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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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    It sounds like you need a virus you can piggy-back a Sophos deployment on!  Joking of course :)

    Are there and other managed agents on these machines you can utilize?  Any software on the machines that update from a central location that could possible offer a route to running some sort of task on the machine with administrative rights?

    Otherwise, if these machines are used by admin users, you might be best emailing them some simple script to give you back admin rights. As a starter the script could:
     

    Create a rule in the firewall to get VNC working again.

    Create a new user called Admin with a common password.  Delivering this common password should be secured obviously.  I guess once you have admin rights you can change it centrally.

    Possibly deploy SAV with the script by running setup.exe from the CID with the necessary switches.

    etc..

    Once they've all run it, you should be able to connect I guess.  The only downside is people are so aware these days not to run attachments they'll probably junk it :)  You may want to send out an email in advance to tell them it's coming so they believe it.

    Jak

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    It sounds like you need a virus you can piggy-back a Sophos deployment on!  Joking of course :)

    Are there and other managed agents on these machines you can utilize?  Any software on the machines that update from a central location that could possible offer a route to running some sort of task on the machine with administrative rights?

    Otherwise, if these machines are used by admin users, you might be best emailing them some simple script to give you back admin rights. As a starter the script could:
     

    Create a rule in the firewall to get VNC working again.

    Create a new user called Admin with a common password.  Delivering this common password should be secured obviously.  I guess once you have admin rights you can change it centrally.

    Possibly deploy SAV with the script by running setup.exe from the CID with the necessary switches.

    etc..

    Once they've all run it, you should be able to connect I guess.  The only downside is people are so aware these days not to run attachments they'll probably junk it :)  You may want to send out an email in advance to tell them it's coming so they believe it.

    Jak

    :15163
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