Re: Using Winnt to control VisionFS login
From: Nachman Yaakov Ziskind (awacs_at_egps.com)
Date: 07/09/03
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Date: 9 Jul 2003 11:20:19 -0400
Bob Kann wrote (on Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:39:27PM +0000):
> We have both NT and Unix servers. While the NT box is the PDC, users may
> telnet to the Unix box to use a cost accounting package. This package
> generates reports that we want to access from various Windows boxes. By
> hacking the registry of Win9X and NT one can enable plain text passwords
> and thus access to VisionFS shares. We found, however, that even when plain
> text passwords are enabled in Windows XP, these shares are not accessible
> and have been searching for a way around this problem.
>
> In VisionFS, Profedit, one can select how access is controlled through
> password control. There are three options, use UNIX password (not
> encrypted), use VisionFS passwords (encrypted), or use a domain server.
> Obviously the first option is not going to work and since I don't want to
> re-enter all the users names and password in VisionFS, the second option is
> out.
>
> I tried the third option and set it to use the NT server as the source of
> login control. ( VisionFS would not recognize the server name but would
> recognize the IP address of it) This works well to a point, but only for
> users who's NT accounts are set to "user may logon to all workstations". I
> would like to set users accounts to only logon to specific workstations but
> cannot find a way to do this. Apparently NT does not recognize the name of
> the server nor IP address of the server where VisionFS resides.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on how we could set users accounts to logon to
> specific workstations, including the visionFS server?
You *may* wish to use Vision passwords after all; Vision has a password wizard
(visionfs password --wizard) to grab user info from the Unix server.
By the by, tarantella.com has a Vision support newsgroup, which might give you
more focused, directed answers to your Vision questions:
http://www.tarantella.com/newsgroups/thread.php3?name=tarantella.public.vision-family
NYZ
-- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, EA, LLM awacs@egps.com Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://yankel.com Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants
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