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- Log into Novell and Workstation automatically
i got a number of notebooks i need to set up. my issue is that my users don’t seem to grasp the idea of ‘workstation only.’ i found a quick and dirty hack to enable automatic login using novell. i won’t use this on teacher workstations, but i’ll selectively dole out this hack to laptop [...]
- Trojan horse IRC/BackDoor.SdBot4.GYM
Today my entire school district was stricken by a worm. The symptoms involed:
loss of sound card in device manager
deletion of audio drivers
TCP/IP corruption
It’s been eating our network all week. I’m not sure how, but the bug was propogating via our network. To stop this, I’ve been imaging machines as I find them. Then I’d recreate [...]
- Xerox Centreware
So my school just moved to a Xerox solution for printers and copiers. Its been a mess. The techs who came out didn’t know anything about NDPS or Netware. Hell, I didn’t know very much before I got here. We decided to use DHCP – which I can control via Netware anyways – to install [...]

