Autologon woes

[Danny]

I should start off with "please don't flame me for using autologon"

I just rolled out PcAnywhere 11 to a windows 2000 DC. After
restarting the box, the autologon failed. I dont recall the
specifics, but in effect it was "Your username or password are
incorrect". I attempted to delete and add the autologon again, with
no success. I also removed PCanywhere and still no luck.

I have been pouring over articles about the dependencies of the Net
Logon service (which are fine), the various registry keys that could
break autologon "like "DontDisplayLastUserName" and can't seem to find
anything wrong.

It's 1am and I I think my brain is fried. It's probably something
simple, but who knows.

Thanks

Danny Messan

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I should start off with "please don't flame me for using autologon"

I just rolled out PcAnywhere 11 to a windows 2000 DC. After
restarting the box, the autologon failed. I dont recall the
specifics, but in effect it was "Your username or password are
incorrect". I attempted to delete and add the autologon again, with
no success. I also removed PCanywhere and still no luck.

I have been pouring over articles about the dependencies of the Net
Logon service (which are fine), the various registry keys that could
break autologon "like "DontDisplayLastUserName" and can't seem to find
anything wrong.

It's 1am and I I think my brain is fried. It's probably something
simple, but who knows.

Thanks

Danny Messan

See if tip 6635 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com helps.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Danny]

Nope, not a Gina problem.. PCA removes the Gina just fine on uninstall
and it persists.

Thanks,

Danny

 

[ptwilliams]

Get into the registry and navigate to:
-- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

And check that the DefaultUserName, DefaultDomainName, etc. are all OK. If
not, reconfigure. When in a domain environment, it's much easier to
configure this via the registry anyway. The only plus to the control panel
mechanism is that it hashes the password...

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Nope, not a Gina problem.. PCA removes the Gina just fine on uninstall
and it persists.

Thanks,

Danny

 

[Danny]

Yep, have done that.. I have checked the keys manually, and used a
tool from Sysinternals to set them as well.

Win2k server doesnt have a control panel applet to set the autologon.
Sysinternals has a utility that works similar to the other autologon
utilities, but actually encrypts the password, where most don't.

I'm pulling my hair out over this..

Registry looks good.
Have used sysinternals and a few other tools to unset and set the
autologon.
I have verified the Gina.dll registry entries remove ok, and all that.
It's supposed to be working, but it's not.

Danny

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

Hi Danny,

Win2k server doesnt have a control panel applet to set the autologon

You can use TweakUI for this or issue following command to bring up
corresponding UI: "control userpasswords2". Can't check right now if this
command will work on 2k server though.

hth,
Al.

 

[Danny]

FOUND IT!!!!!

I had a program on there, running a s a service, that insisted on
running as a user and not localsystem. In playing around with it, I
used my credentials for the program to run in. I guess that program
logging on as ME was interfering with the account I used for
autologon.

Go figure..

Thanks to all that replied.

Danny Messano