jonathanhaddock

Hello everybody, Forgive me if this should be in the Windows forum, I couldn't decide! Firstly, I've read this thread already which didn't help! The situation I have an Agfa Snapscan e20 scanner that I need to work on a student workstation. I've installed the latest driver from Agfa's driver page (Agfa stopped making scanners in 2001) and installed that. As an administrator of the machine, the scanner (including the Scanwise application) works. Obviously, I can't have the students being administrators of the machine - that would be crazy. I don't think the Snapscan e20 was TWAIN either so that won't help. I've also checked the manuals (very old) and they don't offer any assistance with this matter Has anybody come across this problem before, and solved it? Thanks in advance! Jonathan

Hi Plexer, Thanks for your response - I hadn't considered a logon script (which is unusual for me) and that is indeed the solution I'm going with. On my network at least, although I think it's the general ruling, you cannot give a .bat or .cmd as a logon script - it has to be something that uses the WSHost (VB Script for example) so I've found a script that does the same here [2]. I've pasted my code below, slightly modified over the original link. Hope this is useful to someone else! Public objFSO Sub Main() Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Call GeneratePath("H:\StellariumUserData") End Sub ' --------------------------------------------------------------------- '* @info Generate a folder tree from the path '* '* @param (String) Path '* @return (Boolean) Folder Exists: Recursion continues (Y/N) ' --------------------------------------------------------------------- Function GeneratePath(pFolderPath) GeneratePath = False If Not objFSO.FolderExists(pFolderPath) Then If GeneratePath(objFSO.GetParentFolderName(pFolderPath)) Then GeneratePath = True Call objFSO.CreateFolder(pFolderPath) End If Else GeneratePath = True End If End Function Call Main You also need to ensure you adjust the parameters passed to Stellarium via its shortcut to include the user directory, see the Stellarium User Manual[2]. Example below: [1]Create folder in vbscript [2]Stellarium User Guide

I'm just worried that the router had all ports open by default - sounds like a really bad idea to me And then of course there's the RM factor

Hi, We're using a product called Ranger Outpost[1] for students to access their files, staff can use VPN or Outpost, it's up to them. Outpost comes with either a yearly license or an outright purchase and was 500gbp at the time we bought it. Link is below if it's of any use. One thing to note, it has to be installed on a domain controller, something I wasn't happy about... [1]Sentinel Products Designed for Education | Ranger Outpost Jonathan Haddock <>< Network Manager (and Webmaster) Barton Court Grammar School

Hi everyone, For our astrophysics course a teacher has requested the installation of Stellarium [1]. This in itself is not a problem but it appears the software doesn't automatically create its user directory unless the user is an administrator - clearly no good for students. Has anyone had the same problem, and solved it (short of manually creating the user directories for each user)? We're using Windows Server 2003 to store the students' home areas and Windows XP Pro as the client operating system. [1] Stellarium.org Thanks in advance, Jonathan Haddock Network Manager (and Webmaster) Barton Court Grammar School

We have a number of Acer laptops here that contain Atheros Wireless controlers. Unfortunately, the wireless controller seems to be disabled at boot time and if the student doesn't move the slider to turn the card on during the XP splash screen they take ages to find the domain. I've tried to find the Atheros Wireless utility but apparently there isn't one installed on any laptop. I was hoping that like the broadcom utility it contained a tick box like "bring online before authentication". Does anybody know how to stop this infuriating behaviour, apologies if this has been asked before. Jonathan