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Win2000 in a Novell Environment

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by nate from ri 4 views

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I work in an environment where we have traditionally used Win98 clients connecting to Novell servers. We are ordering any new machines with Win2000 Pro. The primary logon is therefore Novell, not Windows. The problem is that I often need to work on peoples computers when they have logged out, and I have no local username. Is there a way to get 2000 to accept authentication to a Novell server to obtain access to a local machine (similar to logging in to a domain)?

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by Former member

I seriously doubt it. There may be a way to associate the Novell login with a local username of the w2k PC....

by swilliam

use zenworks to create a windows nt/2000 user policy. configure the dynamic local user policy within that package to use netware credentials and add administrator group rights to the dynamic account. associate yourself with the nt/2000 user policy. this will dynamically create an nt account with admin rights based on your novell account whenever you login.

this will, however, create a new local profile for you on your system. you may need to copy your profile contents into the newly created one, but afterwards your profile should remain on your system. be sure to uncheck the volitile user (remove nt account at logout) box in the user policy though, or you'll get a new profile everytime you login.

hope this helps!

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