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Our RM support contract has lapsed and I am in the process of gradually replacing and removing various RM services. The latest one to hit the fan is LST (CC3) - I can't do anything with it as I get an error (RLN didn't accept the instruction...) when I try and change the schedule... So I want to uninstall it to stop all the schedules from running... Can anyone tell me how I go about uninstalling LST? It doesn't seem to be as easy as Add/Remove Programs... Many thanks in advance

We have a problem on our CC3 Workstations whereby we want to upgrade our IE6 ( yes IE6 ) however we have created and allocated IE8 as per the instructions from RM, this side worked fine, and IE8 installed perfectly from what we could see. We use Impero 2.3.0, we can logon to the CC3 machine fine, as soon as we load up IE8 a small window appears as below: http://www.colfox.org/images/Impero_IE8_Issue.jpg If anyone has any ideas about this, please do reply, suggestions are welcome

Dear all, I currently maintain a CC3 network at a secondary school, however we are in the process of planning the move to a standard Vanilla network. Could anyone lend any advice or tips on the following: - * Whats the best way to move the students work/profiles? * Is there a way of beginning this network change if we use a different subnet mask and IP range? What is the best way of getting our new servers up and running without them conflicting with our current DCs? * Should DNS/DHCP be installed on all of the new servers or just the Forrest Root (4 servers in total) * Is there a 'proper' way to set up IP addresses and Subnets or can we be quite free with what we choose? Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks.

I currently have 2* 6 month contracts to support CC3 networked secondary schools in North London. If anyone is free immediately or will soon be, and you have a copy of a CRB valid within the last 3 years and have experience of cc3 or cc4 please give me a call or drop me a PM About £100-120 per day dependent on experience If you recommend someone I then place in this role I will pay a commission

It appears this week is technology package building week So I've read the SolidWorks 2008 install guide that includes all the notes on building it for CC3, only it still doesn't quite work. I have got to the point where it installs fine but isn't combining the mst with the msi properly so the licence server info isn't included in the package. This means I'd have to go round each PC and add that information into the software manually (not happy). So i tried combining the mst and the msi with orca (has worked before) this left me with a duff msi that wouldn't install. so here's my plee, has anyone got around this. Cheers and Right on!

Good evening all, Would anyone happen to have in their archive a copy of the RM Maths 4.1 Network Install Guide? The document is no longer available from RM, but it was entitled "How to install RM Maths version 4.1 on a client-server network" and the TEC article was "TEC53000". I do know this software is very much EOL, considering it was released around 2007 but our museum RM User Group has the network install CD, however we don't have any documentation on how to configure this on our museum CC3 clients. Wishing everyone a lovely weekend! James, RM User Group

Hi all, I am sure that there is someone out there would can shed some light on my problem. I have a couple of workstations that I use to package build on. Up to this week there as not been a problem with them until a member of staff asked me to install some software. As I have not packaged built software for a few months and I could not remember if I have a clean image or not I decided to restore to my backed up clean image on the workstation.....Everything was going okay until this point: Found Network card (Accton EN1297D-TX) Testing network connection initialising TCP/IP via DHCP... Microsoft DOS TCP/IP 1.0a Could not locate Server...Could not resolve server name. This is usually a problem with the lmhosts file...blah blah blah. I have check the LMhost and it has the correct IP and server name ***-SR-001. The only way I can get the machine to join the domain is to install XP then "smartclient" it onto the network. Any Ideas???

Hello everyone, Just joined this forum after seeing it's probably the only place on the net with info about CC3 migrations! I've read through several posts on here and they've been helpful but I was hoping someone could give a little further info. I'm currently in the process of migrating a school with a 2003 server (CC3) to Windows 2008 R2 server, and trying to remove the RM software from 30-40 XP machines while joining 60 or so Windows 7 laptops to the Domain. The steps I've taken so far are: 1. Install 2008 R2 on new server 2. Updated Forest Functional Level from 2000 to 2008 3. Join to domain as DC 4. Allowed everything to sync up between the two servers 5. Transferred all FSMO roles to the new server. 6. Transferred DHCP to the new server. I'm now getting ready to completely remove all RM software and the CC3 server from the network, but before I do, could someone shed some light on the following? 1. Do I need to re-create GPO from scratch? (Already done this, just not enabled at the moment) 2. All client computers in the network have an RM login screen, what is the fastest and safest way to remove this? On the none RM side of things, there are a lot of file shares on the 2003 server, along with printers. I was looking into DFS as I would very much like to keep the old 2003 server as a member server incase of trouble with the new 2008 R2 server. How do you go about mapping normal network shares into DFS shares? And with printers, is there an easier way than just installing all the printers on the new server? I'm trying to read my PowerShell V2 book to find ways to script this, but I'm rather new to scripting and I have quite a deadline. Any help anyone could provide would be great. Even the smallest pointers and suggestions might move things along nicely! Thanks very much, Giles.

