remove windows workstation window in XP

Well, is sounds, then, that your Administrator account has no password. That is very bad! Don't get me started on that!

"By default, Windows NT 4.0 displays the name of the last person who logged on to the system. This informational exposure canpose a security threat, especially if a user's password can be guessed from the account name or the login environment. To turn off this "feature" :
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Name: DontDisplayLastUserName
Type: REG_SZ
Value: 1 hide
Value: 0 don't hide

This can also be set via GUI tool, RegKey.exe from the Resource Kit. Use an indirect registry editor whenever possible.

If this hack has not been set, the registry location for the name of the last logon account is DefaultUserName."

i have a password but do not want everyone to have to
use it, just want them to beable to log straight through
without having to totally restart computer. we have very
inexperienced users who will get stuck at this windows
workstation windowso we want to totally delete or
prevent it from coming up so the user will NOT have to
see it or use it or complain about it and say they cannot
login!!!

You can create a publicly Accessable Dbase or Newsletter or Bullitin Board in either Excell - The best place since it has these features designned into it and then export it wherever you wish it to be accessable or you can do the same thing in Xp but it does it better in Excell.

Havn't a clue how to do it though, look in help and follow the instruckions there.

RIVER FREIGHT

If you are using admin logins for everyone because you found out they couldn't browse the network without it, welcome to the crowd. There is help available though. Just upgraded my NW4.2SP9 to NW6.0SP3 this weeknd and yesterday the Win2k and XP clients (4.83) couldn't browse the network. I opened an Incident at Novell, they said to upgrade to sP2, NO help! Some computers actually lock up and lose their desktop trying to access a file on the network, even to mapped drives. This morning I found TID 2966392 Novell Client 4.83 Post SP 2 Update "D" and it actually works.

If this is the problem:

Admin (login) shows up in login field when ever you log in to a workstation as Admin (login). How do I cause it to default to that user's login?

The solution is to change the location profile in the Netware client. These option is not available on the Windows version of the Netware client. I unfortunately do not have an XP machine here, to show the steps to access network properties, but access the local network properties, select the Novell Netware Client, then follow these steps:

properties-> location profiles-> default-> properties-> service instance-> properties-> remember login (yes)

I've changed this setting on several 98 machines, but you have to remember to change it again when a different employee takes over the machine.

If you only want to login to netware as a different user then you should be able to right click the "RED N" in your sysbar & select Netware login. This will only change the netware part of your login & not the XP workstation part. (With XP you have to log in to netware and the workstation seperately) Another Soln is to set a dummy workstation user "A" with a password you can give to everyone (poor security tho') & keep your Admin password safe.

I suppose your users are logging into Netware, but are not automaticly logged in to the XP workstation. Ypour users need an account on each workstation to login there, but you don't want to create each useraccount on each local workstation yourself.
The best solution is to use the dynamic local user policy (from ZEN-Works for desktops, you need v3.2 or higher for XP), and configure it (useing ConsoleOne). It automaticly creates a local account for the user that just logged in to netware but for the workstation (and you can configure it to have it removed at logout).

I agree with Answer 6: If you have Zenworks for Desktops 4 and configure the dynamic local user policies, you forget that the XP client is even there. It's a bit of a large investment, but if your network is large, its the only way to go as far as I'm concerned.