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If you have more than one DHCP servers what's the best way of ensuring certain clients to pick up specific reservations? How can I determine which server service which clients?

I suspect that the problem is with the double back slash in the VBS. I don't recall having to use it in leteral path references. Now JScript with its nod to its Java/Unix roots uses // because a single forward slash in a quoted string normally introduces control characters.

Whenever a job looks like it's impossible, you just need to think harder.about the problem. You need to be be more like this guy. =D>

@ajbritton Congrats mate! Was a bit surprised you didn't have something already. So how did you get into the IT lark then? Were you the only person in the office who didn't runway (like at the premier of the Lumier Brothers train film) when the BBC Micro beeped after POSTing

The BSOD on the screens behind him certainly suggests that. Dear Santa, can I have big TFT screens like that Locker Gnome guy on YouTube. Thanks. I'll be really nice to the teachers. Honest :angel4:

Security! Security! This man wants to use something other than Ubuntu.

I shouldn't think so. You can map more than one drive to the same share. The same you would be mapping under root net use X: \\server\staffshare net use w: \\serer\staffshare\staffname I guess then people will be less inclined to fill up the server with photoalbums

I wonder if most SMT/governers realise this. When dealing with failings in child protection or health and safety it's normally not enough to blame the minnion who erred. There should have been procedures in place to minimise the probability of such things happening. OK the licensing of intellectual property may not be as life and death as CP or H&S but penalties for non-compliance can be as severe (including custodial sentences). I wonder if NCSL do any modules on regulatory comformance for ICT. GrumbleDook do you know?

Silly question but how secure is WebDaV, especially on Microsoft IIS. Google throws u a number of issues but it looks likely to be mostly historical issues with IIS 5 i.e on WIndows 2000. Does WebDaV on Windows 2003 benefit from II6's generally good security record? Does the DPA make HTTPS obligatory for schools when it comes to implementing WebDaV for remote access?

Would you hand the master key of the school building to a member of the PTA who was 'a good bloke'. I think it has to be somebody with some sort of fiduciary contractual relationship to the school. The safety of the school's data can't be dependant on the strength of a friendship or goodwill of a volunteer.

As such letters really necessary? As the fromer employee isn't the legal licensee or covered by the agreement with software company then it would be likely using a company car without permission after employment had ceased. In the end a school can only do much to control the distrubtion of software it has bought/licensed. Unless it had search powers to enter peoples homes then it has to trust its employees.

@Ric_ Is what he said any more objectionable than this other thread in the same forum. Anyway CMISPro, here's a job in South London which may be just up your street. It's as a Data Manager in a secondary school with additional repsonsibilty for web integration of the MIS and updating the school website which is CMS based.

@geoff So have you switched to WPA2 for your clients or do you put all your faith in NAC?

The advantage of SSL VPN is that easier to configure than IPSec and play nicer with firewalls because you already use HTTPS for VLEs, DfES websites etc Have a look at this article> it covers a lot of the issues involved. It doesn't like client-less (i.e. browser based) SSL VPN solutions such as SSL Explorer because of the breakdown in the trust model. Traditional VPN solutions like IPSec and OpenVPN normally require the IT department to install software and therefore pre-screen clients before connection to the internal network. On the otherhand browser based VPN do have an advantage in that the end users intact with an application server serving up ActiveX or Java applets rather than have direct access to the internal network.

Too much like hard work mate

Most times you click on a link in EduGeek the corresponding webpage opens on a new page or new tab (depending on your on your browser). This doesn't appear to be the case for links on the blog panel. It means you can't switch back an forth between the blog and the main edugeek site. Most annoying

There has to be a degree of risk assessment. Do you have to have the latest IE patch if you don't use a server for web browsing. Vulnerabilities affecting services connected to open ports are another matter. @Geoff what do you do in a zero day scenario? Do you just patch an d pray or still wait and see, hoping IDS will see you right? Would be nice to hear from Ric_ & Cybernerd on how they do things on terminal servers. Here you have end-user applications e.g. web browsers and a single point of failure. Do you segregate server access based on whether the user is a staff or student?

@alonebfg You haven't been experimenting with white list software restriction polices have you? If so then you may need to put SYSVOL in the path rule.

Oh dear there's going to be a run on their share price on Monday

DosBox didn't retract he's PM though.

Remember people, after the Sophos debacle we have to be objective. You must give reasoned argument with your fear and loathing: "Brand X is utter crap because ....."

Teachers have taken a lot flak from various postings on this site for their lack of ability to cope with IT. In a spirit of fairness maybe it might be worht asking whether the technology they are being asked to work with is entirely appropriate. What we have is a situation where equipment and software built for a corporate enviroment is being retrofitted into an educational one. The same can be said of the training of technical staff. In alot of cases our trainging assumes we are going to work in the IT department of Big Bank Plc or MajorRetailer.com Is the life of teacher really comporable to the branch manager of a bank or the sales rep for a widget manufacurarer's firm? Is it just a case of more training? Could it ever have worked or did the politicians force a disruptive set of circumstances on schools all in the name of modernity.

@SimpleSi I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it was Friday night you were bored and decided to have 'a bit of larf' but I am not sure why you have such a problem with what contink was saying. Now you may consider that too much 'teacher bashing' goes on in EduGeek but in my experience contink's concerns also apply to non teaching staff. There's something about computers and ICT in general which has an infantalising effect on otherwise functioning adults. School staff would be the first people to complain if their bank or hospital treated their personal data quite the same way as some of them treat student information. Legal issues aside this is a matter of common decency and fulfillment of trust placed in school staff by parents and society in general. The examples given above are quite shocking and it is not insolent of a mere ICT technician to say so.

@garthsmojo There has to be more to it than that. If a seller is liable for damaged/harm caused any faulty equipment sold "as is" then surely car boot sales and the sale of antique machinery/electronics would be banned. You couldn't sell a dilapidated house even if the buyer accepted the need for restorative building work. Much of industry and commerce would grind to halt if the sale of second hand equipment was banned even if the seller could prove that they did not attempt to deceive the buyer.

How? Each reservation needs a MAC, so if you've used them already... As for the manually configuref machines won't ask for an address so won't be bothered about resevation.