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From: mjl@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Michael J Lewinter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: "Unknown LOGIN script command"
Message-ID: <139859@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:49:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.155201.8284@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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In article <1991Jun14.155201.8284@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> beecher@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Beecher) writes:
>We have a Netware 2.15 server and a 3.11 server on the same network.
>If both servers are up when I turn on my workstation I can log in to
>the 3.11 server with no problems.  If the 3.11 server goes down and
>comes back up my workstation will be attached to the 2.15 server.
>Then I log in to the 3.11 server explicitly by specifying the server
>name in the login command and I get the following error message during
>login:
>
>(ELSE)
>    Unknown LOGIN script command.
>
>What's going on here?  If I had to guess I would say that IF-THEN-ELSE
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You appear to be running the LOGIN.COM program from the 2.15 Server
which in your case appears not to be of the version that suports ELSE 
statements.  For my workgroup I maintain a 'known' version of the
login program on the local disk to avoid such problems.  The version
of login that came with the netware Windows Workstation update seems
to work for both 2.15 and 3.0, your milage may vary with 3.11.

Michael J. LeWinter