azrael78

A fair point - because the PCs double up as regional internet control stations. It also keeps print management local to the classroom and doesn't bog down our already loaded servers with print queues. It was more of a 'management decision' than anything - perhaps the logic behind it baffles Mr. Spock.

Nothing would please me more but the teachers have this annoying habit of turning everything off - probably because the school gets large electricity bills... there go my Frankenstein experiments...

What kind of Servers do you have - if they are Windows Server 2003 R2, you can use File Extension blocking which prevents the creation of shortcuts on the server (which may help). We make all students use a single mandatory profile with redirected desktop and start menu - so they CAN'T create anything on them - they get what we give them. Failing the server idea above - more information about your setup would be helpful - do your students have individual profiles or do they share a common one? Are your students administrators or power users on the PCs (don't laugh, several LEA recommendations prior to Server 2003 was to make EVERYONE a local admin to avoid 'software installation issues'... we didn't follow that one)?

We've gone a step further and denied NTFS access to the volume control app for pupils - as I suspect I will be forced to give them back the notification area. We use NIRCMD to reset the volumes at login and NTFS permissions to stop them accessing volume controls - of course they can still change it but it only lasts 1 session and then resets.

What you could do is create a fake student username, log it in (ensuring that you DON'T clear it's profile at logoff) - logon as Administrator and then copy the profile somewhere else - then use that as a mandatory profile - alot of the post-setup garbage is done for you and you still get a mandatory profile. Might be worth running through the .MAN file with regedit just to be sure it hasn't left anything nasty in there though.

Hey there, Got a bit of a strange question but it's one I hope someone can answer, even if it's just to say 'You can't do that'. On-site we have several NetGear Print Servers (PS101, PS110) - we have connected these to a series of PC Print Servers (so the PC handles printing and sends print jobs to the Netgears). However sometimes when the teaching staff/students want to print, they forget to turn the power to the Print server on. As a result of this, when you print, a dialog box appears on the PC print server saying 'Cant connect to print server - OK/Cancel'. Now that's expected behaviour but even after turning the Print server back on - the dialog remains and won't send the job until you click OK. We don't want to give all and sundry access to the PC print servers - so my question is - is there a way to automatically click OK on this box OR to disable this box altogether - so that it just keeps trying to send the job until it succeeds. I've thought about scripting something to press OK - the problem is the script would need to run like a Service so that it is always running - sees the window and clicks the button for you... rather overkill if there's a better way to do it. Cheers, Az

This is my first post to the forums - just want to say that ROBOCOPY is a wonderful tool. I use it alot for script-based copy jobs (like rolling out start menu changes to the global desktop areas and such). Something to look at however - read up on the /COPYALL switch, if you want to preserve file attributes/NTFS ACLs and such - you will want to use that switch.