Topic: Changing users when already logged in once. How to do it?

[Calle2006]

Friends

We have SME 7 set  up to be used only from a local network, in a small office, and using (mostly Windows machines) to access it, using a workgroup setting.

We have created a user Guest, without a pw, and a few other users to manage the stuff. Anyone coming to this office should be able to access the server over our internal network by giving in the user Guest and no pw.

Now, how can I do the following:
When logging in as a user Guest, I can get in just fine. But when I then want to log in using another user name, then it does not give me the option to log in using any other user name, without me first rebooting the computer! It just automatically goes in as user Guest every time, if I have already logged in once. How can I log in using another user name without rebooting in between?

I am using Windows XP and My computer to connect to the server.

Thanks for good suggestions
Calle2006

[cactus]

This is probably some Win XP setting. You might want to google for something like "disable autologin windows xp".

Maybe this is what you can use, it is about enabling auto login, but if you set AutoAdminLogon to 0 instead of 1.

[kruhm]

This is a generic networking question. Nothing specific about SME.

since you are in a WORKGROUP setting, you are going to have to supply a USER/PASS at access the server (shares, printers, etc). You should supply it in the form of:
SERVERNAME\USERNAME
PASSWORD

The XP box keeps this connection automatically for you so that you don't have to type it in again and again.

When you supply a new USER/PASS it conflicts with the USER/PASS already there.

Use the XP command line to correct this.

CHECK CURRENT CONNECTIONS ON XP
net use

DELETE ALL CURRENT CONNECTIONS ON XP
net use \\sharename /d

When you try to access the share again, it will ask for another set of USER/PASS since it doesn't have one.

To get around this, switch to a domain setup. All access protection is done on the server (by groups hopefully) and by the USER/PASS supplied when signing into the XP box.