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With RM CC3, if you want users to be able to select the resolution but for it NOT to stick (why?) then just install the correct display drivers so that you have a taskbar icon for it - CC3 won't hide it and users can use it but the settings don't stick either to the machine or user profile after log-off.

I agree, just fix it at 1024*768 (or higher if available).

I'm looking to replace our aging Wireless Access Points with new panels and it would be great if they used POE so that we didn't have to find places to stick the adapters etc. If we buy a POE enabled AP then is that all we need or do we need some sort of 'power transmitter' to actually send power over the cat5e cables?

We've currently got one suite of 20 Macs running as standalone machines (with Internet access and login to Windows school network work areas via small program after login as generic 'User'). To make things a bit easier and more integrated we want to make the Macs more integrated with the Windows domain. We've tried AdmitMac and also used instructions on web for making machine domain member - which is fine. But we also want to control the machines more centrally. I've never used OS X Server but am thinking of getting it to run these machines. What would be the best format to do this so that students log in with their Windows credentials and get a link to their windows network file store, no access to saving to the HDD and I get to lock down the OS X desktop as I would be able to with a local User, and ideally centrally.

Maybe they have a managed service with servers offsite at some server farm.

We have 3 - DCs (2000/2003 CC3) 1 - Proxy (Linux Squid) 2 - 2 DCs (NT C2.4) 1 - Multimedia (NT C2.4) 1 - SIMS.NET (2000 Vanilla) 1 - NAS About 300 clients, 1200 students and 110 staff (80 teachers)

Something of a no-brainer though?

Wouldn't it be useful if there was an EduGeek facility which displayed up to date sugested baseline workstation specifications for different educational purposes (e.g. standard ICT suite, DT machine, Music machine) and for different platforms. This might help people who are unsure about what level of spec/value to go for. Here's my suggested machine spec for general use ICT suite (Windows) PCs: - Pentium IV 3.0Ghz - 1GB RAM - 80GB HDD - 128mb discrete graphics - 17ins Hard-glass TFT or 17ins CRT - Optical corded mouse - Black colour scheme (hides the fingerprints better) - 10/100/1000 NIC - Onsite warranty (if not covered by other SLA) Justifed by the need to future proof for Vista, provide a fast platform that can deal with any classroom software, will last for reasonable period of time (e.g. 4/5 years)

Came in this morning to find quite a few locations with no network access (limited or no connectivity in XP taskbar). In some places reseting the relavent switch worked but in others it didn't work. This has only affected small 8-port switches but the bigger 24port, 48 port etc are all fine And ideas?

I'm lost now. Think I'm probably falling at the final hurdle but now spent the best part of two days trying to figure it out.

But if I have two scopes then won't there be problems of machines not knowing which one to get an IP from? I think I may be misunderstaning something critical here.

Confused now. In DHCP I've now got two servers: - The FR DC Server, which is the actual DHCP that leases IPs and which therefore has a scope. - The RIS DC Server, which has no scope but has 'Server Options' branch where I have added the three options mentioned above (60,66,67), there is nothing else in the list though. Ideas?

I added it in Scope Options inside the folder 'Scope [10.x.x.0] School Network' which is a branch from the FR server. I have read about authorising the RIS server in DHCP, so going backwards a few steps should I have added the RIS (which isn't the DHCP) server to the DHCP and done this under Scope Options in that server rather than the FR? Thanks for this help BTW.

- The core switch is between the two (as the server is connected directly to the core switch and the machine is connected to an unmanaged switch which is connected to the core switch). This is a 3Com 3824 Layer 2 managed gigabit switch. - The BINL service (which I believe is labelled Remote Installation service in Windows 2003 in case anyone is looking for it) is running on the RIS server. - No, the DHCP is on the FR whereas RIS is on another DC.

Still not working. I have set the three options above as: Option 60 = PXEClient (is this the actual text to use or does this refer to something) Option 66 = 10.x.x.x (RIS server IP) Option 67 = startrom.com (again, is this the actual text to use or does this refer to something) Not affected by the KB. It may be useful for others in my situation to know that I added Option 60 to the list by doing: C:\WINDOWS\system32>netsh netsh>dhcp netsh dhcp>server \\ netsh dhcp>add optiondef 60 PXEClient String 0 comment=PXE support netsh dhcp>set optionvalue 60 STRING PXEClient netsh dhcp>exit Sorry to be a pain, it is Monday morning (not sure what my excuse was on Friday afternoon though)

Option 60 isn't in the list. I have checked the other two though (although not sure whether I should put anything in the string value fields). But this didn't solve it.

We run a CC3 network but also have various machines (such as laptops) installed on the AD in separate OUs for GP and software allocation and have used a mixture of manual XP installations, Acros Snap-deploy and the ubiquotous Ghost for the basic imaging stage. We have decided to use RIS for these purposes and I have been setting it up on a DC (not the FR). I have read the whole RIS topic that is pinned to the Windows topic which helped. I have also created a custom image using RipRep. However, when I now try to use RIS by booting a PXE enabled machine using F12 it takes a while to find DHCP and then displays this error: PXE-E55 : ProxyDHCP did not reply to request on Port 4011. Is this something to do with authorising the server? Our FR is our DHCP (as configured by RM) and is the only one in the list. I thought you could only have one DHCP per network otherwise you get multiple machines dishing out IPs. If I add this DC to the list how do I allow it to do RIS without it leasing IPs etc? :? Probably a stupid oversight on my behalf but posting may save time.

You could just create one 'Web Site' in IIS 6 and create virtual directories within that which point to set folders on your server that are within each student's work area (e.g. http://192.168.1.5/student1 or even http://studentsites/student1 could point to \\sch-sr-002\studentusername$\My Website\). For security I would also ensure that the student cannot run server scripts (like ASP) in that virtual directory. The DNS stuff above is nice but not neccesary for this task. BTW. These days Frontpage is OK, as so long as you don't let it create your web site or use any frontpage features (i.e. if it's purely used for source coding and layout).

If I had to choose a piece of software I would least like to use to create a webpage then it would be Publisher.

Have you checked disk space? Are all your work-areas on the same server?

Have you considered updating your development skills to VB.Net and SQL Server and working in that role again - far more lucrative and promotion prospects are better.

If you are on CC3 (or maybe even if you're not) you could use RM Tutor 2, there also a new version - RM Tutor 3 on the way soon which is new from the ground up an supposed to be far better than version 2.

I know this was a problem with RM CC3 for a while, which they solved. Not sure how. One stop-gap measure might be to write a script which runs locally on logon and logs machines off if connection to the server is lost.

A browser based solution connected to a database - MySQL for PHP, SQL Server Express 2006 or Access for ASP or .Net. This solution will allow multiple users to easily access the system, no client-side software required (other than browser) and you won't even need to set up drive mappings. For the size of the service you will be running Access would work fine, not sure what you meant about "...am wary of problems with access..."

I am trying to create a pack file for teacher's laptops which will set the proxy settings when in school but use direct when at home. Can anyone provide a working example as all the ones I have done so far don't seem to work. Thanks.