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Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk
From: Charlie Prothero <Charlie.Prothero () KEYSTONE EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:06:58 -0400
We found ourselves in a similar situation. Every new generation of hardware brought new network drivers, so maintaining boot disks and/or RIS got to be a pain. Then one of our techs discovered Bart PE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/). If you haven't looked at this tool, you're probably working too hard. It basically makes a bootable Windows XP CD-ROM that you can use for system maintenance, fixing disk problems, salvaging data from non-bootable (or "password lost") NTFS volumes, etc. With full network support, it also makes it easy to connect to a Ghost server and load an image. The only downside is that it takes a little longer to boot than RIS or a floppy/DOS diskette. - Charlie. Charlie Prothero IT Director Keystone College -----Original Message----- From: Are Leif Garn}sjordet [mailto:a.l.garnasjordet () USIT UIO NO] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:43 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, James H Moore wrote:
I naively asked when we could get rid of LANManager compatibility.
What
finally surfaced was that Altiris(tm) and Symantec Ghost(tm) both were
DOS
based, and the only password protection that can be achieved was
through
LANManager. How are people handling this?
For awhile we used Ghostcast over PXE from a RIS server, but it was a pain to keep the ghostcastserver running with multiple sessions all the time. Automating it was not fun and we never got it to work properly. At the moment we run RIS, Windows PE and ghost32 and it is much smoother and with far less driver problems. PE supports Kerberos authenticating. I wouldn't do this unless your internal network is 100 mbit or higher. /ArG USIT/CITS Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo
Current thread:
- Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk Are Leif Garn}sjordet (Jun 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk Charlie Prothero (Jun 20)
- Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk Chris Bues (Jun 20)
- Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk Dennis Meharchand, CEO Valt.x (Jun 20)
- Re: Windows Desktop Imaging/Refresh & DOS & LanManager compatiblility & Risk Lois Lehman (Jun 21)