Peter Knapper wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PK> Hi Roy,

 RJT> What I need to do here is figure out a way to _automate_ that 
 RJT> login process,  so I can have a machine that'll boot right into 
 RJT> using drives elsewhere (on the Linux box) as a file server. 

 PK> When you set up SHARES and CONNECTIONS for these resources make 
 PK> sure the "Autostart" (or "Start up connection/share at System 
 PK> Startup") checkbox is tagged, and then you dont actually need 
 PK> to have a User logged in to have these automatically activated 
 PK> at system boot up for you.

Are you referring to "Connect to resource at logon" in the settings for a
given share?  I have that checked here,  in the one I just opened,  but it
also prompted me to login before it'd bring up the settings notebook.  It was
a bit weird,  it brought up the frame of that window but then stopped for a
bit until it brought up the rest of it...

 PK> Alternatively you can log in a default user using the 
 PK> commandline LOGON utility and then build the SHARES and 
 PK> CONNECTIONS using the NET SHARE xxxx and NET USE xxxx 
 PK> commandline commands, however in this case the logged in
 PK> User must have the rights to do this.

I'm going to have to play around some with the command-line versions of some
of this stuff here...

 PK> I hope this helps.............pk.

Yep!  Every little bit helps.

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