Setting Up Sign-In and Other Customization Options

Users may need other features included in their service profiles in order to use your service.

Setting Up User Sign-In

Users may need special options for establishing a connection. For example, a user may need to provide a user name and password information in a particular format.

What You Can Customize in User Sign-In

With the wizard you can:

Specify a realm name prefix (for example, BYTECOMP/) or suffix (for example, @bytecomp.com) for the user name that a user types when signing in to your service.
Internet Authentication Services (IAS) supports the use of realm names for remote authentication. You can use the realm name as authentication-routing information for roaming users who connect through different Internet access points. When the user attaches through a network access server (NAS), the NAS contacts an IAS proxy and sends to the authentication server the realm name you specify with the wizard, along with the user name and password. For more information, see “Adding a Realm Name.”

Through advanced customization, you can:

Control the number of redials to attempt or the delay between dials.
To do this, edit the RedialCount or RedialDelay parameter in the .cms file.
Control the time in seconds the connection must be idle before disconnecting.
To do this, edit the IdleTimeout parameter in the .cms file.
Control whether the Dial automatically check box appears.
You can give users the option of automatically dialing when starting Connection Manager.

To give users the option of automatically dialing when starting Connection Manager, edit the HideDialAutomatically parameter in the .cms file.
Control whether a Reset password button appears.
Use this button to set up a custom password option. You must provide an executable program for this option. For example, you may link a program so users can delete an existing password and type a new one. To set up this option, edit the ResetPassword parameter in the .cms file.
Control whether the Remember password check box appears on the Connection Manager Sign-In dialog box and the Internet Sign-In tab.
You can give users the option of saving passwords. The Remember password check box appears on the Internet Sign-In tab, which is added to profiles set up to use secure connection. Choosing this option also displays the Remember password check box in the Sign-In dialog box. This check box gives users the option of automatically dialing and having their password saved when starting the service profile. To set up this option, edit the HideRememberPassword parameter in the .cms file.

Note

If HideRememberPassword is set to hide the Remember Password check box, the Dial Automatically check box on the Sign-In will also be hidden, even if you have not set HideDialAutomatically to do so.
Control whether the Domain field appears.
You can provide a field for users to type a corporate realm with their user name and password. To do this, edit the HideDomain parameter in the .cms file.
Specify case sensitivity for passwords.
To do this, edit the PasswordHandling parameter in the .cms file.

For more information, see “Advanced Customization.”

Other Customization Options

Users may need to utilize other features during connection. You can build service profiles with a variety of additional customizations.

What You Can Customize in Other Features

With the wizard you can:

Build language-specific versions.
For more information, see “Selecting a Language.”
Include your own license-agreement text file.
This is displayed when the user installs the service profile for the first time. After the user clicks OK to begin installation, the license-agreement text is displayed. Create the file with an editor such as Notepad. For more information, see “Adding the Basic Connection Manager Software to the Profile.”
Add files you want users to have in the service profile, such as programs in self-extracting executables (.exe) files.
Although you can build such programs into a service profile, the program is not automatically installed when users install the service profile. For more information, see “Adding Files to the Service Profile.”

Through advanced customization, you can:

Automate dialing the service on clicking the service profile’s desktop icon.
To do this, edit the DialAutomatically parameter in the service provider profile file (.cmp) file. For more information, see “Advanced Customization.”