Tuesday/Wednesday
Hello all. I did not get a chance to post yesterday, but to be honest, there was not that much to report on. I went through various training with Bon when I could because the electric power was on and off so much during the day that it was hard to keep to the plan. Even so, we covered just about everything he needs to know about the Mac and Windows Server setup, along with the thin client configurations and how those work. I did setup Teamviewer on the Mac so that I can remote control to it from home when it’s online. With that, I should be able to help with any question they have from time to time.
I did have one problem to solve yesterday. I found that the thin clients were not redirecting USB Flash disks to the user login sessions. This is an important feature that they need so that staff members and students can use their own flash drive to keep their files on. It’s normally not a problem with thin clients, but I just could not get it to work properly. Fortunately I was able to use Skype to call Vecmar, the company I purchased the thin clients from. Their tech support person (Chris) was very helpful and offered to setup and test some clients put back at their office that have the same firmware to see what it needs for configuration to get the USB disk to mount. He did that and got back to me with some configuration information that they used to get the redirection to work. Of course, it’s later at night that I got the answer so I waited until this morning to try it out. I did just that and yes, it worked just fine. So I reconfigured all of the thin clients as Chris spec’d out and we got the all working.
For the rest of today, I cleaned up some mac and server configuration items, otherwise, it was a pretty relaxing day. FYI, I brought one of my UAS devices (AKA drone) to do some aerial photography of the college and surrounding area. That was a lot of fun. I was able to bring the device up quite high and flew it out over Lake Victoria. It’s pretty amazing video which I will post on YouTube soon. I also did some low altitude passes over the college at about 40 MPH. The Mavic Pro that I have is a well built device. Can’t wait to share the video’s with you.
Just as I finished flying the drone, Bishop Kodia arrived to pick me up to head back to Kisumu. I’m in downtown Kisumu now, waiting in the car for him to take care of some errands before we head back home.
Tomorrow will be a sit back and relax day, which I’m looking forward to. I’ll probably get some more posting done with more pictures, so stop in when you can to see what I’ve put on the blog.
Have a great rest of your day!
Bill
