Strange message
Getting the following message occasional on IE and google. *ReadResponse() failed: The server did not return a response for this request. * Any ideas? If I close and reopen the browser it often goes away.
View ArticleDynamic VPN with WatchGuard
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could help me out with a peculiar deployment I have to circumnavigate and get working. We have an outlying building that has been bought by the school for relocating...
View ArticleVirgin/TRUSTnet/LGfl - moving away from LEA - advice needed!
Hi All, We have come to the end of an LEA/broadband deal and have been quoted a renewal... However, rather than staying with our current broadband/filtering/firewall ensemble, the LEA has drummed up a...
View ArticleSmoothwall youtube usage report
Have any of the Smoothwall users out there (G3) managed to create a report to show a summary of the most popular youtube videos watched? I'm trying to find a way to do this, but haven't had time to...
View ArticleSWGFL Optional services
Hi I'm Looking at moving away from the LEA/SWGFL and i want to know what happens the the SMTP Store and forward services and the Domain name registration service? Can i still retain these services...
View Articlelinking sites
IÂ’ve been asked link two schools to together so we can have a mapped drive. However, they are 3 miles apart so a fibre link is impossible. They are both on LGFL and have 40mb connections. I thought...
View ArticleSmoothwall Express 3.1 as transparent web proxy
Hi We've setup Smoothwall Express 3.1 as transparent web proxy for IPads but SSL traffic is not getting through (I know why). There is an add on which will allow this to be circumvented. Has anyone...
View ArticleSupporting services off-site
What do you all do about supporting staff remote access to services in their homes? For example, we have Office 365 for email (provided by the local LEA), operate RDS Web Access for SIMS access, host...
View ArticleNew School website- need a host!
Looking at moving our website away from 1&1 and onto a wordpress site hosted externally. I am after a decent host who will allow us to pay yearly rather than monthly. Any recommendations?
View ArticlePalto Alto Blocking Data downloads from website
We have KS5 students using the website Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. (http://www.gapminder.org/) they can access the site ,but when they try to download...
View ArticleBlocked Pages on HTTPS sites
We are currently using Lightspeed filtering, when I blocked webpage is accessed using https, there is no web filter page that says "blocked" like on a http site, simply that the site can't be connected...
View ArticlePrevent - How are you looking at it
With the new "prevent" policy from our governmental friends to stop extremist views. I was wondering what people are looking at doing. We run both Smoothwall and Securus - however the young ones still...
View ArticleHow hard is it to start a Smoothwall reseller?
I currently work in IT sales and have pondered the possibility of starting a reseller it will inititially be just me who will do the sales and support and also I will just be selling Smoothwall. How...
View ArticleApple Configurator 2
Hi Can any help me on this matter. I recently updated the configurator on the apple mac to configurator 2. When l push the apps out on to any iPads l get this error message - 'The server gave an error...
View ArticleGoogle search links blocked on Palto Alto
Strange problem today, students can access google but when they click on a link to unblocked website i.e www.bbc.co.uk (http://www.bbc.co.uk) they get a blocked page with the message saying 'Your...
View ArticleInvalid Server Certificate!
Hello, Got some digital sign-age screens around the school they are all running windows XP with rise vision, but recently all screens will not connect to rise vision it throws an error, when I try and...
View Articlesome interesting Internet stats for you - are you the same?
Hi folks, we've been using some new network monitoring statistics for our core network and thought we'd share it with you if its of interest as it may help you plan for your bandwidth usage in the...
View ArticleForce local DNS resolution in Squid when using upstream proxy?
I'm attempting to put in place the restrict.youtube.com stuff to limit youtube access now that Youtube for Schools is dying off, but I've come across an annoying issue. Our site uses Squid as its proxy...
View ArticleConnection problems to dropbox
Hi for the last few days, we have not been able to connect to the dropbox.com website. I have tried Chrome, IE and Firefox and none of them will connect. They all give slightly different errors: IE...
View ArticleADFS Certificate not accepting Key agreement
Created cert request to include Key usage - key agreement. when cert installed on server key agreement not there with warning shown no other details. Any thoughts ?
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