How to disable Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login.
(Last modified: 04Jun2004)
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How to disable Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login.
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Novell Clients for Windows NT/2000/XP
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000
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The "Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login" checkbox that is displayed on the Windows-only credential dialog during login (for example, when the NDS account password did not match the Windows account password) can be disabled by creating the following registry configuration:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\NWGINA\Security]
The [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\NWGINA\Security] key does not exist by default, so if manually creating this value with REGEDIT.EXE, creation of the actual "Security" key will be required in addition to the DWORD "DisableSynchronizeNTPassword" value.
Be aware that the "Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login" checkbox may also be disabled automatically by the presence and/or use of the NMAS client on the workstation. For more information see the document Option to synchronize Windows password with NetWare password during login is disabled when NMAS is present.
In the Novell Client 4.90 SP2 and later, it is also possible to control the initial state of this checkbox. (i.e. Whether the checkbox control is checked by default, or not checked by default.) In absence of any specific configuration, the checkbox control will be unchecked by default. To cause the checkbox control to be automatically checked by default if & when it is displayed, create the following registry configuration:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\NWGINA\Security]
The [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\NWGINA\Security] key does not exist by default, so if manually creating this value with REGEDIT.EXE, creation of the actual "Security" key will be required in addition to the DWORD "InitialSynchronizeNTPasswordState" value.
Note that both of these configuration settings may be used concurrently. For example the "InitialSynchronizeNTPasswordState" value can be set such that the checkbox control will be checked by default, and the "DisableSynchronizeNTPassword" value can be set such that the control is grayed out (disabled) such that the interactive user will not be able to accidently or intentionally de-select the "Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login" checkbox.
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| Document Title: | How to disable Change your Windows password to match your NetWare password after a successful login. |
| Document ID: | 10077459 |
| Solution ID: | NOVL84621 |
| Creation Date: | 06Dec2002 |
| Modified Date: | 04Jun2004 |
| Novell Product Class: | NetWare |
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