Push out login to student workstations from instructor's?

Hello. Can ZW be used in a classroom situation where the instructor wants to force all of the student workstations (which are booted up and waiting at the Novell login prompt) to login to a particular Novell account (the same one for all)?
We have a classroom that we want to double as an open lab, so open lab users need to be able to login to their own accounts, but the instructor wants to be able to log them all into a single generic account for class sessions, without having to walk around to every one of them and log them in by "hand".
If ZW can't do this, does anyone know of any product that can?
Thanks!

Originally Posted by mbelvadi
Autoadminlogin is what we're doing now, but that makes the entire room unusable as an "open lab", because we don't want any students walking in and using the generic account any time, just during the controlled guidance of the class sessions. The rest of the time the students need to login as themselves. And this switch back and forth is happening literally on an hourly basis (class scheduled from 1-2, then open lab from 2-3, then another class from 3-4, etc.) so we can't be switching registry settings back and forth. That's why I'm looking for some kind of remote control solution that can push out the generic login on an as-needed basis, and when logged out at the end of the class, the workstations are back to normal Novell login.
It would be easier to do in ZCM by pushing out bundles that run on system boot prior to login and schedule it hourly or you can force it as required but lets get back to ZDM 7 as I know its not much help atm..
Just thinking outloud here.. if you can schedule NAL refresh on those workstations (either via Zenworks refresh which sometimes works or windows scheduler) and associate a scheduled NAL to the workstations to disable/enable it this should work as long as the users don't log off before the NAL runs.
So if an "open lab" user is using it and autoadminlogin is disabled, on the scheduled time NAL will refresh and the scheduled NAL will run enabling autoadminlogin (maybe throw an autorestart in there if class is meant to finish on the hour). Then it will restart and autologin as generic user for an hour then NAL runs to disable autologin and restart at login screen. The "open lab" user comes along and the process goes on. The only problem I can see is if noone logs in during an open lab session (while it is at login screen and autologin disabled) and then a class session starts, it will require the teacher to login as generic. The other is the security concern of not logging out straight after they leave.
This is only what I've thought up while typing but you might be able to use or modify it to your requirement.

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> [email protected],
>
> > I am trying to push out GW65SP3 using ZfS, but there is no cpk included
> > with the GW SP and I cannot find any documentation on creating my own
> > CPK. Can anyone give me a clue where I could look for this?
>
> Will this get you started?
>
>
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>
> Are you wanting to Actually install GroupWise or just get the files out
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>
> I would have to ask if using ZFS to install the Groupwise backend is even
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>
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