Connecting to Novell 3.12

[basil3legs]

I know similar questions have been asked before but I can't still get this to work!

We have 2 laptops which have both recently had Windows XP Pro installed. One was a while ago and I believe it was done as an upgrade. When you fire this machine up, you are first presented with a login box for Windows XP and after that a seperate login box for Novell, which requires a different user name. This works fine.

The second laptop has just had XP installed from a format so has not retained any previous settings. On bootup, we get the normal XP logon box but it then assumes the username and password are the same for Novell and can't login. Is there any way of getting it to ask for the user name and password for the Novell side of the login? We are using the Microsoft Client for Novell Netware on both machines and can see no differences in the settings anywhere - what have I missed?

Thanks in advance.

 

[bcastner]

The exact registry change requires specific knowledge of the version of the Netware client you are using. Your answer can be found in the "Ultimate Guide" to autologon with Netware under Windows XP:

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

 

[Jontmke]

FYI: The Microsoft client is a lot less functional and more problematic then the Novell client. And they have just released a new client. Version 4.9. Which purports to fix issues related to XP slowness and others.

Jon

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