Stephen Russell wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 3:25 PM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John Weller wrote: >> >> > A good point!! I intend to use it on desktop machines that you can walk >> > away from but we may move to laptops in the near future. >> >> Don't make the user wait at startup or shutdown - it makes you look bad. >> Schedule tasks to run behind the scenes, ideally on the server and not >> the workstation, so that they don't have anything to notice or complain >> about. >> >> > Not sure that I would like to give up control of my machine as you > describe? > > How do you do this? via a login script?
Depending on the context (server, workstation, network, standalone, policies, etc.), I've done the following in the past: + scheduled task (at script; cronjob) on either server or workstation + netlogon script (but you don't want that script to do anything lengthy) + service that runs in background at a lower priority that periodically does something lengthy. As a user, you shouldn't care about these background housekeeping tasks. As an administrator, you'd be in control of them. So I don't understand the "give up control of my machine" comment. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
