Both of those questions would most likely get better answers in a Novell support forum, rather than here, as they are probably specific to the Novell Client version that you're running.
Roger ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Lindstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 9:00 PM > To: NT 2000 Discussions > Subject: Novell/ Win2k interoperability questions > > > 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.unsub%% > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
