I know this isn't really Fed related, but I thought the right people at Apple could get it through you. This statement shows that people just do NOT learn: "School technology officials also think having one standard computer will speed information technology services."
Consolidations do not always work, and normally do not when technology like this is involved. Look at the NMCI (in reality) fiasco! Apple should be playing with them hard - because Apple can truly provide a "standard" computer - unlike a Wintel setup. Even if you have 100 computers with the exact same Windows setup, they will each behave differently - we have all seen it.
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=398683
College to Require Freshmen to Buy Laptop from School
Updated: Monday, Jan. 24, 2005 - 12:53 PM
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The College of William and Mary will require each of its first-year students to buy a laptop computer from the school.
Some Virginia universities, including Virginia Tech and Longwood, already require students to come to school with computers. But starting in the fall of 2006, William and Mary will join a few others nationwide that require students to buy computers only from the school.
William and Mary administrators say financial aid could cover the cost of buying a computer if it's required by a university.
School technology officials also think having one standard computer will speed information technology services. They predict that turnaround times for computer repairs could shrink from one week to a day or two.
William and Mary's program, known as myNotebook, will phase in this fall, when freshmen will be offered the option of buying a laptop from the school.
The college has not yet decided which model to use or how much to charge.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Eric L. Cole
Mechanical Engineer
NSWCDD-Launcher Systems
CVN21 & LHA(R)(AV) Self Defense (missiles & guns)
540-653-4964
DSN: 249-4964
FAX: 540-653-4166
The "scientific establishment:" National Geographic, Scientific American, Discovery Channel, PBS/NOVA, etc - don't believe everything you see from them:
<http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2004/1106ng.asp>
<http://www.answersingenesis.org/pbs_nova/>
<http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp>
<http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html>
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Sorry to bother the list, but I have a problem with a Mac. I'm using OS 10.3 with all of the updates and Win XP with all updates.
Until recently, I was using an app on the Mac called "sharepoints" and setting up shares from the Mac that I could connect to from my XP machine. (The account on the XP box I was using was in the admin group on the XP box). When I would connect to the share, the normal user and password box would pop up and I would enter the user name and password of the admin account on the Mac which owned the share.
This was all working fine until yesterday. When I try to access the share, I get an error box that states that there is a problem accessing the share and that I may not have permission, etc.....
I noticed this on the SharePoints site, " Connect to the share from another machine with a non-admin user "
Did something get changed in either the Mac or XP OS recently that only lets you connect to a share on a Mac if the account you are using on the XP box isn't in the admin group?
Does anyone know a way around this?
Thanks!!!!
RC
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Could be a number of things.
First, SP2 for XP will affect share access. One of the many security center
options (I believe it is the firewall, turned on by default in SP2)
interferes with sharing.
If you have converted to AD, and you are following the same convention we
are, your userID has changed, as has your domain, as well as the name of the
local machine.
our userIDs changed from (in my case, for example) monahanj to (my AKO ID)
jim.monahan
my machine name has changed to code to ID the base, directorate, division,
building, and a serialized number.
Although our Macs are not yet in AD, I changed my Mac users IDs to conform
to the AKO convention, and the machine name to conform to the AD convention.
A name change would, of course affect permissions, b/c the Mac is allowing
clairborr, not Ronald.Clairborne
As far as non-admin rights....
Not sure what AD user restrictions are set as group policy by DOIM & higher
on the windows boxes.
(The powers that be have elected not to tell us). I do know some users
accounts were changed from the Admin group to the Power Users group.
I know on our network, I am a domain admin, but there are some
administrative shares
(\\server\D$ <file://\\server\D$> ) I used to be able to access, but since
the AD conversion, I get permission denied.
Jim Monahan
Network Systems Engineer
RSI, Inc, A CIBER Company
Army Training Support Center
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Subject: [Fed-Talk] Request for Assistance OS 10.3
Sorry to bother the list, but I have a problem with a Mac. I'm using OS 10.3
with all of the updates and Win XP with all updates.
Until recently, I was using an app on the Mac called "sharepoints" and
setting up shares from the Mac that I could connect to from my XP machine.
(The account on the XP box I was using was in the admin group on the XP
box). When I would connect to the share, the normal user and password box
would pop up and I would enter the user name and password of the admin
account on the Mac which owned the share.
This was all working fine until yesterday. When I try to access the share, I
get an error box that states that there is a problem accessing the share and
that I may not have permission, etc.....
I noticed this on the SharePoints site, " Connect to the share from another
machine with a non-admin user "
Did something get changed in either the Mac or XP OS recently that only lets
you connect to a share on a Mac if the account you are using on the XP box
isn't in the admin group?
Does anyone know a way around this?
Thanks!!!!
RC
Ronald Claiborne
MAJ, AAC (Automation)
Assistant Product Manager, PM DCATS (Ft. Monmouth)
Vehicular Intercommunication Systems
Tactical Headsets
(732) 532-5415
DSN 992-5415
email@hidden
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This was all working fine until yesterday. When I try to access the
share, I get an error box that states that there is a problem
accessing the share and that I may not have permission, etc.....
When I have any kind of a problem with permissions, I find that it
never hurts to verify and repair the disk permissions with Disk
Utility.
Steve Kirchoefer
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Naval Research Laboratory
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