Customizing the Novell Login Dialog Box

The Novell Login dialog box can be customized to show the features that you want users to have access to. Customizing gives you control over the following:

• The choice of NDS or bindery connection
• The Location field at the top of the dialog box

  Hiding the Location field is especially useful if you have set up only one location profile for a workstation. In this case, the Location field is not useful and might confuse or distract the user.

• The Advanced button

  If you have set up several location profiles and do not want users to change the data in various login fields (such as tree, context, server, and run scripts), you can hide the Advanced button.

• The Variables button on the Script tab

  If you use %2, %3, %4, or %5 in the login script, you might want to set these values in the location profile but not allow the user to change them. In this case, it might be helpful to hide the Variables button.

• The Clear Connections check box on the NDS and Bindery tabs

  If you want all connections to be cleared every time the user logs in, or if you don't want any connections to be cleared, you can set the value in the location profile and then hide the Clear Connections check box.

  NOTE:  The Clear Connections check box is never visible during initial login, because an initial login automatically clears all connections.

• The Workstation Only check box that appears under the Password field during an initial NT/2000 login

  If you do not want to allow workstation-only logins---for example, if you want to require that the user log in to NetWare in order to use the workstation---you can hide the Workstation Only check box.

• The Run, Display, and Automatically Close properties of login scripts
• RAS options, if installed on the workstation

These additional features of the Novell Login dialog box should also be considered:

• If Dialup is not installed on the workstation, the fields on the Dialup tab are disabled.
• If the Novell Login dialog box is being used to log in to a specific tree, the Tree field is disabled to prevent the user from changing the tree.
• If the Novell Login dialog box is being used to log in to a specific NDS server, the Server and Tree fields on the NDS tab are disabled to prevent the user from changing them.
• If the Novell Login dialog box is being used to log in to a specific bindery server, the Server field on the Bindery tab is disabled to prevent the user from changing the server.

The Novell Login dialog box can be customized to control the availability of certain login options. This gives you control over how users log in.

HINT:  You can also customize the Novell Login dialog box for multiple workstations using the Novell Client Configuration policy created in the Workstation Configuration policy package in ConsoleOne (ZENworks for Desktops 3) or NetWare Administrator (ZENworks for Desktops 2).

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

To show or hide any login dialog box options, complete the following steps:

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.

2. Click Advanced Login.

3. In the Show On Login section of the Advanced Login property page, check the check boxes for the items that you want to appear and uncheck those that you do not want to appear.