We’re a Novell shop. No domain. Workstation policies are handled via zenworks. We have recently switched over to Sophos for virus scanning. Because we’re not running in a windows domain environment, I’m having difficulties forcing the virus scanner out using the Sophos enterprise console. I can manually install the client and the client will grab updates and policy settings from a Novell “share”, but the enterprise console is crippled.
Here’s the scenario. Workstation running XP PRO SP3. 2003 Server running the enterprise console. Both machines are in the same workgroup. I have a user on the server with the same username and password as a user on the workstation. The workstation user is in the ‘administrators’ group. I have a workstation policy(via zenworks) which will turn off simple file sharing at logon. At that point, I can push the sophos scanner out to the machine and/or simply go to \\machinename\C$ and see it’s C: drive. If the machine is sitting at the logon screen, I can’t push the sophos client out or even go to \\machinename\C$ to see the C: drive.
Is this by design? If so, is there anyway around it?