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Could it be A profile problem ? Have you tried clearing the profiles from the machine both from the C:\Users folder and the registry ? Have you tried it on a brand new account too ? One that never had a local desktop ?

You may also need to remove the profiles from the registry too - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ProfileList Delete the corresponding entries.

Yeah... sometimes you have to 'push a route' or 'push an IP Range/ports' - found in the settings for VPN, I'm not sure where on Smoothwall though.

Are there any Profiles still stored on the clients ? - may be worth clearing them if so. That way the machine will pull down a new profile when a User logs on, updating all of the settings. Make sure there is nothing stored like user files in the profiles before clearing them... if you don't use roaming profiles.

Nice one, i'm not 100% sure how you're going to be able to get the location exactly.

Reel them in sounds like a plan. If you let them on they will have an IP, then locate the IP to the closest Access Point if you can and then you'll be close. How are you going to give them the wifi passphrase though ?

Collar them ? when you block the MAC address... and that person can lo longer get access to anything at all... They may not know about MAC spoofing because hacking access points really is childs play, they may have done it at home with standard Thomson/Techicolor routers but now it's more sophisticated. They may just come knockin' and say.... 'I cant get on the wifi' ....

These days, yes I suppose it is!! Never thought of that one did they

I'm guessing they are trying to hack the wifi because they don't have the credentials to be able to log-in and use it ? Do they not have the credentials because they are not supposed to use the Wi-Fi ? or do they just not know the security passphrase ? If they do have access and are trying to get the Pass-phrase then chances are they will be using a tool such as Cane & Abel to try and show the password - then I'd block the MAC address at the Core Switches, shame you aren't using captive portal then - any blocked MAC addresses will be redirected to a website - then you could display something like 'this MAC address has been banned.'

I believe you can do this by ECP, what ever address your OWA is attached to go to ECP instead of OWA. for example.. mail.school.co.uk/owa - change owa to ecp. You can login as Admin, then switch to a user and set out-of-office. I believe you can apply it to a user Admin side too.

We do the same, we Have a Container which has the Restricted User group in it, from there GPO's are assigned by Internet Settings, Redirects for Profiles, Desktop Settings etc.

The devices we had wern't actually a tablet, more like a device, that had like a open close bit on the front like a phone case perhaps would have. The amount of times I'd be called to a lesson because the BromCom wasn't connected / working... Jeez - Yeah... good memories!!

You had laptops ? We had this horrible grey thing with a green screen..... They were horrible... It was like a tablet type design with loads of buttons.

I just an image on Google and it reminded me of the horrible daemon that was... BromCom.

You could just install CentOS minimal and download the packages you want... that way the installer will fit on a CD. - - - Updated - - - XRDP setup is easy... 'yum install xrdp' - you can lockdown CentOS a bit like you can with Windows via GP, you can use Sabayon. It's a prile builder so you can strip down the profile and add it to user groups works over AD great. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/sabayon/ yum install sabayon

I have a CentOS Systems Admin Ebook from my Linux Professional Courses if you want a copy in PDF.

You can't go far wrong with good old CentOS.

This: PacketFence: Open Source NAC (Network Access Control)

I believe Spiceworks might be the solution for Asset Tracking.... And it also has a built in Web Help Desks... I think there's quite a few people on here using it too. Free IT Community, Help Desk, and Network Monitoring - Spiceworks http://www.spiceworks.com/free-asset-management-software/

Why not just archive everything like we did... everything that was on the old helpdesk is still live on another server but moving forward we use the web based ticketing system. Our old solution goes back 6-7 years or so ago, we still have all of that data. We've never needed to go back through it all yet either.

No Idea, im running an older version of it to be honest. I don't need asset management as I use other software for that. As for migrating... no idea my friend I built the helpdesk as a clean solution so we didn't need to migrate anything over.

Cheaper ? osTicket :: Support Ticket System | osTicket Job Done. Have implemented this at a local college with over 2000 users. Works a treat.

We use this on CenOS / Fedora for thin clients. Linux Terminal Server Project - Welcome to LTSP.org

As long as your licensed I don't think you'll have any problems as it would be the same as installing it onto a machine anyway wouldn't it ? Could this be of use in this scenario ? phpVirtualBox | Free Development software downloads at SourceForge.net

CentOS does work with Samba, we have XRDP on all of our CentOS servers.. for thin client environments they are joined to the domain too using the program I posted.