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iateyourcat... Most of the administration I want to do remotely is setting computers to remember passwords (the company is not very security concious) and making sure the internet connections work so people can get their email. .</font>
What kind of passwords do they need to remember? Is everyone logging onto the domain or is your network workgroup based? How do you connect to the internet? Proxy or just a router/firewall? Have you thought about locking downt he machines with group/computer policy to keep pesky users from changing things?
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I would love to upgrade to Win2k Pro machines and am slowly working on it. When I start purchasing machines this year they will come with Win2k Pro and we will slowly convert that way. Then as my boss sees that the people with it don't crash as much he will let me purchase the upgrades for other people.</font>
Cool. 2000 makes 98 look like alpha code.. insert your own joke about windows here..
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What type of administration do you do with the regedit32...? I have some other stuff I would like to do like that with logon scripts but I don't know the first place to start. I'm pretty new when it comes to that aspect. I can keep any machine running but now I'm looking to do it easier. Thanks for your input. Ian McLean.</font>
regedt32 is great for troublshooting software and making adjustments remotely. for instance, you can manage file associations easily and remotely which comes in handy when you have users installing software when they shouldn't. you can drop things into and pull things out of the RUN key. with a standard harware platform you can keep one copy of your system key for troubleshooting device settings (same with software)
if your going to get into logon scripts, go right for jscript or vb. if your already shaky with logon scripts, why bother learning dos based commands when you can spend the time on something worlds more powerful..
Good Luck !
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