Help with NAL 1

[LawnBoy]

I shot myself in the foot and IT HURTS. Anybody got a quick band-aid?

Using ZFD 4.01 IR6, clients are w2k and xp. When I installed the zen client on the PCs, I failed to set the NAL to run at startup. I'm an idiot.

I've tried a login script that copies a naldesk.exe shortcut to \all users\programs\startup, but since the users logging in don't have rights to modify that folder it doesn't work. All logins have User rights, no power users or admins.

Is there any way to distribute this shortcut without using NAL?

I can always manually map to each user pc and manually place the shortcut, but I consider that a last-ditch approach.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

 

[marvhuffaker]

how many pc's?

The biggest problem is that its going to be difficult to distribute anything since your users don't have any workstation access..

for example, I could use AutoIT to script a command to inject into the HKLM-Software\microsfot\windows\currentversion\RUN reg key and launch NAL. The script could be launched in the login s cript. But if your users are restricted from the registry, that won't work.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[LawnBoy]

About 100 PCs. We have to have our users locked down like that, many of them can't spell their own names when they try to login.

<sigh>

I am an idiot.

 

[marvhuffaker]

Actually the solution is simple.. just do what you used to have to do with ZEN 3..

put a "@C:\PROGRAM FILES\NOVELL\ZENWORKS\NALVIEW.EXE" in the login script. should launch it as an external program.

then you can take and push out a reg key with an app object ot include it permanently in the registry.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[LawnBoy]

D'oh! Of course! Thank you for pointing out the blindingly obvious.

It has not been my day.

 

[Provogeek]

You could also deploy an application object tomake the change.

The ZfD workstation helpper would give the user the rights to the PC to make the change. Just be sure to click the option to deploy as a secure user.j

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Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple

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[LawnBoy]

I got it done eventually (ok, I had the intern do it...). The tricky part really was the fact that I have SpySweeper running on every client, and had the 'Startup Shield' enabled which prevents modifications to the startup folders or any of the Run keys. SpySweeper would not allow any programmatic changes.

It will allow you to manually copy items that are in the Start Menu into the Startup folder. So we just mapped to each machine, made the copy, and moved on.