waldronm2000

First, you'd need to be sure that the services you want don't actually need the paths at the end of the URL. If they do, then redirects are the only viable option. It may be for example that links betweek pages are absolute rather than relative, in which case the paths would be hard-coded and not optional. However, assuming all links in the sites are relative, you can use either host headers or a combination of NAT and additional IP addresses to achieve what you want. The host header solution is neater, but doesn't work with HTTPS, only HTTP. As an example, for your VLE, create a new site on IIS, and point the home folder of it to the moodle subfolder of wwwroot, make sure the host header is set to vle.theockendonacademy.com. You already have a host record pointing to the right place, so lose the URL redirect and it should work; just not with HTTPS. Alternatively, add another static IP address to your IIS server, get your LA to NAT it to a new public IP address and open ports 80 and 443 on their firewall, then update your vle host record to point to the new public address. Set the new VLE site on IIS to point to the moodle folder as before, but this time tell it lo listen only on the private IP address that's been NATted to your new public one. This will work with HTTP or HTTPS, but you will need to create a new certificate if you want to use HTTPS. PM me if you need any additional help with this.

Hi Just installed my first WS2008 Standard Edition, on a Dell Poweredge R710 with hardware RAID (PERC H700). Got 6 x 1TB drives, configured RAID5 over 5 of them, with 1 as a hot spare, giving a logical disk size of just under 4TB. As I'm intending to use Hyper-V to run an additional virtual server on this box, in the server install I created a 2,000,000MB (a little under 2TB) partition for the OS, so that I could use the other 2TB to create a partition to hold VHDs for the virtual server. Got all drivers installed and ready to go. Went into Disk Management to create 2nd partition, and it'll only let me create a bit under 100GB, presumably taking me up to a 2TB limit. Disk management won't let me do anything with the space above 2TB. Also, won't let me convert the disk to dynamic (not that I really want to, but thought this might be a workaround). My initial thought is that I need to rebuild the RAID as 2 separate 3-disk 2TB groups, but would prefer not to as I'd lose my hot spare in the process. Also, this means going through the install process again from scratch. Not a big deal, as I haven't done a huge amount with it yet, but another couple of hours gone! Anyone know whether this is a limitation of Windows, or maybe the RAID controller? Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Don't set local admin password via a GP. I've seen this done before, but it was done via a startup script rolled out to all desktops. The trouble with this is that the startup script is plain text and readable if users go searching.

There are two sets of permissions to consider: permissions on the printer object on the print server, and permissions on the Active Directory object used to publish the printer. Have you checked that Everyone has appropriate permissions on both?

What access layer switches are you using, and do they support MAC-based port security? Also, if you wanted to use DHCP to solve the problem, create specific reservations for the MAC addresses in question, then override the DHCP Options for these reservations and give them the wrong default gateway and/or DNS. Alternatively, filter the reserved IP addresses at the router.

We share the costs of our internet feed and associated back-end services among our schools, basing the sharing partly on pupil numbers. We then add the cost of the link to the individual site, based on the bandwidth they want. For a 140-pupil primary, our costs would be about £4000 per year for a 10mbps SDSL connection, or approaching £6000 per year if they opted for 100mbps fibre. Again, these casts may seem high when compared with home broadband prices, but they are uncontended, and backed up by various services, including filtering, DNS and NAT management.

Hi I've been asked by a school to set up SIMS so that online registers can be taken in classrooms. We currently have a router between the curriculum and admin subnets, with a third interface for Internet access. The router's packet filters only allow traffic to & from the Internet from either subnet, not between the subnets. I understand that I will need to create a trust between the admin and curriculum domains as a first step to allow staff to access SIMS in the classroom. I guess this will mean allowing Kerberos and DNS across the router as a minimum. I have no idea what additional traffic SIMS will require. Does anyone know what the minimum requirement will be for ports to open in order to get this working? Also, it would be good to be able to differentiate between client-server and server-server traffic. Thanks in advance Mark

Have PM'd you with details of our supplier. Mark.

I don't know if it's of any help, but I used to have to distribute large amounts of data to multiple desktops overnight. I had written scripts to do this using XCOPY to mapped drives, but found the scripts fell over when there was a single file bigger than 2Gb if I recall correctly. I would come in the next morning to find loads of messages to the effect that the device was no longer available but for some unspecified reason. Yet if I did a drag&drop of the same file to the share in Windows Explorer, it worked fine. I guessed it might be down to SMB using 32bit addressing within files, but unfortunately I never got to the bottom of it. However, I'm guessing your backup creates a single very large file. If it is possible to create the backup file on a local drive, it might be interesting to see whether this can be xcopy'd or drag&dropped to the NAS.

