Logging In and Out

For the Windows client, logging in to and out of the network is done by clicking the Login/Logout application icon and filling in the resulting Windows dialog box. When a user fills in the dialog box with the user name and password, and clicks OK or presses Enter, the Windows client's site logon.snc script is launched by the following INCLUDE directive in the client's site boot script:

INCLUDE %SNDRIVE%\PCNFSPRO\LOGIN.SNC

This script mounts directories, sets certain environment variables, and provides other services for the user who is already logged in regardless of which machine the person is using to log in. It establishes the login procedure that all users in the network follow.

When the Windows client uses the same Windows-based dialog box to log out, the client's site logout.snc script is processed. This script undoes what the login.snc script did. The Logout application unmounts file systems and printers, and resets the machine's environment variables to their original, pre-login values.

The Windows client's Login/Logout application provides detailed information about the user's network settings, and enables you to change the settings. Among the settings are version and license numbers; the user name and ID; the group ID; NIS and DNS domains; the subnet mask; MAC addresses (which identify an Ethernet communications adapter); the time zone; the last drive; and names and IP addresses of available servers.