Patent ID: 6871221
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a client-server environment, to manage a configuration of resources on at least one client, the method on a client system comprising: receiving a set of one or more configuration files from a server, over a previously configured network interface, the set of configuration files are identical to the set of configuration files received by other client systems attached to the server, and wherein the set configuration files containing one or more defined configuration settings, wherein the configuration files were previously built through use of a graphical interface, and without the need to create client specific text edit logon scripts; and in response to the user logging on and authenticated to the server, executing an application program that takes the set of one or more configuration files and applies at least one of the defined configuration settings to the client system so as to automatically configure for a user on the client system, zero or more configuration settings, wherein the application program excutes so as to validates at least one of the configuration settings in the configuration based on logon authentication and validates one or more of run-time environmental variables of the client system, the variables consisting of at least one of (i) an IP subnet address, (ii) a LAN group membership, and (iii) at least one registry entry, before applying the configurations settings to the client system, and wherein the application executes after the client system boots-up, loads an operating system and before an operating system shell is presented to the user.