Speaking of Suppressing Domain Logins...

[George Cameron]

JBCurry wrote:

> Ironically, I configured a Win95 PC yesterday for our network that had
> previously been a stand-alone box, and it refuses to provide a domain login
> dialogue at boot-up.  I say "ironically" because (as you may have seen in
> earlier postings) I am currently looking for a method to suppress the domain
> login whenever a PDC is unavailable on the network.
>
> On the misbehaving PC, you can choose to "Close all programs and log on as
> another user" from the shut-down menu, and it will THEN bring up the domain
> login dialogue.  But it will not bring up the dialogue automatically on
> boot-up.

The following registry file will enable automatic logon. Removing the setting
from the registry will also achieve this effect, while setting the value to zero
will disable the automatic logon (this is probably what you have at the moment),
requiring you to choose to initiate logging on explictly from the shutdown menu.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\Real Mode
Net]
"Autologon"=hex:01

George

> I've seen the "Windows Logon" disabled before by using blank passwords for
> the user login, or by removing the "Client for Windows Networking".
> However, I have deleted all the *.pwl files, I have turned off all password
> caching, and the client is installed and configured to "Log on to Windows NT
> Domain".  It still refuses to present a domain login dialogue during boot.
>
> Anybody have any ideas why this is happening?  If I can figure out what
> settings make this possible, I might be able to use this method to suppress
> domain login dialogues whenever a PDC is unavailable (due to server down,
> network down, mobile users, etc..)

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