[THIN] Best way to set-up user registry
- From: "Eyles, Richard" <richard.eyles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:34:20 -0000
Hi,
First of all my set-up.
Win2K TS, two of them, not clustered. Using multiple thin clients from NCD
ThinStar 216 up to some Neoware products and connections from PCs. All
logins to the terminal servers is via local logon. Currently have around 100
users set-up and 20-30 concurrent users.
The application software that we use needs to know where the login device is
physically located. Currently we do that by knowing that a certain user logs
on from a certain device, hence using local users and not domain users. Most
of the logins are set to logon automatically from the thin clients which is
not a security risk as the application software does authentication itself.
Long-term we wish to integrate this software into the Trust's cluster of
servers but before then I want to make sure we have a foolproof way of
setting the appropriate registry settings depending upon the location of the
device. The settings are stored in HKCU.
I have narrowed it down to using the CLIENTNAME environment variable or the
IP address of the client. I have had to discount the IP address as most of
the clients are on DHCP and therefore the IP address could change.
So my plan is to use the CLIENTNAME environment variable to identify the
hardware and set the registry accordingly. My dilema is whether to use lots
of reg files and just load the appropriate one or to set-up a database of
the settings then look up the client and set the registry.
The former would lead to hundreds of reg files and the latter would mean a
custom written app/script to access the database and set the registry. Both
of these methods would be called from the usrlogon.cmd file. I would prefer
the latter from an administration point of view but the former seems easier
to set-up initially.
Which would you go for? Can I extract data from say an MSAccess database
using VBScript/WSH instead of writing a custom app? Should I use a different
database?
Any pointers would be gratefully received.
Regards
Richard
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Richard Eyles
Principal Pharmacist Computer Services
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust 023 9237 2923 / Ext 5283
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