Network Security

[Timothy G. Kambitsch]

I am curious as to which applications people launching from the SERVER when
they user Windows NT clients for public workstations. We are currently
loading all the apps onto the client workstation partly so that our public
Win95 workstations don't have to
log-on to a server.  This has been okay as we have just started deploying
our first systems, but I worry about how we
are going to upgrade hundreds of workstations in the future.

Ideally I would like all of our public machines to be void of user
applications and once connected to the network all applications are loaded
from our NT Server's diskspace.

We use:
	Netscape 3.0
		Adobe Acrobat
		Real Audio
	CRT (terminal emulation)
	Electric Library
	NoveList
	Everybody's menu


As to connecting to a server. I would like to find a way to have
NT clients or even Win95 clients automatically login to a "guest"
or "public" account on the server without the user seeing a
network login dialog box.  Back in my Win 3.11/Novell days we used
to script it into the autoexec.bat file, but noone here can seem
to figure out a similar technique with an NT server.

>When last we looked at the question of securing public access
>workstations, we concluded that Windows 95 was too difficult
>and uncertain to secure.  We have thus decided to use Windows NT
>for such locations.
>
>- Daniel

Tim Kambitsch <mailto://kambitsch@dayton.lib.oh.us>
Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library                   513-227-9560
215 East Third Street Dayton OH 45402                   fax:  513-227-9524