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

Sounds like you made some good progress. If you used the File and Settings
Transfer Wizard you can delete the file it created that you used to the
transfer from one profile to another. Other than that most likely the space
taken up is files in your My Documents folder which you may not want to have
in both profiles and if that is the case delete those files from the My
Documents folder that you don't need to be redundant after you make sure
that you can access them fine in the profile you want to use them in. You
can check the subfolders under your user profile to find out the size of
each folder using Windows Explorer.

Steve


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

Again, thanks for your suggestions. I did have to copy the shortcuts
specifically from one profile to the other, and I also used the Transfer
Files and Settings Wizard. I assume that the Wizard for the most part
does
the same thing as copying the profile in from the users menu? Anyway,
this
time using the Wizard it seemed to work. I compared the desktop and
programs, and about 98-99% was transfered with these methods.

I did however, eat up about 2 gig of hard drive space to accomplish this.
Oh well.

Best regards,

John
--
John N


"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Hmm. Compare the contents of the desktop and start menu folders between
the
two user profiles to see if they are the same. If not for some reason you
can copy missing shortcuts to the new profile. Another thing to try is to
use the File and Settings Transfer Wizard. Go to accessories/system tools
to
find it. You should be able to store your current files and settings to a
file on your hard disk and then import it into the new profile from that
file.

Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/mgrtfset.mspx
--- File and Settings Transfer Wizard

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

--
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
--
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
--
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



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