Had a run in with a teacher who needed to know why I’d removed the ability for users to log into the network without their Novell logins. In essense, why’d I get rid of the Workstation Only button?
#1 - I don’t work for you. I don’t owe you any answers. Take your questions to the [...]

Found a way to disable/uninstall Trend Micro without the password.
Just change it. here’s how
I had the same problem because it was a Corporate edition. Follow these steps, it worked for me.  To remove / reset the uninstall password for Trend Micro OfficeScan, Edit Ofcscan.ini file. ( If it’s not in your Tren micro program folder, [...]

It’s funny how things cascade out of control. Our school was hit by lightning. It fried an archaic, windows 95 machine which was running out time clocks. No problem, I figured I’d knock together a small php/mysql based timeclock based on one I’d found on the ‘Net. My hack is working in testing on my [...]

uh-oh, I staged 20 laptops for my vice principal to take to a conference. We had some bumps, but everything imaged ok. Then, while verifying my fix, I realized that there was no way for anyone to log into the computer sans Novell. My updates had removed the option to log into the workstation. How [...]

SO here are some things I learned while staging my school for the upcoming year.

Make sure you have every single update, every upgrade, and every single tweak already installed and humming on your PC BEFORE you push the image to the network.
This includes an admin account.
But leave out printers. It seems like a good idea [...]