Beside the fact that the login boxes are very ugly compared to that of a Windows network, or, :drool: a Macintosh Manager or OSX NetInfo Directory netowkr, our network borks out sometimes...

Just as of lately, it's taken to transferring students' data between and to and fro, in addition, alot of our public volumes that *should* be read only, like where our sample programming data files come from, aren't read only (this is part of our fantabulous problem with this gaming.net class...)

The problem probably comes frompeople who just press the save(disk) button, rather than saving as to their own folders, and this is allowed because, of course, the public drives are not erad only, nice huh?

(Needless to say, I did it the right way, and have had no problems with my program )

You all know what happens when someone saves a program, and then someone else opens it? well any changes that were there before are gone, and replaced with something different, I also think I'm the only one in the whole class whose window isn't ugly with weird colors, trying to find out if it's one specific person whose files are going awry...

THAT is no all though, we also have wonderful problems with multiple logins, and a "windows environment error"

Apparently NetWare creates a temp user here on XP pro (and/or 2k pro) and whenever the machine crashes or something like that, the temp user isn't deleted, and as thus, that person is "already logged in" or to the equivalent.

In addition, the teachers' laptop detects MSBLASTER (thank McAfee/Norton for VirusScan?)

It makes you yearn for AppleShare, NetInfo and Macintosh Manager doesnt' it?

or the days when you jsut kept to your own floppy disks, and when you outgrew, you got a new disk or deleted stuff.

(I remember in system 7.1/5 you could eject a floppy, and copy things between them, I loved that...)

That user error is easy to fix. Just delete that user during startup with startup scripts. Easy to do with NT/2k/XP. Share issues are just lazy admins who can't get file permissions right.

And Lightning, about the piercings thing, I see those as a form of self expression. Just cause they have piercings doesn't mean they're incompetent. I've seen many-a-skilled-tech with piercings.

There's a difference between one or two piercings, and as TLS described "A hundred piercings" I personally have none, but that doesn't mean I'm better qualified for a job as an IT adminitrator than someone who has even a thousand piercings... it just means that I might look cleaner...

It's probably a law, nondiscrimination and stuff...

I'm going to try out NetWare for reals on my own (thanks doof) and "yeah"

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