Login Screen - Where is it?

Personally I would go back to 4.83 SP2 with the "E" patch. I tried 4.9 on my XP Pro just to see what it would do and i could not browse or anything else. Especially if this is a NW6SP3 network

I did uninstall the novell client and installed the v83 client, but the symptom remained and the machine got weird (explorer started to hang when I tried to use the task launch bar). I am back to v9.0 and that has straightened out but the original problem still exists. I do not get a novell login screen when the silly thing starts up. (Maybe I need to completely throw out the networking and rebuild it.)

Raise the screen resolutions and see if that does the trick. I had the same problem on laptops.

4.9 gives you the ability to bypass the initial login screen now .It looks as if that got turned on.

See the following for the new "features":

www.novell.com/documentation/lg/noclienu/noclienu/data/hqyfl7t5.html#hqyfl7t5

I am searching, but the link www.novell.com/documentation/lg/noclienu /noclienu/data/hqyfl7t5.html#hqyfl7t5
Wasn't valid. What area of the documentation was it in? I am looking at the Novell Client Installation docs, but I don't find a reference toit.

Try it again , this forum adds spaces to the url,so you need to make sure that all of the characters contain no extra spacing.

www.novell.com/documentation/lg/noclienu/noclienu/data/hqyfl7t5.html#hqyfl7t5

Thouhg I haven't seen it in a while, this behavior was common for Win2K boxes connected to Cisco switches that had spanning tree protocol enabled and/or PortFast disabled. Basically, what happens is that the client rquests data from the network, and by the time the switch decides it's OK to send data to you, the client has given up waiting.

Also, don't forget to check the goofy stuff -- frame type, if you are still on IPX, matched settings for speed & duplex between the switch and NIC, etc..

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