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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:19:42 -500
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         James Nash <ccx020@ROWAN.COVENTRY.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Novell file server selection menu?

Jeffrey Alan Ding wrote:
> In article <NOVELL%91060104022132@SUVM.BITNET> you write:
> >To:       novell@suvm
> >Original_To:  bitnet%"novell@suvm"
> >
> >
> >   Does anyone have or know of a peice of software that would look
> >at the available file servers on a network, then display them so the
> >user could select the one they want to log in to?  Also, if it had
> >a responce timeout screen saver it would be nice.
> >   Yep, I know about SList, but we have lots of users that get quite
> >mixed up doing that sort of thing.
> >
> >Steven Lendt
> >Network Manager
> >University of Nebraska at Omaha
> >Email: Network@Zeus.UNOmaha.EDU
>
> Steve,
>
>   I'm working on a program right now that will do exactly what you want.  I'm
> hoping it will be the ultimate login/logout utility made for Novell.  In its
> final form it will be a menuing system supporting the mouse.
>
> In general the program will be a replacement for Novell's LOGIN and LOGOUT
> programs.  One program will do both functions.  If your not logged into
> the server, issuing the LOGIN command will bring up a menu listing your
> current server and a login/password prompt.  When you enter your login name,
> it will scan a file in SYS:LOGIN containing a mapping of login names to server
> names to find the appropriate server.  You will also be able to select which
> server you want to log into via another menu.  A screen blanker will be
> built in to blank the screen after a few minutes.  The program will also
> support command line SERVER/LOGIN_NAME parameters to speed up login or for
> selecting a default server.
>
> The program will also replace the LOGOUT utility as well.  If you are logged
> into the server when you issue LOGOUT, it will log you out of all servers
> and then bring up the login menu again.  This way you never have to deal with
> DOS and issuing a LOGIN command.  The program will allow easy exit to DOS
> so you won't be trapped if you have a hard drive.  The program will also
> allow you to logout of one server (detach) without bringing up the login menu
> by specifying the server name on the command line.
>
> The program will use Novell's LOGIN to execute the scripts so it will support
> all the script language and anything new that comes out.  As soon as the
> scripts are done executing, my program exits and frees up all memory that it
> used even if you issue an EXIT "file.bat" command. (Also providing you
> don't load TSR's in the login script.)
>
> Right now I've got a real primitive version giving you a login and password
> prompt.  It works pretty well.  I got the idea from school when I worked on
> the X-Windows workstations.  The stations always had the login screen on them
> when not in use.  Hopefully I'll have a good working version in a few weeks.
>
> If you've got any better ideas and/or are interested, drop me a line and I'll
> work faster. :-)
>
> jeffd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
>

Remember this msg on the net? Found it lurking at the bottom of my
mailbox and wondered if you ever got this going?

--
James Nash, Computing Services, Coventry University, England
ccx020@uk.ac.cov.rowan
--You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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