<< you guys lucky you can access the prompt from school
my school disabled all that DAMMIT so I just use HTTP LOL >>
Our server was at my HS was an NT4 Server running Novell, and the clients were all NT4Wrk/NetWare. We got a box with the icons to the programs for the classes we were registered in. We didn't have physical access to the local hard drive and we didn't have a start menu bar. Heres what we did:
We opened IE and went File --> Open We would type in "C:\winnt\explorer.exe" and check the "Open as web folder" box. That would load for us the explorer bar, and thus, access to the start menu. Of course our admin had disabled RUN, but not MS-DOS Prompt. We would then use the Command Prompt to use net send and some other fun things. Our school had a gaming room for the Friday Afternoon Gaming Club; what we did that was really Elite was shared the directories that had all of our games in them (from the gaming computers, locally). The next step was to use the Above mentioned work-around, and used NETUSE Z: //whatever/blahblah. Then we created HTML files that had links to "unrealtournament.exe", etc. Then we loaded up the HTML files in IE, and clicked the links, and chose "run from current location" and that would load up our games across a network. We each used different remote computers, and we had massive LAN's.
Since our ADMIN decided we didn't really need "right click" in IE5, we had to figure out a workaround also to allow us to have custom backgrounds.....consider it done. Took myself and a few friends about 3 classes to get it. It's funny that when they installed the OS's on our comps, they installed a copy of IE5 over IE3 that came with NT4. They didn't remove IE3. So we created HTML docs (in frontpage), inserted the pictures via "http://blahblahblah" then we would click preview. By some fluke, it would load up IE3 and not IE5, and IE3 didn't have right click restrictions in place. /me right-clicks, hits "set as wallpaper" and now, I am an elite wallpaper-haver....
MUAHAHAHAHAHA.
Toy around with your access restrictions at school.
I used to work at a Staples, and they had more restrictions in place than I had ever seen. I got a workaround to get on the internet, any site I wanted, and write a batch file to deltree their whole hard drive upon shutdown. Too bad I never ran it. Sometimes, I kick myself.
Ryan.