Novell CLIENT FOR LINUX 1.1 USER GUIDE

Novell
ClientTM for Linux

1.1

December 23, 2005

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USER GUIDE

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Contents

About This Guide 7

1 Using the Novell Client Tray Application 9

1.1 Starting and Stopping the Novell Client Tray Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.2 Logging In to the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

1.2.1 Running Novell Login Scripts during Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.3 Logging Out of a Network Location (Server or Tree). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.4 Viewing Your Network Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1.5 Changing Your Network Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.6 Mapping Network Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

1.7 Disconnecting a Mapped Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.8 Changing the Location of the Novell Client Tray Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.9 Configuring the Novell Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.10 Viewing Novell Client Version Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 Using Novell Utilities 15

2.1 Assigning Rights to Volumes, Files, and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.2 Setting Inherited Rights and Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.3 Viewing Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.4 Salvaging Deleted Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.5 Purging Deleted Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2.6 Sending Messages to Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.7 Sending Messages to the System Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

A Documentation Updates 23

A.1 December 23, 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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About This Guide

This guide describes how to use the Novell® ClientTM for Linux features available in the Novell
Client tray application. This guide contains the following sections:

• Chapter 1, “Using the Novell Client Tray Application,” on page 9

• Chapter 2, “Using Novell Utilities,” on page 15

• Appendix A, “Documentation Updates,” on page 23

Audience

This guide is intended for users of the Novell Client for Linux.

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included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the
online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your
comments there.

Documentation Updates

For the latest version of this documentation, see the Novell Client online documentation (http://

www.novell.com/documentation/linux_client/index.html).

Additional Documentation

For documentation on installing and administering Novell Client for Linux, see the Novell Client 1.1

for Linux Installation and Administration Guide.

For documentation on known issues, see the Novell Client for Linux Readme.

For documentation on login scripts, see the Novell Login Scripts Guide.

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