I have a question about Get Rid of the Logon Screen:

Hello. I have a mixed, network of about a dozen machines. Mostly Win98, but two XP machines, and one Win95. It is setup as a purely peer to peer network. All are sharing files and printers fine, with one hitch.


On one(!) Win98 PC, when the machine boots up, it cannot see the network at all. The Logoff item on the startup menu says "Logoff..." (that is, it has no username). I know this is a user/password/authentication issue, because if l Iogoff, get the logon screen, and give it a username and a password, I can then see the network just fine. What I want to happen, is for the PC to boot up, and with no Logon prompt at all, just boot up and see the network. Like all the other PCs in the office do. I _think_ I have the PC set up to only have one user (I guess don't really understand everything about users on W98). I've tried changing the Primary Logon to Windows, and to MS Network. I've used TweakUI, set to Logon automatically, and with the Clear Last Logon on (and off, tried both), but nothing seems to work. I've tried everything I could find, but to no avail. Clearly I'm missing something somewhere. Any suggestions? Much appreciated, Jg

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Hi,
In my experience of running networks between different versions of windows, the most 
hassle-free way of achieving file/print sharing via Network Neighborhood, etc., is 
to enable Client for Microsoft Networks on every machine. This is a common protocol 
that enables win95 to talk to win98 or even NT (2000/XP)

Set up one user on each machine, called "Anyone", and a blank password. This means 
that you'll get the Windows Networking login screen, but all you have to do is press 
enter to login. If you are not logged in to the MS Network, then whenever to try 
to access shared resources, you'll be prompted for a username and password.

I wrote a vb program for win95/98 that automatically waits for the login dialog to 
appear, and then presses OK for you. If you want a copy I'll dig it out for you.






On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 11:33 am, J wrote:
>I have a question about Get 
>Rid of the Logon Screen:

>
>
>Hello. 
>
>I have a mixed, network of about a dozen machines. Mostly Win98, but two XP machines, 
>and one Win95. It is setup as a purely peer to peer network. All are sharing files 
>and printers fine, with one hitch. 
>
>
>

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Hi,

I've had a similar problem.  I think your problem is in the nature of you have to 
get the logon screen back before you can get rid of it the right way.

Delete (after backing up your registry) the AutoLogon key in:
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Network\Real Mode Net 
This should restore your logon prompt.

Now, the TweakUI method to logon automatically to the network should work; except 
for me, I still had another problem.

Somehow, I had two different password files for Username, "Owner".  One file was

OWNER.PWL

the other was

OWNER000.PWL

Once I deleted the password files, and the corresponding entry in SYSTEM.INI, and 
recreated the password, things started to work.

Since you have a peer-to-peer network, I think you'll want a "Windows Logon" "Primary 
Network Logon", rather than a "Client for Microsoft Networks" "Primary Network Logon".

Robert







On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 11:33 am, J wrote:
>I have a question about Get 
>Rid of the Logon Screen:

>
>
>Hello. 
>
>I have a mixed, network of about a dozen machines. Mostly Win98, but two XP machines, 
>and one Win95. It is setup as a purely peer to peer network. All are sharing files 
>and printers fine, with one hitch. 
>
>
>

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try this: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/125/


On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 11:33 am, J wrote:
>I have a question about Get
>Rid of the Logon Screen:

>
>
>Hello.
>
>I have a mixed, network of about a dozen machines. Mostly Win98, but two XP machines,
>and one Win95. It is setup as a purely peer to peer network. All are sharing files
>and printers fine, with one hitch.
>
>
>

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