USER LOGON

[kurtzeng_admin]

-Not sure if I am posting this in the right forum, so if not please direct
me, otherwise the question is as follows:

I recently performed a network/server rollout. There is 1 server running MS
SBS 2003 R2 and 4 workstations running MS XP Pro SP3.

I have a user whom is claiming that when they begin to logon in the morning
they are prompted with the "Logon to Windows" screen which requests the
"Ctrl-Alt-Del" They claim upon pressing "ctrl-alt-del" that they are
automatically logged in and were never prompted to enter a password. (The
login name is correct, but it automatically logs them in) They have full
access to the network and associated network shares/folders.

No one else on the network is experiencing this in the morning when they go
to login. I initially thought of it being a script running but i am not able
to find one running and scripts typically run upon logging in right? So i'm a
little baffled by this one. There have been no other problems that i have
seen, and unfortunately i have not seen this event occur directly, however
the user claims that it has occured 3+ times.

Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any
help.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

-Not sure if I am posting this in the right forum, so if not please
direct me, otherwise the question is as follows:

I recently performed a network/server rollout. There is 1 server
running MS SBS 2003 R2 and 4 workstations running MS XP Pro SP3.

I have a user whom is claiming that when they begin to logon in the
morning they are prompted with the "Logon to Windows" screen which
requests the "Ctrl-Alt-Del" They claim upon pressing "ctrl-alt-del"
that they are automatically logged in and were never prompted to
enter a password. (The login name is correct, but it automatically
logs them in) They have full access to the network and associated
network shares/folders.

No one else on the network is experiencing this in the morning when
they go to login. I initially thought of it being a script running
but i am not able to find one running and scripts typically run upon
logging in right? So i'm a little baffled by this one. There have
been no other problems that i have seen, and unfortunately i have not
seen this event occur directly, however the user claims that it has
occured 3+ times.

Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
for any help.

If the user has a blank password, and the username is already filled in,
Ctrl+Alt+Del + Enter will log them in. This can't be any sort of autologin
thing or they wouldn't even be prompted to press ctrl+alt+del.
See if the user can reproduce this in front of you (or other trusted
witnesses).

In the future I'd suggest posting SBS questions in
microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. Note that these aren't actually
forums - they're newsgroups. You might consider using a news client, such as
Forte Agent, Thunderbird, or even Outlook Express, rather than the pretty
clunky web interface to the newsgroups. It's a lot easier to do nearly
everything that way. You can mark messages to be watched, filter the views
so you can see replies to your posts easily, and search.

The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can
subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required.

The following is from a post by MVP Malke ...

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Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief
explanation of newsgroups
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp
- Set Up Newsreader

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.
crossposting

Some newsreaders for Windows
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)
http://gravity.tbates.org/

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