Marc-Andre R.'s questions

I have to configure WordPress into a virtual application under a principal website running on ASP.NET 2.0 Classic mode.

Everything is working fine, PHP 5.3.13 / MySQL 5.1 / IIS 7.5, the wordpress site also work fine, except for the rewriting side.

The blog is host at www.mysite.com/blog , and rewriting should normally rewrite article to www.mysite.com/blog/categorie/this-is-a-pretty-article but instead it rewrite to www.mysite.com/blogcategorie/this-is-a-pretty-article, as you see, it strip the tag between blog and categorie, wich is not suitable.

The rewriting rules inside web.config are pretty straight forward, taken from auto-generated Wordpress Permalink section :

    <rewrite>
    <rules>
            <clear />
            <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="false">
                <match url="*" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
            </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

I've been losing allmost by whole day on this, so I tough asking for it might be a good idea...

Anybody already had that kind of trouble with wordpress on IIS?

Thanks in advance

Here's my question. I currently have a network setup to have Static IP manually assigned between 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.99 and the rest (192.168.1.100 through 192.168.1.254) assigned automatically by DHCP server hosted on a IPCop server.

Now, I'd like to expand my DHCP range in the 192.168.2.xxx so that I have 254 new slots for DHCP.

First, is this possible to have a DHCP Range splitted between 192.168.1.xxx and 192.168.2.xxx, if so, how to do it (remember i'm using IPCop), if not, what are my others possibilities?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Here's the facts.

I have a Domain Controller running Windows 2003 Server R2 (Standard edition) with up to now only XP Client in a High School environment. I have an accounting system to manage how much student can print on my server so the printer installed on student account must be the shared and not a standard TCP/IP port...

Now, I'm testing migration to Windows Vista SP2 (Ultimate for my tests maybe Business later). Everything works fine except Shared Printers on my 2003 DC.

On my account (full admin rights) everything works, but on a student account (so very restricted access) I can't use those printer, I always get "Access Denied" to them. On XP client, it's still working fine.

What I've done right now :

• Added the "Authentificated users" and "students" groups to the security printer to allow them to print to it, result, still getting Access Denied...
• Tried to add local port on the serveur to reflect the share name (solution found by comme googling), not working either...

So, I'm searching for a solution to allow my students to print on their account on Vista client as the same as on XP client.

Is there a solution or I'm I screwed with it?

Thanks!

I'm working in a high school and I'd like to put in place a public Wi-Fi network with a captive portal that asks for authentication but also keeps track of user information, like the amount of data transferred (to spot those who do excessive downloading).

I already have a wireless network covering almost the entire school (6 WRT54G V5 and V8 running DD-WRT Micro). This is accessed by school owned laptops that are used by students. My Wi-Fi network is secured with WPA2 and the key is only used for school laptops. I have never given the wireless key to students for obvious reasons like bandwidth abuse, but teachers have it. No student ever succeeded to key the key, so this is perfect...

What I want to do is to put public AP's in specific zones of the school to allow students with their own laptops to have controlled Internet access with user and password.

I've investigated many software solutions. One has retained my attention for a while. It was ZoneCD, but then I saw that It wasn't free anymore since March 2009. That was exactly what I was searching for, they were using WiFiDog as Auth core. That was the perfect solution. This is not expensive to buy (175$ US for a year with complete features) but I guess my boss will be happier if it could be done for free.

Running a dedicated server only for that isn't an issue for me.

I also came across RADIUS, was good but doesn't have accounting features I want to have.

So to conclude, I'd like to build something where students will be able to register an account for themselves, and then be forced to use it to have Internet access. And as WRT54G V1 to V4 (able to run DDWRT Standard and allow WiFiDog gateway to be install) are very rare these days, the access point I might buy to build this public network with could be anything, but this is unfortunate. So I really need a server solution that will achieve what I want.

I got a problem since a while with my XP client connected on a 2003 R2 Server Active Directory.

Sometime GPO doesn't load when a user log on. Some other time, It work.

I search many time on google to find a solution about that problem but I never found one.

I look for DNS but it doesn't seems to be the issue there.

Is anyone already encountered this problem before?

Thanks for you precious answer it's been several months I'm searching for a solution since this problem happen in a school environnement so this is really important that GPO apply correctly everytime!

EDIT : Problem still not solved, did what all of you said but doesn't help... I'll check it out on monday when I'll go back to work.

EDIT : I'm still searching for a solution on this, suggested solution up to now still not resolved the problem. Thanks however for those ;)