Zen Agent and "Workstation Only"?

Question

We're using the Zen 6.5sp2 agent and NO CLIENT in our remote locations.
Users are consistently choosing to login to the local workstation without
authenticating to eDir, which causes obvious difficulties in
package/policy distribution. I would like to do one of two things:
1. Set the Agent to default to Workstation Only = 0 so that the Agent
doesn't remember the last setting -OR-
2. Remove the "Workstation Only" checkbox from the login (I found this reg
key) and then REDUCE the network timeout.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I don't have the collection of settings on me but I can get them.
What I did in clientless environments is to enable "PassiveMode" on the
clients so that the MS GUI was shown and not the NWGina.
With the MS Gina, users would just automatically login to E-Dir in the
background through the middle-tier.
There would never even be an option for them to not log into E-dir.
At http://www.zenworks.com there is a Group Policy maintained by Shaun
Pond for the Novell Client that I suspect would also include the
required settings for ZEN as well but I am not sure.
I would check it out. I dont have the link but it should not be hard.
I presume a GP would be an easy way to keep the settings you want.
[email protected] wrote:
>
> We're using the Zen 6.5sp2 agent and NO CLIENT in our remote locations.
> Users are consistently choosing to login to the local workstation
> without authenticating to eDir, which causes obvious difficulties in
> package/policy distribution. I would like to do one of two things:
>
> 1. Set the Agent to default to Workstation Only = 0 so that the Agent
> doesn't remember the last setting -OR-
> 2. Remove the "Workstation Only" checkbox from the login (I found this
> reg key) and then REDUCE the network timeout.
>
> Any suggestions?
Craig Wilson
Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
Master CNE, MCSE 2003, CCN