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When we had a smoothwall box I used identd to allow authentication as the macs had quite a few difficulties in authenticating. Safari has changed quite a bit though since then (around 4 years ago).

I would make a backup of the file, edit it and see if it makes a difference.

Maybe this would work... Go to the control panel and Click change keyboards or other input methods. Click on the administrative tab. Click Copy settings Tick the Welcome screen and system accounts option Tick the new users option. Test with a new user. It's a bit more fiddly with win 7 than win xp thats for sure

In the control panel do you have a languages and keyboard option? In here it allows you to set the keyboard and the IME to be the Apple layout. Now there is also a tick box in one of the tabs that allows you to set this for all users. The setting is applied to the default user and is applied to all users logging in. I do this before I take a snapshot of the image. I haven't deployed win 7 so not sure if it is the same.

The types settings are already at the end of the config file. I may just look at re-installing MRBS and see if that resolves the issues. I am also looking into how to build or import a booking system into our share point system. Thanks for your help and offer. I may get back to you and take you up on it.

Hey Chris_Cook, I have copied and pasted your Entry Types section into you config file and commented out my own. I then proceeded to load my bookings page but the new settings were ignored. The default external and internal options were the only ones visible and they were also the only ones to choose from in the drop-down menu. Something is obviously wrong but I'm not sure what it is. I don't quite understand this bit... I assume this is the reason you placed unset($typel); at the top.

I just found that the software/code I downloaded to do this job isn't as free as I thought it was. It is free to download and use but has watermarks running all the way through it. Only when you purchase the code can you then remove the watermarks. So back to the drawing board on this one for me Apologies for the folks who when to the trouble to find a solution. It is most appreciated.

We use Tux Paint to allow them to draw and colour pictures. I have also created resources for sorting shapes and other things. Sometimes things can be a little difficult for them but mostly they manage it fine. If you use windows, there's tux type which is a game where you find the letters on the keyboard before the fish gets to the bottom of the screen and there is also tux maths that lets the user develop their number skills as well as numerical keyboard skills. They both get more difficult as you get better. I say if you use windows as the Tux Type isn't too great on OS X, I assume it would be good on a linux based system too. Tux paint is also handy if you wish to do images based on certain topics. It has stamps installed as well as the ability to add your own line drawings. These are particularly good as when the little ones a re colouring the outlines remain. I drew a line drawing of a superhero, imported it and they coloured it in and put a face on it! Then theres CBeebies. Its a good resource which most of them would be familiar with and probably used before. A good starting point.

As far as Im aware auto proxy discovery was only introduced in Lion. I may be wrong though, I usually am

Ah, 2 packages we don't need to use, so I wouldn't be able to say. Perhaps someone with experience with these apps and networked home dirs could chime in Our set up is the other way. We have our Macs using their default Home dirs and the Windows users re-directing their documents folder into the mac home dirs resulting in a merged profile. This works well with both OSes and is easier to setup with Windows Group Policy.

If you go the the Apple and then click About this mac, it will give you the info you need. 10.5 = Leopard 10.6 = Snow Leopard (10.6.8 is perhaps the best version of all at the moment) 10.7 = Lion 10.6 is where I have stayed until I can tame the beast that is Lion. To re-direct the OS X home dir into the windows Home Dir means that you would be running off a SMB share. Some folks here have stated that iPhoto doesn't work on anything but AFP. Depending on what you are wanting to do may determine how you need to set these up.

You really should have migrated over to deploy studio from NetRestore by now in all honesty. As an avid user of net restore myself I can honestly say Deploy Studio is a step in the right direction and once you have worked out how it works you will never go back. After seeing the power of Deploy Studio I can see why Bombich ceased development on NetRestore. Deploy Studio IMO also knocks the socks off Apple's offering. It can also image PCs which support PXE 2.0. I redirect quite a few folders to different locations. You could use WGM and the folder redirection MXC records to do this. However, I am hearing mixed feedback on what to use. The server.app should be used to create users but it seems that the profiles manager app doesn't cut it for managing the preferences. I haven't invested much time to see how Lion works with managing preferences so can't comment too much. But if it works in the same way as Snow Leopard Server then you should be able do what you want without and 3rd party apps. Lion client also supports DFS now apparently, if you use this. I think this was one of the reasons to use Admit Mac previously. ALso you could extend the AD schema to allow you to write preferences directly into the AD schema and manage them like group policy.

I have been looking into the idea of iPads here for a while now. Personally I think that you would need to have developed the infrastructure to get the best out of these devices. Not just network-wise. How does your VLE cater for devices such as these? etc. We (did) have a VLE (StudyWiz) which is pro-apple and as such have released apps to support their platform, such as mobile elockers. This allows individual users to be able to use the device and upload to their own area on the VLE, thus getting round the single user per device debate. Obviously you can do this with something else but you would need to think about how you can develop this side of things to see the benefits of what the device has to offer. You could also map the E-Lockers to each home dir so uploaded data would appear on the servers immediately. Of course as others have said you can look at windows-based devices but does their app store provide as good a range of educational and other software? Maybe the locking down of these types of devices may not be necessary if used in an environment enhanced to support the devices in the first place.

The spreadsheet spreadsheet excel reader is some open source code that literally just reads the contents of the spreadsheet into an array and then the data function.php file reads the array into the dateline variable and displays it in a graph, I think So there's no way of doing the changes in the datafuction script as the numRows would affect anything using this script to read spreadsheets?

It's an idea, although I would be a little concerned over data confidentiality as the graphs being built are based on pupil assessment data. Can you manage permissions on Google docs like you would in Windows? Since its running on a web-server internally at the moment its not such a big issue.