Hi Guys, I am running a CC3 Network, I have created a standard RM Standard Disk, got it on the floppy and then booted to floppy, So, I choose to rebuild the entire station, enter in the station details, then it says: Found network card: Intel pro/100 ve network adapter Testing the network connection.... File not found: a:\lmhosts Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP...... Microsoft DOS TCP/IP 1.0a NET0132: Unable to find file: C:\Net\lmhosts Connection Failed. Press any key to reboot the machine and try again As anyone else had this problem or know how to fix this, I am very greatful, Thanks, James

Hi Guys, I am running a CC3 Network, I have created a standard RM Standard Disk, got it on the floppy and then booted to floppy, So, I choose to rebuild the entire station, enter in the station details, then it says: Found network card: Intel pro/100 ve network adapter Testing the network connection.... File not found: a:\lmhosts Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP...... Microsoft DOS TCP/IP 1.0a NET0132: Unable to find file: C:\Net\lmhosts Connection Failed. Press any key to reboot the machine and try again As anyone else had this problem or know how to fix this, I am very greatful, Thanks, James

Hi, Hope this is in the right section, it has become apparent that in thwe furture I may be incharge of some CC3 CC4 networks. I can't get to the documentation on hte RM site with me not been registered and not paying for this service yet. Just wondered if there is any books or documentation that I can be reading before been thrown in the deep end. Kind Regards

Here's the ad, happy to discuss on phone (0845 686 0690) or PM to interested edugeekers ICT Field Engineer ICT Field Engineer required to service schools ICT support issues across North and East London locations. You will have an Enhanced CRB clearance and experience supporting CC3, CC4 or community connect networks (including MSI packaging and deployment). Also experience of more generic network technologies like windows 2003, XP, dhcp, dns, active directory (ad) would be essential. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a willingness to travel between sites and ideally a driving license Salaries according to experience but likely to be between £18-23K ICT Field Engineer

Hi All just started working at a school and my first problem is understanding Rm CC3 network, I have experience with Vanilla systems but this site has cc3 but to make it harder, they came out of contract with RM 2 1/2 years ago!!. the list of issues seems to be endless. but my immediate problem is to understand how they do Rebuilds, specifically if i wish to rebuild a couple of PC's and introduce some newly purchased Laptops & customise the builds (adding a new NIC driver as an example). As a newbie you can imagine ..i thought i could just make an image of a working PC and sysprep it and Bobs your uncle!! I'm just getting to grips with creating a build disk from a USB flash that is recognisable but would hope that someone has a procedure for this as RM will not speak to me as there is no current contract. I need to solve this until the new server arrives . Does the build add the workstation to the domain ? Is there also any thing on migrating from cc3 or is it just a rebuild of all workstations and laptops. (back to friendly tools like Acronis ) Andrew;)

Does anyone know how to install exchange server 2003 standard into an RM CC3 network. I have 3 DC's and two member servers one of which will host my exchange 2003 code. I am not sure how to go about installing exchange 2003 on the member server without affecting the current operation of cc3. I know you can purchase exchange 2003 from RM who will integrate it at a cost but I was trying to avoid that. Thanks in antisipation.

We have a CC3 network in our school and are experiencing some problems with a shared printer in a room of 15 computers. The printer is an Epson Stylus 1400 and is attached to a station via a USB cable. The printer has been shared and then allocated to the other stations in the room using the RM Management Console. The problem we have is that it seems to be a complete lottery as to whether or not users pick up the printer. For instance, a user logs and does not get the printer, I log onto the same machine as a test user and get the printer, I log on as another test user and do not get the printer! We have other rooms in the school where we have shared printers exactly the same way and have had no problems. The same issue was occurring last November but we eventually got it working by finding a different driver. Since then the printer has developed a fault and was returned a few weeks back. We are now experiencing the same problem with the replacement printer (exactly the same model/make) even though we have continued using the same driver. (I have also tried the other driver) We have tried sharing the printer on a different station all together and using a different network port in the room. We have added another shared printer (different make/model) to the station to test if users can see one but not the other. We have then allocated this printer and a printer from a neighbouring room to the stations. I find that some users get all three printers, some get none, some get the neighbouring printer, some just get the test printer……..a real mixture! It doesn’t seem to be user specific either. For instance, a user might log onto one pc and not get any printers but log onto another and get printers. Then again, it doesn’t seem to be station specific, as a user can log out, someone else log in and get the printers. One thing to note is that I don’t recall ever logging on as an administrator and not getting the printer. I thought I could set up the printer manually on every station in the room, to get around RM Management Console allocating the printing every time a user logs on. The problem is, it seems only the person who installed the printer gets the printer when logged on i.e. Installed as systemadmin, log in as systemadmin2 and no printers installed! I have asked RM if it is possible to set up the printer for each station so that whoever logs on gets the printer. They have said I need to set up the users as “privileged” users which basically means they can do whatever they like on the computer when logged in. This is not an option! I was hoping someone out there might have some ideas about how I could do this or have any suggestions as to what I could try next?

