Brian May schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > You can use the same model (Admininistrator or unprivileged user) > with both unattended and wpkg. > > And I'd discourage using guest access for accessing any WPKG shares > anyway. > > > > The best approach IMO is to use an unprivileged user to access a > password protected share. > > Why is this better? I have so far been reluctant to add another user to > our LDAP database - Samba uses LDAP for authentication here. > > I can't see any security benefits, as either. At least not for wpkg. It will be a matter of your users, company policies etc., but here are some potential benefits: 1. Using a guest (i.e., not password protected) share for your software allows your users to copy installers, license keys/passwords etc., which may then leak in the internet. Depending on your software vendors, it may or may not have consequences. Just to prevent this one, use a password-protected share. 2. Use an unprivileged user to access these shares. Even if a malicious user somehow gets credentials for the user accessing your software shares, he/she will not be able to log into a machine as Administrator, install spyware on your workstations etc. It may be a good idea to disable logon possibility for that user altogether. (...) > I tried a HP Compaq nw8440 too, but it looks like the basic Windows XP > SP2 installation disk won't work with this hardware :-(. Won't detect > the hard disk. Switch to PATA emulation / legacy SATA / whatever-it-is-called in BIOS of this machine? Then it should work. You can also integrate the drivers, if you're using i.e. Unattended for automated operating system installation. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org |