput to the end of the last line, (replace domainname with your domain of course), that should then ask for the password when it shells out to map the drive.

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One of our schools is using Bromcom to take registers, picking up details of class lists from SIMS via an overnight query task. Apparently, having deleted pupils from classes in SIMS, the pupils do not get removed from the registers in Bromcom. Anyone come across this issue before and / or know how to resolve it? Thanks in advance

Have run the istall to get the system to its current state (Spring 2010 - Version 7.128, database build 3.61.643). What I've copied from the live server are zip files containing sql command scripts, and associated signature files, no other exes. In theory they're enough to raise the build to 3.61.722, if I can figure out how to apply them.

Only testing a concept currently, will be able to use real hardware when it comes to doing the job for real. Current problem is I'm trying to replicate the school's current SIMS database in a VM, so now that I've got the VM working I've got a backup of the sims.mdf and sims.ldf files from the live server. When I try to attach these to the VM, it works fine but when I run SIMS I get an incompatible database error. I guess this is because VM has fresh install Spring 2010 release, while live server is up to date. I don't want to run Solus on the VM if I can avoid it, as this may affect the live server when it next runs Solus. I've copied the relevant updates into the Setups folder in the VM, but is there any way to get them to install without running Solus?

4GB to replace the 2GB, unfortunately. I'll probably end up doing this evenings and weekends (investigating school merging), so it'll have to be on my laptop if at all possible.

Well, I only have 2GB on my laptop, and this was a VM, so I started with 512MB. I figured (stupidly) it'd tell me if it needed more! For what I'm planning, I need 3 virtual SIMS servers running. 512MB wasn't enough, but 768MB worked ok. I've ordered a 4GB upgrade kit for my laptop.

Success! Just needed more RAM.

Thanks Vikpaw. I just stuck with the defaults all the way through, as wanted to rule out any complications. Having had a look on SupportNet I found this message can be caused by insufficient RAM. I've upped the spec of my VM and trying again now.