Re: Automatic login to server?

["Andy Laurence" <andylaurence@xxxxxxx>]

> >> MessageI've just added a mapped drive on my main PC which is
mapped
> >> onto a drive on my server - this all works fine.
> >> What is now annoying, is that when my main PC now boots -
half way
> >> thru the boot procedure a box pops up asking for the passwork
to
> >> log into the server.
> >> Is there a hack that can get around this? Pref. on the main
PC...
>
> > If you login to your main machine with a username/password
combination
> > which is valid on the server, you won't get the box.  If you're
using
> > Win98 and don't wish to have to login, then try TweakUI on the
Win98
> > disk which will automatically login for you.
>
> Andy,
> The account I login to my main machine with is also a vaid account on
> the server. That's why I only get a box asking for the password -
which
> when I type it in, finishes booting on the main PC and the maps to the
> server are there and active.
>
> Is there anything else I've missed?

Are the passwords for the accounts the same?  If you're running Win98,
it'll
never ask you for a username, but just use the one you're logged in with.

Andy
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