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by gmartin

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Whats the best way to have 9x laptop's that are not connected to the network not have the logon to domain dialog box come up when they boot up there laptop? I do not want to use hardware profiles.

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by cfburgess

Go to Control Panel/Network.
Select the client for microsoft networks and click on properties. Clear the checkbox for Logon to a NT Domain.
or
Go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager find the network card in the listing and disable it.

by chipmunk

Go to Control Panel, double click on Network Icon. Be sure there is no Clients for Microsoft Networks.

by mzy

Try this, but I do not know if it will work:
Start|Find|Files or folders
look for all *.pwl files and delete them.
reboot, and the logon screen should appear.

by mphoffar

Short of teching the person to pull the nic when their at home, A couple of ways you can do this. Once would be to change the setting under password to "all ysers use the same setting" and the get out the poledit disk and uncheck the require NT login. This should allow the person to press cancel on that screen and get onto the laptop

Another way is too look at the NIC properties. A lot of newer ones are coming with a function that detects whether a ethernet connection is present or not. Normally this value is set to off, but if you turn it on the presence of an ethernet signal or lack thereof, will enable or disable the NIC. Obviously when it's disabled, you'll get the windows login and enabled, the NT login. There's no need for a hardware profile to do this.

The NICs I use (xircom) call this function dynamiclink, but this could have other names varying with the NIC, but I've seen them on some 3com and intel models.

Good luck to you

Mark

by bradstreet

EASY ANSWER:

Using Win 9x, right click on network neghborhood (or click Start/Settings/ControlPanel/then double click Network). Where it says Client for Microsoft Networks logon select Windows Logon. This will prompt you one time for a passwordfor the user. Do not select a password, just hit enter, and you will not see a logon screen again.

by wlbowers

Whatever you do will have to be undone when they get back on the network.
Shee! Just tell them to hit cancel.

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