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Bypass Novell Client for Win login?
Name: Joe Wiltshire Date: January 25, 2004 at 11:22:52 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: Pent III 512MB
Comment:
I have a used Latitude w/ Win2K. The former user has a Novell Client for Windows login screen on a complete blue screen. I can not access anything in the computer except the BIOS set up pages. Can anyone help me get past this Novell login so I can get to Windows? Thx very much for any help.
Name: wanderer Date: January 26, 2004 at 16:30:47 Pacific
Reply:
If you look at the novell login screen you should have an advanced tab. One of the tabs available here is the Windows NT/2000. You will be able to select the local computer name and a local account to login under. If you did not get a local administrator password or local account name with password you will be reinstalling. Or try some of the Linux boot/hack sites for a password changer for W2K. Sysinternals.com I believe also has one but it costs money.
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Response Number 2
Name: loekje Date: February 12, 2004 at 01:09:08 Pacific
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If you start up in safe mode and enter the registry with regedit, you look for a string called NWGina. That is the dll responsible for your login screen. You may change this into MSGina.dll to revert back to the Microsoft way of handling this.
BTW, there are other parties with their own Gina too, like symantec with pcAnywhere.
Summary: The first poster gave you an incorrect answer. UNC32 does not exist for W2K Novell Client32. There are 2 ways to remove the Novell Client32 (other than Ghosting the PC with a different image), and t...
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