Re: problems with autoadminlogon.

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 01/30/02


From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:31:55 -0800


I don't believe that works under NT. Most likely the problem is a
blank password. If the DefaultPassword is blank then then
AutoAdminLogon gets reset to zero after the first logon. Simple fix
is to set a password (dangerous to have a blank password on a
networked machine anyway)

On 29 Jan 2002 17:21:43 -0800, kumarp@microsoft.com (Kumar Pandit
[MS]) wrote:

>
>On w2k and later you can set the ForceAutoLogon to 1 to enable auto
>logons after subsequent logoffs. I am not sure if the change was
>back-ported to NT4.
>
>dburris30@msn.com (David Burris) writes:
>
>> I am trying to set up a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with automatic
>> login for a visually-impaired employee. I have set the
>> DefaultUserName, DefaultDomainName, and DefaultPassword keys in the
>> (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon}
>> key and changed the data entry for the AutoAdminLogon to 1.
>> The problem is that it only works properly after the initial
>> reboot, on subsequent reboots, the workstation locks itself
>> immediately after logon. Any ideas?



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