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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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    Thanks Christian

    Thought that may be the case.  It was just a call out to see if anyone had any bright ideas.

    You have no idea how frustrating it is working here.  Biggest problem is the directors of the company who will not listen to any advice until something goes wrong.   Trust me, something here is going to go bang in a big way and they can't say I haven't warned them.

    No user training on IT, data security etc etc,  and a complete disinterested in IT and the value it has to the company. 

    Just to put this into context we perform intensive seabed surveys for various clients with all the data collected and stored on PCs.  So IT support is not really an importance to the business!!!! :smileymad:

    .......   and relax  ..........

    Thanks for your time though guys and just be grateful you are not here like me :smileysad:

    Thank god I have a long weekend booked off :smileyvery-happy:

    Regards

    Stuart

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    Thanks Christian

    Thought that may be the case.  It was just a call out to see if anyone had any bright ideas.

    You have no idea how frustrating it is working here.  Biggest problem is the directors of the company who will not listen to any advice until something goes wrong.   Trust me, something here is going to go bang in a big way and they can't say I haven't warned them.

    No user training on IT, data security etc etc,  and a complete disinterested in IT and the value it has to the company. 

    Just to put this into context we perform intensive seabed surveys for various clients with all the data collected and stored on PCs.  So IT support is not really an importance to the business!!!! :smileymad:

    .......   and relax  ..........

    Thanks for your time though guys and just be grateful you are not here like me :smileysad:

    Thank god I have a long weekend booked off :smileyvery-happy:

    Regards

    Stuart

    :15153
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