How to force Windows 95 to use specific Domain?

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Thu Jan 13 14:15:22 GMT 2000


On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:47:01 +1100, hai scritto:

>access control to the network, everyone have to authenticate against
>our samba server. Now the following problem occurs: When somebody
>enters another domain name in the login-mask's domain-field, the person
>can easily use this PC with all users/password combinations.
>Does somebody know, how to turn off the login-mask's
>domain-name/workgroup field, so that the system will always use the
>name I' ve defined in system policies???

There is a policy setting to force the win9x to logon to the network
pdc. If you enable this win9x won't let anyone enter unless they
authenticate against a pdc.
However, a smart user can boot win9x in safe mode, edit the registry and
remove your policy setting.

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giulioo at pobox.com


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