For all your questions, we need to know which platform and which version you
are running of the clients as well as the server.

Regarding (2):
If you are talking about running the GUI admin interface on a Windows
machine, I have never had to enter my admin userid and admin password more
than once, for any version of the GUI admin client on WinNT or Win95.  What
is the version of your client code?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Chaba [SMTP:Steven_Chaba AT RGE DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 4:48 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Newbie Whinings
>
> I'm an old systems guy, but relatively new to UNIX/AIX and very new to
> ADSM. Am currently receiving a high-density brain dump in ADSM support
> from
> a co-worker who is retiring at the end of May (who herself never had any
> formal ADSM training, due to the fact she was about to retire!)
>
> I'm scheduled for the SS50A class in mid-May, so am cramming as much
> material as I can locate between now and then. I've got the "ADSM
> Concepts"
> redbook, as well as the still-in-progress "Getting Started With ADSM:  A
> Practical Implementation Guide" from the Web, plus the admin and reference
> manuals.
>
> We're running ADSM server 3.1.1.5 on AIX, with AIX, WinNT and OS/2
> clients,
> set up by a consultant who came, installed, and disappeared last fall. So,
> a few zillion questions, in no particular priority order:
>
> 1) Is SS50A the first ADSM training class? What prerequisites
> (coursework/practical knowledge) does one need to make the course useful?
>
> 2) Why do we have to enter our userID and password twice to access the GUI
> admin interface?
>
> 3) Why can't my NT people restore files to their home directories? Even
> their admins, with all privileges, to their own personal home directories?
>
> 4) Is there a manual, Web page or other source that gives a coherent
> explanation of the various password schemes, including expiration,
> storage,
> usage, management and manipulation used by ADSM?
>
> 5) Why, when we change a client password, do we have to go to the client
> and start its scheduler once manually with the new password before it will
> run automatically?
>
> I could go on, but that should be enough to get me booted off the list for
> excessive stupidity.
>
> Steven Chaba
> Lead Analyst, Distributed Systems Technical Support
> Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation
> Rochester, NY USA
> Voice: 716.771.2137
> Fax: 716.724.8227
> email: Steven_Chaba AT rge DOT com