Environment
Novell Client for Vista
Microsoft Vista
Situation
The "Username:" field from the"Credentials" tab in the default profile is grayed out.
Resolution
This is a design-level behavior
that differs between the Novell Client for Windows XP/2003 and the
Novell Client for Windows Vista.
On the Novell Client for Windows Vista, the eDirectory username inside the profile is implicitly the same as the user for whom the profile has been created and/or is about to be created. The "Username:" field in the"Credentials" tab of the Vista client is grayed out because it will, by definition, equal the username that is entered into the Novell Client for Windows Vista credential provider.
Allowing the eDirectory username inside the profile to differ from the eDirectory username entered into the credential model would break the overall intended and expected behavior. The username entered into the credential provider is what selects which profile might be used. (i.e. first check for a user-level profile for the user entered, else fall back to a system profile.) The profile selected then provides everything besides the username itself.
On the Novell Client for Windows Vista, the eDirectory username inside the profile is implicitly the same as the user for whom the profile has been created and/or is about to be created. The "Username:" field in the"Credentials" tab of the Vista client is grayed out because it will, by definition, equal the username that is entered into the Novell Client for Windows Vista credential provider.
Allowing the eDirectory username inside the profile to differ from the eDirectory username entered into the credential model would break the overall intended and expected behavior. The username entered into the credential provider is what selects which profile might be used. (i.e. first check for a user-level profile for the user entered, else fall back to a system profile.) The profile selected then provides everything besides the username itself.
Change Log
21 Apr 2009. Earle Wells corrected typographical and grammer errors.