Trav

Hi there Only know the LinkStation gear. We use ours for much the same thing as you are thinking of. Works well. BR Trav

Hi We have mini towers across the back of 17" flat glass fronted screens with k/b and mouse in front of that. We've found that it's the best way to maximise the amount of machines that we get into a given area so as to get one pupil to one machine as far as possible. We don't allow cd/dvd or floppy drives in any machine and disable access to usb drives ('drives' being the optimum word, not usb equip ie. scanners etc.). We have a printer in each room mapped by a script using 'Con2prt' with environment variables on each machine. We use standard plastic stools of heights dependant of year where computers are based, these are stacked at the end of last lesson in any day so as to allow cleaners to do best job possible. We have a teachers machine in each suite together with an I.W.B. where possible, this allows the teacher to display and do what they want the children to see and know about. We also have aircon in each suite to keep the little darling awake, as without it they tend to fall asleep towards the end of the day (not so bad now that we have flat screens therefor less heat). We are fitting a DVD player into each suite because you can get at least 2 classes into the I.C.T. areas so that they can watch appropriate subject material which releases a teacher to do other things or have non-contact. Can't think of any other info I can put in but it all runs quite well. Hope this info helps.

No, it's IDE. Not yet but I will when I look at it tomorrow. Thanks all for your suggesrions.

Thanks all. Done that but the DVD drive is still C: even with the card readers unplugged. Any clues?

Hi all Have new machine with 250 gig SATA HDD, DVD Drive and internal card readers (4 drives). Problem is that when I install XP Pro on HDD it is drive H:, the card readers are C:, D:, E: and F:, the DVD is G: and the HDD becomes H:. I've tried unplugging the card readers, renaming the DVD to D: which is fine then renaming the HDD to C: but this isn't allowed by XP. If I now plug the card readers in again the HDD returns to H: and the card readers are now C:, E:, F: and G:. Not had this situation before so need bit of help. What's to do chaps and chapesses please.

We have 2 seperate domains here as county advise this, because of the nature of SIMS and its data. When SIMS is on a domain you are restricted to what else you can run with it according to county, we are ok apparently with Office and a couple of other bits but thats about it. It makes life easier here to maintain 2 networks and I fail to see whats difficult with it. It also keeps the SIMS data completely away from pupils etc. Hope that helps.

CheeseDog@ Are you sure? Sure am, PapercutNG is a different beasty and pennies are needed for that one. Just the simple Papercut logger is free as several on here have found out as you can see by the comments.

@ Kearton ..for 5 or less users. It would have to be a *pretty* small school to fit in this category methinks... It's unlimited as a logger, if you want it to do more then you must pay... where's the problem with that statement Kearton

Hi folks Didn't know where to post this so have started new topic here. We had problems chasing about trying to find who printed 18 pages of something and who else printed whatever at times during the day. We discovered Papercut which logs all print jobs on the network and writes to a log that can be viewed and saved in a .csv etc. for later analysis. Guess what ................... it's brill and best of all it's free. Have a look @ http://www.papercut.biz

Our K/bs and mice are all Logitech models. We've got them all running on re-chargeables and they last for a long time. You can get 2700 and possibly 2800 mAh batteries now and fast chargers from http://www.7dayshop.com and there's no VAT as they are from Geurnsey. Hope that helps. Trav

We've got the Genee 6100, great little piece of equipment, got ours for £850 from http://www.interactive-education.co.uk tel: 0870 043 4024 Get a demo. Hope that helps. Trav

What a coinsidence!

Domino... I liked the idea of the Netgear ProSafe .... Anyone else played with this and whats the licencing probs and costs of using it.

There's bound to be a hefty price to pay Mr. Gates I would guess somewhere along the line.

Sorry ........ I should have said that I locked all the computer suites up at lunchtime on the last day of the year before the students leave. BR