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Evening Guys, Got a strange issue when hooking up our Riso ComColor 7150 (heap of scrap plastic and metal to me). When a job is redirected to the Riso print queue it goes in to an error state. Some key info: We are using the Papercut global print driver for the FollowMe input queue The actual printer queues for the printer have their respected driver (e.g. FollowME has the Global Print Driver and the Riso has the Riso 7150 driver) In the print logs in papercut i am seeing these errors everytime a job is redirected to the print queue: 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: PaperCut MF version 18.2.6.46457 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: Original spool file: C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\00147.SPL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: Transform file: D:\Program Files\PaperCut MF\providers\print\win\transforms\system\postscript\pc-win\riso.comcolor.type.transform 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: ==================================================================================================== 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 ERROR: obj_list_size: obj_list==NULL 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: Internal state of interpreter 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: ==================================================================================================== 2018-10-26 18:58:03,628 DEBUG: Applying 1 replacements to 'C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\00147.SPL' 2018-10-26 18:58:08,769 ERROR: Failed to open spool file to copy to archive: C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\00148.SPL - The system cannot find the file specified. (Error: 2) 2018-10-26 18:58:18,811 ERROR: spool_writer: Unable to write printer - The requested print job has failed to print. A print system update requires the job to be resubmitted. (Error: 3020) 2018-10-26 18:58:18,811 ERROR: replacement_list_apply_rw failed. Redirecting original spool file All of our Konicas and samsungs work as expected and its just this weird one that just wont work... im soo confused as to why it wont. Any help would be much appreciated or if any one has actually had this issue with a Follow Me scenario with multiple brands and know what the answer is that would be great. Thanks

Because of how proxies work not all traffic is made in the users context. The machine also makes requests in its own unauthenticated context that is then picked up by the default policy. This is why I will be moving to Smoothwall and another provider when our contract is up in April as Proxy technology is old and out dated.

A great example of this is ADMT. ADMT has a password extractor service that runs on a DC and extracts the password so it can be synced to another domain. I'm going through 4 domain mergers at the moment and it is quite scary how insecure it can be. Anyway back on topic. Does any one have any other suggestions, ideas or opinions except for the password portal viewer.

@Primus and @mavhc. Please can we stop all this chat about passwords and actually move on and be productive and like I've said before, if you aren't got to participate or help then please keep your comments to yourself. Like I have said, I can see it from both sides and even though this may be a feature or the intranet, it is one module that can be disabled. If you would like to help out I would love if either of you two would like to design a UI for some of the modules. Thanks

I can see this from both sides. It's convenience over security, but to make it secure passwords that are stored should be encrypted and salted then committed to the database. This way they are not stored in plain text and also easily decryptable if you know the salt. This is best practice for reversible encryption. If staff resetting passwords works for your school, then continue to use that. But some schools/trusts like mine provide a set password to the students as resetting passwords at least 2 times a week gets a bit frustrating. @Primus, All I would say with staff resetting passwords is that I hope you're not giving them access to AD or if you are and extremely locked down version as this is now good practice letting other people in to AD. This would get you a fail on an audit.

The reason why I'm starting from scratch is that HAP+ doesn't use the MVC standard. It's also using the old Web Forms stack. Nick had and has done a spectacular job on the HAP project, but it never reached a 2.0. This project is that 2.0, getting it updated to the latest frameworks and also adding more functionality to it. Hope that makes sense?

Interesting. Is it something the sits on a domain controller and inspects network packets? I would love if we could work on getting this implemented in to this new Intranet that I haven't thought of a name for yet.

