Re:login on NT Server

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:30:40 -0400

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Yes, this login display shows up everytime the computer is turned on.
It works
well, at my old school, we used this to connect a class of Macs to an NT
server
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> >[mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Branden Beachy
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 8:58 AM
> >To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> >Subject: Mac login on NT Server
> >
> >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?
>
> Who is managing the NT box to assign shares? If it is set up so that
> anyone who creates a folder on the server is the only one that has
read
> or write rights to it you are set, if they or you are manually
> asssigning rights that has to be taken care of.
> For the Macs there are three easy answers.
> 1. Create an alias on the desktop so that the students can merely
> double-click it to bring up the logon dialogue box.
> 2. After successfully logging on hte fist time your server should
show
> up in the recent servers section under the apple menu if you are
running
> 7.5 or later.
> 3. When setting up the connection to the server for the first
time check
> in the box that says reconnect at startup and then dialogue box will
> show up when everyone boots.

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