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Subject: Auto Logon. 2 Users
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12/06/2007 1:31 PM  

 

Hi All,

I work for an educational facility and we're currently deploying our wim images using Lite Touch.

Currently the deployment ends on a logon screen, but I want to be able to have it automatically log in.

We only have two users; Teacher and Student.

Based on MAC addresses the Teacher and student workstations are all individually named, for instance: "Room16T" for teacher or "Room16S1" or "Room16S7" for students.

I would like to have it automatically log in "teacher" on the teacher workstations and "student" on the student workstations.

How would I go about that?

Thank you in advance,

P1

 

 

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12/08/2007 5:26 AM  
Not sure about whether or not this is a wise thing to do... but this is an overview of what you would need to do:

1. Create a new VBscript in the Distribution\Scripts folder
2. Add a task at the end of the deployment sequence to run this script (just look at how the others are run)
3. Update your deployment point(s)

The VBScript file should be based on the BDD/MD templates and would need to look at the computername to determine if this is a Student or Teacher machine and then set the AutoLogon registry keys with the corresponding username and password.
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12/08/2007 9:12 AM  

Hi Simon,

Thanks alot for your reply.

If I find out how to create a working VB script for this task, I stil have a problem;

During the deployment phase, the administrator is automatically logged in a specific number of times to complete the task sequences. And if I do a reg-import for instance at the end of the task sequence to set autologon=1 and so forth it still doesn't work. I figure it has something to do with the task sequence clearing all auto logon information when it completes?

Thanks,

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12/10/2007 10:42 PM  
Yes you would be right that the cleanup process does indeed clear the Autologon information.

If you are on a Active Directory domain, your best bet would be to deploy those settings as Group Policy settings.

If you are on a Workgroup you could setup a script to be run as a Machine Startup script using local group policy. You would have to do a bit of a hack to set this up in the registry but I've seen it done before successfully.
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