Hi Alan, I didn't explain the password viewer that well, its for passwords that have been assigned to students. This then gives staff members a way to retrieve the students password without having to come and bother IT all the time. Not sure what you mean regarding a 'filing system', but yes there is a backend that is distributing the html, css, js and crud api. Yes I agree that MIS's do have some of these bit to a degree but no staff at any of the schools I have been at use SIMs or any other MIS correctly and tying to train them is like hitting your head against a brick wall. They like easy and simple, which a lot of MIS's don't offer to the 'less tech savvy' people. I would argue your point in regards to maintaining this project and say 'Well what about Home Access Plus+?'. Look at how many schools us that and rely on it for access to book rooms and also access their files from home. Overall this is meant to be a community project to help teachers and save money as times are tough in education. Yes all of these things do exist out there for a cost... and this is what I want to stop happening. Companies taking advantage of the Education Sector and charging the earth for a bit of software that I am proving is easily written for mere pennies. Yes my time do cost, but my employers are paying me to do this whilst there are no big projects to do. I have technicians that do the day to day jobs whilst I maintain the servers that hardly if ever go wrong. I'm trying really hard not to bite back at a negative comment and would ask that if you don't want to or have nothing good to say regarding the work I am putting in to save money for schools then please keep your comments to yourself.

Thought I'd give you all an update. I've made some really good progress on the Signin application part of the project and all of this project can be found here https://github.com/AzureusNation/Intranet . For the Signin Screens I only now need to implement the backend administration panel, and how the screen will know what site it is associated with. Everyone is more than welcome to contribute.

So far I'm also adding and now focusing on Staff Signin.. Hopefully if the next few weeks I get everything done off my todo list I can focus and get this finished for September. This wont be a fully finished product but it will be working.

Its a bit clunky but its an idea so don't bash it till you've tried it. Setup a logon and logoff script to move the bookmark files from their home drive to their app data: appdata\local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks

Easy enough, Go to your IIS wwwroot folder, open your hap instance, go to myfiles and open up Default.aspx. Do a search for Enable : with this: Thanks Ashley

Would you be kind enough to zip up the client logs and send them over to me. I can then have a proper look.

You might want to use one of the 1Gb nics in each host for cluster heart beat.

I believe this was an Internal thing Microsoft originally wanted for their higher ups to have complete privacy.

I've never had anything go 'wrong' before. It doesn't change any of the permissions if you uncheck the box. The folders keep all of their permissions, it just stops future folders getting the exclusive rights.

Hi All, We're going through internet renewal and as part of that we are also changing our filtering. We have two choices that I want to look at Smoothwall and Cisco Umbrella. Is there anyone out there that would be willing to have a skype call with me and let me see how it is being used in your schools? It's all very well looking at a Cisco demo or a Smoothwall demo but its never used how we use it in schools. Also just asking you how good the product is, how you do bits on there and how reliable you find it. Im more than happy to verify who i am and even agree/sign a NDA for privacy. I would really appreciate if a Smoothwall user and a Cisco Umbrella user would show me. Many thanks Ashley

From experience 'Grant user exclusive rights' is just the most annoying setting i can think of causing admins nothing but trouble. If i were you, I'd take a full backup of the file server and then create a powershell script to go through and add Domain administrators to all the folders. You will also need to change the owner to Domain admins or Administrators. From there you have gotten rid of exclusive rights and also can easily move the folders at will. Always always always, take a backup first. If it goes wrong, revert back.

Correct you should by best practice use a domain name that you own. this should be a subdomain like you have said so you don't get dns errors later down the line. I'm waiting for the day when .local get registered as tld's and then all hell will break loose across the IT world.

Im changing all of our students this summer to the following: Year of Entry - first initial - last name - random 2 digits This is going across our trust to avoid duplicates as all of our schools are in one single AD domain.

Okay. Does anyone have any good source of SharePoint tutorials for Office 365? how to completely customise it and create separate web parts?

As in sharepoint? The biggest bit of software that make no sence to me. I can never understand sharepoint. Willing to learn it but i cant understand it.

Which weird fact do you want from me... too many to choose from!

If you can, could you create a test picture and then get the row of the picture in the db and spit it out here. Ill then see what file format it is.

All you need to make sure that you have is a full line of site. And if you can get unifi gear then you have all the tools you need in their software.