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You can check this in the bootpicker system preference. It gives you statistics on the choice of each OS.

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Give them a chance. You may find that you like em. Once you start to work out their little quirks they're not that bad to manage. Yeah there's some issues but then they aren't really network client in all honesty. Work through the issues (as you do with anything), find the workarounds and then you may end up feeling like you've accomplished something. It's a great feeling resolving a problem when you don't really understand the system. Hell, I've been doing it for years

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have you seen this site (originally from Bombich) Bombich.com: Troubleshooting the NetBoot Process

Perhaps the best thing to do would be to reset the printing preferences and start again. To do this go to the print and faxes preferences and where it has a list of the printers installed on the left right click in an empty space and then click reset printing system. Before this though you could check the cups interface. Go to http://127.0.0.1:631. From there though you may be on your own. I don't tend to use the CUPs interface much if any. If nothing else you could check to make sure that CUPs knows about your print queues.

I use mono A4 Kyocera (FS-2020dn) printers with postscript/kpdl drivers in the classroom. I also have them connected to sharp mx-c311 (a4 only) and a mx-2600n (a4 and a3) again with postscript onboard.

what version is your server admin tools? I think it is upgraded when the server is upgraded but not always. Also if you are working from a client machine you will need to update the tools on there as well.

Are these brand new models? Are you using the same .nbi file to boot the newer machines as you are using to boot the older ones? If so this may be the cause. You may need to create a newer netboot set than the one you are using. The graphics frameworks may have changed causing the issue. The graphics framework is used to display the GUI for the clients. Also have you started a booting process for a machine and then forced quit it at any point. If so, try restarting both the deploystudio service (in System Prefs) and also the NFS service and netboot service. I have once seen an issue where after manually shutting down a machine hard during a restore the netboot service then refused to boot any more clients until i restarted the services. Also have you got the model filter enabled? if so and these are new iMac models has the server admin tools been updated to have the newer models in the filters list? Have these new machines been added to the filter list?

It's probably a driver issue. I have had issues trying to image a machine which has a different graphics card. The .nbi file was the cause. Try to create a new netinstall .nbi file for your 24 " machine. You may need to create a newer image anyway though. Just try an updated .nbi file first is what I would recommend. It's all down to the frameworks that are used to netboot.

I just installed and configured webhelpdesk. It isn't free completely but for 1 tech it is free for a year including updates. After that you can no longer update but it seems to be pretty good so far. No asset management though in the free edition

I knocked up a small guide on adding additional preferences that are not available by default. you can find it here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mac/56240-preventing-change-desktop-background.html It should be useable for any preference file you wish to add.

The best way to achieve both of these (assuming that open office stores it's info in a preference file) would perhaps be a script to copy them into each users' location. For example, taking the * to hop through folders. You could use cp item.txt /user_share/*/desktop/ for the shortcut. This should copy the item you want to add to each users desktop folder in their home dir. Depending on what you want to put on the desktop though it may be better to place them in the dock. This then could allow you to manage the prefs (if open office does use a prefs file) using wgm. Edit: having just read the end of your post you can use WGM to add these items to the dock. Just add them to the dock and also pop the URLs into the login items. This ensures that the items will be available when they log in. They should be accessed using Kerberos if you are AD integrated.

I have seen a teacher once write onto the whiteboard with what seemed to be a permanent marker. The ICT Manager had a meeting for all Staff which was to be conducted in groups in each ICT Suite. His was in this room. It was sooo funny. All you heard was the scream and scrubbing of our ICT Manager whilst trying to get this mess off the board with what was jiff and a scrubber. Its a good job promethean boards have a hard surface

Hello, I would advise to use a different server for this. Whether this be a Linux server or a Windows Server. The reason being is I presume that you are going to be uploading via FTP? If so the FTP service on a Mac Server is unreliable. I have done this very thing what you are planning to do. In the end you just end up with constant permissions problem where the permissions file on the X-Server needs to be trashed and recreated by the server by restarting the FTP service. You may have more luck than me, however, I know others that have the same opinion. If you browse a little further through the mac forum, you will see a guide i knocked up on how to do the same sort of thing using IIS 6.0 Again, I presume that you will be using iWeb to create these sites. Anyway I hope it's all going well for you. I created a generic virtual site for a group i.e. year 6 and then created the dns records for these sites. The pupils then used their usernames for the sites. So when navigating to each others webpages they would use year6.name.of.domain/username Hope this helps. If you have any other questions you could send me a pm or give me a call.

