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Sharing a PC between 2 users

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by mafig 1 view

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At my company I need to share a Windows 2000 PC by 2 users (different shifts). They logon to a domain, so they have to type their name and password each time they logon.
I would like to have a way of selecting name from a list rather than typing it, but I couldn't find a way of doing so.
Does anyone know of a way to do that?
Thanks.
Manuel Figueiredo

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by saihib

Although Win2K stores a local profile for every user that logs on it wasn't written to present a user with a choice of logon profiles. Maybe a future edition of Windows will contain that feature.

by jschein

Correct.. If you want someone to select a username... Then you must be looking at XP too much. 2000 is a more of a corporate environment pc. You shouldn't see logon names unless you are logged on.

There is no way of getting 2000 to display a list of valid usernames available for logon. Either they know their name, or they don't.

Good luck.

by curacao_dejavu

That is not possible with w2k, only xp (and pro in this case) does show you a list of users.
on second thought i know the show list works in a standalone configuration, can't tell you for 100% if it will work in a domain environment.

(btw I dont like the option to show the names (of even the last user name) since it's half of the information someone needs to enter into a machine.

Leopold

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