jonny_valentine

ARGH!!! N0o0o0o0o0000oooooo go away!

I had same prob in several schools, heres what i did: remove all network card utilites, install xp sp2.. let windows manage the wireless, and all should be fixed, you may find you will have to login a couple of times to get it to keep the wep key there, make sure the blox that says, 'the key is provided for me' is unticked.

heheh, it should be enabled! Force classic start menu>enabled

Sounds good.. i would do it but i dont know how to do all the fancy lines n stuff

I see, thats fair enough, wasnt sure you see

Russ: you know im right ;p Mark: didnt mean to cause a fuss, sorry. I've edited the wiki myself, i think maybe the top part should be completely removed and put each in its respective subject? That way there arent any repeats, i duno. Imo, it would be better to know which catagory each came under. (ps. 2 times not 4 ) Geoff: nice one, im off to waterstones!

projector1: I dont know off hand of any websites that go through all the flaws in GPO's, i could post some impero logs of a few pupils' computer activity showing step by step, how they bypass certain policies, but someone would probably moan saying im advertising. One quick simple hak (i thought was an old & obvious one) that you all may wanna try is, goto m$ word, write something, right click and add hyperlink, type c: and click ok. Then follow the link in word to the c: drive. There may be a policy to stop this but from the ones ive got in place at one school, you wouldnt think the above could be done, since the c: drive is hidden and so on, but it does work. The wiki had links on to software that can stop this kind of thing, but someone called mark, kindly removed the links because it was on there twice, once under internet security/monitoring and once under desktop security.. this is obviously not allowed even though the software does cover both.. :?

Yes, but it still technically sets the wallpaper when they do that, so it will show up upon logging on/off. My kids got really crafty and, using that knowledge, found a really nice way around it... The use task manager to end explorer.exe and re-run it a few times. After that it somehow braks the active desktop, and no desktop shows, just a white error screen. At this point, anything you set as your desktop stays your desktop =/ After this i finally cracked down and disabled task manager, but they just went online and found a proprietary version of the task manager and ran it from there USB drives. I still havn't found a way to stop this from happening... I must hand it to them though, these kids are rather bright and resourceful, i simply wish they'd use there intelect to go places and do things rather than focus on getting around stupid things like default backgrounds. hehe, kids are damn clever sometimes.. anyway, you should look up reg.exe and reg.ini to set permissions on the control panel registry key for local user. This works for me, since they dont have access rights to change the background. GPO's are bypassable in oh so many ways.

There are many flaws in GP's and ways to bypass them. Looking in the logs i can see all sorts of very hand methods to bypass GP security; the pupils are very annoying. Anyway, the answer is to either ditch office like someone mentioned, or get another security tool, see wicky for details on apps for this purpose. website: Security tools on the wicky! Some of these are likely to help.

hmm, yes i had exactly this.. its strange that the above proc doesnt work. You must ensure that you login as admin to see all files that need syncing by all users, then delete the ones for that server. It is odd if that doesnt work. Pitty I cant come and have a look If the server still exists, then you could try creating the root folder that they are trying to sync to, and give everyone full permission to it, then when it tries to sync they will be able to, then delete the files from the server. We had a server go down, so I had the same unavailable error. I definately deleted the files, removed the server from the list of servers to sync to, and also added an exclusion to make sure.

Some network cards do not initialise until the log on screen appears, this messes startup scripts up, but wont affect logon scripts, i even have this at one school on winXP sp2, not even wireless cards. Mark, surely your map network drive is in the logon script? Anyway, you can simply try: On Error Resume Next Dim NetDrives Dim i Set NetDrives = WSHNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives If NetDrives.Count <> 0 Then For i = 0 To NetDrives.Count - 1 WSHNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive NetDrives(i) Next End If That should remove your network drives. You could even check for just the P: drive and remove that only. if not then try : CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run "net.exe use P:" & " /delete", 0, True WScript.Sleep 250 This will delete the mapping first jon

Mark, It just so happens that the same problem has happened to me last week. I fixed it by doing a couple of things... Firstly, you must log onto the teachers laptop/pc as an admin, since they will see ALL files that are trying to sync from ALL users. Then, click the 'view files' button. Sort by server name and delete all the files you dont want to sync. Then in settings somewhere, there is i think an advanced button, which allows you to say which servers to sync to. untick the appropriate servers. Then perform a sync as admin. All the above is by memory so sorry if its slightly wrong words, but im sure you know where i mean to look. This should sort it. Jon

Rename the default user profile, then export the good profile into the documents and settings folder, and rename it to default user (or just export it as 'default user').

I was just trying to give examples of things that Ranger/Impero does that cant be achieved using active directory etc.. and i meant having the whole class on ya screen as thumbnails. And NetSupport .. 4got that 1.. although the product we made is a quarter of the cost wish i could post the url up so u can compare to the big names Sorry Ric.. last 1 ..whats a wiki?

cool.. i'll look into that.