[Web4lib] Authenticating public workstations

[Francis Kayiwa]

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On May 31, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Dan Lester wrote:

>
> 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.

My Novell is rusty. If your goal is to stop users from accessing the  
computer without authentication. Wouldn't the Novell Client  
accomplish this?

http://www.novell.com/products/clients/

Depending on how your tree is setup all the configuration is then  
done in these clients.

When I last used this it gave one the choice of

Tree: Higher_ed_super_cool_Uni
Context: departments_space_on_tree
Server: authentication.authority.server

The user will then be granted rights to the computer.

HTH,

:wq! kayiwa




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