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I've been playing around with Chromium hoping I might be able to use it to get a bit more use out of some old hardware. Mainly I've been targeting some old Samsung NC10s we've had lying around that we've never managed to get to connect to any wireless with Windows 7 installed. When I ran Chromium off the live USB I was amazed to find the wireless worked perfectly and everything ran great. I followed the instructions I found here to then install Chromium to the hard drive and while it boots okay and begins the set up, it's unable to connect to any wireless. I'm using the most recent image from Arnold the Bat. I might be being stupid but if I just clone the USB stick to the hard drive will it boot the same and work as it does from the USB stick? Or is there some other method I can try?

Ah okay that makes sense. That'll do the job just as well. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the quick reply! I saw about the shared accounts but judging from the video it looked like it could only subtract the cost from a balance rather than track a running total from the department. Looks like I better fire up the 40 day trial and start working on convincing SLT to change print management.

I have a sneaking suspicion that our print server woes are related to PCounter so I've been looking at alternatives and taken a real shine to PaperCut. The charging print costs to a department that's demonstrated in looks ideal but are you able to have PaperCut just keep track of the spending for the current month rather than subtract it from an account balance? The way we charge for printing at the moment is toner purchasing comes out the IT support budget then we add up all the printing costs for each department from PCounter and claim the money back off them each term I think. That bits not my job so I can't remember exactly how frequently it happens. I'd rather not make a change to how we do it at the moment, because we all know how much staff love change, so each person or department having a balance won't really work for us. I've just started properly looking into the features today but aside from this it all seems to be spot on for what we need, and I've seen plenty of users recommending it so I'm hoping there's a way to get it behaving how we'd like.

Afraid I tried that as well, it gets a permission denied when trying to hide the files in the desktop folder. Works if I add the teachers to local admin though which I might just do in the end. Need to test and see how much damage they cause with it first, hopefully GPO prevents anything too dire.

I tried denying access to public with a logon script running "icacls "C:\users\public\desktop" /deny %username%:f" but it didn't seem to work. Just deleting the contents would be the easy option but at the moment, teachers don't use it at all and all have a standard redirected desktop but admin staff do use the normal desktop with no redirection. It probably wouldn't cause issues but I just don't want to leave that possibility because it'll only come back to bite me in the arse somewhere down the line.

I'm testing with a new teacher GPO and trying to set it so that the icons and folders in C:\users\public\desktop don't show up on the teachers desktop, only the things in their own redirected desktop. I could enable the "remove common folders" policy but then this would empty out their start menu as well. I tried setting deny permissions to the public desktop for the teachers when they log in but that didn't seem to work, possibly because they already have reduced permissions to it which would stop the logon script changing it. The most promising attempt I've had so far was a VBScript that hides all the files and folders in the public desktop but I get a permission error when it runs at logon. I'm a little out of ideas now and sat scratching my head, would appreciate some guidance.

I've just started here and looking at improving some of the aspects of the network. One of the things is exactly what you've mentioned, they have a staggering amount of GP running which is causing slow start up and login. There's a VBscript that runs every startup that creates a txt with all the printers, and a staff and student desktop and start menu. Then on logon there's another VBscript that adds printers based on that txt file. It seemed an incredibly verbose way of doing it so I'm trying to slim it down one step at a time. I'll definitely look into the "all-in-one" script method though.

That's a helluva lot simpler than what I was trying! I think I read something about it earlier and just totally missed what it did. Thanks very much to both of you.

If the OU only contains computers, which it does, it will only run computer policies which doesn't include logon scripts unfortunately. So if I put the printer mapping GPO in the Art OU it won't run the user part that contains the logon script. At least that's how I understand it, I could be wrong so feel free to point correct me.

I've got a group policy that adds printers during logon which I've put under students so each time a student logs on it maps the printers. That part all works fine. Where I'm running into trouble is using an WMI filter so it only applies to certain machines. Basically I want to create a GPO for each department so that where ever a student logs on it will only apply that departments GPO and only that departments printers are mapped. At the moment I'm just testing it with the art department. The structure is Domain.local/Workstations-Win7/Expressive arts/Art, so I'm using a WMI filter with namespace: root\directory\LDAP and query: SELECT * FROM ds_computer WHERE DS_distinguishedName like '%OU=ART,OU=Expressive Arts,OU=Workstations-Win7%' When I test that with wbemtest.exe it only pulls up the computers in that OU but when I create the WMI filter and apply it to the GPO, gpresult shows that it gets a true result wherever I log on. I've tinkered with it but it always either shows true or false where ever I log on. I hope that made sense, in truth I've only looked into WMI filters the last couple days so I may have something wrong somewhere. Any input or pointing out of a glaring mistake would be greatly appreciated, cheers!