7.3 Setting Up Location Profiles

Location profiles let you save the information from a user's specific login to a location profile. When the user selects this profile during login, the profile automatically sets up login information such as the user's name, server, tree, context, login script, and other applicable information so that the user does not have to type this information.

Location profiles are especially powerful for users who log in from multiple places. Users can have separate profiles for the office, home, laptop, or any other workstation they use. This simplifies the login process so that users do not need to remember their login information for each workstation. Using multiple location profiles also gives you control over what users can access from each workstation.

You can create location profiles on a single workstation that are specifically customized for that user, or you can create location profiles that are more general in nature to be delivered during installation of the Novell Client for Windows using the Novell Client Install Manager.

7.3.1 Creating a Location Profile on a Specific Workstation

  1. Right-click the Red N icon on the status bar, then click Novell Client Properties > Location Profiles.

    Location Profiles Tab
  2. Type the name of the profile that you want to add, then click Add.

  3. From the Service menu, select one of the following:

    • Login Service (to configure login settings)

    • Connection Service (to configure your dial-up connection settings)

  4. From the Service Instance menu, do one of the following:

    • Select an existing service instance.

    • Type a name for a new service instance, then click Add to specify the settings for this service in the Novell Client Login window or Connection Services window.

  5. Click OK.

7.3.2 Creating a Location Profile for Use on Multiple Workstations

Location Profiles are one of many settings that can be predefined using a custom (unattend) configuration file that is applied during installation of the Novell Client. For more information, see Creating the Configuration File (Unattend File).

To create a location profile to be distributed by Novell Client Install Manager:

  1. Start the Novell Client Install Manager to create a custom (unattend) file.

  2. In the Configurations Options window, click Client > Location Profiles.

  3. Type the name of the profile that you want to add, then click Add.

  4. From the Service menu, select one of the following:

    • Login Service (to configure login settings)

    • Connection Service (to configure your dial-up connection settings)

  5. From the Service Instance menu, do one of the following:

    • Select an existing service instance.

    • Type a name for a new service instance, then click Add to specify the settings for this service in the Novell Client Login window or Connection Services window.

  6. Click OK.

  7. In the NCIMAN Parameter list, right-click the location profile, click Distribute, then select whether to append or replace any existing location profiles already on the workstations.

    Appending an existing location profile merges the settings in this file with the settings that exist in the location profile already on a workstation. Replacing overwrites any existing location profile with this one.

    By default, the new location profile item is automatically appended to any location profile that might exist on a workstation.

    WARNING:If you right-click and select Clear List and Distribute, the location profile you just created is deleted.

  8. Continue creating the configuration file.

    For more information, see Creating the Configuration File (Unattend File).

This file will be applied during the next client installation or can be run from a login script, by ACU, or by Update Agent. For more information on distribution methods, see Section 4.3.12, Selecting a Network Server Distribution Option and Section 4.1.1, Understanding the Basic Novell Client Installation (setupnw.exe).

7.3.3 Removing a Location Profile

  1. Right-click the Red N icon on the status bar, then click Novell Client Properties > Location Profiles to open the Novell Client property pages.

  2. Select the name of the profile that you want to remove, then click Remove > OK.