[RESOLVED] forcing win98 logon

[puterwerx]

Hello,

I work in a school district that has a mixture of Win95, 98, 98Se, NT, and 2K systems. We are looking for a way to force the older systems to log onto the Win2K servers on the network. Basically, we want to prevent anyone from using the machine unless they log onto the server. Is there a registry tweak that can disable the "Cancel" button on the logon screen? Right now, if a user clicks "cancel", they can access the machine, but not the network. We want to prevent any access, similar to the way Win2K handles it. Most of these machines are too old to handle Win2K, so we'd like to keep Win98 at least.
Any suggestions or ideas?

[Stalemate]

Take a look at the Microsoft Policy Editor "poledit.exe" in the Windows 9x resource kit.

It can make network logins mandatory to use a PC, among other things.

[Rellik]

Ad3pt is right poledit.exe is the way to go, it does all those reg hacks, best thing is you can set policys for the local machine, users and groups, and you run the master policy file on a server so it sets it each time you log in.

[Computer Tech NE]

Xteq X-Setup(kind of like tweakui) has an option to force a login. The cancel button pops up an error message at the login screen.