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Cheers Guys, I'll take a look on Monday.

Forgive me if I sound ignorant here but I have just moved from CC3 to a vanilla Windows 2008 environment. One thing that a friendly work experience guy has pointed out is that if he creates a batch file with command.com inside it he can run it and then have the command prompt. Is file screening the way to go with this or is there a better solution? I have read that with file screening the users could just rename the extension and then use it whenever!

Thanks, following your suggestions I found robocopy on wikipedia and found richcopy as a result which did the trick.

Hi All, I am in the closing stages of moving to new servers. The one problem I have is that I cannot bulk move the users folders across to the new server. It keeps bombing out when it finds a filename that is too long. Any tips? Is there a tool that might copy them across or a tool that would truncate the file names? Thanks

Take a look at Carbon Copy Cloner. Bombich.com: Bombich Software That will give you an option for cloning from one mac to another, but you really need mac server to have a proper ghost casting option, as far as I know.

I have chowned the ownership so all images are owned by fog root but still the same error! I may go back to 0.26 for now.

Class stuff.

This is no help at all, but mine does exactly the same.

Now I know I need to chown for that but I'm not suer what the fog user is called. Is there a linux way to see who has ownership of folders so I could take it from there?

Hi All, I am nearing the time when I will need to image all my now non CC3 machines. Typically I now notice a slight issue with my fog server. I have installe fog 0.27 and all appears OK until I try to upload a single partition NTFS resizable image. It fails after trying to resize the partition with an error like this... ftp_rename() [function.ftp-rename: RNFR command failed in var/www/fog/service/Post_Stage2.php on line 133. having looked on line 133 it says... if (ftp_rename ( $ftp, $src, $dest ) || ftp_rename ( $ftp, $srcdd, $dest )) I can see that the renaming of the file is failing but not sure how I can fix this Does anyone have any suggestions or come across this before?

Ok I have found this article which seems to be the best solution so far... Restrict sending to certain domains - Zimbra :: Wiki It needs to be run any time you have new users but looks promising.

Anyone? I cannot find help fro this on any zimbra forum! I guess I just want a setting with trusted domains but can't find it.

I'm thinking that I have to do it through my domain name provider then. I'm with 1and1. I'll have to take a peek. Thanks kmount!

Ok, I am making big changes to my network over the summer so I will be recreating all my users and this year I am going to fill in the email address field. Now then what to put in there? I have domain registered prentonhighschool.co.uk which has an mx record pointing our staff email to our live@edu mail server but our students are about to use zimbra full time and I would like to go for a sub domain of prentonhighschool.co.uk like student.prentonhighschool.co.uk and then point that mx record at my zimbra server but I don't know if this is possible. Can anyone let me know is this is do able? Thanks

Dead easy on Live@edu. It has a setting to link to exsisting email account and when filled in it grabs all emails from that account and sticks it in your new email box. You can then leave that other account active for a time and all those emails will flow in to your new email inbox. Caveat is that the user has to fill in that setting themselves!

Does this mean that if my school was BSF'd and then I was sacked that I couldn't tell people why I had been sacked?

Thanks to fellow edugeekers help, we have been running zimbra for our students as an internal only emailing system. Now we need to unlock it "a bit". We need every student to have their email connect to our moodle install. I was hoping that I could somehow set the email so it could only mail certain domains, such as itself and the staff email domain. I found this article on the zimbra help site... Restrict users to certain domain - Zimbra :: Wiki But I don't want to have to add each user each time. Has anyone managed to limit a whole mail domain? thanks

Thanks Binky, I'll have to look more into the management console. Typical, I don't have even one vista machine in the school but about to get 2008 server and it looks like it will work on that.

I am currently trialling live@edu for our staff email system. It looks better the more I play with it BUT there seems to be a couple of important things missing, perhaps someone could let me know if in fact I am just missing how to do it or in fact they are missing features? I want to be able to make another user an admin but cannot see how to do this. I cannot for the life of me see how a user can share a calendar with anyone else. There is a share button on the menu but that is to open a shared calendar which is pretty pointless when nobody can share one in the first place! Thanks

All seems to be going ok now. Thanks to everybody who helped me out.

I'm not just saying this but I spotted that as soon as I posted it, honest! I have added root to the user, so I'll give it another whirl. thanks

Wow the more I do the less I know! Would I just run that at the command line, Cybernerd, or would I put that into my crontab? Just out of interest this is jnow my system crontab that at this moment is not working! # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, # that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/moodlebackup # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) 33 14 * * Mon-Fri /bin/sh /usr/local/moodlebackup/moodlebackup.sh > /var/log/moodlebackup.log 2>&1 */5 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http://www.prentonmoodle.co.uk/admin/cron.php > /var/log/moodlecron.log 2>&1

Ok I have moved the script to /usr/local as suggested. Can you explain what you mean by symlink it? Thanks

I used to edit the crontab like you suggested until I read a shortcut, doh! Not that useful a shortcut.

Strange I don't see my commands in this crontab? I see this # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, # that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly 25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ) 47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly ) 52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly ) # I typed crontab -e while logged on as root so I am guessing that the crontab I edited was for the root user. How could I edit this system crontab. Also I have my script running now thanks to powdarmonkey's suggestions but now I am adding firther problems by trying to get my moodlecron.php to run. It is suggested by moodle that I type place */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /var/www/moodle/admin/cron.php in the crontab which I have done and now this isn't running but my backup one is? Any suggestions? thanks