XP FOH/question

[AkamaiAloha]

I know I should know this, but....

When you refresh the system, the XP terminals are not rebooting, but simply logging out. I don't really mind that they don't reboot, but they are stopping and waiting for user intervention to continue (i.e. it wants you to log in as a certain account--no user name and password neeeded, but have to touch GUEST). I have AUTOLOGON all set up, and it works fine for a full reboot, just not for the refresh.

Aside from using some autologon utility, what should i do here? I think a full reboot would do the trick, but autoexit=true is set, and it's not doing anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[AdamDR]

rebootnt=true

This will tell the terminal to reboot.

If you don't mind the terminal not rebooting you need to turn off the fast user switching in control panel-user accounts.

Also turn off the power option that says "Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby"

I sometimes forget the last one after a new install and the client calls and says that they need a password. Probably not in your case but I figured I would throw that one in!

Adam

 

[AkamaiAloha]

LOL. No, I have forgotteb to turn that one off a few times too, so I know what you're talking about. Funny thing is, that was the first thing I checked--but this PC (customer provided unit, but OS loaded by me with XP Pro) did not have that option.

So, can I just add that to the ibecfg, or do I need to add it directly to System >> Advanced >> Environment Variables (or are these one in the same?).

Thanks Adam.

 

[AdamDR]

Just add that line right below autoexit. Restart and your good to go. Wierd that it didn't already have that line. Any default terminst puts that line in.

adam

 

[AkamaiAloha]

Not long ago, I got into the habit of simply copying the autoexec/ibercfg from another terminal, because I got burned a couple of times for things not being in there that neeeded to be. For example, a site that has a backoffice PC named after the business, rather than ALOHABOH. In other words, I didn't use the terminal install, so that's why it wasn't in there (probably a win98 pc I copied it from). But thanks for letting me know.