Greetings- The organization I work for is ready to deploy Windows 2000 as the desktop client in a Novell network environment.
I, a desktop support tech, have been tasked (for some abstruse reason) with finding the answers to a couple of questions that are more properly in the realm of the network admin. We want to avoid the use of local profiles for login at each machine. As I understand it, this would be handled by a domain controller using roaming profiles in a Windows paradigm. What I need to figure out is how to make the Novell server tell the local Win2k machine what group (such as "user" or "power user") a person belongs to when he or she logs into the Novell infrastructure. Hopefully, this would let a user log in to any machine in their context and give them the proper group membership relative to what we want them to be able to do on the local machine. Right now, on the few Win2k machines that are deployed, each user has a local profile that synchronizes with the Novell login, and they are the only ones that can use that particular workstation. What I'm interested in finding out is if this is possible (logic says it should be), and in a general way, how it is done. The second question involves how to tell the local Win2k machine that a "push" from the network at login time has the authority of "administrator". For example, virus definitions are pushed from the network as well as executable type updates that also user response files. Can we do it, and in general, how. Please excuse me if this isn't totally clear- I'm a tech, not a network admin, and I may not have used the correct terms. Also, thanks in advance for any help that the list members can provide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rick Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tallahassee, FL. USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
