Server 2003 won't auto login without using @domain.com

swain90 · 24 Jan 2017 at 17:35

Hi all,

As per the title of the thread, we have a windows 2003 r2 server which doesn't auto login unless the defaultusername key in the registry is set to [email protected]. The defaultdomain key is also set to the correct domain.

When you get to the login screen it's picking the default domain name as it's local computer name.

Is there anything else to check?

We only get this on a small handful of servers, the other servers we have which are identical setups don't have this problem.

Cheers

Swain90

paradigm · 24 Jan 2017 at 17:40

Why in gods name would you want a server to auto-login? :confused:

Granted the behaviour is odd being that you are seeing different results on different servers, but still, it's not something you should be configuring!

swain90 · 24 Jan 2017 at 18:00

User account is fully restricted and in a controlled environment.

Yes it's very odd and can't work out why it's doing it :-/

katana6434 · 24 Jan 2017 at 20:23

In the defaultusername set it to domain\username and put the defaultdomain to blank.

And i agree with the above. You shouldn't be doing auto login. I hope the account has no privileges. Also, 2003 R2... you need to get rid of that!!!

Caged · 24 Jan 2017 at 21:49

Are you running some garbage app that won't run as a service on an unsupported OS?

swain90 · 24 Jan 2017 at 22:26

Our requirements are very strict and go under a ridiculous amount of testing due to the safety case, so upgrading to a newer O/S isn't that simple.

I'll try changing the defaultusername to contain the domain name.

Nikumba · 25 Jan 2017 at 10:17

Try running "control userpasswords2" this should give you an option to auto login, been a while since I have done it but we use to do this on our old Win2K servers

Kimbie