users in a school computer lab

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Kjetil Andersen

Do sombody here have a tip on setting up users in a school/computer lab
enviroment.
What shuld be defined as a user?
The server is windows2000 server, and the clients is win2000/winXP.
Somebody know a good web page on this?
Kjetil A.
 
IMHO

I think you would want to be able to create or modify user
accounts in bulk lots (e.g class groups). For that you'll
want to learn how to use the LDIFDE utility or the CSVDE
utility.

Check out this page for LDIFDE...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283791

or to use CSVDE.exe to import CSV format files into AD.
See here....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en
/default.asp?
url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/csvde.asp

I'd say You'll also want to use Group Policy extensively
to lock down what the students can and cannot do. You are
talking about the best hackers in the world here (just ask
them).

I'd use computer image management (Ghost etc.) and if you
can afford a server for it and PXE compliant workstations,
use RIS to redeploy workstation images in the event of
them getting trashed.

have a look at this powerpoit file for a discussion on
workstation management practices..
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/wc021502
/WC021502.ppt

which will lead you to this article..

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/depovg/depxpi.asp?
frame=true

I hope this has given you some new ideas.

Svend.
 
Oh think I forgot to try and answer the question - "what
should be defined as a user"

I guess you'd need to think about what the lab will be
used for. If students would just log in and run a few
applications but never accumulate data then I guess you
could just have one login ID for each computer (eg
Workstation005). Then have a sticker on the workstation
tha tells people what to log in as.

If however students will store data for the duration of
the course, then you probably should have a unique ID for
each one of them so that they can use that ID from any
workstation and still find their data on the server.

In my University days we were given a student ID number
and this was also our computer system login ID. This was
used for your entire life at the Uni. You could also just
use firstname.i.lastname format.

Svend.
 
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