Waterloo Nexus Advisory Group minutes May 17, 2006

Present

Department Advisor name
Applied Health Science (AHS)
Lowell Williamson
Environmental Studies (ES) Bernie Rutter (Chair)
Arts
Nevil Bromley
Information System and Technology (IST) Tim Farrell
Science
Steph Sempson
Computer Science
Steve Nickerson
Math Naji Alamrony
Engineering Computing
Erick Engelke
  Ray White
  Daniel Delattre (Secretary)

Regrets

Department Advisor name
IST Steve Carr
Math Jim Johnston
Engineering Computing Hon Tam
ESAG Peter Routledge

Agenda

Samba 3

  • ES has issues with Samba 3 and users not being able to connect properly.
  • Samba 3 runs okay with Computer software installations (GPO).
  • Hon and Ray to investigate.

Minuwet update

  • If you pass, the local NAA server will remember the MAC for 1 week.
  • User runs minuwet to check if Windows Updates are turned on and to check for AntiVirus Updates.
  • For detailed information, see Erick's page.

NTP service

  • AHS has some issues that NTP does not run properly.
  • Suggestion was made to rejoin the computer to the domain.

KVM switches

  • ES needs to buy new KVM switches for their server room.
  • EC and IST bought StarNet KVM Switches.

Other items