Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Routing question
From: Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 15 1997 - 14:05:32 EDT
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Andrew Solmssen wrote:
[snip]
> Is a phase 2 range of X-X valid? Or must it be X-Y where
> Y is greater than but not equal to X?
It is indeed valid.
[snippage - sorry can't help]
> On a more general note - I know that on a net with multiple zones I use
> the Network or Appletalk control panel to assign the Mac to a zone, but
> as an network manager, how do I enforce that selection? What's to keep my
> users from saying I don't want to be in the Work zone, I'd rather be in
> the Fun zone, and changing this themselves? Can I assign Macs to zones
> remotely?
Unfortunately there is no way to enforce this - the only thing you can do
is put all the machines you want to appear in zone Foo in a separate
physical network from the machines you want to appear in zone Bar and
connect them with a router. The closest you can get is to set the zone in
the Appletalk control panel and then lock it with a password. Most users
are insufficiently clued to work out how to get round that.
-- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department, George Watson's College, Edinburgh Tel: +44 131 447 7931 Ext 176 Fax: +44 131 452 8594
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