Olumite

can i send you a FR?

Just want to express my thanks to all that offered advice to my problem. Ive only been a technician for a 6-8 weeks, so I'm having to learn quickly. Before this I was at uni studying Business Computing. After wasting 6 months in retail management, I wanted to try I.T. So here I am trying to get some much needed experience. I find myself making use of teachers that throw up problems ive not encountered before so that I can learn whilst I go through whichever avenues that are open to me. This forum has been a fountain of knowledge for me and will no doubt keep me going through the next few months. Thanks again.

Thanks for the advice, i will deploy adminpak to the terminals that are most likely to be used by the teacher in question.

Thanks for the responses. Apologies for the confusion, the teacher hasnt stated that she'd want to view students 'my docs' folders. Just their user profile ala active directory. I'd like to let her use active directory but in a very limited capacity. Without giving her admin rights and/or giving her the password to the server. So a shortcut on her desktop/start menu to a restricted active directory is what I'm after. The teacher wants to be able to view pupil/staff's username, so that she can see if whatever theyre typing isnt using the correct upper or lower case characters. She wants to be able to view the usernames in a list so that at a glance she can see. what the situation is. To top it off she'd like to be able to reset the passwords. Ive tried the custom mmc suggestion. So she'd be able to view/reset users/passwords. However as the active directory is on the server, I am unable to create a working shortcut to the mmc I created.

hi A teacher who has the role of "data manager" wants an i-teach-esque way of ammending/viewing people's profiles. I realise that for her to be able to do such things I'd have to give her admin rights. which would enable her to roam free-range around the server. There is no way I am giving her nor anyother teacher admin rights (nightmares of the possible horrors). I'd rather say there is no method that wouldnt comprimise the security of the server. Is there another way? Any suggestions welcome! lol My first post!