Unattended autologin for NT 3.51
Geir Braathe
Is there anyway NT 3.51 can boot and login
without asking for username and password? When a
powerfailure have occured and the UPS have
downed the server, the running software will not
restart untill someone enters the login name and
password. This is very inconvenient on many
servers that run critical softwareare and are not
visited daily.
GB
Gene Plantz
Geir Braathe <ge...@bdsnett.no> wrote:
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from elsewhere in this group:
Yes. I have set up several Windows NT Servers (3.51) that
automatically
logon. Load REGEDT32.EXE and add or modify the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT
VERSION\WINLOGON\
add String Value: AutoAdminLogon value of: 1
add String Value: DefaultPassword value of: your default pwd
modify DefaultUserName value of: your default user
You will have to create a default user with a default password and
give it
"Logon Locally" access using User Manager for Domains. One thing to
be
aware of: This process will enable the system to autologon to what
ever
the DefaultUserName key is set to in the registry. That key will
change
depending on who loged into your NT system last. If you want to
bypass the
autologon process when loging out hold down the SHIFT key and it will
take
you to the login screen instead of autologing back on. This might be
covered in the Resource Kit.
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Gene Plantz
LAN Administrator, Northwestern Univ. Dental School
Chicago, Il
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Jaime Metcher
Geir Braathe wrote:
>
> Is there anyway NT 3.51 can boot and login
> without asking for username and password? When a
> powerfailure have occured and the UPS have
> downed the server, the running software will not
> restart untill someone enters the login name and
> password. This is very inconvenient on many
> servers that run critical softwareare and are not
> visited daily.
>
There is an autologin feature, but perhaps more convenient is running
your applications as services. Documentation for this is in the help
and the MS knowledge base.
--
Jaime Metcher
Systems Programmer (i.e. plugger-in of printers and replacer of toner)
University of Queensland, Australia.
Guido Grillenmeier
You have to change the following registry-keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
- AutoAdminLogin -> "1" (String!)
- DefaultUserName -> YourUserName
- DefaultPassword -> YourPassword
You might have to add the DefaultPassword key since it's not set up
automatically. You could even use the tool (don't know the name right
now) from the resource kit, which sets up the auto-login (makes all the
changes in the registry).
HTH,
Guido
Steven Hoke
Guido Grillenmeier wrote:
>
> You have to change the following registry-keys:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
> - AutoAdminLogin -> "1" (String!)
> - DefaultUserName -> YourUserName
> - DefaultPassword -> YourPassword
>
> You might have to add the DefaultPassword key since it's not set up
> automatically. You could even use the tool (don't know the name right
> now) from the resource kit, which sets up the auto-login (makes all the
> changes in the registry).
Neither way works for more than one system boot. Changing the registry
either through running AUTOLOG.EXE or by manually changing
AutoAdminLogin to "1" will only work for the next boot. After that, the
entry for AutoAdminLogin is automatically changed back to "0", and
you're right back where you were before you ran it, having to
CTRL-ALT-DEL to logon again. I saw one person say that he fixed that by
write protecting that key, but I haven't been able to figure out how he
did that. I don't see an option for that in Regedt32.exe. I've seen one
person say he exported that key, and placed it in his startup group so
it was merged back into the the registry each time he booted with a
value of "1" for AutoAdminLogon, but I haven't tried that yet. It seems
that there should be a better way to do it than that.
--
--==Steve==--
Koll Simonds
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:45:50 +0200, Geir Braathe <ge...@bdsnett.no>
wrote:
>Is there anyway NT 3.51 can boot and login
>without asking for username and password?
There is a little utility (by Jeffry Richter) in the Resource kit
(CD-ROM) installation that will do exactly this.
Good luck,
Koll Simonds
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Chris Kulpa
Jaime Metcher wrote:
>
> Geir Braathe wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway NT 3.51 can boot and login
> > powerfailure have occured and the UPS have
> > downed the server, the running software will not
> > restart untill someone enters the login name and
> > password. This is very inconvenient on many
> > servers that run critical softwareare and are not
> > visited daily.
> >
> > GB
>
> your applications as services. Documentation for this is in the help
> and the MS knowledge base.
>
> --
> Jaime Metcher
> Systems Programmer (i.e. plugger-in of printers and replacer of toner)
> University of Queensland, Australia.
I don't know if this is the utility that you are refering to but there is a utility called
srvany.exe I think that is included in the NT resource kit. We have used it on a licensing
daemon from AutoCAD for a Parrallel port key and seems to do a pretty good job. Well actually
if it were a "daemon" I guess we wouldn't have to use the srvany thing but you know what I mean.
:-)
Chris
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