after novell logon, want to bypass Win2k logon

[mctechman]

I work at a university, and we would like to run Win2k on one of our labs this fall to test things out. What we want to do is make it so that when the students enter their Novell account information and login to our network, it will NOT prompt for the Windows NT/2000 workstation username and password to login to the computer. Is there any way to do this? On these machines we are running Novell Netware Client for Windows NT/2000, ver. 4.8. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks,
Matt

 

[dkediger]

The Ultimate AutoAdminLogon Document for Novell Clients for Windows NT/2000 :

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10052847.htm

Provides registry entries for what you want. At the very bottom is a section for Novell Client 4.7. The info is the same for 4.8. If I read your question correctly, you'll want the Auto Login to NT - Manual Login to NDS registry settings. The settings would be the same for 2000.

You can also set 2000 up so all users use the same desktop/settings. This essentially kills the login to 2000.

 

[Guest_imported]

The best way to do that is to create a dynamic local user policy. With that, you can associate a user with a user policy that would add him to either the users or administrators local group, completely bypassing the NT login if this policy is enabled. Make sure that the user also has a home directory attribute for this to work properly

 

[didocus]

Did you make both user names and passwords on Novell and W2K be the same?

 

[KenB]

I went to Control Panel, Users and Passwords and removed the check from Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer. The Desktop security is turned off with this technique and it eliminates the use of a private Desktop but anyone can use the computer without knowing the User name or Password. I only do this at home, by the way.

HTH
Ken

 

[MDonato]

joedownlo has it right on the money. Dynamic Local User Profiles were created to solve this exact problem of not having to manage local users on each win2k workstation. It's by far the easiest and cleanest way to accomplish what you are wanting to do. Michael A. Dontato MCNE, MCSE, CCA
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