So my school just moved to a Xerox solution for printers and copiers. Its been a mess. The techs who came out didn’t know anything about NDPS or Netware. Hell, I didn’t know very much before I got here. We decided to use DHCP - which I can control via Netware anyways - to install the machines. I started poking at the admin screens with a stick and found terms i recognized like NDS Tree and such. Stoked, I started figuring out how to configure my copiers via Novell iRemote Manager. I got everything working fine and I could see the copiers online. But I couldn’t print. I gave up and used statics. I didn’t have the time to dick around with these things,

Then, while googling, I found the Xerox Novell OEM solution. YAY!

So I’m installing it now. First issue I’ve run into, I don’t have IIS installed on my test machine. For those who don’t know, here’s how you get IIS up and running. You can install Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 by using Add/Remove Windows Components from Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. Simple.

Unfortunately, I’m not in my office, so I can’t test the install out until I get to work.

Check out Desktop Media. It’s small (footprint) application for Windows that automatically adds drive icons to your desktop. It will detect USB drives, fixed drives, CD/DVD drives, network drives, and even RAM disk drives. For removable media (such as USB drives and CD/DVD drives), it will only add the drive to your desktop if it is present. So if you have a CD/DVD drive, but no disc is present, you won’t see the icon on your desktop.

I’m digging this little program. The only thing I miss from my Mac days is having my drive on the desktop. I’m tired of having to hit My Computer. This little program allows me to set positions.  Between Zen and my personal scripts, I’ve got like 7 network drives. Add to that my networked CDROM drive and my flash drives and its a lot. Now my drives are easy to find.

YAY