Novell Login on XP Pro, want universal Local machine account

[benbeneke]

Hi All,

I have my first XP Pro desktop PC in our Novell network environment. It logs in fine using NW Client v4.83 SP2 but....

I want to set this machine up as a shared machine for everyone in the company.
We have a station where a whole lot of software is installed for which we have only 1 licence and only use occasionally. This is software such as Accurender (3D) which is machine intensive.

I want to be able to lock down the machine but not have to set up 35 local accounts!

Is there a way to set this machine to automatically use a generic local machine account even when the Novell login name and the local machine account name do not match?? and without having to enter a second password?

Any help appreciatted.

Ben Beneke

 

[acetylyne]

are you using zenworks 3 (I'm pretty sure it's on three, if not, it is for sure on 3.2) or later? if you are you can setup a Dynamic Local User Policy which will create a local user account on any nt/2k/xp machine when NDS authenticates a user. You can configure it so that it deletes the local account on logoff, or (I think) you can leave it there for future use.

hope this helps,

Josh Siwek
Information Technologist I
Office of the Controller
Michigan State University