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Contents 5

Contents

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About This Guide 7

1 Using Login Scripts 9

1.1 Login Script Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.2 Where Login Scripts Should Be Located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

1.3 Common Login Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.4 Creating or Modifying Login Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.4.1 Creating or Modifying Login Scripts in iManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.4.2 Creating or Modifying Login Scripts in ConsoleOne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

1.4.3 Getting Around the One User and One Profile Login Script Restriction . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.5 Creating Login Scripts from a Sample or Existing Login Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1.6 Modifying User Login Scripts from the N Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.6.1 Modifying Login Scripts from the N Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

1.7 Printing Login Scripts from Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

1.8 Understanding How Login Scripts Work with Linux Workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

1.9 Understanding How Login Scripts Work with NetStorage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

1.10 Additional Sources for Login Scripts Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2 Sample Login Scripts 21

2.1 Sample Container Login Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.2 Sample Profile Login Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.3 Sample User Login Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

2.3.1 Sample User Login Script for Mapping Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.4 Sample Default Login Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

2.5 Samples of Login Script Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.5.1 If Member Of Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.5.2 MAP Command Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.5.3 Identifier Variables Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

2.5.4 Display Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

2.5.5 Fdisplay Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

2.5.6 Include Script Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3 Login Script Commands and Variables 29

3.1 Login Script Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3.2 Using Identifier Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

3.2.1 Login Parameters with %nVariables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

3.3 Login Scripts Commands by Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.3.1 Network Connection and Resource Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.3.2 Login Script Execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.3.3 Workstation Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

3.3.4 Text File Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

3.3.5 Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3.4 # . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3.5 @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

3.6 ATTACH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

3.7 BREAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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3.8 CONTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

3.9 DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3.10 DRIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

3.11 EXIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3.12 FDISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3.13 FIRE or FIRE PHASERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

3.14 GOTO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

3.15 IF...THEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

3.16 INCLUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

3.17 LASTLOGINTIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

3.18 MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

3.18.1 MAP Command Differences on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

3.19 NO_DEFAULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

3.20 PAUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3.21 PROFILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3.22 REGREAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3.23 REMARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

3.24 SCRIPT_SERVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

3.25 SET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

3.26 SET_TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

3.27 SHIFT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

3.28 TREE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

3.29 WRITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

4 Troubleshooting Login Scripts 59

4.1 Locating the Problem Statement in the Windows Login Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

4.2 Turning Off the MAPROOT Function in Windows 2000/XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.3 Limitations of Tree Command in Login Scripts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.4 Lowercase Passwords Not Supported When Using the Tree Command in Login Scripts . . . . 60

4.5 Other Common Login Script Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

4.5.1 Losing Path Statements after Login. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.5.2 Cannot Use the LOGIN and NLIST Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.5.3 Cannot Execute External Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.5.4 LOGIN.EXE Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.5.5 EXIT Command Doesn't Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

4.5.6 Login Script Does Unexpected Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

A Documentation Updates 63

A.1 August 19, 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

A.2 September 21, 2007. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

A.3 December 23, 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

About This Guide 7

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About This Guide

This guide includes the following information on login scripts that can be used with Novell®

eDirectoryTM user accounts and Novell ClientTM software on Windows* and Linux* workstations:

Chapter 1, “Using Login Scripts,” on page 9

Chapter 2, “Sample Login Scripts,” on page 21

Chapter 3, “Login Script Commands and Variables,” on page 29

Chapter 4, “Troubleshooting Login Scripts,” on page 59

Appendix A, “Documentation Updates,” on page 63

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Using Login Scripts

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Using Login Scripts

This section includes the following information:

Section 1.1, “Login Script Overview,” on page 9

Section 1.2, “Where Login Scripts Should Be Located,” on page 10

Section 1.3, “Common Login Script Commands,” on page 12

Section 1.4, “Creating or Modifying Login Scripts,” on page 12

Section 1.5, “Creating Login Scripts from a Sample or Existing Login Script,” on page 15

Section 1.6, “Modifying User Login Scripts from the N Menu,” on page 16

Section 1.7, “Printing Login Scripts from Windows,” on page 17

Section 1.8, “Understanding How Login Scripts Work with Linux Workstations,” on page 17

Section 1.9, “Understanding How Login Scripts Work with NetStorage,” on page 18

Section 1.10, “Additional Sources for Login Scripts Information,” on page 19

1.1 Login Script Overview

A login script is a set of instructions that is executed when a user logs in using the Novell®ClientTM

for Windows, the Novell Client for Linux, or some other method of login that accesses Novell

eDirectoryTM object properties. A login script is simply a text file that the login executable interprets

and runs line by line.

When a user successfully logs in to the network, one or more login scripts can be executed that

automatically set up the workstation environment.

You can use login scripts to map drives and search drives to directories, display messages, set

environment variables, and execute programs or menus.

There are four types of login scripts:

Container sets the general environments for all users in that container. Container login scripts

are executed first and can be associated with Organization or Organizational Unit objects. A

user can use only one container login script.

Profile sets environments for several users at the same time. Profile login scripts are executed

after the container login script and are associated with Profile objects. A user can be assigned

only one profile login script that is then associated with the User object in eDirectory. However,

other profile login scripts can be assigned by using the PROFILE command in the login script

or by selecting a different Profile login script from the Novell Login window.

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User sets environments (such as printing options or an e-mail username) specific to a single

user. User login scripts are executed after any container and profile login scripts and are

associated with User objects. A user can have only one user login script. However, the User

window.

Default contains only essential commands, such as drive mappings to NetWare®utilities, and

cannot be edited. The default login script runs if a user (including user Admin) doesn’t have a

user login script, even if a container or profile login script exists.

TIP: If you don't want to create any user login scripts and you don't want the default login

script to execute for any users, you can disable the default login script by including the

NO_DEFAULT command in the container or profile login script.

Maintaining many user login scripts can be time consuming. Therefore, you should try to include as

much customization information as possible in the container and profile login scripts, which are

fewer in number and easier to maintain.

For example, if all users need access to the NetWare utilities in the same volume, put the search

drive mapping to that volume in a single container login script rather than in every user login script.

Create profile login scripts if several users have identical login script needs. Profile login scripts are

sometimes thought of as group login scripts.

Finally, in user login scripts, include only those individual items that can't be included in profile or

container login scripts. For example, personal drive mappings could be included in the user login

script.

IMPORTANT: Because three or more login scripts can execute whenever a user logs in, conflicts

can occur and drive mappings can be overwritten by consecutive login scripts. It is important to note

that the last login script to execute (usually the user login script) overrides any conflicting

commands in a previous login script.

1.2 Where Login Scripts Should Be Located

Consequently, only User objects, Profile objects, and Container objects can contain login scripts.

This, in turn, largely determines where login scripts can be located.

The following figure shows how the different types of login scripts can reside in an eDirectory tree

and how they affect users.

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