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From: mcginnis@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: How do you log in, really?
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.102226.29452@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 10:22:26 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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Can someone tell me the process that is used followed when a workstation
starts the network shell through the end of the process of a user
logging in?  Or better yet, can you tell me a book that explains
the processes?

The workstation shell upon being loaded (net3 or net4) must send
out a multicast packet looking for any fileserver.  The first one
to respond must identify itself via the source address information
in the reply packet.  At which time the shell would know where to
go to find drive F: or whereever LOGIN.EXE is located.

When the user logs in I assume that LOGIN.EXE, among other things,
reads the appropriate login scripts and interprets/runs them.  I'm
a little hazy on some of these details.  What does the server do?

E-mail is fine.

Thanks.