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Hi all Does anyone know if there's a URL to logout of Smoothwall? I know you can get the the logout button by going to http://smoothwall/iclogin, but I'm wanting the URL to log out. We're wanting users on Chromebooks to be forced to login to Smoothwall by setting the default page to the logout URL with the username and password boxes. I've tried checking the code but can't see what the button actually does. Thanks!

CONFIRMED: Impero. I uninstalled, reprinted and no TRUE. SOLVED! Thanks!

We have Impero - but I don't have the client installed on this machine, I just use the console. Graphics drivers haven't been updated for ages - the laptop is about 5 years old. I'll have a fiddle and see what I can sort. Thanks for that. EDIT: Ok, I do have the Impero client...

We've got PCounter on the new domain - but TRUE appears for local printers too. I've spoken to the guys who support our PCounter and they said there's nothing setup to do that. It's just my computer that does it

Hi all I'm having an issue whereby whatever I print, on whatever printer I choose, I get the word TRUE (black capital text on a white background) in the bottom left hand corner: Paper, plastic, labels, big MFP, little car printer - it's there on all of them. Does anyone have any idea where it came from or how I can get rid? I'm running Windows 7 32bit on a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain. It's still on the 'old' domain so there's not another computer I can test with - I only mentioned that because it might be a group policy thing? Thanks for any help at all - I can't print off any staff passes at the moment as they all say TRUE on them. Tim

Hi all Is there anyway at all we can view Publisher files on a Chromebook? I can't find an app/extension/online viewer anywhere. Tim

Hi We're looking at Chromebooks but would ideally like a way to view (not necessarily modify) .flipchart files. I've had a look - there's SMART Notebook express for SMART - is there anything for Promethean out there? Thanks Tim

Here's how it looks at the moment [ATTACH=CONFIG]26209[/ATTACH]

Tried - the only thing that changed was the "most recent check for updates" and "updates were installed" changed to "Never" There's no mention of PendingFileRenameOperations anywhere in that key at all on the workstation. See attached pic There's a FileRenameOperations key but there's nothing in it

No WSUS and no proxy

i all We have one machine that even after multiple reboots is saying "Restart your computer to install important updates". These reboots are happening every 10 mins or so with the machine logged off - with it logged on it gives the prompt in the lower right. I've tried a couple of Microsoft Fix Its relating to the update cache or something, but nothing has worked so far. The updates say "Pending". It's like it is completely ignoring I've rebooted the machine - of course because there's a reboot pending it won't check or install any new ones. Anyone got any ideas? I've Googled it but mostly find things relating to disabling the automatic update. The "date installed" keeps changing too - this has been going on since July but the date currently says 19/08/2014. Thanks

Thanks for all the replies. The staff constantly use the laptops so they need to be able to use them. We've got a mixture of battery and charger issues. Some laptops turn themselves off without warning, some batteries don't charge (even with replacement batteries), some will only charge with certain chargers...I've replaced batteries and chargers. It's doing my head in! I'm thinking the way to go is getting a cheaper laptop and a dock. That way everything could be plugged into the rooms that need it and staff could just come along with their laptops and dock them to have everything working.

Hi all Currently we have about 20 teachers all with a Dell laptop. They're all about 3 years old now and are suffering battery/charging issues. It's time to replace. The question is, which direction do we go in? Currently it's a £450ish laptop (or was back then - probably a £300 laptop these days). We're using Google Apps a lot more than we did, but I don't think they're ready for Chromebooks. The other end of the scale is a Surface Pro 3 - only thing being with that is that all the teachers have a Nexus 7 for tablet-duties, so another tablet like device might be a bit of a waste. Another option is a laptop that can be docked easily - this would avoid the plugging in of power, projector, whiteboard and audio cables. Another way would be to have a NUC attached to the projector at all times, and get them a cheap computer they maybe wouldn't need to carry back and forth from home. Does anyone have any experience with anything that works really well? Thanks Tim

It was enabled. We disabled it and it started working ad expected. We've stopped the service via GPO but need to disable it as stopping the service alone didn't do it Edit: OK, may have spoken too soon

Found the culprit! Sync centre! Offline files! Just finding out how to turn it off now

Yup, got another server. It's an old one running 2003 which is currently just a print server. I can access shares from that fine. Timezones and time are the same on the server and laptop.

Does anyone have any ideas about this? I found this post: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/111616-folder-redirection-has-stopped-working.html but it doesn't seem to have sorted it.

Hi all We've got our Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 network all setup, but I'm a firm believer in "teach how to word process, not how to use Word" so am looking at a dual boot affair with Edubuntu. I'd like the users to logon to the server, as they do currently with Windows, but aren't sure how to set it up. I've got an old "box" I can use as an Ubuntu server. I'm just not sure where to go from here. Can anyone point me to any guides they've used, youtube videos or anything like that? I've found server setup guides, but nothing about setting up users or shares. Even better, can we use our Windows server? Is there a way to replicate AD? Thanks for any help. Tim

We've just got the one server, so all the shares are on that. The shares that don't work are the ones in the profile (documents, start menu and desktop). The share to the shared area is mapped as a drive via GPO and works correctly. All the profiles have been binned and recreated. The documents are also mapped to a drive, but they don't work. The time is spot on with the server.

Checked the scope, They're sitting nicely in our DHCP address range. We've got a Ubiquity Unifi system. 24 WAPs. Happens all over school. Also when wired.

Thanks for trying to help though!

If I add a share to same folder (same name but with a 2 on the end) with the same permissions it works correctly. Can't say for how long though.

Hi Yeah, they're appearing in AD correctly. Doesn't matter whether it's wired or wireless - doesn't work. It's the shares for their documents, desktop and start menu that don't work. The one that does is the shared area. Tim

Hi everyone I'm tearing my hair out here with a problem we've been suffering. We've recently got a new suite of 30 laptops. I've installed and configured Windows 7 Pro on them all using WDS. Everything was fine for a few days... Then users started getting errors when logging on because they couldn't access the shared desktop. (\\servername\share$). All share permissions and things are fine. Here's the 2 things that make this error really strange: 1. The user can access the share via IP\sharename. I don't think it's a DNS issue because some of the other shares are available via servername\share. This doesn't last though - soon enough it tells the user they can't access the share from either servername or IP. 2. Trying to access the same share via \\servername\share$ doesn't work for admins either. Same error message about having access denied. This isn't on all of the computers - just a few. But it affects ALL users, regardless of their permission level. We've tried everything to sort it, but it appears to be something on the client machine. Because of this, I made a fresh install of Windows, joined it to the domain, installed packages and it was fine. I reluctantly reimaged all 30 laptops. Sure enough, 3 days later we're having the same issues. Also on our 30 netbooks, made with a separate image. Something isn't right here - it's like something is telling the computers not to work anymore. Does anyone have any ideas how this can be sorted? I've tried all sorts of things I've found in forums - nothing works apart from a reimage of the computer, then that only works for a few days. Thanks in advance

There is indeed! You still giving me a call?