[WEB4LIB] RE: Novell login limiting

[Mike Nyerges]

At 06:25 AM 3/14/00 -0800, Jeff wrote:
>
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Luis Domingues wrote:
>
>> I think TWEAK UI can manage that. Don't know if you're using Novell's
client
>> or Microsoft client for Netware. TWEAK UI is in the Win98 CD at
>> /tool/reskit/ somewhere... You should install it from the INF file.
>
>I believe that TweakUI has no effect on Client32 workstations, and based
>on past experience, the autologin features only work at boot time. Nothing
>prevents the user from logging out of the workstation and logging in again
>as another user...

>Jeff Godin

I agree with Jeff regarding TWEAK UI. But getting back to Dennis'
situation. I'm guessing that your running at least Netware 4. Now I'm
wondering if you can set the client on your library machines to operate in
Bindery mode with a preferred server. You're not running system polciies
are you? Or using Zen to write to the machine's regsitry? Even if you are
running polcies, you could point to a policy file tailored for your
machines, set for Bindery, not NDS, and with a preferred server. On the
preferred server, you could set up just the library user? Is there a way to
deny users the DNS and restrict them to a server running in bindery mode?
And does the library have its own server?

Sorry if I'm just throwing out ideas that leads you nowhere. This situation
is totally different from ours, where we're interested in providing as many
of our resources (including library resources) over the network to as many
machinbes as possible--everything available to everyone anytime.

Interesting problem. There's got to be a solution. Let me know what you
come up with!


Mike Nyerges
Library Media Specialist
Canandaigua Academy Library
http://www.canandaigua.k12.ny.us/academylibrary/
mailto://mnyerges@wfmail.canandaigua.k12.ny.us