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AutoAdmin Setup on Windows 2000 desktop

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by daravon 1 view

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I would like to know how to setup Novell Netware v4.8sp3 to allow any network user to sign on to the network on a Win2K machine but to automatically be logged on as the administrator on the actual PC itself. I have tried the method for 4.71, but the computer then bypasses the Novell login.

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by erikdr

What's the problem with Workstation Manager, configuring it to do the Novell LAN logon and the local logon always with the Administrator account? It's still part of the Novell client for W2K afik...

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by daravon

I need people to sign on to the network as which ever person they are, but i need them all to have administrator rights to the pc, along with all having the same desktop. I can't let them all sign on as the administrator because that'd blow a gianthole in security.

by bob the builder

Don't know if you have an NT Domain or not but if you haven't then your Novell user name must be replicated on each Workstation and each workstation name put in the administrator group . That way they will only get the rights you set on the Novell server but admin rights on the PC to install Apps etc. If you do have a domain then create a group called " PC Admins" on the PDC and put what users you want in them and then on the PC add the specific group from the PDC to the local administrators group. If you make more than one PC Admins group you can stop people from one group having local admin access to another groups PCs. Good Luck.

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