Disabling NetWare Login Dialog Boxes Brought Up by the Print Provider

If users log in to a workstation but do not log in to NetWare and they have NetWare printers installed, they will be prompted to log in to NetWare once by the QMS print provider and once by the NDPS^® print provider. These login dialog boxes can be disabled if desired.

Windows NT/2000/XP

Windows NT/2000/XP has two registry setting options for disabling login dialog boxes:

• If you set

  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\Delay Login\Delay Login=1

  the print provider tells Windows that the printer is a NetWare printer even though the user is not authenticated. Then, the provider waits for an action that requires authentication is detected before displaying a login dialog box.

• If you set

  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\Never Login\Never Login=1

  the print provider never displays the NetWare login dialog, and print jobs sent prior to authentication fail. A message similar to the following is displayed:

  "Error writing to \\TREE\QUE.context: A write fault occurred on the network. Do you wish to retry or cancel the job?"

Windows 95/98

Windows 95/98 has two registry setting options for disabling login dialog boxes:

• If you set

  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\Never Login\Never Login=1

  the print provider never displays the NetWare login dialog. Print jobs will succeed, but the printer will go offline. To print, you must log in to NetWare and then manually turn the printer online by opening the Printers folder, right-clicking the printer, and deselecting Print Offline.

• If you set

  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\Print\Never Login\UserDialupSettings=1

  the print provider sets Never Login to the dial-up connection settings and attempts to print.

NOTE:  This functionality is available only in Windows 95B or later.