Peer to peer logon

[bobhughes]

If a windows 95 workstation is on an NT network it is possible to ensure that the user must log on using regedit/poledit tweaks. This means that the user has to be authenticated by a server and cannot just press escape. This is particularly important with curriculum networks where access to desktop, explorer control panel etc are restricted.

However on a windows95 peer to peer there is no server to authenticate the logon so whatever restrictions have been applied are easily circumnavigated by the user pressing the escape key. Any ideas?

[bobhughes]

Yes bob I think that this is a really interesting question that needs to be answered!

[StuA]

Are you just using tweakUI or have you implemented a policy?

Stuart

[POBrien]

first config all your mandatory settings for all of your users then implement disableregistrytools tweak in the registry for all users and more importantly the "default" profile. When a user presses escape at Logon they will still have the restrictions (you already set)and will not be able to tweak the reg either.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System]
Value Name: DisableRegistryTools
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

enjoy