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by bfeltus

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Will be upgrading to win2000. Will have 200+ workstations. This is a novell intranetware shop. Users currently using win95 workstations. Login to network using novell client, bypass the windows signon screen. This allows for any user in our company to sit at any workstation and login as long as they have novell user id and password. Want something similar to this for win2000. Do not want to disable the win2000 login screen, nor do I want to add 200+ users to the workstation. Can I setup a generic user with the password already set? If so, how?

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by tony.colgrove

You want to use the Workstation Manager feature of Novell's ZENworks. It can dynamically create a local user account on any workstation (NT/2000) at logon, allowing your users to "roam" and not have to create 200+ accounts on each PC. Works reallywell if you have a Novell only backend. Also allows you to set a user security level on the workstation. ie: normal users get regular "user" rights, administrators get "local admin" rights to the workstation.

by bfeltus

I have workstation manager installed on workstation. Not sure how to setup with NDS. Steps would be appreciated. Thanks for your help.

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