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| 114163 | 2003-01-15 19:00:00 | I have a Linux Redhat 8.0 server running a small NW with 6 Windows 98 & 1 XP workstations. Can someone point me to information on how to use Webmin to set up permissions/access for the workstations. Any help would be appreciated. | GunCom (1967) | ||
| 114164 | 2003-01-15 19:07:00 | Hey Reading a RedHat 7 book the other day, for webmin all you have to do is type in "Http://computername:90" (without quotemarks) where computername is the RedHat Computer name, although this was provided that all the Linux Daemons were running - I'll take a looksie later on today. Otherwise, you could try Telnet, and use either the Shell to do this (I think it's in the book) or, you could try loading linuxconf that way, as linuxconf is one of the few programs that runs under both the shell, and the XConfig or whatever it's called CyberChuck |
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| 114165 | 2003-01-15 19:14:00 | Thanx Cyberchuck. I can open Webmin and get into 'Web users', but I want to now how to use this to set permissions etc for the workstations. I cant see the workstations in Webmin like you can in NT for example. |
GunCom (1967) | ||
| 114166 | 2003-01-15 19:24:00 | Righto Well considering Windows 98 doesn't have as many security features and restrictions as XP does, this will hinder your operations . . However, what I would be tempted to do [and this is the cheap way], is to get the Windows98 machines to download a copy of their registry and a copy of LMScript or whatever you want to call it on startup . This has worked for me, and what it does is it sets the users home directory and My Documents and any shared network drives up in the LMScript (which is a fancily named MSDOS batch file), and then use the registry to enforce security, by disabling stuff, etc . For example you can remove desktop icons, tell Windows not to save new settings on shutdown, remove all computers from My Network Places, Set the default Desktop, hide drives from My Computer, remove stuff from the Start Menu, etc . Also, if you assign the users Home directory to H drive or something, then it's very easy to use a registry tweak to tell My Documents to save to H: drive . However, like I said, it's very easy to bypass the security on Windows98 - an example of this is the fact that as the drive doesn't have NTFS, users can save to where-ever they want if they know how . Also, they can browse the drives and directories easily too - it's just a matter of trial and error, you set the policies and see if you can get around them somehow CyberChuck |
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