Workstation and Apps restrictions

Novell Cool Solutions: Question & Answer

Posted: 19 May 2004

Q:
Noah G. wrote: I am working with a NetWare 6/ Windows NT 4 network. The workstations consist of several 95/98 desktops and a few 98 laptops (we are in the process of upgrading). Applications are sent down by ZENworks. We have set up some fairly strict policies that get in the way of administration sometimes. One such policy prevents them from installing anything including running install.exe or setup.exe.

We have had times when the NIC or something else will go bad, and the administrator can't log onto the workstation due to restrictions in place on the workstation. If the administrator could log in, then the restrictions would be removed. Is there a way to remove the restrictions from a workstation or laptop that can't login anymore without totally reinstalling it?



A:
It's not easy to do this with Windows 9x as it's not truly multi-user aware.

The solution with Windows NT/2000/XP is to have a different policy set for administrators.

Anyone out there have a sneaky method of doing this? Let us know.

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