Restarting W2000 Server

[Guest]

Our W2000 server is co-located some 60 miles away. The occaisional restart is very inconvenient if there is nobody immediately available to do the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE necessary to finish the startup. Is there any way to disable this feature?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Our W2000 server is co-located some 60 miles away. The occaisional restart is very inconvenient if there is nobody immediately available to do the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE necessary to finish the startup. Is there any way to disable this feature?

Are you trying to autologon a users?

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Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
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[Rajiv Korpal]

-----Original Message-----
Our W2000 server is co-located some 60 miles away. The

occaisional restart is very inconvenient if there is
nobody immediately available to do the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE
necessary to finish the startup. Is there any way to
disable this feature?

.

You can set for autlogon in the registry, this way when
the machine boots up , it will log on automatically

 

[Guest]

Are you referring to after the reboot? If so, I know PC
Anywhere will allow you to logon to a machine after a
reboot and then perform the logon yourself. I've had to
do that a few times personally. As long as PC Anywhere is
setup to automatically startup in host mode it will run
once the machine is rebooted and you can dial-in to see
the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen and go from there.

-----Original Message-----
Our W2000 server is co-located some 60 miles away. The

occaisional restart is very inconvenient if there is
nobody immediately available to do the CONTROL-ALT-DELETE
necessary to finish the startup. Is there any way to
disable this feature?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If it's remote control you're after, WinVNC is another
product that lets you do the same. It's free.

 

[Guest]

This sounds like what I want. Can you be more specific? I have the W2000 Server Administrator's Companion (all 1570 page) but I see nothing that indicates how this might be done.

 

[Guest]

I already have sufficient remote control with Remote Desktop. What I don't have is the abililty to get the machine past the required CONTROL-ALT-DELETE sequence if I have to restart. Itt won't re-establish the connection until startup is complete, and it won't finish the startup until those keys are pressed.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I already have sufficient remote control with Remote Desktop. What I don't

have is the abililty to get the machine past the required CONTROL-ALT-DELETE
sequence if I have to restart. Itt won't re-establish the connection until
startup is complete, and it won't finish the startup until those keys are
pressed.
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Why don't you simply preset your preferred user account so that the machine
logs on automatically? It's all set in the Control Panel / Users.

 

[Guest]

Don't have

I have Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Local Users and Groups, but I see nothing under any of several tabs suggesting how to enable automatic logon.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I wrote "Control Panels / Users" (more precisely: Control Panel / Users and
Passwords). You went somewhere completely different!

On the other hand - what is the exact version of Windows you're running?

Don't have.

I have Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Local Users and Groups,

but I see nothing under any of several tabs suggesting how to enable
automatic logon.

 

[Guest]

----- Pegasus (MVP) wrote: ----

I wrote "Control Panels / Users" (more precisely: Control Panel / Users an
Passwords). You went somewhere completely different

I don't have anything in Control Panels named anything similar. I went to where I know User settings to be

On the other hand - what is the exact version of Windows you're running

As in original message: Windows 2000 Server (precisely, 5.00.2195

Don't have

but I see nothing under any of several tabs suggesting how to enabl
automatic logon

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Sorry, I overlooked the Win2000 Server bit in your first post. You have two
choices:

- Download & install TweakUI, or
- Modify the registry:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310584

----- Pegasus (MVP) wrote: -----

I wrote "Control Panels / Users" (more precisely: Control Panel / Users and
Passwords). You went somewhere completely different!

I don't have anything in Control Panels named anything similar. I went to

where I know User settings to be.