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Auto login to Novell after re-boot
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08/07/1999 20:45:49
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
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00239185
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Hi Michael:

Thanx for the URL. I'll check it out tonite. Incidentally, we already have the Windows login part handled just fine -- its eliminating the need to click "OK" or press on the Novell login dialog that the network guys haven't figured out yet...

Thanx again. I'll let you know if it solved the problem.

Rob

>Hi, Rob;
>
>Novell has a couple of easy Registry settings to set with the login username and password. It will make Windows login (with those settings) automatically upon startup.
>
>I'm sure you'll find it in the Novell Client32 Knowledgebase at http://support.novell.com/products/nwcl3/
>
>Search for document number 2908310
>
>>Hi all:
>>
>>We're near the end of developing a generic batch VFP process that will run on a PC workstation under Win95 attached to a Novell 4.x LAN, using Novell Client32 v.3.1, running unattended essentially 24 x 7... The process 'goes to sleep' during nightly backups -- with only a time-setting table open, so assure maximum availability of files for current backup activities.
>>
>>Our old DOS batch processes all re-boot themselves after 'waking' back up in the morning, to assure fresh network connections, and also reboot upon fatal errors (like 'not a database file' and stuff like that, that is otherwise hard to recover from without user intervention. In the DOS world, the Autoexec.Bat file starts, invokes the DOS login command -- with a saved username and no password -- so it just blows by with no user intervention needed, then invokes the FP runtime for the batch process, then when the FP process exits, it runs a DOS ColdBoot.Com executable that restarts the system.
>>
>>We have added a WinAPI call in our VFP app that will gracefully shutdown both VFP and Windows -- ie: "Restart the computer". The problem is that our Novell Windows Client login dialog requires pressing/clicking the "OK" button, even if there is no password. Without the ability to bypass that step, our re-boot/freshen environment technique is no good.
>>
>>Any ideas on a either a replacement for the Novell Client login that does not need the "OK" button if no password, or a way to 'stuff the keyboard' or something else??
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Rob
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