How to Accept VPN connections?

peconi · 27 Feb 2009

That's good to know

Digger · 27 Feb 2009

NosferatuX said:

You can explicitly tell windows not to show a particular user in the logon screen by doing the following tested steps;

Open regedit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Select the user name you want to hide and change it's value to 0.

Note: If keys SpecialAccounts and UserList does not exist, you can create them accordingly. To add a user, create a new DWORD32 with the value name = <username you want to hide> and a value data = 0. You can do this to all the accounts you want to hide from the welcome screen.

Hope that answers your question.

Cheers

Great! Thanks for the info and response Nos. Will have a look at it. I just cant understand why MS wouldnt make a more user friendly visible option. A simple checkmark box would be suffice, maybe along with a possible "advanced" button or similar. Feedback i guess

thanks again :)

chinga69 · 27 Feb 2009

Digger said:

Yea, i feel like "duh" since you said that lol... i had one look at the help files for something else and thought " well ... that was nothing".

Ok, now on same vpn thing. No problems setting up, i just have a gripe now and wonder if there is a fix, i cant find one. Problem is, after creating user/pass for vpn, it now puts that user on the welcome screen. Now if say i had a somewhat dedicated vpn machine, and setup numerous users, I dont want them all cluttered up on the welcome screen. I went thru properties and also user accounts and seen nothing. Just that of course the vpn users dont show up under user accounts.

Is there a "fix" for this brad... or should i fire up the feedback?

not sure what you mean but i used an existing account when i set it up so no additional account was put on the login screen .
if you setup numerous accounts on one machine then you need to see them at welcome screen or you wont be able to use them anyway .

cheers brad

peconi · 27 Feb 2009

He most likely created a separate account for VPN logins, so he does not want to see that account on the login screen since it's not used for local logins.

I have the same setup - an account called Remote User, which I use when I log into the system via VPN.

Also, it comes in handy when you install VMWare, or say Apache2Triad, which install their own user accounts under which they run services, but it'd suck to see them on the login screen :)

Digger · 27 Feb 2009

Exactly peconi. One other issue i have now discovered is that there is no systray icon showing connections, if connected and so on.... all of this was of course avail under XP

chinga69 · 27 Feb 2009

peconi said:

He most likely created a separate account for VPN logins, so he does not want to see that account on the login screen since it's not used for local logins.

I have the same setup - an account called Remote User, which I use when I log into the system via VPN.

Also, it comes in handy when you install VMWare, or say Apache2Triad, which install their own user accounts under which they run services, but it'd suck to see them on the login screen :)

ok that cleared it up thank you

peconi · 27 Feb 2009

Digger said:

Exactly peconi. One other issue i have now discovered is that there is no systray icon showing connections, if connected and so on.... all of this was of course avail under XP

Yea, I was looking for that option "show connection status in the taskbar" as well... Could not find it for incoming connections...

Anyone know where it is?

chinga69 said:

ok that cleared it up thank yo

You're welcome :)

chinga69 · 27 Feb 2009

peconi said:

Yea, I was looking for that option "show connection status in the taskbar" as well... Could not find it for incoming connections...

Anyone know where it is?

You're welcome :)

if you sit the mouse over the network icon in the task bar it will show if your connected or not

cheers brad

peconi · 28 Feb 2009

I guess that works too

Digger · 28 Feb 2009

chinga69 said:

if you sit the mouse over the network icon in the task bar it will show if your connected or not

cheers brad

oddly enough, not for me ..... nothing connected at the time, but the adapter IS up and running... just shows

"Network
local and internet access"

if clicked it shows what I'M currently connected to, of course.... but thats all