(posted and emailed)

Hi, Rafael!

Thanks for taking care of of that virus check on Choate's teacher-desk computer.  
We haven't organized another larger-group visit to try to take care of the network for the west (windows) wall of that room &mdash; in part just not getting organized, but also because there's the impression those computers just don't have all hardware components.  Do you happen to know whether they do have approximately enough keyboards and mice squirreled away?  [sorry about that double-rodent imagery]  Also, do you get the impression that they did or did not keep the row of computers on the south wall working, and connected thru the two small Ethernet switches?

<b> There's a trick to finding the SCHOOLNAME-ADM01 scanner/maintenance sites from a Mac.  (Well, I have that sort of backwards ... the trick is on the other side, as the Windows computers use a Microsoft cheat to find the ADM01  ... they're using WINS over and above regular DNS.)  You have to give a more fully-specified domain name as the URL.  I think it would be http://SHORE-ADM01.INSTR.CPS.K12.IL.US or maybe without the INSTR, or maybe with an additional prefix (do the machines there use something like shore.cps.k12.il.us?).  Anyway, the point is, it will work from a Mac if you give a FQDN.</b>

The current <i>real</i> "architect" password isn't given out to mere unofficial guest tinkers like us, only to actual FSS contractors, and changed monthly.  But if these Macs have a local-account "architect" that might be outside that system with a password that might have persisted from back at installation time, I suppose you've already tried the semi-standard installation-time password for "architect". [Which I'm including in the email copy of this message.]   And if these are really-old Macs that we might have dealt with a few years ago, many of them would have an "admin" account or a "gerstein" [former principal] account with a password I can't recall but perhaps others on the CUIP staff might; and on some we might have put in a backdoor privileged account called  "cuip" with passwords in the email copy of this message.

Thanks again!

  ==Mitch