Kyle

We have just add fitted at one school a new 8 core fibre. I think they said it was %0um ( i have no idea on fibre) There seems to be a a bit of trouble with the termination of the cables. When they tested them today you could hardly see any light coming down any of them but if you shine one of those red laser pens down it it is very bright. I left them late this afternoon testing them again. Does anyone know if 50um is a good future proof cable, what should i need to know for when i next go back if there are complaints?

One of the primary schools i visit has just hag a couple of these switches fitted. I noticed today that the lights on these seem to be nearly permanently on with very very minimal flicker. If i use one of the other older DLink switches the flicker patters is what you would expect. Does anyone know any thing about these Netgear Switches and the light flickers. The two switches in question both have a 1GB fibre coming into them from other buildings and i believe that network performance as not Ben to its best since these went in. I only know that some one recommended these to the school because they were 'cheap' :-(

I have been to a school today that has a failry new Dell server. It has 10 drives in it, 2 are for the OS mirrored or raid 1 (not sure) and the other 8 are configured in one huge raid for storage. I noticed on one of the drives on the large raid that the two lights are permanently on. On all other drives the there are two lights per drive, one is always on to show active and the other light flickers on activity. Does anyone know why on one drive only that the two lights are permanently on? THe reason i ask is that staff and pupls have complained about slow log ons and the raid which contains the drive in question holds the home folders and also the profiles. I personally think the log on is a network issue as i am not aware of any issues with home folders and profiles being held on the same drive. Does anyone have any thoughts on the 2 permanent light problem, i have not had time to check the server physically yet.

Found this guide and now i have it working, many thanks.

OK This is where i become lost, i need to read more I think as i have no idea how to do this. I have netgear router connected to my broadband modem, i have checked the router config and it is set to use the broadband DNS settings but does not display them. SO have not idea how to set up a forwarder and not idea where to find the DNS settings from my broadband supplier.

Yes

A lot of my time is spent on working on workstations which really what my employment role is, but as with many of you i end up being given jobs on servers which i am a little rusty at. Like most of you not much money is available for training so i have decided to set up a little test network at home with a couple of old computers. I have installed server 2003 on one computer and xp pro on another. I have installed the server as a DC with DHCP and DNS. I ave also installed RIS and successfully imaged the XP workstation. I have in DHCP configured the default gateway as my home router. When i am on the server the Internet works fine as it is going through the DG to the router. But now my XP box is joined to the domain through RIS and sitting in the default computers OU, I can log on no problem but i have no Internet on the XP PC? I have doe an IPCONFIG on both server and PC and they are correct, what do i need to do/change to get internet on my XP PC?

@Ric, I am open to suggestions. Point me in the direction of others please.

I am going to get a iPod with money i have had from xmas. I am not sure which one to get at the moment. I do a lot of walking training and i want it for mainly playing music while i do this. I have looked at at a 8gb Nano which appeals but also does pod casts photos etc. But i noticed that the 5th generation video ipods are only about few quid more. How is this so? What are the benefits (apart from video) of me spending a little more eon the video ipod rather than the Nano.

Right I can now access the ntfs partitions, but when i try to run winnt.exe i get this error "could not find place for swap file" and th einstall stops.

@ChrisH I cant use the CD DRive?

I have an XP Pro laptop which has become corrupt, with the system32\hall.dll is missing or corrupt. It is a Toshiba laptop which has a CD Rom drive hanging off a PCMIA card. The CD Drive is not compatible witht the BIOS so does not support booting from CD. I tried to boot from the XP 6 set floppy disks but every time i get to disc 6 it blue screens ( i have tried various floppies of disc 6 to no luck) The HDD is formatted NTFS and had two identical partitions. I was trying to access the i386 folder on the D: partition to try to do a re-install of the OS (which i thought would be my quickest option) But i cant find NT boot floppies to let me access the d: partition in a DOS style. I am stumped, this is for a friend which the laptop is to be used for home use. He said the systen32\hall.dll error came after a 90% install of IE7 but he had a power cut and this happened when he turned it back on. Can anyone help me with this please?

I would also like to thank everyone at Edugeek and its members who have helped me no end over the last 12 months. Long may it continue.....!

Where abouts in the midlands are you Kiran?

Good idea i think

Have you googled for them?

Does BSF affect Foundation/Trust schools?

WE have had Evesham techs in to our servers a few times over the years. I have no faith in them whatsoever, hence we dont use them any more for servers.

I have used this script on all my domain clients, I always leave the default user folder in the script but be aware that sometimes it does delete it. I do not know why this seems to be random. I always have Administrator and All user profile left. As all my pc's are domain PCs they never have a user log on locally and all the pupils/staff have either a roaming profile or a mandatory profile. Hope it is as successful for you. (Use at your own risk) Copy and paste the text below into notepad and save as vbs. Function Main() On Error Resume Next Dim obtain folder Dim Pathfinder Dim strPath Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strPath = "C:\Documents and Settings\" Set f = fso.GetFolder(strPath) ' Loop through all subfolders For Each fldrItem in f.SubFolders fldrName = fldrItem.name If Right(strPath,1) <> "\" Then Pathfinder = strPath & "\" & fldrName Else Pathfinder = strPath & fldrName End If Select Case fldrName Case "Administrator": Case "All Users": Case "Default User": Case Else: set obtain folder = fso.GetFolder(Pathfinder) obtainfolder.Delete true End Select Next ' Clean up objects Set fso = Nothing Set fc = Nothing End Function call Main()

I would only hope that you are planning on doing something about this with hte next release. I doubt very much whether there are many schools who are running standalone computers now they'll probarbly be all networked. The files it need to write to is just no go now on computers. There si now way we can allow these files to be written to ona network situation. If we give all students acccess it would be a nightmare. TO give individual SEN students access would be a administrational nightmare so this is why we set up a individual user. Thanks for trying to help any how.

Thanks AJ

SO i am correct in thinking this, If you redirect the users desktop and application data, that this part of the roaming profile is not pulled down over the network when they log on bu tis accessed directly on the server?

So you install it on a server 2003? then just create a short cut for the user desktop and it runs ok?

I've had a strange thing happen today to a couple of users whose roaming profile had become corrupt. When they try to log on it tells them that their copy of windows is not genuine and displays all the prompts to validate it. But if i log on as admin then it is OK. As soon as i delete and recreate the roaming profile of the user it works OK. I know the Windows Copy is genuine because there were 50 odd computers all imaged with the same image using RIS and i know the CD key in RIS is genuine as it is used with all other RIS images in the school. Strange or what.............?

I have been into a school today that has roaming profiles for staff. They have been complaining of slow log on times so i checked the size of these folders in a few profiles. I found that some of then had files on their desktops and also had quite large application data folders. I checked the GPO and found out that neither the desktop folder or application data folder is being redirected. I have never come across this before, will redirecting theses in GPO make a mass difference ( inoticed one user had 40mb on their desktop.) While I'm on the subject, the My Documents were not redirected either, i noticed that in the User Properties in AD they have the Homepath set to H: folder location. If My Documents wee redirected in GPO would you need to have any setting in this box on the AD Properties?