Apparently an arptew failed message (never come across this one before) gives a hex representation of the IP address, so it's definitely 10.15.80.16. There's something vaguely related at EPICS Tornado/vxWorks Information near the bottom of the page, but not sure it will help. Could be STP incompatibility between switches, so trying to resolve a loop but failing.

This may be obvious but worth mentioning I guess... If you do manage to find an IP address this way and it's not on your local subnet, then you'll either have to reconfigure it at the CLI to be on your subnet (best option) or reconfigure your laptop's IP to be on the same subnet as the switch and plug straight in before browsing. Oh, and bypass proxy of course. Good luck. One other thought I had... this is almost exactly the behaviour you'd get if there was a hardware device somewhere on your network configured with a static IP the same as your DC, and with a filter blocking ICMP. Only difference is you'd expect the DC to report the duplicate IP.

You could use an IP ping sweeper to identify all hardware on your subnet, but I still suspect it's not the switches; more likely something like intermittent ARP failure.

Might be worth checking ARP and DNS caches on a PC that can ping and one that can't, as the 10 minute thing sounds suspiciously like a cache timeout.

May be nature's way of suggesting you give swarms of bees a wide berth!

You need to assign greater permissions to "Creator Owner" than to "Authenticated Users" / "Everyone" / student group. As long as you give students in general enough permissions to create stuff, you can then give modify / delete permissions only to Creator Owner.

I saw one of these projectors demo'd yesterday, and was very impressed. I have schools that want large Promethean ActivBoards, and think this would be a better and more cost-effective solution. As an interactive whiteboard / interactive projector is seen by the OS as a pointing device, this should give exactly the same functionality as an ActivBoard if running Promethean software. Is anyone doing this, or alternatively does anyone know what software would be needed and what it would cost to licence?

Ah yes, just realised from other posts what you mean by duplicate IP addresses - actually duplicate host records in DNS, not computers with identical leases. Scavenging is the solution.

I just re-read your original post and spotted that it's a roaming problem, so not going to be down to MAC addresses. Check the DHCP server addresses reported by IPCONFIG/ALL, as mentioned above. Failing that, I would suspect DHCP database corruption.

With only one DHCP server you shouldn't get this problem. Any chance DHCP is enabled on another device, such as a router? One thing to check next time it crops up is IPCONFIG /ALL on both computers that are conflicting. Check for a MAC address conflict (long shot, but that's why I was asking if it's the same computers every time), and check the DHCP server address reported by both hosts.

Having looked at all the pros and cons, the school have decided to abandon the idea of having something appear from the ceiling. Apart from all the problems mentioned above, it turns out the ceiling's going to be much to full of beams, lights and radiant panels to try to put anything else up there. So, they've decided to go for a trolley-based option. However, it needs to be big (it's a large open area), they want to avoid constant recalibration, and they really want Promethean as that's what they're used to. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a mobile stand/trolley for an ActivBoard+2 395 Pro? Thanks

Is it always the same two computers or does it move around? How many DHCP servers do you have? What are you running your DHCP on?

The Internet Options setting must change a registry setting. If you use RegMon to check what this is, it should just need a single line of VBS to duplicate the behaviour. Then use Group Policy to roll this out as a login script (assuming it's a user setting).

No problem. Only trouble I've found with it is I've never got the online programme guide to work. I suspect it only has US TV channels. But that's not a problem, as I just use the manual setting option, very much like programming an old VCR (date, time, channel, auto repeat). Also, I haven't got whatever hardware would be needed to get the software to change channels on the Freeview box, but this can be programmed separately on the box itself.

I use some software at home called SnapStream Beyond TV. I don't access it via a web interface, but I think it has that capability. http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/

If students only have read permition on the share, this is the most they will be able to do in that share or any subfolder accessed via that share. If you want students to be able to create files or folders anywhere in the share, you willl need to grant Change permission to the students for the share, and Modify NTFS permissions (or a customised variation depending on exactly what they should be able to do) for the subfolder they can add stuff to. However, before granting the extra share permissions, you must ensure that all other resources within the share that you don't want them to modify have had their NTFS permissions locked down.