Setting Up Client Login; Setting Up Login Scripts - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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Setting Up Login Scripts

Setting Up Client Login

You can customize the client login environment to suit your network and have
greater control over what users can access during login. This chapter contains
information about the following:
Setting Up Login Scripts (page 29)
Setting Up Login Restrictions (page 36)
Setting Up Location Profiles (page 36)
Customizing the Novell Login Dialog Box (page 38)
Logging In to the Network (page 40)
Logging Out of the Network (page 40)
When a user successfully logs in to the network, one or more login scripts are
executed which automatically set up the workstation environment. Login
scripts are similar to batch files and are executed by the Novell
utility.
You can use login scripts to map drives and search drives to directories,
display messages, set environment variables, and execute programs or menus.
Login scripts are properties of specific NDS
There are four types of login scripts:
Container sets the general environments for all users in that container.
Container login scripts are execute first and can be associated with
Organization or Organizational Unit objects. A user can use only one
container login script.
NOTE:
A container login script replaces the system login script from NetWare
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