Re: Domain users

["Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

I've drilled onto the users heads to keep their i and PC passwords in sync.
Most all of them do that.  It helps in that I have i Access set to use the
windows name/password, makes for less password entry on their part.

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Tom Liotta
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:28 PM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Domain users
>
> Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
> > He wants a list of all users on the domain.
>
> Jeff:
>
> Your System i users aren't on the domain. (Keep reading.)
>
> But note that your _people_ might be logged onto the domain _and_
> the System i at the same time. They might even have user names on
> the domain and user profiles on the System i that are spelled the
> same including same case. But those are two distinct and separate
> objects; three, if you count actual 'people'.
>
> What he likely needs are whatever user names are used on the various
> PCs, those that are 'local users', the ones that your people use to
> log onto their PCs. These are most easily seen by pressing
> [CtlAltDel]. The message box tells you what user name you're logged
> on as -- "Tom Liotta is logged on as TOMLXLT/toml." That tells me
> that my user name on *this* laptop is [toml].
>
> Hmmm... I don't have Vista handy. It might show differently. I have
> Win2k on this laptop, but the desktops next to it are WinXP and look
> the same at that point.
>
> Of course, if your people aren't even setting passwords on their PCs...?
>
> As for password rules, these will be the rules that you want for the
> domain. These might be similar to your System i rules, or they might
> be very different. You pick. There will almost certainly be differences.
>
> Personally, if I was starting to move people onto a domain where
> none had ever existed, I'd keep rules pretty basic at first; and
> then I'd be careful about phasing any other rules in over time.
>
> Tom Liotta
>
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