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by milky

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Hello,

We have a lot of user complaints about not being able to login due to their user accounts being allocated in different areas of the tree. Because of that, they are unable to login on a workstation where someone else logged in using a different context.

Is there a way on NETWARE5.1 to make the client find the context appropriate to a user trying to login?
That way the user will not get an error if the context has been changed.

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by wcraigmiles

Yes, you will have to setup the catalog service. This will create an index. The client will have to be told about the Service by a setting under advanced properties.

Another way is to use SLP and SLP scopes. Get a copy of Mastering NetWare 5.1from IDG with the dark blue cover. It will walk you through the setup of the services.

by tommymcbrayer

What we do is create an alias of the user object in the root. This way they can login anywhere and is relatively easy to setup.

by gnites

I can say that the method in reply 1 works very well. I'm running NW5.0 and have a catalog configured for contextless logins for well over two years. I dredge the catalog every three days. You may want to do this more often if you add/remove users frequently. As with most of Novell's prod's, I haven't had any issues with this service and I would implement this again if the need arose elsewhere.

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