karldenton

Anyone installed Ubuntu on a Samsung NC10 laptop? Does everything work OK ? The KA02UK is £299 in Comet so might get that and install Linux on it.

Hi, We have a pupil that needs a touch screen monitor when they start. We've looked at TFT but the pupil has potential to push it off the desk. Although I can bolt it to the desk, is there anywhere that still supplies CRT touch screen monitors ? THanks

Nice to hear that mate. I always try to help outside school as its good for the kids to see you in a different light. A few of us staff take some kids to squash once a week and the kids love beating you at that !

Hi, I have setup (using Joomla) an intranet. Pupils and staff see the same page. There is a login box at the bottom that only staff have a username and password for. Once logged in they see other modules etc. Is there a way to link Joomla to AD AND reconise they are in the staff group and automatically log them in. We have the problem of staff not login in therefore missing out on information.

Coach driver for me. Still young so can get to see Europe and I enjoy driving

Its Office 2000 - same on all machines. Even dropped the macro level to low but didn't work.

Hi, We have our school calendar on Excel. The only macro is to ensure it opens on the first worksheet. On every machine both this years calendar and last years open fine. On one admin machine she can open last years but not this. Excel loads but the worksheet doesn't. If you go to file - open the same happens. Any ideas.

When I tried it before, was simply connecting to the router - which I think is PPP or IPSEC. Then mapping a network drive to the server.

OK. What I will have to do is: Router External IP: 55.*.*.* Internal: 192.168.1.1 Smoothwall External: 192.168.1.2 Smoothwall Internal: 192.168.42.* Is the correct? For VPN we are thinking of using mapped network drives. How does the router or smoothwall know when you map a drive to change the IP to the correct range?

Yeah we've got the smoothwall school guardian on trial at the moment. Sorry for sounding dumb but: Our internal network at the moment is 192.168.42.* So install Express. Keep internal network the same but change router to a different range eg 192.168.1.1 Get smoothwall to do the routes. Can you set an upstream proxy in smoothwall so its filtered by our isp too?

I'd rather not spend anything if possible !. Our ISP do the filtering, router does the firewall rules and VPN. Just need to stop the students connecting outwards. Changes in DHCP?

Could I put the router on a different IP Range? That would stop them getting out but then need to route traffic to the new IP?

Anymore ideas on this ?? Got vpn working fine over the holidays. Just need to stop pupils connecting their own equipment and connecting without a proxy. Tried setting a rule on the firewall to block all traffic except those going to Redstone IP addresses - works fine for a while then something must change at Redstone and you've got to turn the setting off

Thanks. Whereabouts is the code?

Hi, On the default login box (module) for joomla, is there a way to remove the forgotten username or password links? Thanks

Hi, After several attempts and help from other users on here I still can't get MRBS working with AD. So.. 2nd thought. Is there a way to remove the login from MRBS, so when staff goto the relevent URL they can book rooms without login in? I know this means they can remove each others but will mean I can get it working for now.

Still the same problem mate.

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$ldap_dn_search_dn = "cn=administrator,OU=Users,dc=stjohns,dc=local"; $ldap_dn_search_password = "*******"; OK, changed the last section to administrator in the Users OU as its not in the StJohnsUsers OU. Still the same problem

Thanks, Just done a few changes to ours as follows: // 'auth_ldap' configuration settings // Where is the LDAP server $ldap_host = "192.168.42.242"; // If you have a non-standard LDAP port, you can define it here $ldap_port = 389; // If you do not want to use LDAP v3, change the following to false $ldap_v3 = true; // If you want to use TLS, change the following to true $ldap_tls = false; // LDAP base distinguish name // See AUTHENTICATION for details of how check against multiple base dn's $ldap_base_dn = "ou=StJohnsUsers, ou=Staff, dc=stjohns, dc=local"; // Attribute within the base dn that contains the username $ldap_user_attrib = "uid"; // If you need to search the directory to find the user's DN to bind // with, set the following to the attribute that holds the user's // "username". In Microsoft AD directories this is "sAMAccountName" $ldap_dn_search_attrib = "sAMAccountName"; // If you need to bind as a particular user to do the search described // above, specify the DN and password in the variables below $ldap_dn_search_dn = "cn=mrbs,cn=Users,dc=stjohns,dc=local"; $ldap_dn_search_password = "*********"; When I try to login the screen is still white. The netbios name is stjohns.local but the domain name is "school". Does the ldap server need to be set to the IP or localhost as its on that machine.

We use a Toshiba RD-XV47KB - wouldn't recomend - very heavy to work through the menus.

Hi, I have been asked to have the machine in my offices that converts VHS to DVD's. In the past it was connected to a small tv. Is there a way to connect a monitor to it? I've read the refresh rate isn't high enough so not possible. Is there an alternative way to convert vhs to dvd? Thanks

The settings are in computer configuration in all OU's but doesn't seem to work after a gpupdate /force

Hi, We have forced for September staff to change their network password, which the force is working fine. However it allows them to keep the same password. I have set in the staff only group policy to remember 2 passwords. The problem been its under computer configuration and doing it on a user account - isn't this bad practice? Does it work ok? As it doesn't seem to work for us. THanks

Hi, Just adding all our staff to Joomla. Is there a way when they are logged in they can change their own password? Thanks