AlexB

Edit file mrbs_auth.inc Find the function getAuthorised($level) make the first line return true; Obviously you also lose the record that said who created the booking.

Insight are doing Connex Cat5e Rj45 Utp Patch Cable Yellow 0.5m Connex Cat5e Rj45 Utp Patch Cable Green 0.5m for £0.19 on gcat pricing (list shows £1.99) Give their education department a try and ask for gcat (or catalyst) pricing and see what they'll do, if they won't play ball drop me a line and I'll ask my account manager.

Got 18 "delightful" RM machines I won't use, 512mb ram, a crappy celeron processor, fairly small for storage (might be handy if you only want them out from time to time). South Warwickshire. Drop me a pm if interested. Going to recycling eventually otherwise.

Sadly my normal suppliers seem to be unable to read my requirements so here is the email I sent out, I hope someone is able to quote me properly Thanks in advance Alex

Be careful with restricting exes in the %temp% folder, we had a problem with some older serif software not working because it copied stuff to the %temp% folder to run

Secondary (KS3/KS4) 550 kids 5 Colours 15 Monos (roughly) couple of hardly used legacy inkjets £3600 last year, excluding money recovered charging for colour prints beyond allowance (very little recovered) Admin staff completely unlimited and unmonitored. Curric staff restricted to 50 colour pages a month by default, but no questions asked for more. Mono only limited by page count per job to prevent accidental waste. Pupils restricted to 10 mono pages a day (no cost for more, just need a good reason) Cuts massively on wasted paper. Pupils pay for colour pages beyond very small yearly allocation, charges low, but restricts wasteful printing. Almost all of our restrictions are about reducing waste.

Slightly off topic, but you might want to check this script I found a while back (author in script comments). It allows printer allocation based off the beginning of the computer name. So if you have 6A-01, 6A-02, etc where 6A is the room name then all computers in that room get the printers specified ' Script to add network printers to workstations and thin clients ' Author: Ric Charlton ' Declare variables and enumerate existing printer connections On Error Resume Next Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") Set oPrinters = WshNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections Dim computerName computerName = LCase(WshNetwork.ComputerName) ' Delete existing connections to network printers For i = 0 to oPrinters.Count - 1 Step 2 On Error Resume Next if Left(oPrinters.Item(i), 2) = "\\" then WshNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection oPrinters.Item(i+1), true, true end if Next ' Not used by me, but I left in here incase for others ' Change "svrts" to the name of name thin client server so that the script uses the thin client name ' instead of the server's ' Citrix specific section if (Left(computerName, 5) = "svrts") then computerName = LCase(WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%CLIENTNAME%")) end if ' Add printer connections dependant upon location ' Variable to select print server Dim printServer printServer = "theta" ' These mount for all machines WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\PrinterA3" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer8" Select Case (Left(computerName, 3)) Case "6a-" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer5" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer7" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\" & printServer & "\Printer5" Case "06-" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer3" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer4" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\" & printServer & "\Printer3" Case "lib" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer1" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer2" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\Printer3" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\" & printServer & "\Printer1" End Select ' This lets you pick of specific full computer names where they don't fit into the scheme above Select Case (computerName) Case "np000e7bd5a561" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\\Printer1" WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\" & printServer & "\\Printer2" WshNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter "\\" & printServer & "\\Printer3" End Select

Lunchtime puzzle? I think I need to talk to your boss on how long you get for lunch if you wrapped your head around that without looking up the solution in a lunch break!!

Some more line could easily be scrubbed from those files, but I got them to work and stopped before I broke it The other advantage of separate html files is if BBC/Sky/ANOther change their feeds then editing one file fixes any use.

I just have 2 html files on the web server hosting xibo that look like this (sorry they are long...) I don't use the BBC one much as its a bit big for my liking. Sky Sky News Live

Oh yes, just remember, it is free and the setup is simple enough, but for those who have never done an apache/php/sql app setup before the pre work is much higher. For me, it just slotted in along side my other web based apps using that server without any problems.

I use it for the staffroom display and foyer display. Staffroom display really only embeds ppts, but saves me remoting in to change them and allows automatic rotation. The foyer has the daily bulletin (updated by office staff, they picked it up really well, surprised me ). Also has BBC news RSS feed and a live Sky News video feed. I'm very happy with it and compared to the thought of paying thousands for other options, I can't thank the creators enough... Also (perhaps more because of a small user base atm) I found their support when it was pre 1.0 very helpful and you feel (because I suspect you are) you are talking to someone who really knows it back to front.

Do you offer any none Acer kit (inc owned companies like Packard Bell, Gateway, etc...)? I certainly wouldn't buy actual Acer kit again. My last experience with Acer laptops were 3 laptops provided by county even after I expressed my concern with using Acer kit. Within 6 months one of the laptop's VGA out failed and was repaired under warranty. Within 12 months all 3 had failed with the same VGA issue (including the repaired laptop a second time). This was the final nail in my personal Acer coffin that I had to dig up to put more nails into.

