Re: Mac login on NT Server

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:23:15 -0400

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>I am the computer systems administrator at a fairly small high school,
>and am wondering about how I am going to handle Macs on our new NT
>server.
>On our win98 machines, each student must log in with their username and
>password at the beginning of a session, and then they are assigned a
>folder on the server. This is all done transparently.
>How do I get the same effect on a Mac? I certainly don't want to teach
>a thousand students how to use the chooser to access their folder on
the
>server...
>The Macs used to be hooked up to a Mac server and we used At Ease to
>force them to log in at the beginning of each session. Then they could
>save to their folder on the server, and only their folder. They
>couldn't access anybody elses files and they couldn't save or read to
>their computers hard drive. I would like to achieve the same effect
now
>that they are hooked to the NT server.
>Any suggestions?
>Thanks
>Branden Beachy
>Computer Systems Administrator
>Fairfield High School
>brandenb@npcc.net

There are two options..you can use a product like DAVE which when a
machine is started you can force a person to enter a login and password
that will then log them into the NT network. They then have access to
share folders etc via the chooser, problem is that you still need to go
to the chooser and browse much the same way you do with the window 95
network neighborhood.
The other is to use Macintosh Sevices for NT BUT you have to consider a
few thigs..first there is a UAM that is neccessary to use Microsoft
encrypting for the password, and when yo log into the server EVERYTIME
you need to choose the proper UAM to use. This is a poor security risk.
However if that is NOT an issue, you can then use FOOLPROOF (A great
security program I might add) that when an security account logs into
foolproof, it automatically mounts a network volume..I use that to
simplify usage AND restrict chooser and control pnale usage.

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