Hi, A quick question that is really bugging me at the moment. On a standard RM CC3 network what will be the filed called that stores the user passwords when you want to call the data through LDAP? We have been trying; Password, UserPassword (as suggested elsewhere) and had no joy - so thought I would seek the help of the experts. Also what is the standard encryption method that will be used with passwords, will it be SH1 or MD5? This is really bugging me at the moment as I want to ldap over user passwords as well as their user details.

Hello! I am doing some research on the use of FreeNAS in my establishment. We currently are storage short! The servers we currently have are small in terms of storage space and a NAS would be extremely useful. I need a solution which is reliable and usable on an RM CC3 system. How do you use FreeNAS? Do you just map the drive to a share with anon permissions or use local or AD authentication? Have you come across any problems using the system? I have tried to use OpenFiler but have found the interface less than appealing and couldn't for the life of me get it to connect to my test server at home whereas I managed to join FreeNAS to the domain no problem! Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

Hi, We're using RM CC3 :-( The only user who can add components in Visual Basic 6 is the Administrator - can anyone advise me on what permissions need changing in order to allow users to add components (My Advanced Higher class need this facility) thanks, Ian

Right, let me start by saying hello! I have been a reader of Edugeek for a few weeks now but haven't made the leap into contributing anything yet... mostly because everyone seems so much more knowledgeable than me! So, let me pick your brains and tell you about my situation - hopefully the great intellect that is Edugeek can give me some advice! I work in a primary school in Kent (430 pupils) that would be considered by most other primary schools (maybe secondary too!) to be spoiled rotten when it comes to ICT provisions... and we are. Money is no object! Example: If you went to BETT and saw the 3D imaging setup in the RM 'Futures' presentation then you would have seen the 12 grand model. Our head has a vision that the school will be a leader in primary school ICT... and is putting in an order for the 6 metre screen at a whopping 18 thousand pounds... Ouch. But I am not hear to discuss the educational merit of a 3D PowerPoint presentation... I am here to discuss how BEST to spend around 20-25 thousand pounds on a brand new "future-proof" network capable of supporting a wireless device for every child into the next 3 years. We currently run a 4 year old RM CC3 network that is crippled by an ageing server and wireless network running on PC World bought D-link access points. One in each classroom... 30 laptops attempting to run off one AP... It doesn't take a genius to realise that we were going to run into problems - I'm new to the school by the way, so this was done before my time Essentially the head has said - "rip it out and start again, here's the money..." This is what we have now: - 1 server running a CC3 Curriculum and an Admin network - 20 wired classroom and office desktops - 175ish wireless devices ( including 15 x Pupil Asus minibooks, 90 x Pupil Fujitsu-Siemens laptops, 20 x Pupil RM Laptops, 20 x Staff RM Laptops and my personal favourites 30 x Nintendo DS' and a Nintendo Wii ) - Told you we were spoiled... - A wireless network of 16 D-Link Access Points (unmanaged) The network is failing - painfully slow - because it isn't geared up for wireless access, so I want this to be the focus of our new network. I've had two quotes for a full install, one from a company supplying a Ranger server the other an upgrade to CC4 from RM. However, when I spoke to both companies they seemed very wary about a wireless solution - The Ranger company advised us to build a new building and put a wired computer suite in! Now, as you can see from our current wireless requirements and vision, that isn't going to happen! I am totally new to large-scale networks and would love to hear what other suggestions people have. My main questions: - What alternatives are there to Ranger and CC4? We have no in-house tech support and only one independent contracted technician that comes in two mornings a week. I would love to know if there were any other managed solutions I could consider? - Is a vanilla install an option without in-house support? Does anyone have any experience of external contracted network support? - What wireless solutions are there out there? (I've heard good things about Aruba?) - Is it simply a case of looking in the Yellow pages and ringing up some network installation companies and picking their brains or is there somewhere I can go for education specialist installs/discounts? Sorry for my massive ramble, if you haven't given up reading yet I would love some help on this one! Thanks again! Russell