My school's computer system uses some sort of Novell system, running on top of XP Pro, for managing student's documents / internet priveliges. I have a legit account on this network.

Whenever I take my laptop to school and plug it into a stray ethernet cable (of course with the teachers permission), I'm able to resolve but not connect / transfer via UDP. Example, I can run ping on google, resolve it to an IP address and start sending packets, but I'm unable to get data.

Do you know any way I can authorize with the system and be allowed to use the network?

Hack them.

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Hack them.
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G RLY? :P.

Now that I think about it, I think that Ubuntu Linux (my preferred workstation for a laptop, due to low requirements) has some sort of Novell Login feature. I might give that a try.