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Managing and protecting workgroup computers.

scanwell

Hi

The quality organisation I work for, has sent out many PCs to sites without any local admin passwords set.  i.e. blank passwords.

The PC's are on boats and therefore not easy to support remotely at the best of times so any help here will be appreciated.

We are trying to install Sophos on the workgroup PCs but keep failing on the authentication as it will not accept a blank password.

We are using EC4.5 on server 2003 sp2. 

Has anyone else had this issue?  Probably not unless you have employed some of the spuds that work here. 

Regards

Stuart

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    From what I heard I'm glad I haven't worked there :smileyvery-happy: - so the machines a practically cut-off, don't nag for a password when someone wants to log on, happily accept anything that's plugged in and have no software which interferes with running interesting applications but at least the firewall prevents attempts to hijack VNC. Great work. OTOH - you seldom find that many opportunities for improving business processes ... sorry, Stuart, couldn't resist.

    Guess you don't want to try to hack into the machines - that'd be the only alternative to "on-site action" (although "action" could be as little as downloading and running a "bootstrapping" script or program - but they probably don't trust you).

    Good luck

    Christian

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    From what I heard I'm glad I haven't worked there :smileyvery-happy: - so the machines a practically cut-off, don't nag for a password when someone wants to log on, happily accept anything that's plugged in and have no software which interferes with running interesting applications but at least the firewall prevents attempts to hijack VNC. Great work. OTOH - you seldom find that many opportunities for improving business processes ... sorry, Stuart, couldn't resist.

    Guess you don't want to try to hack into the machines - that'd be the only alternative to "on-site action" (although "action" could be as little as downloading and running a "bootstrapping" script or program - but they probably don't trust you).

    Good luck

    Christian

    :15135
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