Concurrent Connections in Netware 5.1

Novell TID 10013518(http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10013518.htm) (remove any spaces in the URL if they would show up) explains this very well.

In short: when you connect (not yet logged in), there is a connection visible in Monitor ("NOT LOGGED IN"). Once you log in, that connection gets the name of the user, with an "*" in front, to indicate that it is NOT the active connection, and it does NOT use a license. In stead, this connection is internally used to handle to login and logout process. In the mean time the real connection is made as well, and that's why you seem to have two.
You'll see that other services often have a *-connection to your server too, indicating that they don't consume a license.

Jim

1. This generally happens when you have more than one server in the same context and tree.

2. Also if you have services running on the server which would need authentication from the NDS.

In scenario 1, if you have users accessing resources on different servers from a single NDS, the internal login process authenticates the users to different resources available on multiple servers. If you the monitor screen of the default server, you would see the multiple connection of the same userid.

This does mean that they are logged in to the master server (the id without the asterisk) and they are authenticated to other servers or services (the id with an asterisk symbol)