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by stngfan1 1 view

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We have some 2000 boxes giving us grief about the user name and password. We start the pc, it brings up the novell client login, we enter our password, then right away we get we get a dialog box asking for User Name, Machine Name, then password.
Below that it has a check box that says Change password to match network password after successful login.

We notice that there is a differnt user name in the dialog box. This is not the name we logged in under. Also the password for both user names are already synchronized with the network.

No matter who we login as, we get both dialog boxes on startup. We need to get it to one dialog box, a user should'nt have to enter this info in twice to start their pc.

We are running 2000 pro with SP2, a Novell 411 network with Novell Client 4.8 on the PCs.

We've tried check and uncheck Novell's single sign on, and 2000s require a user to log into 2000.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated !!

TM.

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by izz

I think I read about this somewhere, but I don't recall where exaclty. But the remedy was that you have to ensure that both usernames are the same either on the W2k Server or the Novell. At then u will not have to enter both credentials.

I will try to research it more and get back to you. But first try on one user what I told u if it works or not.

by jcolitti

You will get the second box requesting a login if the 2000 username configured in the novell client is different than the user logging in. This can be changed by going to the advanced button in the logon gui to the Windows NT/2000 tab and typing inthe 2000 username. If this does not fix the problem then log into the workstation and right click on the My Network Places icon and go to properties. then right click on the local area connection and go to properties there. Select the Novell client in the list and click properties. Now pick the Location Profiles tab and on the second box and click on the default profile. Now down below click on properties. Now on the new box select the properties button. Ok now the Novell client window pops up. Make sure you have the save profile check box checked and make sure the Windows NT/2000 tab has your username entered there. I know that is a lot to follow. Let me know if you need help with it. Jeff

by bbahar

Because your PC is not connected to any windows 2000 domain,(as I understand
Novell is the main server.) you have to
create the users who login to novell also
locally. By default after log in to NDS
your username and password synchronize
with SAM (local database). If you're not
exist in Win 2000 Prof. userlist you
won't be able login locally.
To test this issue, create user at workstation who exists in NDS and try to login. You will be asked for password andusername sync. After logging in logout and make the login process again. You won't be asked anymore...

Good luck,
Baruch

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