Novell creates a problem..

[fatum]

I am wondering if anyone can think up a solution to this problem..

Im working for a school who runs a novell filesharing network. Every student (500 or so) has a unique username & password. At our current state we have students logon with the novell client. After that the Microsoft client comes up and students are forced to press enter again to login to a defaulted windows user.

The problem is we would like to skip the windows login altogether, because it provides the students a way to possibly login without security settings in place..

How can I skip this windows login screen? Is there some registry mod? Login program manipulation of some kind? Script that is run before the windows login but after novell??

[peachy]

What you will want to do is have a logon script that calls a batch file that creates a local user account for the student if it doesn't exist on the computer already. The local account should be restricted to the Users group. You need to give the local user account the same password as the Novell client login so that the students won't be prompted for the Windows logon password. That's the way we do it here at work (a college). Read the Novell documentation on this. I believe they must have some. I don't work in our IT department, but I know enough about the general process we use.

[AcerKev]

Try the following document

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

I have found, on occassion, that the machine forgets the username for the Novell box and puts the cursor in the password field at reboot.

[AcerKev]

My mistake, the reg file i had was running on each reboot and resetting the netware user to ""

The following .reg works where USERNAME and PASSWORD are your username and password (of the NT Box, the accound needs to be an admin)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"DefaultUserName"="USERNAME"
"DefaultPassword"="PASSWORD"
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"ForceAutoLogon"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NOVELL\Location Profiles\Services\{1E6CEEA1-FB73-11CF-BD76-00001B27DA23}\USERNAME\Tab3]
"DefaultUserName"="USERNAME"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Novell\Login]
"AutoAdminLogon"="0"
"AutoAdminQueryNDS"=dword:00000001