Setting Up Location Profiles

Location profiles allow you to save the information from a user's specific login into 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 have 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 a location profile on a single workstation or you can create location profiles for multiple workstations by using the ZENworksTM Workstation Configuration policy packages.

HINT:  To create and then distribute location profiles that will be used by multiple workstations, use the Novell Client Configuration policy created in the Workstation Configuration policy package in ConsoleOne.

For more information on using ZENworks for Desktops policy packages, see the ZENworks for Desktops documentation. If you have questions while setting up a policy package, click Help.

To create a location profile on a specific workstation, complete the following steps:

  1. Open the Client property pages.

    Right-click the N icon in the system tray and then click Novell Client Properties > Location Profiles.

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    Right-click Network Neighborhood and then click Properties > Location Profiles.

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

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

    • Login Service to configure login settings
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    • Connection Service to configure your dial-up connection settings
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  4. From the Service Instance menu, do one of the following:

    • Select an existing service instance
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    • Type a name for a new service instance and then click Add to specify the settings for this service in the Novell Client Login window or Connection Services window.
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  5. When you have finished creating the location profile, click OK.

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HINT:  When storing the profile through an NDS login, you can use a File System Pointer. This allows multiple users to use the same profile, provided they all use the same path as the file system pointer.

IMPORTANT:  When storing the profile from a Windows NT 4.0 workstation on a NetWare server, that server volume must support long filenames. In versions of NetWare earlier than NetWare 4.11, the OS/2 name space was required for long filename support. In NetWare 4.11 and NetWare 5 or later, the LONG.NAM name space is required on the server.


Removing a Location Profile

You might need to remove a location profile once it has been created. If you are removing a location profile created on an individual workstation, complete the procedure below. If you want to remove a location profile created in a Client Configuration policy, you can either delete the Client Configuration policy or change the associations of specific users with this policy.

  1. Right-click the N icon in the system tray and then click Novell Client Properties > Location Profiles to open the Novell Client property pages.

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  2. Select the name of the profile that you want to remove and then click Remove.

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