> From: Steinar H. Gunderson
> Subject: Re: Mersenne: Screen saver killers?
> On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:56:49PM -0600, Aaron Blosser wrote:
> >It could be done using Win95/98 policies, if the machines logon
> to a domain.
>
> It's a NetWare system. Moreover, it's at a school, and the admin is very
> afraid of file sharing in any form... (This is no problem to the
> screensaver
> thing, but will make it difficult to copy the [pq]* files easily.)
Well, you could easily implement a Win95 policy on a Netware system. I'm a
bit unfamiliar with Netware, but here's a quick cut and paste of where to
put the file:
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To set up for automatic downloading on NetWare networks
1. In the Network option in Control Panel, make sure that Microsoft Client
for NetWare Networks is specified as the Primary Network Logon client, and
that a preferred server is specified in properties for the network client.
For more information, see Chapter 9, �Windows 95 on NetWare Networks.�
2. Create the policy file to be downloaded and save it in the following
location:
\\preferred server\sys\public\config.pol
For NetWare networks, the client computers must be running Microsoft Client
for NetWare Networks. If the client computers are using NETX or VLM, then
policies must be downloaded manually.
Important Make sure you place system policy files on the user�s preferred
server. Policy files are not available if they are stored on other NetWare
servers or on computers running File and Printer Sharing for NetWare
Networks.
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Hope that's helpful.
> >Or, similarly, a logon script that runs a "regedit /s" and
> imports some .REG
> >file that sets the screen-saver to the blank screen.
>
> This could be done, I have admin privilegies, but I'm not sure if the real
> admin would apprecaite it.
Oohhh...well, make sure he's on your side before doing this I guess.
> >What if you periodically had each machine copy it's P/Q files to some
> >central location on a server.
>
> Yes, but how? In primenet.dll? Do we have the source for that at all?
If it were me, I'd setup some scheduled job on each machine to periodically
copy the files to the server.
With Windows NT, it's even easier because instead of having each machine
copy the file to some share, you can remotely connect to each machine and
pull the files off. I suppose you could do that with Win95/98 if each
machine had a share pointing to the location of the files...
> How? That is the question... I guess I need to get VC++ back,
> enter Windows
> (yuck) and do something smart (an FTP upload, for instance). If any coders
> out there are willing to help me, it would be nice.
My motto is, if it can be done with normal batch commands, or using a few
3rd party tools, why waste time coding it? But then again, I'm so rusty
with C++ that it'd take me that much more time anyway.
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