Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Win7

Hi :)
Sorry for my off-topic rant yday.  

Job is done ... 
.. except for getting a list of programs they want installed, installing them and getting them 
updated.  I might not bother with hunting for drivers and codecs as they don't seem to care if 
their machine gets infected or not and i just know they are going to manage to get some infection 
regardless of how carefully i set this up so i might as well not bother.  

Wrt Users and permissions.  
I only need 1 Admin user and no normal users.  The Admin user's 1 task is to change the settings to 
get the machine into the company's network domain.  After that anyone can use any of the logins 
that they would use on any other machine in the office.  After that i don't even need that 1 local 
Admin account really although it's handy to have one for when things go seriously badly wrong.  The 
domain has several normal users and a couple of Admin users already set-up.  

Next job is to try to convince normal users to avoid saving anything on the laptop's internal 
hard-drive and just save everything to the network file-shares where it's
a)  almost impossible to crack into without direct physical access and a lot of time&tools, unless 
you have the password
b)  gets back-ups done fairly often automatically
c) can be reached by any machine in the building as long as you have the right password
Different groups of users have limited access to different folders but all can access the 
common-room type area.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 21:10
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Win7
>
>
> On 08/07/2013 03:22 PM, Luuk wrote:
> > On 07-08-2013 19:35, Tom Davies wrote:
> >
> > > First thing to do is to hunt down and change the password, or even delete the non-Admin local 
> > > user.
> >
> > Normally no 'non-Admin local user' is created.
> > I think only 1 user is created, and this user is an 'Admin'.
>
> A normal Windows setup would have the user (USER, in MS-ese) with
> non-admin permissions, and you'd have to open admin permissions.
> I don't remember how, but if you're going to get into the nuts
> and bolts, you'd better obtain a book. Once you figure out how
> to get to an admin terminal, you can put an icon on the desktop to
> get to it again when you need it.
> If it's setup right from the install, I seem to remember you can
> have it start with the option of user or admin, with same or different
> passwords. I don't know if you can do that once it's installed, but one
> of the books may tell you.
>
> The main problem is, to find out what you can do, and how to do it, from
> a command line, since most of the literature--particularly that from
> MS--tries to do everything from a GUI.
> For programs or modifications that require Admin perms in the desktop
> environment, normally the system will tell you to enter the password,
> so you need to get that straightened out.
> I have several Win 7 books, but the most useful, generally, I think, is
> a QUE publication called "Windows 7 in Depth." $49.99. Maybe it's on
> sale, now that Win 8 is out?
> I also have Wiley's publication, "Windows 7 Bible," $39.95.
> And I think you can download a list of commands for the terminal
> interface.
>
> Frankly, Windows is a PITA, but there are some things you can't do
> otherwise.
>
> --doug
> > > 2nd is to make the machine part of the domain so all the normal desktop users can use the 
> > > logins stored on the MS Exchange Server.  
>
> The installer did just ask if the machine is part of a company network
> but i'm not sure why because i have to hunt down all that set-up myself.
>
> It's just put me on a new workgroup called "WORKGROUP" because they have
> to shout.
> > hmm, if you have an Exchange server running, than you should know all 
> > these thing.........
> >
> > ;)
>
>
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