My experience has been that logging in wirelessly is less than
reliable. This year we are 100% committed to Portable Home
Directories on all wireless clients. Via WGM the home directories
sync at log in and log out. Using John DeTroye's tips and Tricks I
have customized what is sync'd. It took some doing with the Exchange
Server files and the Apple Mail app. (I'll save that rant for later).
If the students allow the syncing to do what it wants things work
well. We do allow them to make as many mobile accounts as needed but
we encourage them to try and use the same iBooK/MacBook whenever
possible. Yes, students have lost data but overall things work pretty
well.
In the art building all the workstations are connected via ethernet.
We use the "traditional" network accounts.
All computers have static addressing.
Carl Campion
Director of Academic Technology
Archmere Academy
Claymont, DE
On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Charles Hilgartner wrote:
> We have a laptop cart that has 30 laptops. We are continuing to have a
> problems with the connections being dropped when they are logged
> off and
> sit till the next day. Some come up and some don't. If I sign on as a
> local user and reconnect everything works fine. The students are
> logging
> on as managed accounts in opened directory. If the connection is lost,
> the student can't sign on. Any ideas would help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Spook Hilgartner
> Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
> Baltimore
>
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