Congrats and Good Luck

So it looks like one of my DCs was corrupted, joy joy, at least taking it out of the equation seems to have set things right...

So, the joys of a new day... this morning logon scripts work, but about 40% of my users are not picking up GPO settings.... time to despair..

Yes it does work in admin temps->system->logons (it roughly that ) On the invid accounts I tried full path of both \\DOMAIN\netlogon and \\PDC\Netlogon (previous defined as kix32.exe with no path, this is still the way the admin network is defined and that works with kix) Also tried specifying the script kix is to run and not specifiying (its the default kixtart.kix, so never need specifying) It doesn't work on any account, including the domain admin account which only has the very basic default domain policy applied to it in the gpo (as it isn't in OUs) I've just thought (advantage of going home and ignoring it for a while!) I haven't tried just a batch script that does nothing but trigger a display so I can see if that works.... I'll try that tomorrow. Thanks

I can put it it there, but I'm worried as to the cause of this rather than a workaround (currently )

Okay, tearing my hair out here. I use kixtart for my logon scripts. On Friday at about lunchtime all logon scripts specified in each user's AD container stopped working (The one next to the profile and home directory setting) I put in a quick fix vbscript in the GPO and these run, however, they ain't the lovely crafted kixtart scripts Aside from not having my preferred script I am very concerned as to what might have caused this. Anyone got ANY ideas? I have some thoughts/fears myself, but would rather not suggest lest it direct ppls thinking. I have manually redefined the kix32.exe/wkix32.exe call for some users and tried again, no joy. The only setting I changed in GPO prior to this was run legacy scripts hidden which I enabled. It was also one of the first things I changed back, but didn't help. I hope someone has come across time before cause I am running out of ideas very fast! Oh yes, if run manually after logon the script runs fine for all users. Thanks in advance AlexB

On this thought, anyone know a way to set wireless settings with encryption + password in the GPO, by default I think you cannot set a password and the only other available option is 11x authentication... I've gone down both routes in the past and I can't say I'm happy with either as when computers lose their GPO settings they lose their wireless settings too, which means they can't connect back to the network to pickup the GPO again! What I've started doing is pre domain machines have appropriate wireless settings configured. Then the GPO overwrites with the same settings so even if it loses the GPO it will revert to the pre GPO wireless settings and is able to grab the GPO again. Downside here is I can't change wireless settings on APs and GPO without losing the fallback connection! Any thoughts?

Seems pretty simple to me, get an old/scraped machine (with wireless, laptop?). Install a torrent downloader, make sure it is set to unlimited upload/download, get 5-10 very big legit (yes they do exist! full versions of various mmorpgs comes to mind) torrents, connect the laptop to his router and set the torrents off, either he'll get fedup and set encryption or even if he doesn't then the connection should be that hopeless that the kids will stop bothering with it. Think of it as education by brute force

I have it up and running with a sky news stream in the corner

This is what I use, it is a bit of a mess, but does what I need... I find having the proxy defs at the top helps if I need to change them. And yes I know a lot of these could be grouped together, but I prefer the readability of separate checks. function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { // Proxy definitions var proxy_main = "PROXY xxxx:80; "; var proxy_SVEN_SECURE = "PROXY xxxxx:8080; "; var proxy_fallback = "PROXY xxxx:80; "; var proxy_no = "DIRECT"; // Proxy if on Admin LAN - no proxy if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "xxxxx", "255.255.255.0")) { return proxy_no; } // else if looking at proxy (probably blocked page) - no proxy else if (shExpMatch(url, "http://xxxx*") || shExpMatch(url, "http://xxxx*") ) { return proxy_no; } // else if looking at a machine on the curric network - no proxy else if (isInNet(host, "xxxx", "255.255.248.0")) { return proxy_no; } // else if looking at a machine on the admin network - no proxy else if (isInNet(host, "xxxx", "255.255.255.0")) { return proxy_no; } // else if looking at a machine on the SVEN network - no proxy else if (isInNet(host, "xxxx", "255.255.255.0")) { return proxy_no; } // else if certain sites - force proxy else if (//shExpMatch(url, "*xxxx*") || 0 ) { return proxy_main + proxy_fallback; } // else if certain sites - no proxy else if (shExpMatch(url, "*.xxx*") || shExpMatch(url, "*.xxx*") || shExpMatch(url, "*xxx*") || shExpMatch(url, "*xxx*") || 0 ) { return proxy_no; } // else if a secure site - alternative proxy for secure sites else if (shExpMatch(url, "https://*")) { return proxy_SVEN_SECURE; } // else use normal proxy and fallback proxy as backup else { return proxy_main + proxy_fallback; } }

isInNet(host, "172.31.1.1","255.255.255.255") looks to be a problem to me, should this not be 255.255.255.0 or whatever your subnet mask is?

Don't known if its the cheapest, but paying £70 (ex vat) for HP 53X - Toner cartridge - 1 x black - 7000 pages from Insight UK