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

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
news:24D9AF93-C4B9-4293-A809-DE98799F66E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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