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Mark A. Nugent (mnugent@bio3.acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
: 	Students need to be able to login and logout within Windows.  

Oooo....this is not a good idea.  Windows likes to have all the drive mappings
(as well as print captures) "set" prior to launching windows....and windows
absolutely *hates* to have a user logout from under it....things have a
tendency to to go "boom".  :( Anyway, if you come up with a way to logout and
login while in windows, please let us know, because it's kind of a major
sticking point in our deployment.

Also, if you could make program groups appear and disappear from the desktop
when a user is/isn't logged in would be a cool trick.

: Being  able to use the built in screen savers would be very nice.  However, 
: I have never been able
: to get the drive mappings/search paths to work properly.  When users start
: an application, they need to work in their own home directory, not the
: directory where the software is located.  

I think you can do this by setting up the "current working directory" in the
PIF (if it's a DOS app), or you set up a uniform mapping patter for the user's
home directory (like, do a map root at the user level, and then always make
the working directory 'u:\' or something, y'know?).

: Also, when users logout, the paths need to be reset somehow. 

This is part of windows not liking to have novell log out from under it...

: 	We use a lot of non-Windows math applications which make everything
: tricky.  If anyone can give me some information or tell me where to find
: it, I would be most appreciative.

Novell is starting to put together a course on "Windows on Netware", which is
overpriced, but hey, it gives you some good info...
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