W2K AutoLogon Feature (234562)

[Dave Forster]

I have tried to implement the W2K AutoLogon Feature as
described in detail in Microsoft article 234562. I have
several W2K clients with SP2 that are users in a domain on
a W2K server running SP3. Because they are members of a
domain, I have had to edit the registry to do so, just as
the article describes. I need to run autologon because if
the power ever bumps, the clients need to come up
automatically and load an application without any
intervention from the operator. This works perfectly
except for one caveot - I have to make each user a domain
administrator on the server in order for it to work. I
would like to keep them at a domain user privledge for
security reasons, but it doesn't work - when it get to the
logon portion, I get an error that says "The local policy
of this system does not permit you to logon
interactively". Any ideas???

 

[coreas]

steve what if the computer has the users and
administrators are unchecked and the computer won't allow
any local or remote users how do you go by and reset the
local policy to default without loggin in..

 

[Hindy]

See this article on technet:
KB276590

-----Original Message-----
steve what if the computer has the users and
administrators are unchecked and the computer won't allow
any local or remote users how do you go by and reset the
local policy to default without loggin in.. policy
however. Make the - domain just because to
.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can not access computer either interactively or remotely [no
administrator share access such as C$] ? That is a problem, assuming the
computer is not a domain member and therefore can not have its Local
Security Policy overridden. There is a hack that is usually done via
another network computer that may work, but you could do it by booting from
floppy [only if your file system is fat32], a parallel installation, putting
the hard drive in another computer, or booting to Recovery Console. It
involves replacing secedit.sdb file with a copy from another same level W2K
working computer. See link. --- Steve

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBG/TIP3300/rh3361.htm