Monday, March 4, 2019

Won't someone think of the children.... need help with setting up a class network.

Hello networking! I come as a humble grade 7 teacher looking for any advice as I officially admit defeat. I had once thought I was a least a little bit tech literate until the world of DNS's, static IPs and the darkest corners of windows settings have destroyed me. If anyone is able to help me figure this out or at least point me to the right tutorial, myself and the 22 students of the Grade 7 Game Design class will be forever in your debt. Plus, I will give you an A on your report card. The scenario is that I have a small lab of 15 older computers running windows 10. I inherited them from the last school I was at and was going to recycle them and have been given the blessing to keep them running in the school on the condition I maintain them and only use the school's public wifi. I previously had help networking together with a switch to allow the students to submit work, me to share files, run a after school gaming club and possibly the holy grail of being able to one day deploy an image rather than having to clone each drive manually each semester. The challenge is to do that but also still use the school wifi. Previously, I could get the computers to see each other but would have to disable adapters back and forth because they would not work at the same time. But now on a fresh windows 10 and my previous saintly IT tech off at a another school, I am struggling. I can gladly send more specs or info as needed to any kind soul that can help us out.

Edit: Let me know if this doesn't belong here. I am a forever lurker and posting this is giving me more anxiety than it should....



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