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Interesting. I've never had it not ask to authenticate when logged into our domain then accessing OWA.

Looks like the 'real world' solution right now is to just change the extension of the file. I would suggest to the teacher/students to save all files as .doc, however I fear they may lose some kind of formatting in doing so. Thanks again!

Sorry, from our own website. It's just a link.. Here's an example.

I've been looking for a simple workaround by keeping the file as .docx but havent found one. The problem: Teacher adds a Word 2007 .docx file for his Word 2007 class and when students try to download it, it saves as a zip file. Is there a workaround for this? (without using firefox)

Well, I uninstalled the USB drivers and reinstalled them again. Restarted and it looks to be working.

I have a teacher doing a digital photography class. We provide some cameras and the students are bringing in their digital cameras. Nikons and Cannon. Multiple cameras on multiple machines. All machines share same image though. None of them are being recognized when they plug the usb cable in and turn on the camera. The machine will recognize my USB flash drive. When a camera is plugged in though, nothing happens. Any ideas software wise to get XP to recognize the usb device? All xp machines, SP3 and very recent patches.

Ya, that sounds like an easy solution. And I am a big fan of easy. Thanks for the suggestions!

Thanks for the reply.. The projector does, however it's quite far away. I was also hoping the teacher would be able to toggle for example between Google.com and the projection device.

I have a teacher that purchased a projection device that requires S-video. A projector in the room in connected to the PC, but the PC itself has no s-video. I was thinking I could get an S-video to USB cable. I suppose my question would be, can you forsee an issue with this? If not any ideas what software I could use to display the incoming feed from the projection device?

Thanks guys!

This is my fantasy question for the day. We have two unique DSL connections (each with their own modem). They sit less than 10ft apart from each other. The PC has two nics. Is there software that would 'fool' the pc into thinking there is one Nic while both are actually plugged into each DSL modem? Perhaps double the speed? I've never heard of such a thing, but I know they used to do something similar with dial-up in the 90s. Again, fantasy question and maybe somebody may know of an answer. Thanks!

I have a PC that is unable to display webpages. But it is 'connected'. For example, I can ping msn.com and get an ip back, but it fails to display the page. I've checked its ip and it is grabbing an ip from the dhcp. I've moved this pc to another network and it will connect and display webpages. On the network that it cannot display pages, two other Pcs (new to the network) were able to grab, connect and display pages just fine. Before I go back to the client, I would like to be prepared with a few solutions. The only one I can think of is to ipconfig /flushdns then ipconfig /registerdns Any other ideas? Thank you kindly!

unfortunatly there was no event showing who printed to her printer, and i have no idea why. Regardless I'll try the check the "Keep list of Printed Documents" box and take it from there. Thanks guys.

I just had a student print to a staff members shared printer. I thought i could easily see who printed it, but when I log in I see nothing under System Event Logs . Any ideas?

I'll post the solution we chose for this issue in case it may be usefull to somebody else in the future. @ECHO on %comspec% nul /cmd \\servername\sharedfolder\%USERNAME% xcacls \\servername\sharedfolder\%USERNAME% /t /g "domainname\%USERNAME%":f /y NET USE u: \\servername\sharedfolder\%USERNAME% /PERSISTENT:No After playing for a while, I've chosen this to solve the issue. It's a quick batchfile that i'm running as a login script from an OU named after the graduation year of the students. The share needs to be read/write/execute in order for the folder to be created (although the dont have access to the root of the shared folder I'll be running the below batch file afterhours. Resides inside the shared folder. This batch removes all security permissions from each folder inside the share. It the adds admin full permissions and username permission to full, and gives teachers read and write access. for /D %%I in (*) DO XCACLS "%%I" /T /G BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS:F "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM":F "parkco\%%I":F "domainname\teachers":RW "%%I":C pause

Found this topic elsewhere in the forums. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/networks/28837-random-all-users-home-folders-available.html

In AD user properties, there is a setup for Home Folder. You select a drive to mount it to and the path to their home folder. For example for me the path would be U: \\servername\users\User Name This has worked fine for over a year now, however recently the path breaks during login somehow and their drive will be mounted to U: \\alma\users I could log in five times and it may happen once. Any ideas what would be causing this or how to fix it? Thanks!

Thanks for the info guys, very helpful!

I'm trying to piece together VBScript that will be run from the server on the client side at login. It will get the user name and create a folder with that name on the server. So far so good. I'm having troubles actually sharing the folder with the user having permissions. How can I 'Share' the folder and give the permissions that I want? Any thoughts or where can I go to get this info, my googl-fu couldnt find it.

Thanks for the tips guys. I tried to run this as a startup script, but it would fail saying students don't have access to the fonts folder. This was startup script by user, not computer. I haven't tried this as a computer startup script though, would it be different?

I need to add about 10 new fonts to all of the client PCs on campus. Only admins can acces the fonts folder (or at least modify it). I made a VBS script to copy the fonts from a shared folder to the clients C:\Windows\Fonts folder at login. It worked for me (admin) like a charm, but fails for students. So I suppose this is a two part question.. 1) Is there a way I can run Login scripts that will be run as admin? 2) How can I update fonts on all these machines instead of doing it one by one? thanks!

Everybody learns differently, but I think it's easier to use Ubuntu and work your way into command lines using the terminal than it is to just be tossed into the deap end with FreeBSD.

We've added Likewise Open 5 to a netbook and it logs in perfectly to our Active Directory domain. My next step is to see how to mount the home directory in AD assigned to the user (in AD) to the ubuntu users Home directory. Can this be done?

Actually, that's what I am currently using. The only complaints that I've had are: 1: I have troubles needing to update drivers so SystemRescueCD recognize every machine. (see #3) 2: We're limited by 3 images on the network at one time, we dont know why. (see #3) 3: I have very limited experiance with Linux and can't find myself to be motivated enough to want to learn it.

I've been using a linux System Recovery disc to create images and to shoot those images to machines one at a time. This - as you can imagine - is not very efficient. We've been looking at Acronis and Ghost thus far, but there has to be other options out there. Can anyone suggest an imaging solution that they are using and why they like it? Thanks!