[Web4lib] Authenticating public workstations

[Don Hamilton]

Hi Dan.
 
We have a fairly similar setup. Novell and XPPro workstations. (and
Voyager as the ILS, as it happens)
 
We set most of our workstations to require a novell login in order to
get access to the desktop. That limits access to patrons that have been
authenticated via Novell login. We do keep a few 'public' machines where
no login is required, but they don't have word/excel/etc, just IE.
 
I'm not sure of the XP/Novell settings required... If this sounds like
a solution, let me know and I'll get someone who does know the setup to
tell you about it.
 
don

>>> "Dan Lester" <dan at riverofdata.com> 5/31/2007 1:04 PM >>>

I hope this is sufficiently on topic.  Feel free to reply privately.



We have the usual urban academic library problem of unaffiliated users
using too many computer resources, and, of course, some of them are
surfing inappropriate material.  Nothing new there.



The campus has provision to authenticate users with LDAP, and we do so
for off campus users, through EZProxy.



We'd now like to authenticate almost all of our public computers, but
not just for web access, but for logon to any resources (Word, Excel,
SciFinderScholar, etc.).  The possibilites we've found so far don't
handle single search of multiple containers, and we're not anxious to
try to develop a list of over a hundred Novell servers on campus for the
software we've found to hit.



I know the above is pretty vague.  To further complicate it, we're
dealing with a WinXP and Novell environment, and all of the computers in
question are WinXPPro.



Any suggestions, ideas, etc, greatly appreciated.  And the web access
is the biggest issue, but we've been told we need to cover all access,
not just web.



thanks



dan



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Dan Lester, Boise, Idaho, USA
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