Hello, I am trying to find a way to build a graph based on the data found in an excel spreadsheet. I have found some code here... building graphs with PHP from spreadsheets I have got it working with the example given but now I want to develop it further. I want to select certain data from the spreadsheet rather than just selecting everything in the array. The code I currently have is:- function datascript() { $dataLines = array(); // initialise the spreadsheet reader require_once 'reader.php'; $reader = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader(); // Set output Encoding. $reader->setOutputEncoding('CP1251'); // read in the spreadsheet $reader->read('../../graphtest/wellcomm.xls'); // place the data from the spreadsheet into // the dataLines array for use by the graph software // the first column and first row of our spreadsheet are // labels and so we will ignore these // i.e. we will begin reading data from column 2 and row 2 $dataLines = array(); for ($i = 2; $i <= $reader->sheets[0]['numRows']; $i++) { for ($j = 2; $j <= $reader->sheets[0]['numCols']; $j++) { $dataNum = $i-1; $seriesNum = $j-1; $dataLines[] = "data".$dataNum."series".$seriesNum.": ".$reader->sheets[0]['cells'][$i][$j]; } } // return the data lines array to the graphing software return $dataLines; } // Make sure there are no characters (not even a space or return character) // after the following line ?> This is the default Data Function.php file found on the above site. How can I manipulate the array to retrieve rows 2-26 and only columns 1 and 5? I think I know what is needed to do but don't know how to write it? I am guessing you need to put a count on the $j part for the rows but no idea on the columns. Can anyone help me with this? TIA

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has done this and if so could share what configuration changes need to be done in order to connect. I have tried both the short URL and the one that the site re-directs to once logged in. It seems to take the URLs but rejects any logon attempt using my details. Is there something that I am doing wrong? Hope you can help. Thnaks.

Is it me or is MRBS becoming more and more fiddlier to update? I have moved to the latest version and now I have come to tweaking some settings and cannot work out how to do it. I am trying to add a new booking type to help differentiate between time-tabled lessons and additional booked slots. I have uncommented the A option and then added the description but the changes don't show on the site. It does say that there is a setting that needs to be done to make it active but I can't understand where it is saying to make this change. Sorry for the vagueness but I am a bit clueless with MRBS at the moment since you have had to start making your own config.inc.php file. Any ideas? Thanks.

I use an HTML 5 player, which downgrades to playing the video through flash if an incompatible browser is found. It works quite well although a little slow to start playing videos. Good for mobile devices with no flash support though Link to plugin We also run Joomla 1.5.x

Hmm. I have had this issue before as well with 10.5 clients, but never really tried to resolve it as the machine wasn't used a lot on OSX (staffroom machine). The only thing I could suggest it to check the local cups configuration against one that is working. You could potentially copy the configs if they are the same setup and printer. Have you checked to see if everything is the same i.e. same version of OS, updated printer drivers etc?

Do you mount using kerberos? if so then you can do as ste1988 mentioned above. If you're feeling really lazy once you have opened the login items you can just drag and drop the shares right into the window, OS X will do the rest for you. You can then specify to have the shares hidden for you on login to stop them taking over the desktop, however, i have found this to not work too well. If you do use kerberos then the mounting will be seamless. If not then you will need to mount it manually initially (using the connect to server) and then tell it to remember the username and password. I think it may still ask you to click Ok though. You will have to see. Have 10.5 and want to use Kerberos authentication using a local admin account? Go to the Macintosh HD/System/Core Services/ and in here you will find the kerberos ticket.app. Using this you can add a username that can use kerberos authentication. You can also specify it to auto-renew. So now you have the benefits of a local account with the ease of kerberos authentication.

What happens if you resume the printing? Does it then request authentication?

Bear in mind that Apple's latest OS version always takes a few .x increments before it becomes relatively stable. 10.6 only became useable around 10.6.5. It's their way of releasing service packs As for your issue with the screensaver. Do you have it asking for a password on resume? I have only ever seen an issue with the login after screensaver once elsewhere. This was due to locations being used. The location on which the machine was in was still logged in but the client had been moved. You cannot change the location once a user is logged in and a password is set, cuasing the issue where the user cannot authenticate against the server which it was talking to previously. I hope that makes some sort of sense Anyway, if you have any questions feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer them. And yes,the AFP site is difficult to navigate but there are some nuggets in there. I used it to provide cross-realm authentication which provides the ability of having an AD infrastructure and OD infrastructure and the users being able to authenticate against both kerberos realms. Intersting stuff if you can get your users to work it. It was just a case of switching the domain in the log on box under windows to use the OD services and shares. Too much for a primary school though This was before augmented records arrived.

For me the web service has never been reliable on Lion Server. I've never gotten the god damn thing to actually start and serve up pages. Anything other than the servers hostname doesn't work.

It's what we're all here for. All of the information i have obtained either came from Bombich and his AD-OD integration PDF or the guide attached at the top of the mac forum, and AFP548 - Changing the world one server at a time.. The site linked is a good resource, but not updated regularly. They know their stuff though and do have a decent discussion board. One guy from there was working with me to get Outlook working with our IMAP service via email over the course of a few days. Turned out Outlook 2003 didn't support Kerberos authentication. Also keep an eye on the Lion Server discussions baord at http://discussions.apple.com. I have started to post a bit over there again, and already read some useful info, such as WGM doesn't add any newly created users made through WGM into the correct groups resulting in failed logins. Apparently you need to create users using the new server.app to have them created properly. That's not the first time I've heard to avoid using the WGM though. I think Lion server is still in the process of being migrated over to the one application, and that more changes are to come with each 10.7.x release. Also on the imaging/deployment front, I was going through it with someone on Lion Server 10.7.3 and he was having some issues with booting clients. It turned out that you will need to download the nightly build for 10.7.3 support.