I am one of the persons responsible for the deployment/support of a series of NT systems, our UNIX customers use to access NT applications. The system is called PCAS or Personal Computer Application Server. Briefly, the PCAS services offered our customers, in a multi-user environment, are:

1. compute server,
2. user login authentication/management,
3. user UNIX home directory access (U: drive),
4. user NT profile access,
5. print services, and
6. application access.

I have already worked through the the following NT issues:
1. controlling access to the C: drive with multiple applications,
2. accessing Print services in another domain, and

3. accessing applications, from an application server, also in another domain and all the related problems associated with the "guest" permissions.

With the next release of PCAS, I am looking for the knowledge, to assist me in working the following NT issues:

1. system error monitoring with the end result a morning report summarizing system activity/problems over the previous 24 hours sent as a mail message to a UNIX account

2. a user PCAS profile stored in a file, ".pcas", that will seamlessly setup what ever is needed by a customer's work environment (analogous to .openwin-init) like connecting drives, etc., and

3. proactive system event management with the end product a mechanism to look for problems and once detected, correct or notify someone via email or pager.

Gary Crowell
Texas Instruments/DSEG/DCS/System Senior Support Analyst
Internet: crowell@fletcher.dseg.ti.com
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