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by justmeangie

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We have a WAN not sure of servers and such I just work in a branch of this Company. I have two machines that the network login does not come up on. It just auto logs into windows. If you go log off then it gives you the option to log on to the network the computers are hitting the network otherwise our programs for the clients we take calls for would not be working for telnet. Help any ideas? Please this has completely puzzled me

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by guy west

This can happen if you have the wrong client selected in the properties of Network Neighborhood.
Right click on Network Neighborhood and select properties. In the primary network logon box you should have "Client for MS Networks" selected instead of "MS Family Logon". If "Client for MS Networks" is not an option in the Network components box you'll have to add it. Click "add", choose "client", choose "MS", select "Client for MS Networks", select "OK". You might need your Win9x disc for this if the setup files aren't located somewhere on your network. You'll have to reboot for the change to take effect. Hope this helps.

by justmeangie

no I am adding a key to the registry to force logon and the directions from our Network admin told me that our logon is MS Family Logon. the other PC's have this and work fine

by parbo

The previous answer is works in some cases but in yours you can connect to the network so that tells me that you are using the client instead of the windows logon. Now password are stored in a .PWL file in the windows folder (or windows\system). Youcan delete that file and force winidows to ask for a password and ofcourse also login. If that still doesnt do it. There is a registry key, but i dont know it over the top of my head. Let me know how this works for you...

by proactivemale

This is not a technical answer but it works. At bootup, F8, go into safe mode. Let machine fully load OS and restart the PC. You will be amazed.

by Member 35711908

Go to Start | Run and type regedit. Hit F3 to find, and type in autolog (I don't remember if it's autologon or autologin), make sure that the 'Match whole string only' is not checked. Let it run and when you find it, delete the entire key, not just the value. Reboot, and you'll be fine.

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