logged into file server?

[Brian Mosher]

I am running a file server with Novell Netware 3.2 and
have windows 2000 connecting to this fine as i can access
any files on the drives and map drives etc. if i right-
click network neighborhood and click who am i, it tells me
i'm logged into Pharmacy(server name) as brian(username).
However if i run a dos prompt, i can access all of the
drive letters and folders as well, but when i try to run
any of my system console tools it tells me i'm not logged
into the server. if i go to the login directory and
type "login brian" it says "no known file server". It
works just fine on my XP machine. Can anyone tell me why
this is?

thanks,

Brian Mosher

 

[Herb Martin]

Login is a Novell command -- it probably has no utility in reference
to Active Directory Domains.

Runas lets you change identities in Win2000.

 

[Brian Mosher]

That doesn't work because when I run that it asks for my
password and says "attempting to start g:\login\login.bat
as user brian" and gives me a "runas error: unable to run
g:\login\login.bat 1317: The specified users does not
exist" i'm assuming it gives me this because it isn't
taking that as a file server.

brian

 

[Herb Martin]

That doesn't work because when I run that it asks for my

password and says "attempting to start g:\login\login.bat
as user brian" and gives me a "runas error: unable to run
g:\login\login.bat 1317: The specified users does not
exist" i'm assuming it gives me this because it isn't
taking that as a file server.

Well if Runas doens't "work" on Win2000+ then you are
typing something wrong in the syntax -- if it doesn't do what
you need that is another issue.

You must use a VALID account and you must type it correctly.
User names are given in (one of) two formats:

1) Netbios: ServerOrDomain\UserName
2) UPN: (e-mail address removed) (or .net etc.)

In the first (NetBIOS) form, you use Server name it the account
is on this (same) particular server and domain name if you are
using a domain based account, machine\user OR domain\user