Re: "Classic logon" screen in XP does not remeber the user name

Steven:

The way you described it below, is just how I did it. That is why I was
surprised when I logged onto the new user profile, and it was not the same as
my built-in Administrator account. I even did it again after it didn't work
the first time.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks
--
John N


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

I don't know exactly how you did it but this should work. Create [even if
just temporarily] another user account that is also an administrator and use
this account to copy the profile from the built in administrator account to
the other user account that is also an administrator that you want to use.
The go to Control Panel/system and then select advanced/user profiles -
settings. Then select copy to select the profile you want to copy and select
copy to. Browse to the profile folder you want to copy to under documents
and settings. Select the folder with the user name and select OK. Under
permitted to use select the user name that is going to use that profile.
Then select OK and it should copy everything over to the new user profile
selected.

Steve


"John N" <JohnN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Steven:

I don't know if you would be wiling, but I have a question posted in the
Configuration and Management section that no one has answered. If you
would
consider giving me some help on this issue, it would be appreciated. If
you
don't, that's fine, just say so. Here goes:

I have decided to create a new user profile (with administrator rights)
and
not use the default (Administrator) user profile, as a precaution to not
mess
up my good Administrator profile.

So.....I copied the profile from the "Administrator" to the new user
account
that has administrator rights. It copied just fine. When I logged in
under the new profile, I was expecting everything to look the same, and
that
the installed programs would work, etc. As it turns out, only about 1/2
of
the icons transfered over, and many of the installed programs like
Microsoft
Office, etc, are not installed in the new profile, although some of the
icons
show up.

Any thoughts on how I could do this again? The copy took about 15
minutes,
but it did finish with no reported errors. Maybe what I am trying to
accomplish can't be done?

Thanks for any help that you can give.

John N

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John N


"John N" wrote:

Hi Steven:

Thanks for your reply. Usually I get automatic notificaton of your
responses, and this time I did not, so I am sorry that there has been a
few
days lapse here. I probably forgot to mark the "Notify me of replies"
box
last time.

I checked the setting you mentioned, and it does not appear that is the
problem, as there was no check in that box at all. When I am at the
server,
and log onto a workstation, that workstation immediately goes to a locked
login screen. During that time, you can work from the server and access
that
workstation, but you cannot have a person on the server and a person on
the
workstation at the same time. I assumed that you could have concurrent
usage
like you can in PCAnywhere, but it does not appear to be the case with
Remote
Desktop. So perhaps, there is no problem at all, but just the way it is
designed to work.

Thanks again for your help.



--
John N


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

The screensaver is probably configured to lock the computer after a
period
of idle time as a security measure if a user did not manually lock the
computer using Control-Alt-Delete - lock computer. Try going to Control
Panel/display - screen saver and uncheck "on resume password protect".

Steve


"John N" <JohnN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Steven:

Once again, your suggestions worked just fine. Thanks.

As a follow up, after I logged onto the workstation from the server,
and
then logged off, I went to the workstation. There was a message on
it
that
the workstation was locked and could only be unlocked by the
administrator.
This message however, does not show up on the server when I log onto
the
server from my home. So there must be a setting that I could change
so my
workstation does not "lock".

Again, any help you could give would be most appreciated.

John N
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John N


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Hi John.

To access a computer via RDP you need the user right for allow logon
through
Terminal Services on the computer you are trying to access. Try
adding
your
user account to the Remote Desktop Users group which should show as
being
included for the user right for allow logon through terminal
services.
You
could also try adding your user account to that user right. Note
that
sever
user right have a corresponding "deny" user right and these override
an
"allow" user right so make sure that there are no users/groups
listed in
deny logon through Terminal Services that could be causing you to
get
that
message. When you are done configuring Local Security Policy run the
command
gpupdate /force on your server.

Steve


"John N" <JohnN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Steven:

Thank you very much, your suggestion worked just fine. In
retrospect,
I
think that I turned changed that feature myself, and didn't know
that
would
be the subsequent result. I was trying to configure a remote
desktop
connection. Would you be willing to help me with that, since you
seem
to
know about the "interactive" features?

If so, here goes.

I have a home computer and connect to my office computer via
"Remote
Desktop". My office computer is a server, and it manages about 6
workstations. What I was trying to do, was to connect to the
office
server,
and then, activate the "Remote Desktop" on the server, to get to
the
workstations. I almost made it, as I get to the login screen of
the
workstation, but when I try to login, it gives me the error,

"Local security policy does not allow interactive login on this
machine".

So that is why I was working with the "interactive" settings in
the
security
policy, which I then turned off the feature to retain the last
used
user
login name.

If you have any ideas about how to get past my security policy not
allowing
the interactice login, I would appreciate it.

Best regards

John N
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John N


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

There is a setting in security policy that controls that. You can
open
Local
Security Policy via secpol.msc and go to local policies/security
options -
interactive logon: do not display last user name. If you set that
to
disabled you should se the last logon name again. If you can not
change
that
setting that means it is being enforced by a domain level Group
Policy.

Steve


"John N" <JohnN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. My workstation is part of a
local
network
and
the Administrator "user name" is password protected. I use the
classic
view.

When I boot my computer or change users, it comes back up with
a
"Log
on
to
Windows" screen, asking for a user name and a password. In the
past,
the
user name of "Administrator" would be remembered, and all I
would
have
to
do
is type in the password, and continue. Now, it does not
remember
the
user
name, and the user name and password fields are both blank.

I would like to get back to it retaining the user name last
used.

The only thing I have done with my computer recently, is I
tried to
set
up
a
VPN connection, which I could not get to work. So perhaps it
might
be
something with that?

Thanks for any help you can give.
--
John N












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