Re: MacOS 9 and the MacOS Netware Client

[sherrera () BASS CUESTA CC CA US (sherrera () BASS CUESTA CC CA US)]

 This has been an issue with the MultiUser system Mac Administrator and other MacOS versions. We use the Novell servers 
to authenticate our user logins with it. When one user logs out and another logs in the first users setting stay. The 
only way to get the user logged out is to choose "Logout Completely" from the Novell menu. Before loging out of 
MacAdmin or OS9. Running the NDS logout AppleScript from MacAdmin just hangs the computer with Novell CLient 5.12 or 
later.

Scott Herrera
sherrera () bass cuesta cc ca us
Cuesta College
Computer Services

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However, while logged in if you login to NDS, and select "Logout" from the Special menu, you will NOT be logged out of 
NDS.  The tree in the menu bar will stay green, and you are still logged in.  Any user can then log back in as 
themselves and use your login to NDS.

The workaround is simple enough, just make sure you log out of NDS and THEN out of MacOS. An alternative would be to 
simply restart the Mac instead of logging out.

I tested this on an iMac running MacOS 9 and the ProSoft client (version 5.12). I have not tested it on the Novell 
client (version 5.11), but since the clients are so similar I would assume the "bug" exists there too. (I don't 
consider this to be a full-blown bug since we're dealing with a new feature of the OS that didn't exist at the time the 
client was released. However, given the breathtaking speed that ProSoft moves at...)