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I hope they do it justice, that's one of my favourite audiobooks. Ray Porter is fantastic (yet again). https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Project-Hail-Mary-Audiobook/B08GB2RLKM
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We have: A network map of connections which just shows fibre links between buildings. A list of switches present in each cabinet along with their IP addresses for the GUI. A plan for each room showing network socket locations and which cabinet/switch they are supposed to go to. Switches are set up 'daisy chained' e.g. port 24 of one switch links to port 23 of the next switch, and 24 of that switch links to 23 of the next switch etc. STP is not enabled on the network. We have had 'network loops' before due to students connecting a socket to a socket so this is something that I am looking at implementing. I do have access to the firewall and the switches. The in-house IT support is two people. The company who set up most of the network is no longer viable. We are looking at getting network specialists in to upgrade some switches and redesign the network re: more efficient layout/config and upgrading the fibre links between buildings from 1Gbps to 10Gbps
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The guest network is used and gets IP addresses on a different scope to our main network. I don't know what the 'Internet' VLAN is for
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No, we have direct fibre and our own firewall. I'm sure there must be a reason for it otherwise why would it be there, right?
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This guy gets it!
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Various models of D-Link. Some are new, some are going back 10 years such as the 3024s
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The guest VLAN is filtered in exactly the same way as the 'normal' VLAN - they both go through our web filter, it's just that the guest VLAN users are seen as 'unauthenticated users' so the filter only recognises them by machine IP address. I have no idea what the 'Internet' VLAN is for given that everything has Internet anyway!
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Correct, the 'Guest Users' VLAN is for a guest WiFi network that's on a different IP range.
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We had 3rd party network support and they set up a lot of our network infrastructure. I have been tasked with taking over this part of the network and have a query about the switch configs re: VLANS. We have three VLANS (two really I guess, the default one plus an 'Internet' VLAN with an ID of 3 and a 'Guest Users' VLAN with an ID of 5.) The switch is set up so that ports 1-24 are untagged for the default VLAN, ports 1-24 are all tagged for the Internet VLAN (3) and also tagged for the Guest Users VLAN (5) Sorry for the noob question, but what are the implications of having this config? I know next to nothing about VLANS but it seems that doing it like this defeats the object of having a VLAN in the first place? I really could do with an idiots guide to VLANS as it is one area that I am woefully ignorant about. If the above config is fine and I want to add another switch, I would presumably just set the VLANS up in the exact same way? Thanks
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Weird, I find SOLUS 3 to be completely pain-free to use. Never have a problem with it.SOLUS 2 on the other hand...Yikes.
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How do you...provision new GSuite accounts?
EmperorPeng replied to EmperorPeng's topic in How do you do....it?
Problem solved. The service on two of our DCs was crashing. I removed the software, rebooted the servers, reinstalled the software, rebooted again and set it back up. Everything working flawlessly now. Passwords are in sync within 5-10 seconds. Many thanks to everybody who took the time to respond -
I am having real problems synching our AD changes to GSuite. We have both Google Cloud Directory Sync and GSuite Password Sync installed as per requirements. The only way I've gotten it to work at the moment is as follows: 1. Log into pupil Google account 2. Log into pupil AD account 3. Change pupil AD password which then updates the GSuite password If I do it any other way, the password changes do not sync. I really do not want to manually log into 700 GSuite accounts - what am I doing wrong/how do you do it? FYI we are using the standard free version of GSuite for EDU with our LAN using Server 2012/2016/2019 with Windows 10 clients.
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We use NetSupport which does not require STAFF permission to connect although I have set a security key to stop staff from viewing other staff. We also use NetSupport DNA which will grab screenshots of anything that we have configured in the Safeguarding section. I also have VNC as a backup for connecting remotely. Our school policy is basically "You have no expectations of privacy whilst using the school network and we reserve the right to monitor staff and resources as we see fit to ensure compliance with relevant school policies." We also have software that I can install which will basically turn the target PC into a huge recorder, capturing screen, audio, keystrokes, keywords the lot. We only ever install this one when we have the Head's authorisation due to how intrusive it is.
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Just get a card and fit it. My last motherboard had a nasty issue on the PCI-E slots - the x16 slot was DOA and the secondary slot (x8) only ran at x4. Played all my games perfectly fine with minimal loss of performance. As you're not playing games and only doing light graphics work you'll be perfectly fine with a card only running at x8. -
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Smoothwall script stops humming on pc's
EmperorPeng replied to catwoman's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
This has been the bane of my life! Been wrestling with this since January 2018 and our 'solution' was to incorporate Smoothwall's scripts into our own login script. Smoothwall support have been very helpful but didn't get to the root cause. Thank you Tech1, I salute you!
