[Cybera-users] Cybera and Windows XP

[<smo...@fr...>]

Hi I have been doing some tests with WinXP as a workstation in the last two=
 days
and have come up with the following:

I) WinXP Home - WinXP Pro:
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In it's present state, Cybera cannot work properly in WinXP Home. This is
because of two limitations of that OS:
1) You cannot remotely access the registry (the remote registry access serv=
ice
is not installed)
2) You cannot deactivate that hateful option: "Simple file sharing" This me=
ans
that a computer on the net has to connect to the computer with only guest
privileges.
These two limitations mean that the server cannot connect to the workstatio=
n
registry to lock down user rights. In a possible future release (say 2.x) I
will add a true NT service on the workstation that should fix this but for =
now,
Cybera is only truly compatible with WinXP pro and win2000.

II) WinXP Pro configuration:
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1) WinXP Pro also has "Simple file sharing" activated by default:-@. You wi=
ll
have to deactivate this on the workstations in order for user rights lockdo=
wn
to work.
2) In order to forbid logoff and shutdown you have to:
a) Deactivate the WinXP Welcome screen (that horid screen where you click o=
n the
user you want to login as). The installer package automatically does this f=
or
you in the upcoming 1.8.rc2 release.
b) Set the start menu to classical (if not the logoff button STILL is prese=
nt
even when it has been expressly forbidden in the registry). 1.8.rc2 will do
this for you as part of user rights lockdown (Forbid computer shutdown)

Voila... I hope this was clear and I am sorry for people who wanted to use =
WinXP
Home but, c'est comme =E7a!

Sam (tired of installing XP over and over again).