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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]