Windows nt logon

Add this line:. In addition to setting that variable, you can set a number of other useful variables by adding this line to the Windows 9x portion of your script. For this to work, you need to place the putinenv utility in the scripts directory. Wayne - Do a search and you will find it many places. We will use these newly added variables or already existing variables, in the case of WIndows NT in trick 2. By using the echo command we can output some nice messages to the user, as some are startled, having never seen a login script before.

These nice messages, however, will not be useful if they scroll off of the screen too quickly, so after your message, add this line:.

Again, it has to be in the scripts directory for your login script to see it in the netlogon share Most Windows NT shops have some directories on the server that are shared out. Windows 9x and NT allow you to assign a drive letter in windows explorer to these shared resources so you can see them over the network just as if you were using that drive on your own computer.

Usually you use windows explorer and the tools menu to map a drive and map it permanently, but users always accidently disconnect them, and in addition, you may want to force users to use a specific drive letter for a specific share for instance, you may want to force them to use the U: drive for a 'users' share ona server, etc. You get the point. Here is some info though, when you run the net use command in win 9x, the default behavior is to create a non-persistant share, meaning that if you reboot the machine, the shares will disappear and will not come back until you run the login script again.

No problem there. The problem is that in win NT, the default behavior is to create persistant shares, so you run the login script and make the shares, and then you run it next time you log in and you get errors telling you that it is already mapped.

The solution is to leave the win95 portion of the script as I show above, but in the win nt portion of the script do this:.

So as you can see we get around the problem by deleting the share first and then mapping it - we are still left with the problem that the very first time the user logs in they won't have the shares to delete, but I am not that picky Another note, if you want your net use statements not to show up, precede them with a ' ', example:.

If you want the system time of all the workstations to match the primary domain controller yes, you do Windows 9x does some bad things in terms of security - anyone attending def con 6 learned about password caching and how the domain passwords are stored in a weak format on the win9x hard drive. This may not win you a lot of friends because the saved passwords on dial-up networking will no longer be functional, etc.

Now, the tricky part - we want to disable the internal caching of passwords in windows 95 - this requires changing the registry:. The above line will run regedit on the command line with no program output with a registry input file named nocache. Ok, as a sysadmin, as much as I hate it, I have to go to users machines sometimes to fix stuff, and it really irks me when the simple amenities that I take for granted on my own machine are not available.

Didn't Microsoft originally say it stood for nothing and only much later did they give in to "New Technology" since so many were using that term? I seem to recall Microsoft officially denying that's what it meant, at least for a few years. But then again, I'm old and don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.

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If you have joined the computer to a domain, you should add the DefaultDomainName value, and the data for the value should be set as the fully qualified domain name FQDN of the domain, for example contoso. Click Start , click Shutdown , and then type a reason in the Comment text box.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Important The autologon feature is provided as a convenience. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry.

Note To bypass the AutoAdminLogon process and to log on as a different user, press and hold the Shift key after you log off or after Windows restarts. This registry change does not work if the Logon Banner value is defined on the server either by a Group Policy object GPO or by a local policy. When the policy is changed so that it does not affect the computer, the autologon feature works as expected.

This behavior is by design.