newdriftking-2008

I use a product called screen connect, install on user machines/servers the you can access any machine remotely using internet connection.. works like teamviewer but is easy to manage different sites into groups.. works on windows & mac.

Not sure if this is relevant here. I run a team of 4 engineers that visit different schools. I'm trying to find an easy way of monitoring how long they are onsite (not in a big brother way) this is mainly for invoicing the schools for work done. At the moment they fill in a google doc that they put how long they where onsite, then I have to trawl through them to check hours and then input them on a sheet that totals up how many hours have been used for each individual school. As you can imagine this can be very time consuming - especially when they forget to update their sheets regularly. Can anyone suggest a better way to work this? Free ideally :-) but if I have to subscribe to a paid service then that's ok. If it's any help we use google mail, calendar etc. so if google offer something that's even better.

Its worked for years on the older versions of OSx just now on Yosemite its stopped working. No apparent fixes for it. As you say in secondary it's not really an issue for remembering/spelling names but primary is a whole different kettle of fish. Thanks for help I may raise issue with Apple.

I've just tried that and yes they do. The issue with that though is some children who aren't showing up are in Year 1 and possibly can't spell their name correctly.

I recently updated 20 Macbook Pros to Yosemite. Once these new computers were joined to the network, there are a small number of users whose login accounts (are new) that don't appear at the user selection screen. The users are there on the older computers, which are still running Mountain Lion. Why would the users show up on the older Mountain Lion iMacs but not the newer Yosemite. Thanks Paul.

I've created a new user using Workgroup manager, I have a list of 279 users for our network. When I create a new one the new user isn't shown in the user list on startup of a machine. Using Server 10.6.8 and clients are 10.10.3 What is strange is that the new user DOES show up on previous version of OSX on the clients. Is this a bug in Yosemite?

Thanks for all the replies, the main issue we have is I'm not always onsite (work between 6 other schools) and don't have an office... I could ask the office staff to monitor it, but it adds extra work to their day..

Not sure if this is the correct place.. I'm trying to come up with a solution for several schools for tracking who has borrowed iPads etc... In the past we have used a sign in/out book, but staff are lazy and don't fill it in. So then tracking whose had them last when ipads are missing is difficult. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks Paul.

Hi Chaps, I have a school that has a Xerox WorkCentre 7855 and want to use the accounting function when teachers print. Now I have this setup on a Ricoh and it works extremely well. BUT the issue I'm having on the Xerox is that the accounts are setup in the Centreware Internet Services, and the corresponding UserId's are configured on the teacher laptops but when I send a print it appears on the 7855 with the userid of the person who is signed onto the laptop. (Not a problem you might think) But as a matter of simplicity and the fact that teachers move around in schools they log onto the laptop with Teacher as their username. Thus every print that's going to go to the printer will be from Teacher - hence the problem. Is it possible to not use the laptop username when sending to print - I've had a look and can't see why it should use that. Any help is gratefully accepted

Hi Tom, The learnpads I'm having serious issue with are the LP297W model, having terrible issues with the touch recognition on 5 of these not being correct - I've tried to do a factory reset but this hasn't done anything not sure where I can go with them now. It's very frustrating as there is very little information around on the learnpads

Hi Guys, Long time since I visited the site, I work in a school that have a number of Learnpad tablets, we've started to notice that when you try to type on the on screen keyboard you get everything but what you typed. Even a full factory reset doesn't resolve the issue. Also, on some of the newer style Learnpad I keep getting "wifi not in Range" even though I can be physically stood underneath the Wireless AP.! Has anyone got any suggestions? Cheers

Hi Guys, I've just taken over ICT support in a school who have a Konica Minolta bizhub C451 photocopier, it's networked and teachers have a code they use to copy. Some staff are also able to send prints over the network to it and it prints. I have installed the driver (PCL6 ) on a teacher laptop and sent a test print, it gets as far as the copier but does not print out. When you look in job details it says not authorised to group, but I can't see any different details to a teacher who can print... Am I missing something?

dim oShell set oShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") if msgbox("Do you want to turn the proxy on? (Yes for School and No for Home)", vbQuestion or vbYesNo) = vbYes then oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", 1, "REG_DWORD" oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyServer", "yourproxy and port", "REG_SZ" oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyOverride", "yourproxy*.*", "REG_SZ" else oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ProxyEnable", 0, "REG_DWORD" end if Set oShell = Nothing Hope this helps....

I have now managed to sort this issue out, seems there was a slight error in my VB script... Now it works on Windows 7 / Vista and XP

were using home folders