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Title: help with user accounts
Post by: Tim Perreault on October 17, 2002, 08:38:01 PM

How do I go about changeing ver 5.5 to allow a period in a user name.
we use pc names for generic accounts.

example: pc.billing5  

I was able to do it with earlier versions.

Thanks

Title: Re: help with user accounts
Post by: Ray Mitchell on October 18, 2002, 05:44:04 AM

If its just for email use a pseudonym

Regards
Ray Mitchell

Title: Re: help with user accounts
Post by: Tim Perreault on October 18, 2002, 09:39:20 PM

Actually we use win nt for the pc's and they have generic accounts for people that don't have a domain account from the main hospital. This way all users can share data in their departments. The pc's are called pc.?????? whatever. so that is the generic account name. If a user has a domain account then they login with that, if not they login locally with the local pc name. The main hospital frowns on things like a linux server (and anything out of their MS standard), but we are only affiliated with them so I get away.

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. If not I guess we can just use a different naming convention but we already have about 250 pc's named that way.

Thanks

Title: Re: help with user accounts
Post by: Ray Mitchell on October 19, 2002, 10:07:33 AM

You used to be able to have periods in user account names in 4.1.2, but not in 5.1.2 or 5.5.

Regards
Ray Mitchell