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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 [...]

  • Learning Imaging on the Job

    As a school tech, I often have to push a single software change or update to a room of 30 machines. Sometimes, I need to push a bunch of updates to multiple machines across my entire school. I’ve been using my district’s standard imaging tool – Zenworks imaging – to get the job done. After [...]

  • Word 2k7 stalls after splash screen

    So today I got about 1k calls before the first bell had rung. Word was hanging up all over campus.
    I thought it was the virus scan, but no dice. I thought it was an update pushed down from downtown – no dice.
    As it turns out, all the printers in my print list were error’d out. [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Use Regedit to Control “Workstation Only” Functionality

    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 [...]

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