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Novell Workstation Manager Service

The purpose of the Novell Workstation Manager service is to uniquely identify workstations on the network and assign them  file/print permissions, applications, and policy based restrictions.  To use the Workstation Manager Service, you will need to install some version of ZENWORKS, which is Novell's Award-Winning Desktop Management Software.  Here is the Free ZENWORKS Starter Kit, which will allow you to get started in using the workstation manager service.  The Full Version, however, has many more features at a minimal price.

ZENWORKS will create a "Workstation Object" in the NDS which identifies each individual workstation object.  When this object is created, a registry entry will be created on the PC, which identifies the NDS object with the PC.

To start the process, the network administrator must first create a "User Policy" which defines how a workstation object will be registered when a user logs into a PC that has not previously been associated to an NDS workstation object.  Once a workstation object has been registered, the network admin must go to the container of the user who logged into the PC, and physically import the workstation object, which will use the workstation import portion of the previous created "User Policy" to create the workstation object in the NDS.  (Note: ZENWORKS 3 uses a significantly different approach to the creation of the workstation object.)

At this point, the workstation will have an NDS object assigned to the PC.  This object can be assigned rights to files and printers just like any other NDS user.  On Win9x stations, the logged in user can access the rights assigned to the workstation object.  On NT Stations, logged on users are not able to access rights assigned to the workstation object.  These rights are only available to NT services and ZEN applications configured as either "secure system user" or "unsecure system user"