Re: win98 login

Interesting. I had several Win98 PCs on a Novell network. With all of
them, as long as the local and Novell passwords are the same, you should
only get the Novell logon screen. You can set the passwords easily. Just
change it in Win98 Control Panel and select to change the Novell password at
the same time.


Dogbert

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 22:34:27 GMT, "Dogbert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Interesting. I had several Win98 PCs on a Novell network. With all of
>them, as long as the local and Novell passwords are the same, you should
>only get the Novell logon screen. You can set the passwords easily. Just
>change it in Win98 Control Panel and select to change the Novell password at
>the same time.

As long as the passwords are the same there is no problem but if
someone only occasionally logs onto (say) workstationA and normally
works on workstationB, he might have changed the network password
several times on his usual workstation before returning for another
session on workstationA by which time the passwords are out of sync
and he has to try and remember when it was he was last there and what
the password was.

Giving windows a blank local password is one way of stopping this
password sync problem but that requires all users to know this when
they are confronted by a local login prompt on a machine they haven't
worked on before.

Best way is to disable local password caching in the registry.


Jim.