[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #53 - 08/20/98

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:44:14 -0400

>The problem we've encountered using built-in AppleTalk in conjunction with
>Novell's AppleTalk stack is that the "special" warnings associated with
>expiring passwords and grace logins are not received.
>
>When logging in under Windows, users are notified when their password has
>expired and how many grace logins they have remaining before they're locked
>out completely. Once locked out, they are still told their password has
>expired. By comparison, Mac users never receive the grace login warnings,
>and once they exceeded the limit on grace logins, the message they get
>about why the login was refused implies the password was incorrect, not
>expired.
>
>If there's some simple way to alleviate this problem, I'd love to hear of it.

A *lousy* workaround :)

If you have any NT 4.0 servers you can do the Appletalk through them and
share the Novell files through NWLink on NT...

Of course you probably don't have any NT server but for those of you who
have both, it works.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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