Hi There,

I have 70 machines in a lab and want to run a script to pre-login the 
computers for students before they walk-in the room with some generic 
account like username=guest, password=guest

I know that I can setup a local account in advanced on each PC and let them 
click on the user icon on the welcome screen. Unfortunately, those computers 
are joined to domain. I just want them to use the local account instead of 
domain for some historical reason.

Any idea?

Many THX

Simon

 

"sIMON" <Simon@Office> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Hi There,
>
> I have 70 machines in a lab and want to run a script to pre-login the 
> computers for students before they walk-in the room with some generic 
> account like username=guest, password=guest
>
> I know that I can setup a local account in advanced on each PC and let 
> them click on the user icon on the welcome screen. Unfortunately, those 
> computers are joined to domain. I just want them to use the local account 
> instead of domain for some historical reason.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Many THX
>
> Simon

Do you want the machines to just automatically log in to a local account 
when you power them up? If so then you do not need a script. Disjoin them 
from the domain, then use one of the usual methods to perform an automatic 
logon. 

To add onto what was already suggested... If removing them from the
domain isn't an option, you can use the FREE program AutoLogin from
Sysinternals.

Cheers,
Matt

Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
> "sIMON" <Simon@Office> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:#oC6$0ieKHA.1592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I have 70 machines in a lab and want to run a script to pre-login the
> > computers for students before they walk-in the room with some generic
> > account like username=guest, password=guest
> >
> > I know that I can setup a local account in advanced on each PC and let
> > them click on the user icon on the welcome screen. Unfortunately, those
> > computers are joined to domain. I just want them to use the local account
> > instead of domain for some historical reason.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Many THX
> >
> > Simon
>
> Do you want the machines to just automatically log in to a local account
> when you power them up? If so then you do not need a script. Disjoin them
> from the domain, then use one of the usual methods to perform an automatic
> logon.

THX Pegasus & RemyMaza,

I have made it work finally:
run batch file to change the registry key : HKLM\SW\MS\Windows 
NT\CV\Winlogon.

If I want autologon, apply a registry key with "AutoAdminLogon=1", "Default 
User" and "Default Password" with paramenters. If I don't want autologon, 
apply 0 to "AutoAdminLogon" and null to the other two keys, then reboot, 
that's it!

THX mate and Merry Christmas

Simon

"RemyMaza" <remymaza@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4c4c62dd-cc39-4c78-b40f-835d05b4515d@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
> To add onto what was already suggested... If removing them from the
> domain isn't an option, you can use the FREE program AutoLogin from
> Sysinternals.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
>> "sIMON" <Simon@Office> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:#oC6$0ieKHA.1592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> > Hi There,
>> >
>> > I have 70 machines in a lab and want to run a script to pre-login the
>> > computers for students before they walk-in the room with some generic
>> > account like username=guest, password=guest
>> >
>> > I know that I can setup a local account in advanced on each PC and let
>> > them click on the user icon on the welcome screen. Unfortunately, those
>> > computers are joined to domain. I just want them to use the local 
>> > account
>> > instead of domain for some historical reason.
>> >
>> > Any idea?
>> >
>> > Many THX
>> >
>> > Simon
>>
>> Do you want the machines to just automatically log in to a local account
>> when you power them up? If so then you do not need a script. Disjoin them
>> from the domain, then use one of the usual methods to perform an 
>> automatic
>> logon.