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To see if the host supports PHP, try creating a file, called say, test.php. In the file, post the following code: phpinfo(); ?> and then upload the file to the site. Call the file by going to http://yoursite/test.php. If it supports PHP, you should see a series of tables, full of PHP config info. Otherwise, it should error out, show a plain page, or show a page with the above code on it. You might be able to save a bit of time, and use something like this to create your form. Hope this helps, Maria

Hi Probably a stupid question, but are the keyboard settings the same on the server and the client? The reason I ask is if you use the password 'P@ssw0rd', or something similar, and the server is in US format, pressing the same keys on a UK keyboard would output 'P"ssw0rd'. Maria

Hi I upgraded the hard drive in my black Macbook for a 320GB WD Scorpio Blue. When I did so, the installation discs refused to see the drive. Not wanting to go through the hassle of returning the drive, I put it in a USB caddy, connected it the mac, and installed OS 10.5, and later 10.6, this way. The install works fine, and when the drive was placed back in the mac, it worked fine. As far as I can tell, it was a SATA vs SATA II problem (Sorry, not much of a hardware expert). Strange if it is that the installer cannot support SATA II in thus day and age. A long shot, but worth a try. Maria

Hi I can't remember the exact key, but its one of the function keys - F14 I think (Sorry, I don't have an apple keyboard near me at the moment. I'm fairly sure its the middle F key, of that cluster of three, to the right of the main keys (Hope that make sense). Maria

One sent, but they seem to be very slow at sending them on. Maria

Definately sent, and I've got about 5 more if anyone needs one.

Thats what I meant, not Add-ons sorry.

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Hi What version of IE are you using? Its worth checking the GP Add-on settings for the workstations, as, I seem to remember something where we had to allow the Impero add-on to run. I didn't deal with this personally, so my memory of what settings to use is a little sketchy. Not much help, but might point you in the right direction. Maria

Hi Might not help, but I vaguely remember there being an issue with My Pictures and My Music folder redirection in SP3, which can be overcome by replacing gina.dll on the clients with the SP2 version. Might be a complete blind alley though. Also, check effective permissions on the folder that is being shared, and the share permissions also, and make sure they are OK. Good luck Maria

Sorry mate, I've just tried to download the first one, and its coming down at 0.7kb/s, so it looks like its an issue at their end.

Dont know if its any use, but we've had this all day, and we don't have smoothwall. Our ISP is EMBC. Maria

Hi I'm guessing that your talking about classic ASP here. If so, then try: <%= Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER") %>. Hope this helps Maria

Hi Don't know if this is relevant, but I remember we needed to use ntbackup to back up some stuff for a while. I noticed that if I used mstsc to log in to the server, and create the scheduled task, it wouldn't run. If I was sat at the server itself, all was well. This was backup to file (external drive), rather than to tape. Maria

Ok, I think this would be the right method. If anyone notices a mistake, then please correct me. Copy the contents of the quoted text, and paste into notepad. Save the notepad document as "MyScript.vbs". The speech marks are important, as they stop notepad appending .txt to the end. On your domain controller, if you have the group policy management console installed, click Start, Run and enter gpmc.msc. This launches the management tool. All your workstations should be contained in an organisational unit, such as 'workstations', or possibly a bunch of OU's, such as 'Room1', 'Room2'. Locate the correct organisational unit, and right click on it, and select 'Create and Link a GPO Here'. This creates a new group policy object, linked to the stations in that OU. Give that group policy object a descriptive name. Now you need to configure the GPO. In the right hand side, the new GPO should appear. Right click on this, and click Edit. Expand the Computer Configuration node, followed by Windows Settings, and click on 'Scripts'. In the right hand pane, double click on 'Startup'. A properties box should appear. On here there will be a button labelled 'Show Files'. Click on this, and windows explorer will open, at the location where you need to place your startup script. Copy the .vbs file into here, and close the window. Next, click on the 'Add' button on the startup properties sheet. Either type in the name of the script, or browse to it using the browse button. Close all open windows, and click Start, Run and type gpupdate. This will update the group policies. Your clients should then run the script on startup. However, before doing all this, test the script works OK in your environment. Log on to a workstation, get the script, and double click it to run it, and observe that it doesn't break anything. If everything seems OK, try a couple more, and when you feel sure enough, set it with group policy. Best of luck Maria

