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- From: lb00197@Corlac (David Porco)
- Subject: Re: Login Replacement
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 19:24:01 GMT
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- In article <C0CoMu.FBL@sunfish.usd.edu> soswald@charlie.usd.edu writes:
-
- >I've just implemented Saber Menuing System to replace Novell's Login and menu
- >and so far, I am extremely happy with it.
- >It doesn't do so nice a job with error-handling but the help screens you can
- >author yourself.
-
- It's a fairly good product if you're going to use more than the Login
- replacement. I was pretty unhappy that you can't change servers on the
- Login screen. We have a situtuation where users LOGOUT and then the
- NLICLEAR.NLM clears the connection. When this happens and you have more
- than 1 server on your backbone, Netware will attach you to the next
- available server. Because SABER doesn't have a place to change your
- server, you are stuck there, unless you use the Netware Login to change
- servers. You also have to install it on all of your servers. This can
- get rather expensive.
-
- So I just wrote a Front/Back end to the Netware Login program in "C"
- this was my first ever "C" program, so it took me about a week, my
- guess is that a "C" guru could do it in a couple of days.
-
- Definately a LOT cheaper for 5 servers, plus I added INS to get a list
- of servers, and all kinds of other options.
-
- Anyway... I'm not bagging on SABER. It's actually a very good product,
- but there are some things you should be aware of.
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