After several months of testing, fighting with computers and continous tweaking. We got an Internet Cafe project up and running to give the young'uns something to do in the evenings.
Now after all the Laptop buying, invoicing and filtering setups, I want to have some way of getting the user to login to the laptops via a different method.
How it is:
7 laptops + 1 desktop (4x windows 2000 clients, 4 WinXP home (yes i know.. bloody suppliers..)) connected to DSL line via Wi Fi. WEP enabled and Keyed up. File and Print sharing running with Netbios blocked on a couple of laptops (under fixing). All connected together via WiFi DSL router.
all users logon locally to machines.
What i want to do:
Have the logons directed to a server or the desktop machine.
Settings and documents saved into user profiles on a server or the desktop.
Is this possible under the Workgroup setting? i've figured that mapped drives is possible but thye don't seem to be secure.
Also WinXP home has trouble seeing win2k clients, any workrounds?
Thanks guys
Now after all the Laptop buying, invoicing and filtering setups, I want to have some way of getting the user to login to the laptops via a different method.
How it is:
7 laptops + 1 desktop (4x windows 2000 clients, 4 WinXP home (yes i know.. bloody suppliers..)) connected to DSL line via Wi Fi. WEP enabled and Keyed up. File and Print sharing running with Netbios blocked on a couple of laptops (under fixing). All connected together via WiFi DSL router.
all users logon locally to machines.
What i want to do:
Have the logons directed to a server or the desktop machine.
Settings and documents saved into user profiles on a server or the desktop.
Is this possible under the Workgroup setting? i've figured that mapped drives is possible but thye don't seem to be secure.
Also WinXP home has trouble seeing win2k clients, any workrounds?
Thanks guys