Bill Patten
bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Sun Nov 30 11:01:17 CST 2008
HI Rocky, I haven't tested this but it might work, try adding a password then do the following that I downloaded from the web to allow your PC to turn on with out a password but would let you enter a password to connect from another machine. If you want to connect often, you could map the Vista machine and store the login/password in the mapping procedure. >From an Ed Bott piece 7/07 ****** Don't do this if your system contains confidential data and is physically insecure. It's a very bad idea to enable auto-logon on a notebook, for instance, because anyone who walks away with the notebook can get to its contents just by turning it on. The same is true if your system is in a location that can't be locked up, such as a cubicle in an office bullpen. A passerby who wants to break into your computer only has to hit the power switch and wait for your system to restart and log on automatically to your account. Also, don't follow the instructions from some older Windows versions to enter your default password in the Registry. That option works but leaves your logon password exposed in clear text where anyone can find it. The option described here saves this value as an encrypted LSA secret, which is many times more secure. As long as you understand and accept the risks, here's how to enable auto-logon (these steps work identically in all Vista editions, including Home Basic and Home Premium). These instructions assume you are using a workgroup configuration and not logging on to a Windows domain: 1. From an account in the Administrators group, click Start. In the search box, type netplwiz and press Enter. This opens the Advanced User Accounts Control Panel shown here. 2. Clear the check box to the left of Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer and then click Apply. 3. In the Automatically Log On dialog box, enter the user name assigned to the account you want to Windows to use each time you start up. Enter the password in both dialog boxes. 4. Click OK to save your changes. Now restart your system. You should bypass the logon screen and go straight to your desktop, just as you did in XP. ************* HTH Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: "'Off Topic'" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] (no subject) Getting closer. The problem is now (I think) that I have only four ports on my router and I need 5. So one of the ports is connected to a hub. The hub seems to be the problem. It's working because the modem is connected to the hub. So I put Vista into the router and now everybody connected to the router can see Vista and Vista can see everybody. Some of them can't browse the others' drive but that's a permission problem which I can probably track down. However, when I click on Vista machine from another machine I get a dialog box asking for User name and password. When I did the restore to get a clean system I set up Rocky as a user account - I'm administrator - with no password. However, blank passwords are not allowed. Now what do I do? TIA Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of dickford1 at aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:25 AM To: dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) Heh! One of the LAST places one tends to look, too...when there's an install issue. Gad! I remember well the days of the Centronics cables... Dickford -----Original Message----- From: Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: 'Off Topic' <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:46 am Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) BAD NETWORK CABLE !!!!! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! Rocky Smolin Beach Access Software 858-259-4334 www.e-z-mrp.com www.bchacc.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-ot-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DBCfour at aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:37 AM To: dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-OT] (no subject) Make sure you don't have a max # of addresses that the router will hand out. Maybe it got on before the others, which would account for why it only made it on breifly. When you reset everything and everybody, maybe all the addresses were already used by the time the Vista machine tried to get it's address assigned. Donna In a message dated 11/30/2008 8:54:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, garykjos at gmail.com writes: I thought of one other thing to watch for.... When you bring up your browser, do the router or network switch lights blink at all to show activity? That was what showed me that I wasn't even getting out of the Vista box and to focus there. Good luck. My guess is it will be a small change to make it work. Kind of like finding the needle in the haystack though. I thought I was going to go through it again when I added a gigabit ethernet card to the Vista box - I don't name my boxes very well, it's called Duocore - and had to switch over from the onboard ethernet to the add in card one. Take small steps is all I can advise as I don't remember what exactly I did but it is working now. GK On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > Dear Lists: > > I got a Vista machine from my father-in-law (compulsive hardware > buyer - he has about 12 machines and an equal number of printers - > gave me a color laser as well - he had 2 - wasn't using either. He's > 85. But I digress..). > I used the restore disk so it's a clean machine - just like out of > the box. > > The Vista machine can't see the network or the internet. I got it on > the intern et briefly by shutting down the modem and router and the > Vista machine > (per advice in diagnose and repair), but that hosed the network > connections for the other machines. So I shut everybody down, cycled > the modem and router. Now everybody is back except the Vista machine. > > I see that there's two type of networks - public and private. This > one is set to public. Don't know what that's all about. > > Diagnose and repair also has options to automatically get new IP setting, > and reset the network adapter. Neither worked. But the one time I was able > to find the dialog box with the IP address I see that it's not a > 192.168.1.xxx like the rest of the machines on the network. But I > cannot to > save me find that dialog box again. > > But I'm guessing that's the problem - not picking up a good network > address from the router. > > In the Local Area Connection Status it shows many packets send - zero > received. > > Now you'd think that Vista would be able to do this by itself. But > apparently not. > > BTW - I turned off the Windows Firewall just to eliminate that variable. > And no other AV or firewall software is running. > > What am I overlooking? Is there something simple that gets this > Vista box on my LAN and out to the internet? > > > > MTIA, **************Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. 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