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Force 95/98 authenticate to the network

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by operations

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This is for a Bank and federal examiners are going to require this.

Is it possible

This is a WAN, using Citrix thin client

I know traditionaly any one can boot to a floppy to access data on the hard drive but, is it possible to make these pc's authenticate to the Win2000/Citrix servers? If so what is the most I can expect as far as security?

Thanks in advance

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by rabbit_runner

It is most definitely possible to 'force' a windows 98 client to log on to the network. However, Windows 95, and Windows ME will not work with the same method.

For Win 98, you will need to open the policy editor and there is a setting to force the pc to log on to the network. When this setting is adjusted, the user CANNOT click 'cancel' to get to a desktop. Also the user CANNOT enter an incorrect user name or password.

There may be a setting for Win95 or WinME but I have not found it.
Let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Michael R.

by shepherr

In Windows 95, you can: open the Policy Editor, Open Registry, Local Computer, Network, Logon, Require Validation by Network for Computer Access.

Then I would skip down to Passwords, and disable Password Caching.

This should be Identical to Win98. I don't have access to ME to try it there.

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