Thanks for that! Very interesting project, I wonder if any other musicians and fans will pick up the business model. It has a sort of grass roots, unsigned band / local hero feel to it, but globally, with a well established act. Also, stumbled, to help draw a bit of attention. Maria

Hi Here's a good tutorial, which takes you through creating a small demo site. LINK. What I liked about it was the way you started with a design, created an HTML page, broke the page up into div's, or logical sections, and then introduced CSS to style style the page. Other than that, W3Schools is pretty good, and for troubleshooting code, their reference guides are really useful - LINK Maria

Hi I don't know if this would help you, but would you be able to create a simple web form in an ASP page (Classic would do), that the 2nd line tech can select the backup result from a drop down list, and click update. The code behind the page could then get the current date from the system, and make this the backup checked date, or get the current date -1 (Adjusted accordingly for your own backup strategy), and the result. Then commit these to a simple 1 table SQLServer Express database? Another page could be used to page through the information, and custom queries can be created as and when required, and saved for future use. You could just drop the pages into a folder on the MOSS server, and create a virtual web site. Then link to it from a current Intranet page, or create a shortcut to it on the desktop of the server(s) you are backing up. Regards Maria

Evening all I'm trying to think of a way to allow staff to ban internet for individual students. I have been thinking along the lines of an ASP or ASP.net form that allows the member of enter the students logon, and a reason for banning that student. The page will then move the students account from their normal OU, to our 'special' OU, which pumps out incorrect proxy settings. To work alongside the CSE tools that we use, it would also be nice to modify their group membership, and remove them from '200x intake', and add in 'special'. This will then stop them getting the Internet Explorer shortcut as well. The logic I'm thinking of is the page moves the student account, changes group membership, and then writes to an SQL Express database, recording their username (Staff's), Student Logon, Date / Time and reason. The process should also be reversible by staff, so they can unban. Over time, a record of that user's internet status can be built up, and a second page can show all activity for a student, using a 'SELECT * FROM Table WHERE Student = aStudent'. I was just wondering if anyone has ever achieved something like this? I was thinking along the lines of the pages constructing the correct DSMod and DSMove commands, and executing them. However, I can't see a simple way to do this. Thanks Maria

Hi On the computer, log on with admin rights, click start, run, and type gpupdate /forceThis should make the computer update it's group policies. Then reboot the machine, if it does not prompt you to do so. If you still the same issue, log on again, open up a command prompt, and type gpresultThis will output all the policies that have been applied to the computer. Compare this list with one from a client computer that is behaving itself, and see if you can narrow down the issue at all. Hope this helps, Maria

Yep, if someone remotes in to the server, the printers on their machine also get added to the list of printers on the print server. Annoyingly, it also adds a warning entry to the system event log, when you log off the server, just to say that that printer is no longer available. Maria

Must have. The work experience lad at my school is doing .Net, even though he's at the same uni, with the same lecturers, just 3 years later.

Vikpaw I don't use it for any formal teaching, as I'm just a Tech, but I use it for demonstrating stuff to my daughter, and my little brother. It's a good starting point though. Greenfoot also looks good for teaching, especially younger students. I don't do alot with Java nowadays, I left it behind after uni, and concentrated more on web apps. Maria

Hi Blue J is a nice IDE for Java, which shows the classes graphically, so emphasises the class relationships, and object orientated nature, well. You can also write a class, and test it's methods by right clicking on it, and creating a new instance, which you can then call methods, and inspect the results, without having to write a new test class. Maria

I like continks way better:D