Can you pop up the initial network logon form from VBA 1

[SBendBuckeye]

I have a generic very restricted read only userid we use for overnight report automation. Instead of depending on the user to leave their machine logged on with this userid, I would like to logon for them.

Any ideas or suggestions out there? Thanks in advance!

Have a great day!

 

[Junior1544]

You can put a user id and password for the database in the shortcut to open it...

Just a thought.
--James
junior1544@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[SBendBuckeye]

I'm not sure I understand your answer correctly. It sounds to me like you might be talking about a password protected database. I'm talking about the initial NT logon screen you get to access the network. How do you reference a shortcut in code?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Junior1544]

when the computer first turn's on you mean?? I don't think this is the right place for that... Explain exacly what it is you want done and we'll see if we can help...

--James junior1544@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[SBendBuckeye]

I am talking about the situation when the PC is powered on and you see the initial message about Ctrl+Alt+Delete to Logon. I would like to be able to programmatically logon the restricted account from that point so I don't have to leave it logged on overnight.

Now that I was given permission to have a generic logon for my automation tasks this is not as much of an issue as it was when I needed to leave my PC logged on overnight with my standard userid.

Thanks for your interest and have a great day!

 

[Max1mum2]

You could use the Registry Key for AutoAdminLogon

Open your regedit from Start-Run .
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHNINE
-SOFTWARE
--Microsoft
---Windows NT
----CurrentVersion
-----WinLogon

Add these string values

AutoAdminLogon w/ Value of 1
DefaultUserName w/ Your User Name
DefaultPassword w/ Your Password

if these strings exist already just change the values

- maximum