Topic: logged in as admin

[pulp999]

Hi, I setup a new SME 7.1 and everything is working fine; however on a couple of XP PCs the user is always automatically logged in as admin (I used the admin login to test access before I setup the users).
How can I force them to logout and login with their normal username?
Even after rebooting the PC they get automatically logged in as admin again.....

cheers

[idp_qbn]

Two possibilities spring to mind:

1) The PCs are not in a Domain - they are in a Workgroup and have no users, only Admin with No Password,so the PC automatically logs on as Admin . Just the same as if you have only 1 user, with no password, the PC automatically logs on as that user.

2) The PCs have TweakUI installed (or soemthing like it) - one of the things you can do with TweakUI is to force the PC to logon as a certain user (name and password supplied at setup).

Of course, these are Windows problems - it's just that I have never seen this problem associated with SMEserver.

You may have to go through the process of joining the WinXP boxes to the Domain (if you have one). It's not that difficult - search the  SME forums for how to do it.

Cheers
Ian

[pulp999]

Yes, there's no domain...however 2 PCs log on fine and can see their private share with their username....the other PCs are logging in as admin and cannot see their own private share on the server...is there no way to log them off?
When they turn on their PC they logon as normal users...

[bpivk]

There is a way using the windows registry. I hope that this link helps (i had a better one but i cannot find it).

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/noautologon.htm

[mmccarn]

On the windows workstations:

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net use * /delete

Then, to *force* connection using the desired user account:

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net use \\servername\sharename /user:username /persistent:yes(you should be prompted for a user password unless the username and password match the ones used by the user to logon to windows)

If you manually connect to a server share from Windows, and tell Windows to 'remember password', Windows will automatically reconnect to the same share using the original username until you manually disconnect it and reconnect using a different user account.