jamesb

What operating system are you using? I ask because Windows 2008 has a nice little Remote Apps over web service that sounds like it would be perfect for what you're trying. Sets up a web page with icons for programs which can be run, then acts as though they're being run natively on the client PC, depending on how you've set it up.

I believe its around £500/year if you want the DVDs sent to you, and £200 if you just want the downloads. If you work with Microsoft products at all, or want to do any sort of testing or dev, its well worth the cost.

Personally I prefer apatheism to atheism, theism, or agnosticism. The key to it you see is that while theists and atheists are certain, and generally waste a lot of energy worrying about their position and arguing for it, and agnostics are considered weak and uncertain, an apatheist just honestly doesn't see how the whole debate affects their lives and so doesn't care.

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Just out of curiousity, do the computers have card readers? What happens if you try changing the G: to a later drive letter, say N:?

Do the other two drives map successfully when running it from the server?

What's the actual code you're using?

RAID is a Redundant Array of Inexpensive disks, i.e. a collection of disks with (usually) some form of fault tolerance built in. JBOD on the other hand is Just a Bunch Of Disks, and does not have fault tolerance built in. A JBOD enclosure can be attached as a disk to a RAID array however, in order to provide larger potential disk arrays with RAID fault tolerance.

So not so much ditching DRM as offering music which isn't tightly locked down for a premium price?

I neither love it, nor hate it. I can eat it, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

I'll eat just about any pizza, but I'd like to request any toppings which no one else likes.

Pretty much. Moving SIMS isn't hard. Basically you just need to move the database, then you need to make sure the clients point at the right server.

You get eight hours sleep? Oh to have that much free time!

It would also be worthwhile making sure you have a SupportNet account, there are a lot of helpful people on the forums there and some handy documentation.

I'd say check with them about what exactly they plan to do with the drive, and any guarantees they can make about data security. Anything they say, you'll want to get in writing as well and keep it filed safely.

What server version are you using? If its Win2K3 then you cannot revoke a license, but it will have an expiry date after which it can be reissued. If its Win2K8 then it is possible to revoke a license once every (I think) 100 days. After this you need to wait the 100 days before you can revoke it again. Anything prior to Win2K3 won't allow you to revoke per device licenses. However under Win2K3 you can issue a temporary CAL which will last 90 days to the device. So long as the other device does not reconnect to the server this will last 90 days, while the expiry date of per-device CALs is a maximum of 89 days.

Look in the recycle bin? C:\Recycler And tell him not to delete it in future.

Might be worth trying a dir command with switches, e.g. dir /a:drhas /s That should also give you files in the subdirectories, as well as listing any files tagged as system files.

Nor in my opinion. I wasn't recommending it as a serious solution, more as a note that while it is possible and not necessarily difficult, there's no way it could be done in the time available. Certainly not without details of the current setup, backups in place, and preferably a second server to keep everything up and running while its being done.

Check the permissions the children have on the individual folders, and compare them to the permissions the teachers have.

Since its their one and only server your best bet is probably to refuse to do anything major to it. Some basic defragging and clearing out some of the junk it is doubtless filled with would probably be a good start. Either way though they need to tell you exactly what they think 'reinstalling Windows' will fix. As to documentation I'd honestly have been more surprised if they'd had any. You could always use your two hours to take notes on how their network's set up, a quick network map and basic outline of the AD structure would make it much easier when you or someone else comes in to actually rebuild the whole thing.

What exactly is it you're trying to let staff see? Is it all student saved data, specific stuff, home directories, or something else? Do you have any management software sitting on your network?

The reason its referred to as building a server rather than just reinstalling Windows is because building a server also includes setting up all of the network configuration as well. If you have exact documentation of the original setup of the network, then it might be possible to get Windows reinstalled in two hours. Next month you could go back in and use their careful documentation to reconfigure the server in the two hours then. Following that you could probably do a quick run-around and rejoin the workstations to the network the month after. That's assuming they've got a very simple network setup with maybe thirty workstations. And that they don't have individual user accounts for users which you'd have to recreate. Plus of course you'd have to reinstall any server-based software. These things aren't actually that hard to do if you've had a little practice, which you can get by throwing yourself in at the deep end (pick up a low-end budget server, you can get them for around £100, and a trial version of Windows Server) and playing around a while. Use Google and some books and you can pick up the basics in a few days if you're going flat out, a few weeks if you put in an hour here and there. By spending far too many of my formative years working on computers, diving in and playing with them, and a fair bit of training mixed in. Not necessarily in that order or priority.

Is it actually formatted as a bootable partition? Is the bootloader properly set up? (I'm assuming that OSX is akin to other forms of Linux in using a bootloader)

Since I'd be surprised even to see one objective study done scientifically into this subject, asking for a range of them might be a bit of a stretch.