Having read this, it spurned me on to take a little look into it. I don't know if you guys have delved into this yourself. If so and you accomplished this how did you do it? If not then this next little bit of info may be of interest... Using the dscl command against an Active Directory server in the Directory Utilities search path (not sure if you have an integrated setup), you can extract certain information. We will look up the value given to the userAccountControl attribute. This attribute seems to be given a value of 514 if the account is disabled. dscl /Active\ Directory/All\ Domains/ -read /Users/"Name of an AD Account" userAccountControl Replace name of an AD account with a real account name found in your AD. This will list the value of the userAccountControl for the user specified. It also seems that the dscl command can take variables. So in theory we could look up the account in the AD using the dscl command and if the value = 514 then we could assume the account is disabled and remove/move the home dir. I have a bit of an idea on how to go about this. I am not a brilliant coder/scripter though so there maybe an easier way. We could export the users into a csv file and then create a variable using the username array and feed it into the dscl command where we could list the values of each user's userAccountControl value. Using an if/then ? command we could see if the values match 514 and remove the home dirs. Sound feasible?

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This may be due to having 'merge with the Users dock' setting in use. I'm just assuming here though. You may be right, although I usually overwrite the Users dock preference so could not confirm this to be 100% accurate. As you were

Boot off the Original restore CD and then at the top go to the utilities menu and choose Disk utility. This should show all drives available on the system. But more importantly should give you the ability to check your OS start up disk for errors/failures. Whilst booted form your disc, verify and repair the permissions on the OS disk. Also, you could try creating a new user, in case there is a corrupt preference file that is causing the issue. Finally, you could try finding a USB PCI card that you could pop into your G5 to check if these are working as they should. This should tell you if there is a hardware issue with the original ports. You could buy one from PC World for this and then return it after your checks. It's what I would do. About the only thing they're good for PS they're great machine aren't they

You would be best to use ARD to send out the command to all of the laptops at once. Get the laptops all set up and connected to the network and then use the Unix tool in ARD. To do this copy the script above (edit to your own requirements) and then select all of the laptops from the list of available computers and then click on the Unix option. A dialog box should pop up. In the top half is where you would paste the script and the lower half should show all of the machines that you wish to send the script out to. You may also want to specify the root user instead of the current console user. If you don't have ARD then to be honest the task is going to be more difficult. The script above is for terminal not an apple script. You may be able to call it using Applescript. What you could do in that respect is copy the binding script and the applescript app over to the clients you wish to bind and then run the apple script app or using SSH, copy the bind script over and then run it manually one at a time. But then doing that you may as well just use ARD in the first place. Once again, if you don't have ARD then I would seriously recommend that you do get a copy. The difference this makes in managing Apple machines is massive. Also it is not overly expensive for an educational license. Unlimited client license comes in at around £230?

I havent had a problem so far, but then I carry a plank of wood around with me for good luck.

You can only use the mac address of the hardware device connecting the machine to the network. If you are using both the ethernet and airport card to connect to the network then you would probably need to use both. However, I can't see how you would be able to. Since you would bind the machine to the OD once, switching to the airport card and then binding again would not be an option.it would say unbind instead of giving the option to bind. You need to think of it as DMcCoy said like joining XP to the domain. It's not like adding a DHCP reservation using the mac address. You don't have the option of specifying the mac address when binding. I assume it depends on what hardware is being used. Although I may be wrong. I don't usually bind myself as my network has no subnets. I usually just start all the machines and then using WGM select the machines from the list and and place them in the correct Computer group. This is how my client machines are managed. Never really had a problem with management of machines so far. I have done this from 10.4 (i think) right through 10.5 to 10.5.8 and now 10.6.

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I managed to get it working around half 1 this morning. Thanks for checking though. Not sure what the issue was. I updated joomla from 1.5.15 - 1.5.20 and updated the module to 4.2. It was still the same. I decided to move the module around and then repositioned it to where it should be and then it was OK again. Thanks again for checking.

Hello Guys, I have been seeing a problem with the rokslideshow. My issue is that the rokslideshow only seems to work when the site is running under https. If you use http, the plugin does not load. Any ideas as to how I managed to fluff this up? I think i recall seeing something somewhere where you could choose when to enforce/enable SSL on some pages. For the life of me I cannot remember where I saw this. Hope you can help. Thanks Oh, the site is HTTP Site Add an S to the HTTP and then try again. you will see the rokslideshow load as it should do on the non secure page.