(posted and mailed)

Hi, Tommy,

Thanks for your report!

I think both Russ and I have mentioned that hardware switch for the wi-fi antennas on the laptops to Ms. Askuvich, but it seems it'll be a good idea to keep on reminding all the teachers and assts. who work with those. 

I don't know if Russ mentioned this yet, but late in the summer we hauled over a Dell server that had been used for one of our other projects, installed Server 2003 and got it set up as Canter-srv02.  The idea was to start using that for some or all of the INSTR home folder storage that currently goes on Canter-srv01 (the souped-up desktop model wth server software).  Or if not having t take over INSTR services, at least get the backups of SRV01 handled over the network to SRV02 instead of onto the USB drive as you have been doing it.  

HOWEVER :-( last week when I went to look at it, SRV02 was off and didn't want to boot up.  So much for that idea -- and the idea that this hardware would be sturdier than the other.  I'm looking for a good time to go by there and jiggle the cables some more for another try.  Feel free to go to the MDF and try it yourself too -- watch out for dripping condensate from the air conditioner (and tell Mr. Lewis if there is), and also check first which box the monitor is actually connected to!  Meanwhile, if and when you feel most other things are caught up, would you mind doing a backup of SRV01 to the portable hard drive? [If it's still on hand -- we didn't take it away did we?]  

Thanks!

  ==Mitch