User's Manual

6 Chapter 2
Changing Your Password
If you are required to sign on and you are not using PNAgent/PNLite services or a Virtual
Desktop environment, you can change your assigned password by selecting Check here
to change password in the Sign-on dialog box and using the Change Password dialog
box (type the new password in both the New Password and Confirm boxes, and then
click OK).
Note
If you are using both PNAgent/PNLite and a user profile, the user name must
be defined in the Windows domain to be used and the password must be the
same for both the domain and the user profile.
In a Virtual Desktop environment, user au
thentication is made against the
Virtual Desktop Broker (the user name and password are stored on the
Broker or a third-party authentication server). Therefore, the password must
be changed on the Broker or the authentication server.
If you are required to sign on and are using PNAgent/PNLite services (so that the user
p
rofile password is forwarded to the PNAgent/PNLite server), you can have an application
change your domain password but you cannot change your INI file password while using
PNAgent/PNLite. Therefore, if you change the domain password, you will lose the effect of
any directives in the user.ini file, including any potential upgrade of privilege (for example,
the privileges in the wnos.ini file may be set to None, but the privileges in the user.ini file
are set to High).
Roaming Smart Card Log-In Support
If your thin client supports smart card log-ins, the Sign-on dialog box changes when you
insert a smart card. Instead of being asked to enter your username and password, you are
asked to enter a PIN to gain access to your applications and connections. If you want to
exit the Smart Card Sign-on dialog box, you can press the Esc key; you will then be
presented with the usual Sign-on dialog box.
Note
If the smart card you are using is not supported, there will be no change to
the Sign-on dialog box.
Understanding Your User Profile
Profiles for users contain the settings and connection definitions for the thin client. They
are created and maintained by the network administrator and reside on the enterprise
intranet FTP server or Virtual Desktop server. The thin client accesses these user profiles
when you sign on. The location of these files may be automatically supplied to the thin
client by the DHCP server (if set up by the network administrator), or if DHCP is not
available, their location must be entered in the Network Setup dialog box.
Note
The “global” (wnos.ini) and user (user.ini) INI files on an FTP server can take
effect only when a Virtual Desktop environment is not used.
Types of profiles for users include:
• Gl
obal - All clients of the same FTP server have these “global” profile settings.
• User -
Only the individual user has these “user” profile settings. Settings in user
profiles can override corresponding global profile settings.