NetWare Client for DOS and MS Windows User Guide

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Setting Up NetWare Client Workstations to Log In

Modifying the NET.CFG File for Logging In to NetWare 4

Modifying the NET.CFG File for Logging In to NetWare

When logging in to NetWare 4™, you don’t attach to individual servers as

with previous versions of NetWare, but you log in to the entire network.

With your Distinguished Name (DN), you can simplify the login process by

adding information to your client workstation’s NET.CFG ﬁle. To do this,

you need to add lines under the NetWare DOS Requester heading in the

NET.CFG ﬁle.

If you add lines for the following parameters, you will not need to type your

Distinguished Name each time you log in to the network after booting your

client workstation:

• Name Context

• Preferred Tree

You must know your name context before making these modiﬁcations, or

you cannot add entries for the parameters. For information about setting

your client workstation’s name context, see “Understanding Logging In to

NetWare Directory Services” on page 9.

Using the Name Context Parameter

By using the name context parameter in the NET.CFG ﬁle, you inform the

NetWare DOS Requester of your name context within the Directory tree.

The LOGIN utility can then locate your User object and connect you to the

network.

The parameter is as follows:

name context=”name_context”

The default for this parameter is at the root, which might cause confusion if

duplicate usernames exist within a Directory tree.

If you are using an earlier version of the NetWare shell on your client

workstation, the Name Context parameter is invalid. NetWare 4 creates a

User object for client workstations using NetWare shell ﬁles in the same

container as the NetWare Server object that you will log in to.