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Here's a recent support query which may be of more general use to users of the rebooter application...
http://www.passmark.com/products/rebooter.htm
[quote Dave Gibson]
Hi,
We've been using your Rebooter utility for a while... great stuff. The
problem I have is that when we set up a perpetual reboot loop (by placing
the program in the "Startup" group, and using the -reboot switch), the
settings for autologin don't stay put. What happens is when I config
rebooter, I put in the domain, login, and password, and the settings now say
auto-login is ENABLED. Then I'll start rebooter with the -reboot switch, and
it reboots. When Windows2000 Server comes back up, it logs in automatically,
goes right into rebooter, but now the auto-login is DISABLED.
Do you have any ideas about why it won't work? It seems to only have this
issue in Windows2000 server; the other OSs work fine.
Thanks for any help!
[end quote]
The auto-login feature works by making changes the
registry.
When rebooter is run it checks the current settings in the registry to
determine if the curent state is Enabled or Disabled.
So when Windows2000 server is booted the registry entries are being
replaced with old settings or different settings.
See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 97597 for more details about what you
should find in the registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B97597
You could set the values by hand, reboot the machine and then check if the
values are still set after the reboot.
[quote Dave Gibson]
Thanks for the help. Your document says right in the body that if no
password is provided, the autologon will be disabled. In our case, we aren't
using passwords, so the problem is now clear. We'll start using passwords.
[end quote]
http://www.passmark.com/products/rebooter.htm
[quote Dave Gibson]
Hi,
We've been using your Rebooter utility for a while... great stuff. The
problem I have is that when we set up a perpetual reboot loop (by placing
the program in the "Startup" group, and using the -reboot switch), the
settings for autologin don't stay put. What happens is when I config
rebooter, I put in the domain, login, and password, and the settings now say
auto-login is ENABLED. Then I'll start rebooter with the -reboot switch, and
it reboots. When Windows2000 Server comes back up, it logs in automatically,
goes right into rebooter, but now the auto-login is DISABLED.
Do you have any ideas about why it won't work? It seems to only have this
issue in Windows2000 server; the other OSs work fine.
Thanks for any help!
[end quote]
The auto-login feature works by making changes the
registry.
When rebooter is run it checks the current settings in the registry to
determine if the curent state is Enabled or Disabled.
So when Windows2000 server is booted the registry entries are being
replaced with old settings or different settings.
See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 97597 for more details about what you
should find in the registry.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B97597
You could set the values by hand, reboot the machine and then check if the
values are still set after the reboot.
[quote Dave Gibson]
Thanks for the help. Your document says right in the body that if no
password is provided, the autologon will be disabled. In our case, we aren't
using passwords, so the problem is now clear. We'll start using passwords.
[end quote]