Users visiting another office

[rjs]

What is an effective/painless method to allow a user who visits a remote office to login to the local server but maintain rights to directories on their primary server?

Example: NetWare 5.1 servers in DC and GA in the same tree (different partitions). LANs connected via Internet with a firewall to firewall-based VPN (T1 in DC, 256K in GA). A DC user travels to GA. We would like that person to login to the GA server, but maybe map a single drive over to the DC server for file access.

As you might expect, our users don't want to know or remember to do anything special, like change their context.

Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[salserocito]

You could have them type in their fully distinguished NDS Names...

.<user>.<OU>.<O>
example - .userA.sales.novell

That way, they don't have to worry about modifying the Context on the workstation.

Good Luck!

 

[SuperDaveDCF]

Please correct me if I am wrong but wouldn't an alias object do this for you?

 

[TheLad]

Although an alias object would help, it would be a 'mare to administrate. You'd need all your inter-site users to have alias's.

Another way would be to rewrite your login script to ... say ... do something like the following (would need to be included in both DC and GA login scripts:
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IF &quot;%NETWORK_ADDRESS%&quot;=&quot;000000DC&quot; THEN
SET &quot;%LOCAL_SRV%&quot;=&quot;DCSERVER&quot;
END

IF &quot;%NETWORK_ADDRESS%&quot;=&quot;000000AA&quot; THEN
SET &quot;%LOCAL_SRV%&quot;=&quot;GASERVER&quot;
END

MAP INS S1:=&quot;%LOCAL_SRV%&quot;/SYSUBLIC
MAP etc....
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Can't remember the exact syntax's (will check at work on Monday), but the map statements would also include a MAP command to the users home area (again via an environment variable). This can also be used for IP, but I would have to look it up. -----------------------------------------------------
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[rjs]

Thanks LAD. So I would be looking at the network portion of the address. Never thought of that. Will give it a try.

 

[TheLad]

Ok, got the partial extracts from my works login script (works over 50 ish sites so should be ok...) and have amended it slightly for your uses if you have not sorted one out already:

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IF &quot;%NETWORK_ADDRESS&quot; = &quot;000000AA&quot; THEN
SET LOCAL-SRV=&quot;GASERVER&quot;
END

IF &quot;%NETWORK_ADDRESS&quot; = &quot;000000DC&quot; THEN
SET LOCAL-SRV=&quot;DCSERVER&quot;
END

MAP ROOT INS S1:=Z:=%<LOCAL-SRV>/SYSUBLIC
MAP ROOT INS S1:=Y:=%<LOCAL-SRV>/SYSUBLIC\NLS

MAP ROOT P:=%HOME_DIRECTORY
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In the above example, the Z: and the Y: are the system drives and the P: maps to the users personal drive.

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